Sentence examples for scholarly fascination from inspiring English sources

The experiences of children in America have long been a source of scholarly fascination and general interest.

The large map, a masterpiece of woodblock printing, has been a star attraction at the library ever since and the object of revived scholarly fascination about the earliest cartography of the New World.

Gerard Koeppel, a journalist, shows a scholarly fascination for the precise details of the legislative progress of the Erie Canal, the waterway that, in 1825, joined the Great Lakes to the Hudson river and so to the Atlantic ocean at New York City.

And its audience has come to trust its scholarly fascinations.

When Paul O'Dette played a late-night lute recital at Jordan Hall (where most of the festival concerts took place) on Thursday, for example, his subject was not Bach or the Elizabethan lute school, but Marco Dall'Aquila, an Italian composer (born around 1490) who has been one of Mr. O'Dette's scholarly fascinations in recent years.

Scholarly and fascinating.

He was a delicate, scholarly child, and his fascination with the natural world blossomed when he sat in a chair in the family's garden recovering from appendicitis in the summer of 1914.

Clearly, Drabble didn't intend to write anything resembling a big scholarly book about the human fascination with games and other pastimes, and she didn't have to.

"The Collector's Urge:" Professor Fran Pritchett's Homepage Is a Labyrinth of Scholarly Delights Columbia Interactive Fran Pritchett's academic fascinations extend thousands of years into the past, but when it comes to technology, she is an early adopter.

That fascination with witchcraft eventually evolved into the scholarly "Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England" (Oxford University Press, 1982).

This fascination is fully on display in Brennan's scholarly trove.