It might indicate that to those whose brains have started to go soggy, talk shows and soaps exert a peculiar fascination.

Pregnancy must hold a peculiar fascination for creative sorts.

Sporting sibling rivalry holds a peculiar fascination.

His hands, narrow and white, exerted a peculiar fascination.

While sound effects, background music and shipboard sets lend a peculiar fascination to the melodrama, the acting of the cast adds little tautness to the proceedings.