fascination

GLP-1 drugs have transformed the public conversation around appetite and weight loss; “ThinTok” has given restriction a new algorithmic sheen; conspicuously thin celebrity bodies are once again objects of fascination.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026

For decades, the wider area of Williamsburg has held a major cultural fascination for the type of millennial transplant who makes their way out to the East Coast.

From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026

A traditional accessory that secured and decorated women’s clothing, it shows how, even amid trans-Atlantic exchange and the blending of cultures, the fascination with fantastical creatures endured.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

The soot-blackened Philadelphia he encountered, then in a state of urban decay, sparked his lifelong fascination with industrialism, destitution and the macabre.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

This led to a global fascination with 1980s pop culture.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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

He with his ready eloquence, his fund of information, his attractive manners, and his fine form, handsome in its height and strength; she with her sweet fascinations, her gentle loveliness.

From A Life's Secret A Novel by Mrs. Henry Wood