fascination

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

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

"There is still a lot of fascination with English country life, particularly in America, and she has the ability to bring that to a very large, global audience."

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

For all her fascination, María’s enjoyment of rock was always limited by the fact that she cannot speak English.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Sarai followed them in a state of fascination, and they went into a tiny shop tucked under a bridge, leaving their creatures at the door.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

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

From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2026

Geometric order and water’s fluid movement were special fascinations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2024

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