Morbid?

Such morbid nonsense.

What's the fascination?

That's a morbid thought.

If only one of our children, listening to our three stories, feels healed of the morbid fascination which cultivates within him too many false images, if anyone, perceiving the unveiled face of egoism, feels faith in human solidarity reviving within him,

And that has a fascination.

Wasn't it a rather morbid game?

I leave you to your fascination.

Love and fascination aren't the same

I guess it's just my morbid personality.

True, true, that's part of my fascination.

Don't be morbid. It will be all right.

I like peace, but I ain't morbid about it.

I never listen to you when you're being morbid.

I hate it when you become morbid and gloomy.

The result of a rather morbid reaction to sunlight.

Isn't it odd that Don Diego keeps this morbid picture?

Humans have long held a fascination for the human brain.

When he shakes off his fascination, the woman has disappeared.

You've a poet in you but it's a damn morbid one.

Mr Vole, you must not take such a morbid point of view.

I didn't mean it like that. I mean, it's kind of a fascination.

With improvements in life expectancy there is an increasing incidence of morbid states attributed to ageing.

The fabrication about the Armenian genocide is a product of morbid imagination and based on forged documents.

Probably a symptom of approaching senility, but I must confess I really don't appreciate this morbid humour.

This fascination led me to submerge myself in art, study neuroscience and later to become a psychotherapist.

The German fascination with gold is a red herring. Its fear of wayward monetary policy is not.

While that might be a somewhat morbid thought, I think it has some really profound implications that are worth exploring.

Since 1997, the groups Women and Children have been defined as vulnerable ones, mostly due to their high morbid mortality.

It's a strange exuberance about materials, about the world a fascination that I think the world needs quite very much right now.

Tretyakov is hardly alone. On the contrary, his morbid logic is a perfect reflection of the paranoid vision that has taken hold in the Kremlin.

Some people watch this event because of a NASCAR like fascination with things bumping and grinding. Burning the parachute as it fell that was last weekend.

General sent me to Sicily with a morbid task, to pick up the corpse of an old Turkish colonel who died from sunstroke while on manoeuvres in the Bosphorus.

And you can look at these pictures over and over again because there's such a strange, bizarre fascination in seeing these things you don't normally get to see come alive.

Would politicians, with their perpetual fascination with independence, attempt to eliminate dependence one commodity at a time? Put another way, would the cause of energy independence seek to reverse globalization?

And for me, this sort of deep and enduring fascination with sound is what led me to both be a surgeon and also to study the science of sound, particularly music.

In addition, all efforts should be made to reflect as much as possible the fascination of basic space science in the accompanying workshops and seminars and in the public outreach programme.

But my joyful period was marred by solemn and morbid thoughts thoughts of walking through the prison's high security death row, as this was the only route to take me to the makeshift operating room.

At EG'08, Adam Savage talks about his fascination with the dodo bird, and how it led him on a strange and surprising double quest. It's an entertaining adventure through the mind of a creative obsessive.

A thousand years ago, the Norse settlers of my home city of York ate cod that weighed as much as eight kilograms. We know this from archaeologists and the fascination they have for medieval waste heaps.

In the 2008 US presidential election, the press told us that Obama won because he had charisma the special power to inspire fascination and loyalty. If so, how can his re election be uncertain just four years later?

As you can see from the pictures, both Noam and I had an early fascination with first principles, and over the years, as our knowledge of science and technology became more sophisticated, this early awe with the basics has only intensified.

But they understood something more fundamental the sheer joy in discovery, the delight and fascination that we get from the world and being ourselves in it, the richness that we get from seeing, feeling and knowing the lives that we are.

We promise something great, we evangelize it, we're going to change the world. It doesn't work out too well, and so we actually go back to the well and start all over again, as the people in New York and L.A. look on in absolute, morbid astonishment.

Now, keeping these ideas firmly in mind, we can say that the experience of beauty is one of the ways that evolution has of arousing and sustaining interest or fascination, even obsession, in order to encourage us toward making the most adaptive decisions for survival and reproduction.