Miyazaki's fascination with flight is evident throughout these films, ranging from the ornithopters flown by pirates in Castle in the Sky, to the Totoro and the Cat Bus soaring through the air, and Kiki flying her broom.

Although Ruth Benedict ’ s fascination with death started at an early age, she continued to study how death affected people throughout her career.

Germain's parents did not at all approve of her sudden fascination with mathematics, which was then thought inappropriate for a woman.

Similar strains of fascination and repulsion convulsed their artists " Nonetheless, nudity and violence are more evident in British paintings set in the ancient world, and " the iconography of the odalisque ... the Oriental sex slave whose image is offered up to the viewer as freely as she herself supposedly was to her master-is almost entirely French in origin ", though taken up with enthusiasm by Italian and other painters.

The movies gave Wednesday a much more serious and mature personality with a deadpan wit and a morbid fascination with trying to physically harm, or possibly murder, her brother ( she was seen strapping him into an electric chair, for example, and preparing to pull the switch ); she was apparently often successful, but Pugsley never died.

But his mother, as a vampire, taunted William and insinuated he had always had a sexual fascination with her.

I don't blame her for this careful examination ; the time she spent was, I am sure, enjoyable, for I found considerable fascination in them myself.

Since he knows Olivia does not buy his act, and upon her probing, Dan privately reveals to Olivia that he enjoys his act, much to Olivia's fascination.

Afterward, she condemned her fascination with the bullfight and her inability to feel outraged at the suffering of the horses and bulls that had been killed.

Eleanor Winsor Leach claimed, in her Lacanian analysis " Gendering Clodius ", that the frequency and intensity of Cicero's word plays on the cognomen Pulcher (" handsome, lovely ") a certain fascination masquerading under rebuke.

Born in Bois-Colombes, France, she is best known as the author of the 2002 memoir The Sexual Life of Catherine M .; the book details her sexual history, from childhood masturbation to an adult fascination with group sex.

This gift led her to a fascination with the gaming and fantasy field, which in turn led her to write articles for gaming magazines.

The first murder she is known to commit occurs after Beverly attends a PTA where Mr. Stubbins ( John Badila ), Chip's high school math teacher, criticizes her son's morbid fascination with violent horror films and further questions the strength of family unit as well as recommending therapy for Chip.

Von Teese is known for her fascination with 1940s cinema and classic retro style.

Her mother was a fan of old, Golden age-era Hollywood films, and it was from her that Von Teese developed a fascination with the actresses of that day, especially Betty Grable.

Today, the Salzburg Marionette Theatre is under the artistic direction of his granddaughter, Gretel Aicher, who commented on her lasting interest in marionettes, " What then is the fascination of a life with marionettes?

The harmonic fascination with the bridge segment beginning " I want her everywhere " is that at that point the key centre does go " everywhere ".

According to the DVD documentary, Hannah had been swimming " mermaid " style with her legs bound together since she was a child, due to her fascination with Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid story.

* The film is frequently referenced in the Youth in Revolt book series, being a favorite of female protagonist Sheeni Saunders, including her dreams of running off to France and her fascination for Jean-Paul Belmondo.

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

We may take her with us -- to California.

He wouldn't even dance with her at Gavin's party.

He kissed her also, and with deep tenderness.

He wanted no more sentimental scenes with her.

She wiped it off with the sleeve of her coat.

Then she turned the station wagon around and headed it back down the hill, with the village as her ostensible destination.

She remembered little of her previous journey there with Grace, and she could but hope that her dedication to her mission would enable her to accomplish it.

Was it not possible, after all, that the forest was in league with her and her child that its sympathy lay with the Culvers that she had erred in failing to understand this??

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

Having persisted too long in deliberate ignorance and denial of the forces that threatened her, Pamela was relieved now to admit their potency and to be taking definite steps toward grappling with them.

His presence would have interfered with her duty.

It circled her thighs, exploring with its icy tentacles.

It entered her body with the ghastly intimacy of an incubus, and its particles, spreading, creeping, crawling, joined themselves into steel bands that constricted her knees so tightly that they ached ; ;

He caught her eye, came back around the car with the boot-wearer ; ;

And even with her limited knowledge of such things, she knew that the car could be repaired there ; ;

Then, with a shrug of pretended indifference, she took a compact from her purse and went through the motions of fixing her make-up.

He was in earnest conversation with her father and the old vaquero, Luis Hernandez.

She pulled her legs up under her, to rise, her full peasant skirt drawing up her thighs, and Feathertop's music pfffted away.

With her son evidencing so strong a musical bent his mother could do little else but get him started on the study of music -- though she waited until he was ten -- beginning with the piano and following that with the trumpet.

The music becomes ethereal as he calls up a vision of her own sainthood: it is she, he tells her, who can bring the truth to Russia and convert the heretics.

To music of a menacing darkness, he describes the powers of Satan gaining control of the girl, poisoning her soul with pride and destroying her beauty.

Dan Beam presented music and the bride was given in marriage by her father.

Since she also has considerable technical virtuosity and a feeling for music in the romantic tradition, Miss Xydis gave her listeners a good deal of pleasure.

So, what was the deepest music on her program had the poorest showing.

Before her chore was finished she was rescuing wind-blown sheets of music, trundling microphones about the stage, helping to move the piano and otherwise joining in the informal atmosphere.

Instead of her old confidence in the simplest, purest, most moving musical expression, Miss Schwarzkopf is letting herself be tempted by the classic sin of artistic pride -- that subtle vanity that sometimes misleads a great artist into thinking that he or she can somehow better the music by bringing to it something extra, some personal dramatic touch imposed from the outside.

Gershwin met with Boulanger and at her request he played ten minutes of his music.

During its preparation he became a friend of Cosima Wagner ( then in Strasbourg ), with whom he had many theological and musical conversations, exploring his view of Bach's descriptive music, and playing the major Chorale Preludes for her at the Temple Neuf.

Brandy uses her voice for background music in this song, showing her capabilities of using her voice as an instrument.

The song is not actually performed a cappella, but rather, explains that before her son was born, her life was without music.

Amy Lee Grant ( born November 25, 1960 ) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, media personality and actress, best known for her Christian music.

Grant made her debut as a teenager, and gained fame in Christian music during the 1980s with such hits as " Father's Eyes ", " El Shaddai ", and " Angels ".

Aldona was remembered for her piety and devotion to music.

The reporter then expresses the conclusion to her audience that the music videos are to blame for the duo's actions.