curiosity

• out of curiosity

  ‘You came out of curiosity?’

• intellectual curiosity

  Where were the important elements: inventiveness, initiative, adaptability, intellectual curiosity, sensitivity, confidence, determination?

• curiosity got

  Then curiosity got the better of him.

• old curiosity shop

  It is the ‘heaps of fantastic things’ in the old curiosity shop which, by making her exist in a kind of allegory, suggest her story to him, ‘holding her solitary way among a crowd of wild grotesque companions’.

• insatiable curiosity

  To do my kind of job on TV you have to be born with an insatiable curiosity about what really makes people tick.

• mere curiosity

  It can't have been mere curiosity.

• lack of curiosity

  China's legendary lack of curiosity about other civilisations is the result of the success of its own.

• natural curiosity

  Their natural curiosity and concretization of ideas will often give them a certainty of their own that makes much more sense.

• curiosity to see

  And looked at the advertising out of curiosity to see who would advertise.