Sentence examples for irrational fascination from inspiring English sources
Ms. Hurley, who is also on J. K.'s list, acknowledges having an almost irrational fascination with the car.
But as Mr. Buruma teases out the Rashomonesque nature of the story -- the love affair was seen very differently by the parties to it -- he evokes a rich panorama of East and West, and of the conflict between the rationalism that is supposedly Western and the fascination for the irrational that is supposedly of the East.
Addressing the maniacal, eccentric, and disorienting in artworks made between 1950 and 1980, Delirious situates a fascination with the absurd and irrational within the context of the violence and brutality witnessed during World War II as well as the rapid expansion of industrial capitalism in the 1950s.
White men's fascination with the supposedly monstrous genitals, Mr. Friedman documents, has long occupied the irrational center of American racism, from the gruesome sexual torture of lynchings (recounted here in horrific detail) to Robert Mapplethorpe's worshipful but objectifying fascination with his photographic subjects.
Still, "Smash" itself remained — and remains — an object of fascination to theatre fans, whether that fascination took the form of hate-watching, phantasmagorical fan fiction, or pure, irrational love of a network underdog.
Irrational events breed irrational events.
