Sentence examples for provoke fascination from inspiring English sources

They're not sufficiently like us enough to provoke any empathy, but they are sufficiently animal-like to provoke fascination".

Iran has provoked fascination and fear in western Europe for more than two millennia.

A baffled inspector asks exactly what it was that the dog did to provoke such fascination.

"Binders full of women" is a phrase that provoked instant fascination, because it is so strange, and, as a prop and a concept, so vivid.

Hence, the collective oscillation that is finding beauty alluring, then hating ourselves for doing so – albeit not quite so much as we hate the beautiful object for provoking such fascination.

The casting of troubled star Lindsay Lohan opposite porn actor James Deen in a low-budget pulp thriller provoked both fascination and derision from the US media, who delighted in the idea that this was a train crash of a movie with Lohan in the middle of the wreckage.

In an age of poor hygiene and inefficient contraception, the idea of "scientific" rather than biological reproduction, of painless nonvisceral birth, provoked an ambivalent fascination.

The judge said Dennehy had a "psychopathic personality" and she had provoked a "strange fascination" among the men. Lee was found dressed in a black sequinned dress with his buttocks exposed.

Misogyny provokes a lurid societal fascination with trans women while the histories and lives of trans men are forgotten.

All provoked an uneasy mixture of fascination and dread.

Inevitably, DeGeneres' plan to come out leaked to the press, provoking swift and intense public fascination.