Showing curiosity

Usage examples of interested.

I was interested in your account, but a good deal, nay all, of what you told me I knew already.

An integral part of the court, albeit a minor one, he was, when he failed his duty, confronted by the single most important fact known to all bureaucrats of any nation or epoch: those above were not interested in excuses, only in results.

It seemed to me therefore that if I should get the Bill amended and then it got lost, I should incur the great reproach of having obstinately set up my judgment against that of this large number of the ablest men in the country, who were so deeply interested in the matter.

Business was all that interested David and he accepted the responsibility of teaching Abraham this himself.

In effect, he wanted recognition of the black republic, and Adams was interested.

Elder Adelia skulked back to her chair and pretended to be interested in a button computer on the desk.

But the characteristic writers of the time, people like Auden and Spender and MacNeice, have been didactic, political writers, aesthetically conscious, of course, but more interested in subject-matter than in technique.

Upon that Commission the interested nations, that is to say--putting them in alphabetical order--the Africander, the Briton, the Belgian, the Egyptian, the Frenchman, the Italian, the Indian the Portuguese--might all be represented in proportion to their interest.

When Agassiz came into the laboratory, I was extracting and preserving the embryos, being interested in embryology.

Although, as I recall upon several occasions, Agassiz could express his views delightfully and impressively to a single auditor, his eminently social nature and his lifelong habit rendered it easier for him to address a group of interested listeners.

Thomas met the third alieni st Stimpson, a black-jawed man of forty or so who smoked cigars and was interested in experimenting with different sedatives.

How were we to know that in actuality the Amish are small in number in Betastan, invariably well-thought-of by their neighbors, not interested in accumulating large amounts of property and having no interest whatsoever in government?

We are quite interested in Anasazi history and looking forward to visiting your museum this morning.

Leffingwell represents the best-founded position of those interested in protecting animals from needless pain.

The box of condoms Jacob had presented Simon with the day after catching Amanda sleeping in his arms winked up at him, but it was the antistatic straps he had stashed there at some point that interested him at the moment.