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that is, to show no curiosity whatsoever.
It was simply a matter of curiosity, a natural right to examine.
Dandy, curiosity overcoming his apprehensions, peered out at the doctor from the window of the vehicle.
My wish to meet Samuel Beckett had been prompted by simple curiosity and interest in his work.
My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.
Avowed atheists or freethinkers are so rare as to be a curiosity.
Malraux pretends, perhaps with a trifle too self-conscious a modesty, that his fragmentary work will accordingly `` appeal only to the curiosity of bibliophiles '' and `` to connoisseurs of what might have been ''.
Merely to satisfy the author's curiosity.
Skopas expressed no curiosity over the case, offered no expression of sympathy, made no move to escort McFeely to the door.
Kate tried to contain her curiosity and foreboding at what the letter portended, at what involvement existed for Juanita.
They had never seen one before and had expressed a curiosity about it.
At the same time, it was unlikely that any businessmen would spend a day in a Christian mission out of mere curiosity.
It was Giselle, the fille de chambre, come to clean the room, and while she stood before him with ears pricked up and regard all curiosity, explaining her errand, Alex could see from the corner of his eye the doctor doing all he could to calm the displeased bird.
Their curiosity went happily out of bounds.
My mother was beside herself with curiosity.
Recently, for example, a paranoid woman's large-scale philosophizing, in the session, about the intrusive curiosity which has become, in her opinion, a deplorable characteristic of mid-twentieth-century human culture, developed itself, before the end of the session, into a suspicion that I was surreptitiously peeking at her partially exposed breast, as indeed I was.
I can well understand your curiosity.
They may, of course, be curiosity seekers -- or they may just be interested in the phenomenon of mediumship.
Many of them paid for their curiosity with their lives, for some minutes later the first giant wave roared over the shore.
He looked at Gilborn with undisguised curiosity.
With curiosity and elan, he explored every inch of glen, beach and burn, once stranding himself for hours on a ledge high up a sheer seventy-foot cliff and waiting with calm faith to be rescued by Maxwell, who nearly lost his life in doing so.
For the first time in thirty years, Henrietta walked down the narrow street with its shuttered shops just stirring and its inhabitants eying her with the frankest curiosity.
of curiosity ; ;
He is certainly retired at the time of Three Act Tragedy ( 1935 ) but he does not enjoy his retirement and comes repeatedly out of it thereafter when his curiosity is engaged.
Amalric had an enormous curiosity, and William was reportedly astonished to find Amalric questioning, during an illness, the resurrection of the body.

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