All 19 Uses of
intrigue
in
Summer Pleasures, by Nora Roberts
- She has a talent for digging up obscure facts, some of them impossibly dry, and turning them into intriguing stories.†
Chpt 1.1intriguing = causing interest, curiosity, or fascination
- If it hadn't been for that inner tension, he might have dismissed her, but what lay beneath people's surfaces always intrigued him.†
Chpt 1.1intrigued = interested, curious, or fascinated
- She had a quality about her...an innate frankness glossed with sophistication...that he found intriguing enough to hold his interest.†
Chpt 1.2intriguing = causing interest, curiosity, or fascination
- I've always been intrigued by pockets," Hunter went on.†
Chpt 1.2intrigued = interested, curious, or fascinated
- It was this look, she realized, the secret amusement the onlooker could only guess at rather than see, that most intrigued.†
Chpt 1.2
- It made, Lee discovered, a very intriguing and uncomfortable combination.†
Chpt 1.3intriguing = causing interest, curiosity, or fascination
- No. My profession is words...putting words together so that someone who reads them is entertained, intrigued and satisfied with a tale.†
Chpt 1.3intrigued = interested, curious, or fascinated
- Her eyes held secrets, and there was little that intrigued him more.
Chpt 1.3 *intrigued = fascinated (or interested)
- "I made a choice," Hunter corrected, intrigued by the orderly logic of her mind.†
Chpt 1.3intrigued = interested, curious, or fascinated
- He wouldn't tell her...yet...that his research on Lenore Radcliffe had led him to some intriguing conclusions.†
Chpt 1.5intriguing = causing interest, curiosity, or fascination
- When I find someone intriguing enough.†
Chpt 1.6
- Whether she knew it or not, she relaxed then, writing in the journal, which intrigued him, or going over her daily notes for the article, which didn't.†
Chpt 1.7intrigued = interested, curious, or fascinated
- He writes about the dark side because it's the most intriguing.†
Chpt 1.10intriguing = causing interest, curiosity, or fascination
- When he'd been approached byLife-style to do a pictorial study of America, he'd been intrigued.†
Chpt 2.1intrigued = interested, curious, or fascinated
- Shade Colby, as mysterious and intriguing as his name, as dangerous and as compelling as his photographs.†
Chpt 2.2intriguing = causing interest, curiosity, or fascination
- Intrigued, Bryan leaned closer to the sheep.†
Chpt 2.3intrigued = interested, curious, or fascinated
- Intrigued and wary, she watched him set his camera.†
Chpt 2.10
- Intrigued, she wandered around in back of the midway to where the carnival workers parked their trailers.†
Chpt 2.11
- But it intrigues me that you'd consider it possible to renege on something unspoken.†
Chpt 1.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(intrigue as in: she was intrigued) cause to be interested, curious, or fascinated
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(2)
(intrigue as in: involved in intrigue) a secret scheme or plot
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In classic literature, intrigue may specifically reference a secret love affair.