Psychologists have been intrigued by De Palma's fascination with pathology, by the aberrant behavior aroused in characters who find themselves manipulated by others.

His fascination with the prospect of having Jen as a disciple also motivates his behavior, and that of Jade Fox.

He emphasized style, a fascination with surfaces, and atmosphere over traditional science-fiction tropes.

So began his lifelong fascination with logic and reasoning.

An early fascination in automobiles led Brown to a job with the Stevens-Duryea Company, then to his own Brown Motor Car Company in Alabama.

Cronenberg's fascination with the film Winter Kept Us Warm ( 1966 ) by classmate David Secter sparked his interest in film.

Defoe's next novel was Captain Singleton ( 1720 ), a bipartite adventure story whose first half covers a traversal of Africa and whose second half taps into the contemporary fascination with piracy.

Indeed Hilbert would lose his " gifted pupil " Weyl to intuitionism — " Hilbert was disturbed by his former student's fascination with the ideas of Brouwer, which aroused in Hilbert the memory of Kronecker ".

Girardot, Miller and Liu ( 2001: xxxi ) explain, " earlier discussions of the Daoist tradition were often distorted and misleading — especially in terms of the special Western fascination with the ' classical ' or ' philosophical ' Daode jing and the denigration and neglect of the later sectarian traditions.

Bowie's fascination with the bizarre was fuelled when he met dancer Lindsay Kemp: " He lived on his emotions, he was a wonderful influence.

Robert Lowie later said that Sapir's fascination with indigenous languages stemmed from the seminar with Boas in which Boas used examples from Native American languages to disprove all of Sapir's common-sense assumptions about the basic nature of Language.

Time magazine wrote in 1969 that Singer had had a lifelong fascination with Phobos and Mars's second moon, Deimos.

The mood and themes of the Gothic novel held a particular fascination for the Victorians, with their morbid obsession with mourning rituals, mementos, and mortality in general.

The animal was a source of fascination for the Chinese people, who associated it with the mythical Qilin.

The gothic fascination with the macabre has raised public concerns regarding the psychological well-being of goths.

* ' Heart of Darkness ' and late-Victorian fascination with the primitive and the double-novel by Joseph Conrad

Baldung ’ s fascination with witchcraft lasted well into the end of his career.

Irrealist writing often highlights this irreality, and our strange fascination with it, by combining the unease we feel because the real world doesn't conform to our desires with the narrative quality of the dream state ( where reality is constantly and inexplicably being undermined ); it is thus said to communicate directly, " by feeling rather than articulation, the uncertainties inherent in human existence or, to put it another way ... the irreconcilability between human aspiration and human reality.

Mayol ’ s fascination with dolphins started in 1955 when he was working as a commercial diver at an aquarium in Miami, Florida.

His work delves into ecological and sociological themes regularly, and many of his novels appear to be the direct result of his own scientific fascinations, such as the fifteen years of research and lifelong fascination with the planet Mars.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Friedrich Engels, and Peter Kropotkin all read him with fascination, as did André Breton and Roland Barthes.

Baum started writing at an early age, perhaps due to an early fascination with printing.

A fascination with gigantic scale and themes of heroic nationalism suited his extroverted personality.

When it becomes possible for a people to describe as ‘ postmodern ’ the décor of a room, the design of a building, the diegesis of a film, the construction of a record, or a ‘ scratch ’ video, a television commercial, or an arts documentary, or the ‘ intertextual ’ relations between them, the layout of a page in a fashion magazine or critical journal, an anti-teleological tendency within epistemology, the attack on the ‘ metaphysics of presence ’, a general attenuation of feeling, the collective chagrin and morbid projections of a post-War generation of baby boomers confronting disillusioned middle-age, the ‘ predicament ’ of reflexivity, a group of rhetorical tropes, a proliferation of surfaces, a new phase in commodity fetishism, a fascination for images, codes and styles, a process of cultural, political or existential fragmentation and / or crisis, the ‘ de-centring ’ of the subject, an ‘ incredulity towards metanarratives ’, the replacement of unitary power axes by a plurality of power / discourse formations, the ‘ implosion of meaning ’, the collapse of cultural hierarchies, the dread engendered by the threat of nuclear self-destruction, the decline of the university, the functioning and effects of the new miniaturised technologies, broad societal and economic shifts into a ‘ media ’, ‘ consumer ’ or ‘ multinational ’ phase, a sense ( depending on who you read ) of ‘ placelessness ’ or the abandonment of placelessness (‘ critical regionalism ’) or ( even ) a generalised substitution of spatial for temporal coordinates-when it becomes possible to describe all these things as ‘ Postmodern ’ ( or more simply using a current abbreviation as ‘ post ’ or ‘ very post ’) then it ’ s clear we are in the presence of a buzzword.

During its 28 years in limbo, Potsdamer Platz exuded a strange fascination towards many people on the western side, especially tourists and also visiting politicians and heads of state.

In French history, Austerlitz is acknowledged as an impressive military victory, and in the 19th century, when fascination with the First Empire was at its height, the battle was revered by the likes of Victor Hugo, who " in the depth of thoughts " was hearing the " noise of the heavy cannon rolling towards Austerlitz ".

She has often spoken about the importance of transmitting positive messages through her shows and her fascination towards love stories.

This fascination with humanity extends to the point of sympathy towards them, and he will often side with humans against greater threats, notably the Auditors of Reality.

The novel reflects Dickens ' concerns with railway travel and the ' railway mania ', ' a fascination which had a strong ingredient of fear in it ', and reflects ambivalence towards the effects of the railways-they generated prosperity and employment, but undermined older ways of living and encouraged speculation.

The lyrics were also quite different from those in the demo days ; rather than dark and Satanic rantings, bassist / lyricist Teemu started a powerful fascination with Odinism and the Gods of Valhalla, and anger towards Christianity.

Though Yawgmoth was by trade & profession a medic, his ways went towards an unnatural fascination with the mechanics of the body.

Such acts exemplify a flâneurs active participation in and fascination with street life while displaying a critical attitude towards the uniformity, speed, and anonymity of modern life in the city.

The Edisonade formula was an outgrowth of the fascination with engineering and technology that arose near the end of the 1800s, and a derivative of the existing Robinsonade formula.

The black Fudo seemed to stare rigidly back at him and Richard's eyes were caught by the Fudo's in fascination, and then Richard was shocked as, all at once, flames shot out from the sharp features of Fudo's face and there was a terrible metallic scraping sound, as if the large statue were about to burst from some pressure within it.

" He watched himself with an odd, almost adolescent fascination, as if he were admiring someone else.

By the late 1900s the terms speculation and speculator were somewhat down played by the media, likely due to turmoil in the capital markets ever since the tech boom bubble pop, and the historical fascination with blaming wall street speculators for all the ills of the world, had mysteriously returned to the newspapers.

The ambiguity of the subject's expression, frequently described as enigmatic, the monumentality of the composition, the subtle modeling of forms and the atmospheric illusionism were novel qualities that have contributed to the continuing fascination and study of the work.

Other likely influences were a visit made by Dickens to the Western Penitentiary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from March 20-22, 1842 ; the decade-long fascination on both sides of the Atlantic with spiritualism ; fairy tales and nursery stories ( which Dickens regarded as stories of conversion and transformation ); contemporary religious tracts about conversion ; and the works of Douglas Jerrold in general, but especially " The Beauties of the Police " ( 1843 ), a satirical and melodramatic essay about a father and his child forcibly separated in a workhouse, and another satirical essay by Jerrold which may have had a direct influence on Dickens ' conception of Scrooge called " How Mr. Chokepear keeps a merry Christmas " ( Punch, 1841 ).

The stars were the subject of public fascination throughout the world as magazines and newspapers reported the excesses of their lives.

The Aztec motifs of the game were influenced by Schafer's decade-long fascination with folklore and talks with forklorist Alan Dundes, with Schafer recognizing that the four-year journey of the soul in the afterlife would set the stage for an adventure game.

Due to the town's small size and the fascination with the trailer park stereotype, what were sometimes smaller incidents caused major headlines in the media of the area: In 1970, then-mayor George Reiter attempted to replace the female village clerk because he believed men were temperamentally better suited for the position, a view held by many of his supporters in the city.

Although much of Kidd's treasure was recovered from various people who had taken possession of it before Kidd's arrest ( such as his wife and various others who were given it for safe keeping ), there was so much public interest and fascination with the case at the time, speculation grew that a vast fortune remained and that Kidd had secretly buried it.

By this hypothesis, creation of the fictional poetess capitalized on the period's literary fascination with the classical poet Sappho and on a publication ( 1533 ) of poems attributed to Petrarch's " Laura " ( Laura de Sade ; the poems were in fact the work of a descendant of Laura ).

Mosley exercised a strange fascination for the Curzon women: Irene had a brief romance with him before either were married ; Baba became his mistress ; and Curzon's second wife, Grace, had a long affair with him.

No account of the iron maiden has been found earlier than 1793, although medieval torture devices were elaborately catalogued with horrified fascination and reproduced during the 19th century for collectors of the macabre.

Numerous popular stories were published about her in the media as well, reflecting the public's fascination with this female engineer.

Floral designs were common embellishments, but the most popular was the Pfauenauge ( peacock's eye ) design inspired by the Jugendstil decorators ' fascination with the peacock's rich plumage.

Contemporary Byzantine chroniclers note with a mix of terror and fascination that the " Scandinavians were frightening both in appearance and in equipment, they attacked with reckless rage and neither cared about losing blood nor their wounds ".

Critics were divided: the horror and " terribilità " of the subject exercised fascination, but devotees of classicism expressed their distaste for what they described as a " pile of corpses ," whose realism they considered a far cry from the " ideal beauty " incarnated by Girodet's Pygmalion and Galatea ( which triumphed the same year ).

The new Radio Flyer wagons were named for Pasin's fascination with radio and with flight.

* In 2002, Imre Kertész, while receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature, stated that all his works were written because of his own fascination with Borowski's prose.

Although several pieces featured familiar Bark Psychosis ingredients ( such as the interplay of Sutton's tremolo electric guitar and minimal keyboards ), others were based around strummed acoustic guitar and resembled either folk music or some of the band's pre -" Scum " psychedelic work, while others had elements of cool jazz, Indian classical sounds, or — as in the case of " Shapeshifting "-a post-Boymerang fascination with the possibilities of extended rhythm and noise.

These movements were fueled by a renewed fascination with his style of dialogue delivery and his machismo image.

Shenoy advocate the greater freedom, they were unable to over-ride the Indian fascination with socialism.