This painful episode may help explain his aesthetic fascination with conflict.

How else do I explain my fascination with a half-hour segment on basement heating plants?

A Freudian might use this story to explain the director's fascination with danger and escape.

Long explains his fascination with the Taylor case here.

Which might explain his fascination with shirts, the basis of all his collections.

Later he studied glass painting, which helps explain his fascination with translucency.

How do you explain the public's fascination with her?

He was particularly taken by the simple dignity of rural laborers, which explains his fascination with Millet.

I cannot adequately explain my fascination with ice and snow.

Trying to explain his fascination with the seamstresses, he shrugged.