Multiple-shelled metal oxides have been regarded as fascinating nanomaterials in the field of photocatalysis, partly due to their high quantum yield but also because the nanostructure gives a large surface-area-to-volume ratio and strong light-harvesting capabilities[47].
For decades, chromosomal inversions have been regarded as fascinating evolutionary elements as they are expected to suppress recombination between chromosomes with opposite orientations, leading to the accumulation of genetic differences between the two configurations over time.
But while many of us have sat through discussions of house prices at dinner parties, few would risk pensions as a conversational gambit (Mrs Buttonwood, who regards the subject as about as fascinating as non-ferrous welding, would kick your blogger under the table if he attempted to do so).
As this article indicates, I write to be read, and I am one of many members of the Writers Guild who regard screenplays as fascinating diversions and disproportionately fat bonuses in the normal life of a writer.
And it's as fascinating as ever and as baffling.
It's as fascinating as bird-watching.
Recent history can be just as fascinating.
This is a time-honored idea in a particular corner of the avant-garde where conventional elements like melody, rhythm, harmonic movement and phrase structure are regarded as less fascinating than timbre, texture, duration, volume and intensity, particularly when these qualities change slowly, if at all.
Indeed, since its very beginning, the advent of bacterial genomics was not only regarded as a fascinating scientific tool, but also raised great hopes for renewing the golden era of antimicrobial discovery at a time when this is sorely needed because of the growing impact of bacterial resistance.
Equally as fascinating, Barnes says, is "that, without any data regarding [the planet's] composition, we are starting to understand the interiors of exoplanets".
