What Roald Dahl understood, like almost no other writer, is children's utter fascination with all things nasty, revolting and taboo.
I listened to him in utter fascination, and after the presentation Roger and I talked on into the night and into the early hours of the morning.
Harry Lockwood Newton, Mass., Feb. 26, 2010 To the Editor: I watched the health care summit meeting in utter fascination and came to the conclusion that this critical issue is no longer resolvable through bipartisan efforts.
Only Red Grooms could have picked up the bustle, the naïve excitement of some, the disguised boredom of others, the puzzlement of a few and the utter fascination of even fewer.
So I watch with a mix of utter fascination and revulsion at the apparently continuous trickle of young women from Britain making the journey to Isis-controlled territory in Iraq and Syria.
What became a fervent search for validation evolved into an utter fascination by some of Einstein's authentic writings, many of which are, in fact, written to family members, friends and colleagues.
But what Stewart finds even more ridiculous than Palin's Twitter activity is the "lamestream" media's utter fascination with everything she tweets, "like a teenage boy with a crush on the stuck-up girl who hates him".
