"sheer fascination" is a perfectly acceptable phrase in English and can be used in any type of writing.
For example, "The sheer fascination of the Northern Lights drew us in and made us stand in awe."
Even if that's so, the sheer fascination with British royal events cannot be dismissed: it seems almost stronger outside our damp little island than within.
But my overall reaction was sheer fascination with the tale he told — an invaluable glimpse inside a secret world, one that provided rare insights into the reporter-source relationship.
The search has been on for over 2000 years; and has been motivated by the practical uses offered by success and, by the sheer fascination of the effort.
For sheer fascination it's hard to beat the growing California litigation surrounding accountant Vincent Spondello and Monex, the company that employed him for nearly a quarter-century.
What strikes me in San Francisco is the sheer fascination and excitement of many people when they see Glass for the first time.
Thus, thinkers such as Robert Holcot and Adam of Wodeham seem to show a sheer fascination with the paradoxes open to God in his absolute power, a fascination that led them to positions which were hardly in keeping with traditional Christian teaching.
Even in Northern Ireland, where public inquiries have an unhappy, whitewash-tinged history, there is currently pressure for half a dozen more.Lawyers are particularly keen on inquiries, partly because of what one counsel calls "the sheer bloody fascination" of the work, partly for more practical reasons.
But whatever their purpose, they always exceed it in their sheer virtuosity and fascination with the look of life – the intricate brickwork of an Antwerp street, the beauty of an arching eyebrow, the minute phenomenon of tears welling, then bursting the dam of an eyelid to stream down a mourner's cheek.
She's convincing as a young woman who doesn't quite know who she is, and as Marr her instinctive goodness slowly begins to work on Stiller's Greenberg, whose sheer perversity has its own fascination.
Blame cowboy nostalgia, the seeds of which were planted during the Western-loving 1950's; or perhaps the fascination stems from sheer exhaustion from living in the high-tech bustle.
Dickens rivals Shakespeare in his fascination with nature's sheer prodigality in creating so heterogeneous a troupe under the heading Homo sapiens.
