Sentences with phrase «morbid fascination»

There is, as he implies, a certain amount of morbid fascination with and manipulating of the event of the Holocaust, a fact alluded to briefly in my review.

Combining contemporary art with the traditional figurative style of the Old Masters, Aili's work conveys a sense of morbid fascination with the technological progress and drastic changes in China over the past 50 years.

Zimbardo and his team watch in morbid fascination as power corrupts the guards and the prisoners» psyches break.

The supersensitiveness that continually is being hurt and, once hurt, irascibly cherishes a grudge; the bare nerve of self that waits only to be touched to writhe and, writhing, tingles with rancor toward the annoyer; the evil eye that watches with morbid fascination for slight and insult and, once insulted, finds happiness only in thoughts of getting even — all this is sheer egotism in its barest and most repulsive form.

In a safety vest, equipped with a pen light, the engineer studied the place, noting with morbid fascination how it had survived the explosion despite frequent departures from code — deviations he said did not make sense.

Although trying British banks in a public inquiry - as has been called for today by Ed Balls, Mark Garnier of the Treasury Select Committee, and Tory backbenchers - would provide the glorious morbid fascination that the Leveson Inquiry has in recent weeks, raking journalists and politicians over the country aga coals, it is a dangerous solution.

Commune with bizarre life - forms deep below your feet, or simply gape in morbid fascination at the fecal microbes that are currently having a party on your pillow and TV screen?

Has a certain morbid fascination, but it has no real bite, and finally seems so contrived and pointless it borders on being out - and - out exploitation.

I look at this with the same morbid fascination of a nurse looking at a pus filled wound.

Their motive was more than just morbid fascination — in fact, the global temperature change that occurs in such a scenario is a very useful metric.

And so there's a sort of morbid fascination in watching each other and desperately wanting that thing that the other has.»

Five years later, the actor and director reunite in «While We're Young,» a film that, in some ways, takes Greenberg's morbid fascination with modern youth as its jumping - off point.

King's morbid fascination for the weakness behind the facade of domestic bliss in the American nuclear family is practically a constant throughout his oeuvre.

We keep watching what is happening in Cyprus with morbid fascination.

That, I submit, is the secret of our morbid fascination with the horror genre.

TV Guide asks Hershman: «But why the morbid fascination and preoccupation with the Catholic Church?

To be sure, the sources and manifestations of violence are complex But what do we make of competitiveness, the cult of winning, the armoring of emotions, the tendency to dichotomize reality, the abstraction from bodily concreteness and the exaggerated fear of death that is manifested in a morbid fascination with it?

Greatly Exaggerated NBC's erroneous report of Joe DiMaggio's demise is part of a pattern of morbid fascination

They should ask themselves exactly what this morbid fascination with the Lib Dems has brought them.

«I have to to say that your morbid fascination with the premature death of your own party leader is not really a subject for me, it is a subject for the chief whip.»

The film remains a creepy story with a lot of morbid fascination, set off by the captivating young Florencia Bado in her first screen role.

«There's a morbid fascination that exists in so many elements of culture... which makes it all the more of a spectacle.»

We may now ask ourselves why it is (and how it is) that such ponderous and slow films about mundane events appeal to us, beyond their beautiful cinematography and original filmmaking techniques, and beyond the morbid fascination with dying and the taboo attached to it?

This spectacle of decadence is quietly observed by the household's youngest member, 12 - year - old Eve (Fantine Harduin), a typically Hanekean combination of innocence and sociopathy for whom death holds a morbid fascination.

Part of it is history and part of it is morbid fascination of a crime scene.

Watching the reviews pop up in my Facebook and Twitter feeds and seeing the number steadily drop on Rotten Tomatoes (where it's currently hovering above the ground around 9 percent) provided a morbid fascination.

I'm far from being an MBA kind of person, there's always a kind of gleeful / morbid fascination to stories of spectacular business failures.

It became a sort of morbid fascination to see where the plot was going and how the story and characters would evolve.

This alias - shrouded critic's love - the - art / disdain - the - artist philosophy and his morbid fascination with the murders leads Alex and the detectives to suspect they're facing a new breed of celebrity stalker: one with a fetish for snuffing out rising stars.

There has always been a morbid fascination about the Antichrist in Western Culture.

The European Collector's Edition for Resident Evil 7 Biohazard is available for pre-order from today onward and includes an array of special items to tickle any fan's morbid fascination with the upcoming title.

One understands the tightly mixed motives — guilt at treating starvation as just one more gallery exhibition, morbid fascination, belief, and appreciation.

We spoke with Soto Climent at the show's opening and weighed in on the morbid fascination behind the presentation and its implications.

Cronin's work subtly evokes the late nineteenth - century Rome of Henry James and Nathaniel Hawthorne, the neoclassicism of American sculptor Harriet Hosmer, and their morbid fascination with the supernatural.

He is keen to stress that Hirst's own work will not be on show: the gallery is specifically for the artist's 3,000 - strong collection to be «shared with the public», a haul that ranges from his YBA contemporaries to Jeff Koons and Richard Prince, along with pieces that «reflect his morbid fascination with anatomy and death».

It is time we got over the weird and morbid fascination with sharks as a danger to our lives, and start looking at ourselves as a monstrous threat to the survival of marine ecosystems.