infatuation
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Gen Z returned to theaters for “Backrooms,” an eerie joint that cashed in on Gen Z’s infatuation with liminal spaces, and opened with an estimated $81.5 million at the domestic box office.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Admittedly, Hollywood’s infatuation with the festival has ebbed and flowed over the years, but 2026 seems like a rare outlier.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
A not-so-closeted homosexual, he also waxes lyrical about his infatuation with a young Yale student, played by a bottle-blonde Margaret Qualley, and shares drinks with "Charlotte's Web" author E.B.
From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026
By the way, Ng confirms that bald eagle infatuation is very much an American enterprise.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2026
His personal identification with romantic heroes such as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet seemed to have fuelled not just musical inspiration but his crazed, desperate infatuation with a Shakespearean actress, Harriet Smithson.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
The chapters are arranged like the bayts, or couplets, of a ghazal, and they describe a succession of infatuations, some romantic and some purely poetic, as in the odes to the 14th-century Persian lyricist Hafez.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
Justine Wewers, a high school geography teacher in Minnesota’s Anoka-Hennepin district, said she has seen a wearying number of student infatuations over the years, including video games, “Uno” and fidget spinners.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2023
Still, it’s probably wise for shoppers and companies that sell stuff not to become too infatuated with what may be our brief infatuations.
From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2022
In an interview with Time magazine in 1987, Sondheim said that despite various infatuations, he had “never” been in love and had always lived alone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2021
They were person-specific infatuations — Brian Levithan’s wicked sense of humor was every bit as sexy as Valerie Martinez’s sweet smile and amazing krunk routines.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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Aretha Franklin (1942 - 2018) Tribute List
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George Washington's Farewell Address (1796)
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