In our culture, the more off limits a topic is, the more it intrigues us.
His name became synonomous with passion after a series of romantic intrigues across Europe.
What intrigues all these researchers is how much more quantum trickery may be out there in nature.
There is no subject that intrigues, repels, frightens, confuses, inspires, contradicts and exasperates Americans more than race.
The idea of a Book of Ideas intrigues me and it turns out it is not entirely new.
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But bear in mind that internal intrigues are nothing new in any party and certainly not the Democrats.
Whether or not Mr Hughes's plausible theory is correct, it intrigues and entertains.
Few things are as encompassing to culture as our currency, or as vital that they be thought free of intrigues.
Shorn of such spicy intrigues, in fact, there would be little new in Pakistan's latest contribution to the war on terror.
Ordinary savings accounts may seem far removed from the intrigues of international politics and finance, but its a small world these days.
And according to author Aaron Chapman, it now acts as a time capsule link to a period that intrigues many history-loving locals.
The movie, however, profits from his strollings, for what intrigues Ceylan is not success, or good companionship, but the chilly drift of melancholia.
Like a royal court, the Grand Hotel et des Palmes has been the scene of intrigues and liaisons throughout Palermo's rich history.
In Chechnya she lurks mostly in the margins of the fighting among spooks, middlemen and aid-workers whose ambitions and intrigues she captures lucidly.
One model that intrigues me, as a way to make freelancing more accessible, is the one used by Elance, an online talent marketplace.
Nothing in the documents tells me exactly how, or how well, this works, but it intrigues me, so I will look into for a future post.
After all, what intrigues Lassiter is making decisions in the light of incomplete and inadequate information and designing the lowest-cost experiments that can test those decisions.
The Haas brothers love L.A. for its abundance of raw materials, and will often scour factory warehouses and special effects shops looking for anything that intrigues them.
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The initial contact especially intrigues her, the bafflement on both sides, an equality of wonder which, however briefly, belies the more common tale of ferocity or exploitation.
Palin's record as a small-town mayor and then a state governor is full of the kinds of anecdotes and petty intrigues common to a lot of political careers.
There is one particular photograph that intrigues me the most.
But there is something beneath the surface that intrigues me.
What intrigues investigators is the timing--and where the money went.
There were also some procedural issues in the appeal that are way too lawyerly for me, but what really intrigues me is what the story behind the story is.
But Connie Minor, a has-been newspaperman, finds himself involved in numerous intrigues and mysteries (including the attempted assassination of union biggie Walter Reuther) with all sorts of well-drawn, colorful characters.
In time, the temptation to take pilsner several steps beyond--to go lighter and lighter, until the lager neither offends nor intrigues any potential drinker--overcame dozens of giant breweries around the world.
As more Stasi files are made public it may turn out that the East Germans were also privy to intrigues in other European countries whose participants would prefer to remain secret.
If the old gold there intrigues you, the second Treasure Gallery will transport you: illuminated case after case of works, mundane and magisterial, imbued with the subtle power to reach out to us across these centuries.
That illogicality intrigues Steven Johnson, a prolific writer.
"Alongside there will be many other minor intrigues, some of which will one day find the light of day, " it added, likening the occasion to the first ball of Tolstoy's War and Peace heroine Natasha Rostov.
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