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.
While observing routines that wouldn't be so alien to the Duke of Red River – building fences and fires, funnelling beasts this way or that – it sometimes strays off the beaten track into shapelessness, but Oreck lends individual segments a quiet fascination: rarely can anyone have paid such rapt attention to reindeer dental records, or made such quotidian drama from a wolverine hunt.
Saint Laurent became an object of immediate fascination: quiet, timid, with neatly parted schoolboy hair, anxious eyes lurking behind thick glasses and a frail body encased in a tight black suit.
The fascination for this quiet corner of my personal Jurassic park is absolute.
Still, Close's fascination remains the same.
Yet the chimera still exerts its fascination.
Mr. Gray, 62, practiced the art of storytelling with a quiet mania, transforming his travels, fascinations and traumas into such acclaimed works as "Swimming to Cambodia" and "Monster in a Box".
And at the end of a hectic disc, a couple of ballads: the quiet-storm revivalist Kem sings "Fascination," along with Sly & the Family Stone's version of "Que Será Será (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)." No offense to Doris Day, but anyone who makes it through this CD might be less curious about the future and more curious about the past 45 minutes: Whatever was that?
His previous films, "Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her" and "Nine Lives," have demonstrated the sincerity of this fascination, and also a quiet, at times almost imperceptible sentimental side, a tendency to view womanhood as sacred and fundamentally tragic.
Quiet and watchful, the object of their fascination leans on her gnarled knuckles, straw clinging to her mat of ginger hair.
Instead, natural settings invoke "soft fascination," a beguiling term for quiet contemplation, during which directed attention is barely called upon and the brain can reset those overstretched resources and reduce mental fatigue.
