But there are sporadic moments of fascination.
The trailer below teases footage from the 12-minute CGI short that brought him back to work, Boro the Caterpillar, as well as moments of fascination, frustration, triumph, and creativity behind it.
My own moment of bizarre fascination came at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, where I teach.
Purchase and Hunter took a thrilling silver medal in the men's lightweight pairs at Eton Dorney on Saturday morning but earlier the race provided a moment of horrible fascination as Purchase's seat at the bow of the boat came loose in an abortive start, an element of peculiarly human farce intruding into the thrilling systemic efficiency of the British rowing team's greatest Olympic performance.
The revelation did have its moments of perverse fascination.
Such moments of quiet fascination are common during my two-night stay at Oldarpoi Maasai Safari Camp, a permanent furnished tented camp just outside Masai Mara National Reserve.
In an earlier post, I suggested that autism was having its cultural moment as a subject of fascination for filmmakers, writers and other artists.
"Put it this way: it's hard to forget even for a moment that you have become a figure of fascination.
Propelling around on a course dramatically varied by ambient air currents — at some moments a vicious zoom, at others an indecisive hovering — the fan becomes an economical point of fascination that makes the space feel designed for nothing else.
There is a degree of fascination in watching an Oscar-winning Yale School of Drama graduate mug and squirm, shimmy and shriek and generally fill every moment with antic, purposeless energy, as if she were hogging the spotlight in an eighth-grade musical.
They've become a point of fascination.
