Not just the workings of cities, but of things in general were a lasting fascination to her.
But for me, the plant behind the drink, the blue agave, adds even more fascination to the liquor.
Ford is a writer of personal fascination to many in the literary world.
The fascination to me is that it tells us in what form the various incomes arrive: capital gains, dividends, partnership incomes, taxable interest and so on.
He was able to transfer this fascination to the screen eight years later with his series, Ireland-A Television History, still seen by many critics as the definitive television history of the island.
From noises that inspire primal fear to fascination, what he hears never fails to surprise and intrigue him.
Ms. Stephens dates her fascination with hair to her childhood in Kennewick, Wash.
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His fascination also extends to the deep - he has explored much of the water off Sri Lanka, once discovering a sunken galleon full of silver treasure.
The prosecutor said it was more likely the killing "may have had something to do with a fascination with guns and killing and a desire to see what it was like to shoot someone, something which he had not managed to achieve in Afghanistan".
"In the 1930s, two things happened to arouse fascination of people in the West, " he says.
And there are sister Titanic attractions in Branson, Missouri, and Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, catering to the fascination of American audiences.
It adds to the fascination, in a gossipy sort of way, that Philippe Sollers, a novelist and longtime editor of Tel Quel, a learned and esoteric review, has been identified as the real-life model for Jim.
The United States is a big country, and Americans tend to have a fascination with big things.
No matter how the story is framed, however, there is an intangible moth-to-light fascination where Juggalo culture is concerned.
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There are tantalising allusions to both the fascination and the repulsion which animated the later Ottomans' ambivalence towards Europe.
The skeptic in me always seeks to find fault in whatever it is that happens to be the fascination of the day.
When he was a little boy, Karp showed an early fascination with electronics and liked to pull toys apart and reassemble them, his mother recalled.
Mr Kingdon's fascination with bronze dates back to his childhood growing up in Uganda, the son of a noted English zoologist and artist, Jonathan Kingdon.
For while Fortuny always thought of himself as a painter, his fascination with technology led him to patent new techniques for stage lighting, print engraving and photo development.
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Adria, who started at elBulli in 1984 and became head chef three years later, used the restaurant to explore his fascination with the essence of food and the experience of eating.
Rawls and his friends seemed to have a teenage fascination with Satanism, Martin said.
And it isn't just the little guys who like to capitalize on our fascination.
My fascination with his genius has less to do with technology than creativity.
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Weiner's fascination with Internet businesses dated back to 1992, when he was a senior at the University of Pennsylvania trying to make a desktop teleconferencing company work as part of an entrepreneurship class.
EU's cold shoulder will persuade many Turks to look for an alternative to Ataturk's old fascination with Europe.
Mr Reinfeldt's commitment to hard work and his fascination with politics are deep-seated.
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That led to digital journalism and my fascination with turning the world of stories into new kinds of news experiences.
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Before long, the Alps had come to exert such a powerful fascination that they were mandatory on the itineraries of wealthy English travelers.
Ms Mnouchkine's broad epic style and meticulous attention to detail bring together her fascination with traditional eastern drama and a wholly untheatrical interest in wider political issues.
Sue Pope of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics, said some schools were doing an excellent job but too much teaching to the test meant that not enough young people were getting "the opportunity to experience the excitement, fascination, joy and beauty of maths".
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