Both Uses of
infatuated
in
Unbroken, by Hillenbrand
- In the 1930s, America was infatuated with the pseudoscience of eugenics and its promise of strengthening the human race by culling the "unfit" from the genetic pool.†
p. 11.4 *
- After a childhood in Kobe, Mutsuhiro attended Tokyo's prestigious Waseda University, where he studied French literature and cultivated an infatuation with nihilism.†
p. 233.8
Definition:
deeply but often foolishly in love with or obsessed with someone or something