Sentence examples for interested him as from inspiring English sources

But the flip side of the mortality coin is immortality, and that interested him as well.

He said repeatedly in his later years that photography no longer interested him as much as drawing.

Once Adams was done, though, he admitted that the Faust metaphor still interested him, as long as it was not taken too literally.

Somehow, in the years that followed, the shadowy presences interested him as much as the famous ones, the figures who had not become known, who had failed, or who had never planned to flourish.

Soto suggested he find something unconventional that interested him as the Vivaldi had not.

Bicycling around with his rucksack stuffed with photographic equipment, Sander would approach startled strangers if they interested him as suitable "types" for his pet project.

People interested him, not as subjects, not even as patients exactly, though he was an attentive and tender clinician, but as individuals with stories worth sharing.

Yes, Britten was notoriously attracted to adolescent boys; they inspired him, interested him and, as John Bridcut has characterised it in his excellent book and documentary, Britten's Children, he partly thought of himself as a 13-year-old.

He was a hard worker, though, at least when what he was working on interested him, and as he made his way upward through the system of education, he gradually gained more confidence.

The question of consciousness and how it arises long had interested him, but as Graziano began scouring the voluminous academic and philosophical literature on the subject, he found himself dissatisfied.

But it was psychological thrillers that really interested him, such as the forgotten but compelling Taste of Fear (1961), Paranoiac (1963) starring Oliver Reed, a Hammer favourite at the time, and best of all, The Nanny (1965), a queasy tale of nursery crimes starring Bette Davis as an ageing, Mayfair-based Mary Poppins with a habit of drowning her charges on bath night.