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As for Mr. Huang, his Icarus-like fall has captured public fascination for the same reasons people enjoy reading about the messy lives of celebrities: schadenfreude and shock.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026

"All summer long, I've been picking up bits of drones washed up on the beach," added Baronov, a mechanical engineer by training who harbours a fascination with military hardware.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

The result reveals Balanchine’s fascination for the weird, modernist music and for the ways his ballerina could respond to its oddities by way of acrobatics amid classical schooling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Four years ago, Times columnist Nicolas Goldberg wrote an opinion piece about his fascination with what to him sounded like a profound project about the meaning of time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Because of his love of words, in a strange way, it was the language difference—English English versus American English—that started Branwell’s fascination with the au pair.

From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg

But one of the main fascinations of Mr. Goode’s quasi-period piece is the ingenious ways his subjects found to circumvent the law, rationalize their crimes and destroy that which they claimed to love.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

Instead of a pool, this canvas features another of Hockney’s signature fascinations: a manicured, bright green lawn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

Maybe the only purpose in any of this is to prolong morbid fascinations, to twist the knife.

From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2026

One of the eternal fascinations of Test cricket, especially in these Bazballistic times, is that there are almost infinite ways for interpreting what has happened.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2024

Armed with such a nucleus as this, the fascinations of the pastime begin to make themselves evident.

From Peeps at Postage Stamps by Stanley Currie Johnson