Sentence examples for terrible fascination from inspiring English sources

Some years ago, I succumbed to what Perkins called, not without irony, the "terrible fascination" of Death Valley.

As Gordon tells it, this story of the terrible fascination Dickinson exerted on her heirs is as rich as a novel by Henry James".

That's quite a range of human suffering but, as Phillips notes, "the terrible fascination of looking at suffering and death, the moral ambiguity of the act, is as pertinent now as it was during the American civil war".

But crowds came to the gallery drawn by a "terrible fascination" to the images of mangled corpses which brought the reality of remote battle fields to New Yorkers.

He described the film as having a "terrible fascination that lasts all the way through", and ranked it with Allen's best work.

His terrible romantic fascination with the abyss loads his paintings with tragic power.

Indeed, these news stories take on a symbolism beyond their awful reality, as parables of morbid fascination, as if their victims had been selected for some terrible experiment.

Meanwhile, bidding suggested that the late enfant terrible Dash Snow still exerts a perhaps morbid fascination on collectors.

The latter, in particular, represents a fascinating look at how utterly terrible the original trilogy might have turned out to be had Lucas not been influenced by a lifelong fascination for Japanese cinema.

Apparently endless vaults, towering staircases and spectacular interactions of light and darkness define spaces that are at once exhilarating and terrible, anticipating the works of de Sade in their fascination with power and cruelty.

Bolaño, with his characteristic entranced fascination of tone, trembles on the verge of suggesting that some of them may have been terrible, but there is no reason to suppose others are not capable of greatness.