Human curiosity seems the obvious answer, and eavesdropping creates that narrative lack which provokes curiosity. |
|
Their curiosity is endless and finding something to do which is engrossing enough to hold their attention for a while is difficult. |
|
As a kick-start to a Battle of the Bands competition, it is at least a curiosity. |
|
I am worried in case I get rejected, but I can't stand not knowing him and the curiosity is killing me. |
|
This fusion of martial and performing arts is sure to kindle the curiosity of the young, who adapt easily to innovations. |
|
It is this bent nose that kindled our curiosity and prompted our investigation. |
|
Moreover, student involvement and curiosity will be kindled when they bring waste material for conducting these experiments, he adds. |
|
Approaching the bird, anger turned to curiosity at seeming small green leaves sprouting from a slender twig. |
|
An exhilarating mixture of fear, wonderment and primal curiosity overcame their usual normal response to such an occurrence. |
|
A few days later, I decided out of curiosity to see whether the old vcr is still knackered. |
|
Given that I believed The Perfect Storm to be unfilmable, I approached the motion picture with a mixture of curiosity and skepticism. |
|
I saw concern, confusion, worry, pain, disappointment and curiosity, and I tried to hide from them. |
|
If the advert merely excites your curiosity or interest, something Maloney calls curious disbelief, that will be enough. |
|
These unexplained phenomena have aroused the curiosity of the scientific community. |
|
He looked them over, awe and curiosity registering on his face before he skillfully masked his emotions. |
|
This experience reinforced Udechukwu's growing curiosity about Igbo life, evidenced in the collection of Igbo proverbs he made at the time. |
|
It was a curiosity that it was the second mortgagee who, in fact, produced the certificate of title to enable the registration of the mortgage. |
|
Holmes only chooses subjects that excite his curiosity and sympathy as well as his literary admiration. |
|
The Religious zealot vehemently opposes curiosity or concern for anyone outside their circle. |
|
Therefore, I shall only name a few of the attractions, enough to elicit and excite the public curiosity. |
|
|
He couldn't resist such a tempting adventure, thus he traveled west, into this ancient forest to feed his curiosity. |
|
He stared at me curiously, though behind that curiosity was a firm resolution I had no idea of. |
|
Energized by necessity as well as by curiosity and competence in many mediums, the versatile artist was awesomely productive. |
|
I was left with a curiosity about the book, but not entirely satisfied by the play. |
|
Crime fiction offers a framework in which to pursue our curiosity about anomalous behaviour, it hooks us, as might a car crash on the motorway. |
|
Other traits for which people found fault with him were his great strictness, his curiosity and his meddlesomeness. |
|
The retriever sniffed with cautious curiosity at the doctor's legs, and Julien stood there, looking passively at the dog. |
|
Monograms on mountains is a curiosity, a visual chronicle of the monumental letterforms that are located near many American towns. |
|
He was seated on his throne in a ceremonial Osiris-like pose, but his eyes betrayed his curiosity. |
|
Piercing gray eyes that appeared cold under the dim phosphorescent lights, were studying her with curiosity and ill humor. |
|
A few notes from the rhapsody of praise composed in his honour in his lifetime should be enough to whet new curiosity. |
|
All of this northern exposure contributed to an undying curiosity about the region. |
|
His many works filled Colombians with curiosity and admiration for the region's cultural complexity, its contemporary myths, its take on reality. |
|
Joining the Navy seemed to be the right way to indulge his curiosity to see places beyond his comfort zone. |
|
All the clutter on his desk was spread out in front of me, and a great curiosity seized me. |
|
On that February night, about 2,700 curiosity seekers went there to witness the start of an experiment. |
|
He had great intellectual curiosity and eagerly applied physiology to patient care. |
|
God to me is simply an artefact of my brain, a curiosity that has evolved to appease the terrors of contemplating my own end. |
|
During the last decade, their curiosity has introduced us to a whole new language of phytonutrients, the beneficial compounds in plant foods. |
|
My curiosity was appeased when I got to enter four of those studios on Saturday. |
|
|
When she finally appeased her parents' curiosity by doing so they naturally asked him about his family and background. |
|
Shrugging, she finally ripped her lunch open before appeasing his curiosity. |
|
Besides, on this particular evening, a hitherto undiscussed aspect of my fancy London ways has aroused my dad's curiosity. |
|
One had appetites and ambitions, talents and desires, capacities and potential, drive and vision, questions and curiosity. |
|
The aqua vitae created by alchemists remained a scientific curiosity, a substance not easily assimilated into regular diet. |
|
A handsome man with olive skin, an appropriately Roman nose, and an enthusiasm and curiosity in his big brown eyes. |
|
The younger woman's unabashed romps arouse Sarah's curiosity, unleashing sexual dreams in her. |
|
While one might want to ridicule a particular expression of curiosity, he would be careful of dismissing curiosity root and branch. |
|
He crept up the singles draw, away from limelight focussed on the seeded players, till the final when he became an object of curiosity. |
|
Even those with only a passing interest in the subject matter should find something to pique their curiosity within. |
|
By the time she reached the bedroom door her alarm and curiosity were roused. |
|
Mistress Di, her curiosity roused, determined to discover the mysterious nature of their voyage. |
|
She allowed her gaze to rove over the gentleman, in some odd mix of sizing him up, and curiosity at this stranger from another time. |
|
Filmmakers from these countries reflect on those old ties with a combination of curiosity, rue and rage. |
|
She approached slowly at first, then broke into a run, her curiosity conquering her fear. |
|
When she was in high school, Lisa Pietrusza took a social studies course that piqued her curiosity about politics. |
|
Once the most serious hunger pangs were assuaged, Nicholas remembered his manners and his curiosity. |
|
This piques my scientific curiosity and I make a mental note to ask my rather strange-looking hostess about it. |
|
The common thread is ideological certainty untroubled by empirical evidence, intellectual curiosity, or open debate. |
|
More specifically, the Old Man represented a kind of curiosity called the lusus naturae, a play or joke of nature. |
|
|
The quarry pits aroused the curiosity of the first European-American settlers on the ridge at the beginning of the nineteenth century. |
|
I'm going to jam every bit of everything offered into my greedy maw until my curiosity is assuaged. |
|
Maxwell took note of how attentively he was watching the scene unfold before him with quiet curiosity. |
|
But Griett is sent to clean the artist's studio, and he notices her curiosity and the avidity with which she studies his work. |
|
I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science. |
|
The spiritual and the supernatural, even the gruesome arouse an instinctive curiosity in all of us. |
|
No matter how small the window, the writer must awaken a desire and curiosity in the soul to peep out of it and view the world about us. |
|
Just goes to show that recipients of such filth should not open the material out of curiosity or to confirm the material. |
|
The level of knowledge, enthusiasm and intellectual curiosity was truly inspiring. |
|
Their faces registered curiosity and a tinge of alarm as guards leaped to bar the massive doors at the main entrance. |
|
I'd never seen anyone walk or talk like her, and my mind was burning with curiosity. |
|
Sara was burning with curiosity in regards to what Torik was doing on the other side of the hill, but she had preparations of her own to make. |
|
To the same degree that Hughes defines manhood through compassion, Du Bois defines manhood through intellectual curiosity. |
|
I reached over and yanked the man's mask off of his head, then stood back and regarded his face with curiosity. |
|
I bet you never watched it out of curiosity because you are just not interested. |
|
Children who are deemed curiosity fire-setters tend to have a single incident of fire-play and often require just fire-safety education. |
|
The curiosity is that home telephones have gradually taken on behaviours that reflect this issue of intrusion and interruption. |
|
The appearance of a series of tall metal poles at the roadside this week had piqued the curiosity of motorists. |
|
Even in 1958, when she had had polio, she felt it was something of a curiosity and a disease doctors knew little about. |
|
Soon, the muddler went from curiosity to an essential tool behind any cutting-edge bar. |
|
|
For mere seconds I toyed with cowardice, before curiosity and professionalism won out. |
|
But when we started to sing, a few passers-by began turning their heads in curiosity and gradually a crowd formed and some even sang with us. |
|
Out of morbid curiosity she pushed herself back into the storm drain and crawled forward on hands and knees toward the body. |
|
But it did spark a curiosity that itched until she completed a short story. |
|
And I am consumed by curiosity and a desire to know what on earth this cool thing is going to be like. |
|
In his essay on Leonardo, Freud even derives curiosity and the desire for knowledge from sexuality. |
|
Lawson wrote the story in the earliest days of moving pictures when cinema was no more than a curiosity. |
|
The little boy looked at the opponent with a mixed feeling of curiosity and fear. |
|
His eyes searched hers curiously, but he found nothing but mild curiosity in her eyes. |
|
Whereas the caged specimens evoke a comfortably detached curiosity, the uncaged native provokes a fear that demands surveillance. |
|
The latter is a moralistic bore who puts intellectual curiosity second to her desire to pontificate. |
|
Questions should be answered as they arise so that the child's natural curiosity is satisfied as she matures. |
|
The young woman was sitting forward in her seat, a look of almost childlike curiosity on her face. |
|
He devoured ideas with an insatiable curiosity and then pursued them with unbounded energy and infectious enthusiasm. |
|
They also collected specimens of human and animal freaks in private curiosity cabinets. |
|
The genius he displayed was of a scientific order, his talent was of an investigatory habit, and his curiosity was unappeasable. |
|
I can't think of a single reason to buy this album except for morbid curiosity. |
|
Cultural singularity cannot prevail in a commercial world because monotony conflicts with the consumer's natural curiosity. |
|
One only mildly irritating curiosity worth mentioning here is a little bit of what sounds like pre-echo. |
|
Mohammed went to the mosque with an older cousin, probably out of curiosity. |
|
|
Nearby stood the two deer-creatures, ears pricked, watching with curiosity rather than alarm. |
|
She smiled and leaned towards her guest with more than polite curiosity gleaming in her blue eyes. |
|
Our curiosity was aroused by the gleeful squeals and ripples of bawdy laughter emanating from the crowd. |
|
Her curiosity was raging and she desperately wanted to see what was happening. |
|
But when asked to review Brigham City, an independent feature film by and about Mormons, I could only approach the task with guarded curiosity. |
|
But often one sip of spirits or a few puffs of a cigarette are enough to satisfy their curiosity for a while at least. |
|
The sad desuetude of the lid or titfer is a cause for curiosity as well as regret. |
|
The paying punters on the tour all seem motivated more by curiosity than ideology. |
|
Well folks, that go-along attitude and curiosity have together congealed into a large putrid mass of disgust. |
|
She has a child-like curiosity about everything and a great ability to pick on things. |
|
Partly in order to fit with the rest, but mostly due to curiosity or inner need, they gradually question all of the dictums coming from home. |
|
Asha waited expectantly, with a trace of fear and curiosity, her heartbeat quickening slightly at the prospect. |
|
They never did quite process that there's a postmodern kind of human curiosity that gets pleasure out of things formerly disapproved of. |
|
It engenders neither pity nor fear, rather the kind of mild curiosity you experience when seeing something familiar under a microscope. |
|
I had almost forgotten that enigmatical message of his, but now my curiosity was aroused afresh. |
|
His curiosity about cultural divergences within countries and regions, for example, is admirable. |
|
She does not want to divulge any information regarding the nature of her speech in order to keep the curiosity alive. |
|
The vision excited my curiosity not by its eroticism but as a first glimpse of the ways women themselves perceive their bodies. |
|
Her curiosity piqued, she gathered 10 exams from the past three years and discovered that most of the literary passages had been expurgated. |
|
People have an in-built prurient curiosity and voyeurism, so why should we blame the programme makers for that? |
|
|
The boy watched with curiosity as the burnt, sodden pieces of wood peeked out of the water, unmoving. |
|
What happened to that sense of academic adventure, excitement and curiosity? |
|
Why had she adventured her life on a bold impulse to satisfy mere curiosity? |
|
At the London, Merrick became a celebrity, an object of curiosity, visited by fashionable society women and royalty. |
|
It has that magical charm of youthful curiosity mixed with dark deadpan humour. |
|
Certain novel, surprising, conflicting, and perplexing objects or circumstances arouse curiosity situationally. |
|
It was the unwanted, unwonted curiosity it raised, racing from one possibility to another instead of letting me doze off. |
|
She felt like staying in bed a while longer, snug under the warm blankets, but her stomach would not let her, any more than her curiosity. |
|
I started 'vaping' purely out of curiosity and haven't smoked a single cigarette since. |
|
Mr Kelleher said it was understandable that children would have a natural curiosity about building sites but safety had to remain a priority. |
|
Satisfied, Arlie started back up the stairs, but curiosity got the better of her. |
|
He had a mess of shaggy violet colored hair and violet eyes that shone with a mixture of childish curiosity and animal-like awareness. |
|
The Bride's name is bleeped out through the film, but in a way that seems like a desperate bid for curiosity rather than a build-up of mystery. |
|
Her eye's started to twinkle with curiosity when she came across a black door. |
|
The plane stopped off in Thailand, when I suddenly became overwhelmed with a wave of curiosity and maybe just a twinge of compassion. |
|
She shook her head not even bothering to ask where he was off to, but as soon as he had disappeared from her sight, curiosity got a hold of her. |
|
So by claiming to shun public attention he evades confrontations and intensifies public curiosity. |
|
Anthony says mainstream culture is becoming ripe with curiosity about black culture. |
|
The coloration of feathers elicits curiosity in the ornithologist and admiration in the birder. |
|
Maggie doesn't hide her animosity towards her father, and despite her daughters' curiosity, shoos him out as fast as she can. |
|
|
The earliest zoos were miscellaneous private collections of animals for curiosity rather than scientific study. |
|
A livelier scientific curiosity, one is inclined to think, might lead not to infinite regress but to progress toward the infinite. |
|
I was hosting an open house and the usual neighbors came trapesing through out of curiosity. |
|
Over a mere five occurrences these transits of Venus had shifted from events of astronomical importance to a sideshow with mere curiosity value. |
|
This is sheerly to satisfy my own curiosity but I'll totally appreciate it. |
|
Lisa tried not to let her curiosity get the better of her as she saw the intense gazes pass between her partner and his love. |
|
Well curiosity got the better of the Professor over the weekend, so a quick google seemed worth the effort. |
|
Then, curiosity got the better of me and I ventured over again to the Mouse Corner. |
|
When they moved off, my curiosity got the better of me and I went over to check out the product he had been holding. |
|
Why he left it there in the first place I don't know, but seeing it there made my curiosity get the better of me again. |
|
He hesitated a while across the street, then his curiosity got the better of him and he started to cross the street. |
|
There was some talk about its potential use in horticulture, which got the better of my dad's curiosity. |
|
When some young police from Redfern told me about them, curiosity got the better of me and I asked them to show me the street they lived in. |
|
The technician's face was stuck between mild agitation and intense curiosity. |
|
However, on the afternoon of their 10th anniversary, curiosity got the best of her and she lifted the lid and peeked inside. |
|
When my mate, Annie, suggested that, instead of a Sunday walk on the beach, we go to this gym for a swim, my curiosity got the best of me. |
|
My curiosity got the best of me and I inquired as to how she knew this, let alone even knew who I was looking at. |
|
Indeed, he became so much interested and amused by their shambling motions and clever evolutions, that he could no longer contain his curiosity. |
|
For Symphony No 4 Tchaikovsky produced his own programme to satisfy the curiosity of his invisible benefactress, Mme von Meck. |
|
The sensitive plant commonly sold in stores as a curiosity is a member of the pea family. |
|
|
He looked up at the tall man with curiosity, tipping back his head to view him, nearly tipping over backwards in his effort. |
|
Still, I suppress the slight tinge of red, for my curiosity has far outweighed my irritation. |
|
All you have to do is dive near any large seal colony and let the animals' natural curiosity and playfulness do the rest. |
|
The curtain, however, once installed, caught his attention and tickled his curiosity. |
|
He dreaded hearing the answer, but morbid curiosity forced him to ask the question. |
|
Unless poll results are meant to influence those yet to vote they are of academic or curiosity interest only. |
|
They wander through an ancient forest and encounter creatures that tickle the curiosity of the child. |
|
Robert carried a mysterious brown box in his arms, which tickled Tracy's cat-like curiosity. |
|
I too peeped through out of curiosity and found a young house wife crying in front of a policeman. |
|
Instead, it offered information that might satisfy children's future curiosity about natal origins. |
|
Out of the side streets opposite the jail they came by scores, drawn for the most part by idle and morbid curiosity. |
|
When I asked to meet him in person, his publicity people turned cagey, stoking my curiosity even more. |
|
This curiosity lead me wait around, in the hopes I could stand him a drink and ask him a few questions. |
|
Is it boredom, morbid curiosity or just a downright nosiness to see how unfavourably other people's lives compare? |
|
I know that a number of people come to this site solely out of morbid curiosity about Raychel's murder. |
|
Benjamin says there's a certain fear as well as curiosity when able-bodied and disabled dancers meet. |
|
Our culture, he believes, is given over to unbridled curiosity and a constant hankering for the forbidden. |
|
These have led to some perilous moments, especially when the public's unmannerly curiosity about the nitty-gritty collides with radio phone-ins. |
|
Rooke is optimistic that that kind of curiosity will result in people leaving the auction with a piece of fine art in their arms. |
|
I don't know the reason for this one and curiosity will drive me to find out shortly. |
|
|
You arrived confused, anxious to quench your curiosity at one of South Eastern Connecticut's top liberal arts colleges. |
|
However, after a few more minutes of hemming and hawing, his curiosity got the better of him and he unfolded the paper. |
|
His curiosity and quickness of mind ensured that he realised very quickly what I was implying. |
|
The attractive lovers move convincingly from mutual sexual curiosity to Strindbergian loathing. |
|
They showed a keen interest and curiosity in the ways that our national quilt was knitted. |
|
A writer is often easily inspired but the trick lay in the ability to turn a most uninteresting object into one of great curiosity. |
|
Alex blamed his curiosity on his uninteresting, tedious and all-round boring life. |
|
Out of curiosity, he glanced back at his rear view mirror, and felt relieved to see nothing but the dusty little trail framed by weeping willows. |
|
Loretta and Teresa had been gone a long time and Chandra's curiosity was raging. |
|
The idea that anyone could be tormented by curiosity with regard to her life stupefied me. |
|
Love as glorified by poets draws the common man's inherent curiosity to unimaginable extents. |
|
When curiosity overtakes me, I scoop the parcel into a glass and prudently cover it with a dinner plate. |
|
With curiosity as motivation, I've been following the many and varied lawsuits being adjudicated against the company. |
|
I have met many Asians for whom, after living for a lifetime in London, an English home remains a curiosity. |
|
In my dream I flicked it about a bit with my finger and then curiosity got the better of me and I decided to look underneath the flap. |
|
And whenever or wherever I go, there is this curiosity about what will happen next. |
|
Little Nell Trent lives in the gloomy atmosphere of the old curiosity shop kept by her grandfather, whom she tends with devotion. |
|
They guys are looking at us with a mixture of curiosity and fear so I decide to read the letter aloud. |
|
Sarah squinted her eyes in curiosity trying hard to read the information from his face. |
|
Her curiosity overwhelmed her common sense, and she took a cautious step towards the site. |
|
|
I know, curiosity killed the cat, but felines have nine lives. |
|
She was a rambunctious girl of eleven full of curiosity and enthusiasm. |
|
I was close to backing out, but my morbid curiosity got the best of me. |
|
When the buzz begins to build about a film, my curiosity is piqued. |
|
Her curiosity was piqued, and she began a nearly decade-long critical review of the research on dietary fat. |
|
Then again, in amongst all the cack, there have been absolute wonders I have discovered either through recommendation, reading, curiosity or sheer chance. |
|
A jumbled curiosity of a film, Charlie isn't sure whether it wants to be a hard-boiled gangster thriller, a thoughtful biography, or a legal drama. |
|
Egypt's magical and mystical other-worldly presence captivates our curiosity with an appeal that crosses all boundaries of time, geography and culture. |
|
But even when gastronomic curiosity overcomes fear, it can be disconcerting to discover that the most highly prized and delicious ones have poisonous lookalikes. |
|
He recognized and valued the curiosity and imagination that are characteristic of young children, and wanted to find outlets for their creative energy. |
|
But curiosity gets the best of her, and Caroline opens the door to find a wealth of materials representing the old house's history of hoodoo, an ancient form of folk magic. |
|
Both action and adventure lay around each and every corner, and, in the end, curiosity clasps you and before you knew it, you had been everywhere and completed the game. |
|
So fierce is his gaze, so peremptory his order, that even the shoppers forget the cold for a moment and stare in undisguised curiosity at the man with the red hackle. |
|
She discouraged impertinent curiosity with frozen silence and there is an uneasy feeling, as one reads, that one is prying into her chosen privacy. |
|
It seems advisable that hypothesizing would be informed by principles of curiosity and empowerment, instead of by principles of power and certainty. |
|
I think other fish-farmers regarded me with curiosity and some irritancy. |
|
At this statement my ears perked up, curiosity overtaking me. |
|
Many were also indulging a healthy curiosity about the outside world. |
|
With curiosity now piqued, let's dig a bit deeper into the wording. |
|
Most were merely curiosity seekers, so the police did not disperse them. |
|
|
She wasn't the sort of girl to say something like that that meant another, still curiosity killed the cat and James had never been able to resist asking. |
|
Spare time and curiosity pushed him into pressing onward up the gorge. |
|
The fact that Johnson, with undeniable media savvy, has got in on the act is proof positive that blogs have gone from web curiosity to mainstream medium. |
|
There is a great deal of prurient curiosity surrounding our partnership. |
|
But inwardly I was dying of curiosity about Nellie's sudden trip. |
|
Her students, as cruel as they are beautiful and privileged, treat her as a curiosity while they try to decide if she's cool or on the downhill slide into spinster misery. |
|
A talented writer with an insatiable curiosity and a legendary dedication to thoroughness, she was also incredibly intelligent and drop-dead gorgeous to boot. |
|
The platypus and its relative, the spiny anteater, excited his curiosity because they were the only two species left of the egg-laying mammals, the monotremes. |
|
Dropping into chairs, they will sit pufling away and trying to gorgonize the President with their silent stares, until their boorish curiosity is fully satisfied. |
|
The last are best, consisting of many scales which like onions circumvolve one another and in which nature has expressed far more curiosity then art's best imitation. |
|
Teachers who fail to arouse curiosity in their students regarding the subjects of study fail to achieve even a semblance of order and administration in their classes. |
|
The Salesman who can introduce something in his opening talk that will arouse curiosity in the prospect has done much to arouse his attention and interest. |
|
Constitutions can therefore be termed multivalent political instruments, and as such they naturally arouse curiosity as to the specific contributions which they make to given political systems. |
|
Certain circumstances, which would not have attracted attention in a large town but which were bound to arouse curiosity in a small one, gave an unwanted interest to this everyday gathering. |
|
The museum is an excellent place to let children indulge their curiosity about dinosaurs. |
|
The arrival of a construction crew at their house attracted the curiosity of their neighbors. |
|
He prefers to settle down after having quenched his curiosity. |
|
In fact, I publicly vowed to abstain from The Ball in 2012, but professional responsibilities and curiosity got the better of me. |
|
Some people stared in curiosity, some in amazement, and others in judgment, so it was interesting to get that glare. |
|
Akkari, once infected by with the virus of radicalism, now possesses all the curiosity of a university student. |
|
|
Thomas refused to answer for a while, but now my curiosity was aroused about the repulsive young man below and I pressed him. |
|
One day, as I sat in our driveway in Long Island playing with blocks and buckets, my curiosity got the best of me. |
|
But Bushnell had a lingering curiosity about the earliest stages of that impulse, which she sees as taking root 15 years prior. |
|
Yet I doubt that she will become a capacious judge with wide-ranging interests and intense curiosity. |
|
And in the meantime, Chuck is going bananas, his tail wagging like a crazed propeller, his face the most precious combination of anticipation and curiosity. |
|
She abounds with curiosity about village life and traditions. |
|
Instead of walking the same dull route, let your curiosity be your guide. |
|
The open layout of the venue virtually encourages wanderlust, resulting in a fluctuation of numbers in each zone as curiosity led both cats and dogs from room to room. |
|
And as she engrained scientific research upon so many students, she was able to continually quench her lifelong curiosity in scientific research through her program. |
|
Despite himself, Davis felt a quickening of the old scientific curiosity. |
|
I noticed a picture of her daughter, who was my classmate, and out of curiosity visited her page. |
|
They also take their turn kneeling to pray amid the flowers in front of the coffin, peering at the waxily reposed figures with a mixture of curiosity and bewilderment. |
|
Today, the street is a well-preserved strip of old villas and lane houses containing cafes, restaurants, bookstores and antique shops as well as curiosity museums. |
|
His expression was full of youthful curiosity, and pure jubilance. |
|
His curiosity took him to his spiritual guru, a Himalayan master. |
|
But he follows his obsession, and goes to great lengths in doing so, peeping through keyholes and lurking in the bushes with binoculars in an effort to satisfy his curiosity. |
|
The northern variety palaces were, as elsewhere, venues of mass entertainment where the kinematograph was a curiosity attached at the end of the bill. |
|
The results of such widespread lack of curiosity or interest in knowledge are as demoralizing as they are predictable. |
|
A female kudu bounds across our path, tail curled up tight like a powder puff and a family of giraffe edges closer, adults wary, youngsters consumed with curiosity. |
|
It was as if she had entered regression therapy as an experiment of curiosity and found that terrible, terrible things had happened to her in the past. |
|
|
Although the play has none of the socio-political force of The Daughter-in-Law which shortly followed it, it remains a highly revivable curiosity. |
|
They crowded around him, eying him from head to foot, with great curiosity. |
|
Her curiosity was aroused by her study of the Liberian tailor apprentices. |
|
Every day when he is not landscaping gardens for the island's wealthy, he fashions lifelike works of art much to the curiosity of admiring visitors. |
|
So, the tension is in the past and the sexual curiosity was appeased. |
|
Until the two headliners finally meet, what really seems to drive the narrative here is appeasing an audience's curiosity as to which star will be highlighted next. |
|
My curiosity rising, I waited for a reaction, but there was none. |
|
Matt's initial anger began to melt away as his curiosity was roused. |
|
I have always devoted a great deal of energy to assuaging their curiosity and I'm a firm believer in leading them to understanding through a process of question and answer. |
|
In her autobiography she said curiosity had made her take the job, but 60 years on she admits she failed to let herself see the atrociousness of the regime she worked for. |
|
But when I'm with both him and Jenny it's hard not to sink into the luxuriousness of her heart and get caught up in her curiosity for the whole wide world. |
|
She returned there several times, which awoke curiosity and rumors. |
|
Her curiosity was soon satiated when the door opened to reveal a handsome young man of about twenty with bright red hair and the palest blue eyes she had ever seen. |
|
Her curiosity satiated, she walked away without a backwards glance. |
|
My school friends had thought I had a screw loose when I stopped to stare, head cocked to the side, curiosity raging when the moving truck had first arrived. |
|
There's virtue to such curiosity and research, but it could also leave an exhausted writer holding an emotionally bankrupt manuscript in calloused hands. |
|
Out of curiosity, and apparently in total innocence, Dundes put in a request on interlibrary loan. |
|
Yet it is his thirst for knowledge, his insatiable desire to get a little better than he was yesterday, that makes him such a delightful curiosity. |
|
Looking out at their faces, I saw sensibility, intelligence and curiosity. |
|
I did not search half-heartedly, or out of idle curiosity, but tormentedly, persistently, day and night, like a dying man seeking salvation, and I found nothing. |
|
|
Fearful lest curiosity might tempt me to open it, I had never even looked at it in book-stores. |
|
Watch as the masses of people look at the camera with both curiosity and a tinge of fear. |
|
I once described myself as bi-curious without the curiosity. |
|
But my love of Spider-Man and my pure, unadulterated curiosity of what that experience was going to be like overwhelmed that. |
|
But there is another curiosity about the microscopic attention that is paid to civilian casualties. |
|
Pishing, the use of certain sibilant sounds to attract hidden birds, works because it triggers the level of hostile curiosity that presages mobbing. |
|
I won't reveal any more of the plot than that, but if there's a moral to this story, it's that old truism that says that curiosity killed the cat. |
|
And Monica Lewinsky, now 41, is once again the object of prurient curiosity. |
|
The Phelps family, too, manifested a paradoxical blend of intellectual curiosity and abusive behavior-policing. |
|
Not only do Turkish Vans not mind water, but they have a curiosity of it. |
|
Many, he said, were attracted to the occult simply by curiosity, and then by a desire to investigate the proof it offered of the existence of the spirit world. |
|
While DVDs are superior to videos and MP3 has made music cassettes all but a historical curiosity, consumers will worry that they may be led up technological blind alleys. |
|
Let's hope that what we clearly lack in wits, curiosity, and worldliness we can make up for with a mother lode of dexterity and hand-eye coordination. |
|
While watching an evening newscast on the U.S. GOP primary recently, Walton came across a fresh curiosity. |
|
Suddenly taken by curiosity, he let is grip slacken and opened it up. |
|
I greatly admire his unending curiosity and his very acute mind. |
|
In recent weeks, there have been reports that the conflict is attracting foreign adventurers and oddball curiosity seekers. |
|
His curiosity about my vision and experiences served to solicit my unscripted, unpremeditated and fairly stream-of-consciousness truth-telling commentary. |
|
The owner smiled in response, though her curiosity remained unquenched. |
|
Blueberry Boat is one of the year's most demanding releases, but the Furnaces' bottomless curiosity about the mechanics of music also make it one of the most rewarding. |
|