Many of the refugee children being hidden in Chambon attended Cévenol and it was at this school that Grothendieck apparently first became fascinated with mathematics.

In the late 1860s or early 1870s, Pissarro became fascinated with Japanese prints, which influenced his desire to experiment in new compositions.

He became fascinated by the Bible, which he studied assiduously.

He learnt of the opportunities from the Saharan trade routes that terminated there, and became fascinated with Africa in general ; he was most intrigued by the Christian legend of Prester John and the expansion of Portuguese trade.

Asked by Terre Haute politician and lawyer John Palmer Usher, future Secretary of the Interior under President Abraham Lincoln, to testify in a slander case, Cannon became fascinated with the law.

After injuring her knee while performing in Prague, she saw a nature film about mountains ( der Berg des Schicksals, 1924 ) and became fascinated with the possibilities of this sort of film.

In his book, The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question ?, Lederman writes that, although he was a chemistry major, he became fascinated with physics, because of the clarity of the logic and the unambiguous results from experimentation.

As a schoolboy ( inspired by his cousin Karl Weigert who owned one of the first microtomes ), he became fascinated by the process of staining microscopic tissue substances.

While undertaking geographical research in northern Canada he became fascinated with the Inuit people and decided to become an ethnographer.

In England, Cooke became fascinated by electrical telegraphy in 1836, four years after Morse, but with greater financial resources.

Raimi became fascinated with making films when his father brought a movie camera home one day and he began to make Super 8 movies with childhood friend Bruce Campbell.

Steinhaus became fascinated with the self-taught young mathematician.

During this time, Wenders became fascinated with cinema, and saw up to five movies a day at the local movie theater.

The German public also became fascinated with reports of homicides, especially " lust murders " or Lustmord.

Once a rarely occurring spontaneous phenomena ( research in 1944 showed only 76 cases ), became " an artifact of bad ( or naïve ) psychotherapy " as patients capable of dissociating were accidentally encouraged to express their symptoms by " overly fascinated " therapists.

In 1851, Thoreau became increasingly fascinated with natural history and travel / expedition narratives.

The city was razed to the ground, while Sui troops escorted Chen nobles back north, where the northern aristocrats became fascinated with everything the south had to provide culturally and intellectually.

Composers of the late 18th century became fascinated with the new possibilities of the symphony and other instrumental music, and generally neglected choral music.

Ford, a self-described " late bloomer ," became fascinated with acting.

She became fascinated by his vision for establishing a company to promote English comic opera and gave up her next engagement to join his theatrical organisation as his secretary.

Narendra became fascinated with the evolutionism of Herbert Spencer and had correspondence with him ; he translated Spencer's book Education ( 1861 ) into Bengali.

" He became fascinated with motion pictures, watching the same ones repeatedly and then re-enacting scenes to his friends and neighbors.

These trips became the pivotal moment of his education ; he visited Chartres, the Parthenon, and many other ancient monuments, becoming increasingly fascinated with architecture.

He became fascinated with chemistry at age twelve, after hearing a presentation on nylon.

Clark became fascinated by all things American.

His face took on a sudden pallor, became beaded with sweat, and he seemed to have trouble with his breathing.

Suddenly the Spanish became an English in which only one word emerged with clarity and precision, `` son of a bitch '', sometimes hyphenated by vicious jabs of a beer bottle into Johnson's quivering ribs.

Yet, after Rousseau had given the social contract a new twist with his notion of the General Will, the same philosophy, it may be said, became the idea source of the French Revolution also.

His name became synonymous with cold-blooded cruelty.

so Cyrus Adler became interested in her friend Racie Friedenwald, and Joe Jastrow -- the only young man who when he wrote had the temerity to address her as Henrietta, and signed himself Joe -- fell in love with pretty sister Rachel.

When he discovered they had received from the Company's Court of Directors no permission to live in India, coupled with the fact that they were Americans who had been sent to Asia to convert `` the heathen '', he became more belligerent than ever.

Mercer's Whiteman association brought him into contact with Hoagy Carmichael, whose `` Snowball '' Mercer relyriced as `` Lazybones '', in which form it became a hit and marked the real beginning of Mercer's song-writing career.

Then, in some way, this lack of faith in the cavalry became mixed up in his mind with the dragging effect of wagon trains and was hardened into a prejudice.

Over the months he became a political gadfly with an incessant barrage of satirical poems ridiculing Woodruff, the `` Casca '' letters belittling Woodruff, and long analytical articles vilifying Woodruff.

I became disgusted at being so preoccupied with the state of my own miserable soul.

I became fifteen, sixteen, then twenty, and still Tessie Alpert sat on the porch with a rose in her hair, and Alfred got richer and sicker with diabetes.

So, walking in awe, he became familiar with God, who resided chiefly in Drew Centennial Church with its high steeple and clock.

What he was about became clear to her with the circulation of another broadside proclamation by General McClellan, threatening reprisals against Rebel guerrillas.

It seemed to her, as it seemed each night, that the gloom drew itself in and became densest at the table's empty chairs, giving her the frequent illusion that she dined with shadows.

The more I talked with him, the more convinced I became that that was the secret of their riotous blooming.

Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.

( Sanity, solvency and relations with our wine merchant took a beating that first summer as we inadvertently became the neighborhood free-drink stop.

She was the daughter and sole heiress of either a cattle baron or an oil millionaire and, having arrived in New York with a big bank roll, became a dabbler in various fields.

One hebephrenic woman often became submerged in what felt to me like a somehow phony experience of pseudo-emotion, during which, despite her wracking sobs and streaming cheeks, I felt only a cold annoyance with her.

Eventually it became clear to me, partly with the aid of another schizophrenic patient who could point out my condescension to me somewhat more directly, that this man, with his condescending, `` You're welcome '', was very accurately personifying an element of obnoxious condescension which had been present in my own demeanor, over these months, on each of these occasions when I had bid him good-bye with the consoling note, each time, that the healing Christ would be stooping to dispense this succor to the poor sufferer again on the morrow.