fascination

Liu’s big bets were an object of fascination among oil traders and brokers, many of whom tried to mimic his moves and profit on his prescience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 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

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

Age of those with extreme violence fascination 'striking'

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

The men who were working along the rows felt possessed by a strange fascination, menaced by some invisible danger, and many succumbed to a terrible desire to weep.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

For the nature which the thought of such a life had charmed was of all natures the one most open to worldly fascinations.

From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Stanley J. Weyman