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• v  cause to be interested or curious
• v  to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe
• v  attract; cause to be enamored
• s  having your attention fixated as though by a spell

• Readers were fascinated that a small-time hood could end up being part of the biggest heist in British history and be the only one to get away with it all.
• The Germans, French and English came to Hollywoodbecause that's where the action was, the reach and the moneyand quite often brought an outsider's vision, as fascinated as it .
• There, in high school, Henson became fascinated by television.

• intrigue
• fascinate
• transfix
• grip
• spellbind
• capture
• enamour
• trance
• catch
• becharm
• enamor
• captivate
• beguile
• charm
• bewitch
• entrance
• enchant
• hypnotized
• hypnotised
• mesmerized
• mesmerised
• spellbound
• spell-bound
• transfixed

News & Articles

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• Mob week: Why we can't get enough of the gangster life
  We are fascinated with mobsters and those affected by them, both in real life and on screen. "There's the reality of organized crime that nobody is in love with, and there's the mythologized version that everyone is in love with," said Ron Kuby, a lawyer who defended the late John Gotti.
  June 22, 2013 - KIII Corpus Christi
• Ostriches and camels race at Vernon Downs
  VERNON >> People are often fascinated with the peculiar things not seen on any old ordinary day. Exotic animals at zoos and county fairs tend to highlight those fascinations, a highlight that Vernon Downs brought to the track on Friday night.
  June 22, 2013 - The Oneida Daily Dispatch
• ‘World War Z’ Helmer Marc Forster Reflects On Watching His Zombie Movie Get Fed Through The Gossip Woodchipper
  When Marc Forster was a kid, he was fascinated by how a collective swarming movement made everything from ants to cancer cells more potent. Those images informed the depiction of the hordes of zombies in World War Z . It had never occurred to Forster that the same phenomenon could happen to his movie. Unsubstantiated reports about overruns, creative clashes and re-shoots cropped up and then ...
  June 21, 2013 - Deadline Hollywood

Quotes

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• Mark Shields in Los Angeles Times
  People are fascinated by the press because it has become a recurring theme by the opposition that he's had too favorable of a press,Shields said before the symposium. "I personally believe the press has a serious bias when it comes to...
• David Stern in Forbes
  This is an issue overall that has fascinated America. It's not an NBA issue,Stern said, pointing to the ongoing debate over gay marriage at the state and federal levels.