The boys held their breath in sheer fascination.

If nothing else, the sheer fascination of all that motion might keep them stuck there.

It isn't shock or gloom so much as sheer fascination that brings on the hush.

"You're convinced there is a happening, that it's not just sheer fascination with the music?"

Miles smiled in sheer fascination.

Only the politically naive could believe that hundreds of delegates suddenly went overboard for Willkie out of sheer fascination with "the barefoot boy from Wall Street."

As Mataichi meditates and reflects upon his life, "Mataichi's desire was gradually overcome, sucked out of him and scattered by sheer fascination" (53).

The modus operandi for most big science projects is to play down the sheer fascination of intellectual investigation and emphasize supposed economic benefits.

Daedalus seemed already to have forgotten wife and child, in the sheer fascination of having a god's odylic chariot at hand for close inspection.

It had to be partly a sheer fascination with his own fear.