Sentence examples for marked fascination from inspiring English sources

Hamlet (murder), Oliver Twist (burglary, pickpocketing, fencing, prostitution and murder), The Wind in the Willows (cheeking the police – for which Mr Toad receives fifteen years in jail), and a huge number of other stories, show a marked fascination with criminal wrong-doing.

"Studies were conducted on the marked fascination exercised by the Presidential contender's hair style.

Featuring new band the Imposters, the album also marked a new fascination with looping drumbeats, best exemplified on the epic When I Was Cruel No 2. It is an ambient seven-minute exploration that's more trip-hop than anything else; looping ad infinitum with a ghostly woman's voice at the end of each bar that also recalls Gainsbourg and Bardot's Bonnie & Clyde.

Instead it becomes a relentless cautionary tale with "Lord of the Flies -style symbolic impact, marked by a dark Flies -stylewith the primal lawsymbolicvimpact

These two films mark a new fascination with the subconscious.

That first wave of popularity was marked by an intense public fascination with a rude, insolent, snarky, skateboarding boy named Bart.

The project was never built, but it marked an important step in Nouvel's fascination with a façade's potential for ambiguity.

It is time to allow the man to return to his own era, to allow him the grandeur, the theatricality and perhaps also the impersonality that marked him out, and remain the source of his enduring fascination.

Accordingly, American attitudes to China in the nineteen-seventies were marked by what the Yale historian Jonathan Spence characterized as "reawakened curiosity" and "guileless fascination," followed soon by "renewed skepticism" as travel and research in China became progressively easier.

From that experience, his developed a fascination with the sea, the tropics and the smell of coffee that marked his literary works.

Anderson's magnificent film fire bursts with the same kind of destructive energy — and the fascination with the hard, gritty detail of social and industrial processes — that marked Sinclair's writing at its best.