infatuation
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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
Marianne is first consumed by her own infatuation, then disconsolate when Willoughby dumps her for an heiress, and finally felled by a fever.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
Qian wrote poems about social responsibility, with lines such as: "We must love the elderly with the infatuation of a first romance."
From BBC • Nov. 10, 2025
I have certainly observed, in my own children, the younger generation’s infatuation with products that became obsolete just as they were born: the rotary dial phone, the disposable camera, the network sitcom.
From Slate • Aug. 11, 2025
Fingers and strings made a careful conversation, as if their dance described the lines of an infatuation.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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