How To Use Mesmeric In A Sentence
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There are no quotable Dynamite moments - the nearest we get to a zinger is the rugby union result "Nottingham 25, Broughton Park 4, Nuneaton 26" - but the struggles of Towers and his co-presenter are strangely mesmeric.
The Guardian World News
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His reconstructed realities captivate participants with a mesmeric hold that lasts far beyond the temporal end of a work.
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It is difficult to believe that any boy, however great his exhibitory passion, could permit, in the full possession of his sensibilities, a needle to be thrust deeply into his flesh without manifestations of a most unmesmeric sort.
Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866
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I can even perceive some faint possibility of truth in the explanation which you described as the mesmeric theory -- that what I saw might be the result of magnetic influence communicated to me, as I lay between the remains of the murdered husband above me and the guilty wife suffering the tortures of remorse at my bedside.
The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice
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But her mastery of singular images was assured; and told from the heart, the story was mesmeric, powerful and moving.
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When mesmeric patients awake spontaneously, they continually ascribe their waking to their first sensation, or even to something imagined.
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This was a 30-minute piece of instantly mesmeric, but seemingly simple tones, and it demonstrated how a recording system could be made which would literally create its own music.
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I can even perceive some faint possibility of truth in the explanation which you described as the mesmeric theory — that what I saw might be the result of magnetic influence communicated to me, as I lay between the remains of the murdered husband above me and the guilty wife suffering the tortures of remorse at my bedside.
The Haunted Hotel
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His reconstructed realities captivate participants with a mesmeric hold that lasts far beyond the temporal end of a work.
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His thundering spell of mesmeric hostility first snuffed out the candle flame of Australian hope and then plunged them into the darkness of defeat.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many persons affirmed that the history and elucidation of the facts, long so mysterious, had been obtained by the daguerreotypist from one of those mesmerical seers, who, now-a-days, so strangely perplex the aspect of human affairs, and put everybody's natural vision to the blush, by the marvels which they see with their eyes shut.
The House of the Seven Gables
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As the wicked replicant, Helm's performance becomes a mesmeric facial anthology of wickedness: sneering, leering and winking.
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And its mesmeric power has been only slightly diminished by Adam and Joe's mercilessly spot-on soft-toy pee-take.
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Interestingly a note by Schelling's son on the 1813 text points to the absence of the will-ing subject from magnetic sleep: in mesmeric sleep [magnetischen
'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)
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Guterson creates a disturbing, mesmeric atmosphere, leaving his readers unsure whether Ann's visions are the result of divine revelation or magic mushrooms.
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Her ghostly form, clad in a white chiffon dress, twists and turns to mesmeric effect.
Times, Sunday Times
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They could be relied upon to do it properly, often eschewing outright straight-line speed for a mesmeric blend of response, agility and feel.
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It seems strange that so obvious a case as that of Barlaam and the monks of Mount Athos has not been brought into the mesmerical collection of
The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II
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There is something very strange, and almost mesmerical, in the rapport between two evil natures.
My Novel — Volume 09
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Her qualifications as white witch were boundless cunning, equally boundless good nature, considerable knowledge of human weaknesses, some mesmeric power, some skill in “yarbs,” as she called her simples, a firm faith in the virtue of her own incantations, and the faculty of holding her tongue.
Westward Ho!
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Without being unfair to Neil and the third member, bassist Willy Cullen, the group stems from and is fuelled by Shane's mesmeric songwriting.
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It is a mesmeric journey, the air rich with the sound of whooping birdsong.
Times, Sunday Times
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Such is the mesmeric power of Handel.
Times, Sunday Times
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His thundering spell of mesmeric hostility first snuffed out the candle flame of Australian hope and then plunged them into the darkness of defeat.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some of them achieve a pleasingly mesmeric effect by their constant repetition of words like ‘match’ or ‘jump’, but to me they might as well be automatic writing.
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From the Jesuits, in childhood, he received religious impressions which might almost be described as mesmeric or hypnotic in their influence upon his nerves.
Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
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Both were in high spirits -- our hero at the idea of unrestrained license in future; and Bunch from a mesmerical transmission to himself of a portion of his master's deviltry.
Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches. By a Country Editor. With a Portrait from Life, and Other Illustrations, by Darley
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Her ghostly form, clad in a white chiffon dress, twists and turns to mesmeric effect.
Times, Sunday Times
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In true mettle, Usha had hundreds of colourfully dressed students dancing to her mesmeric voice for the full dress rehearsal on Thursday.
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She also has a mesmeric smile, devouring eyes, a cloud of fair hair and ‘a bosom that rose and fell in a kind of sigh’.
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You will not be disappointed by the lead singer and visceral verbalist blooming like the mesmeric rocker he is.
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Both were in high spirits: our hero at the idea of unrestrained license in future; and Bunch from a mesmerical transmission to himself of a portion of his master's deviltry.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.)
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There was also the mesmeric Mexican duo Rodrigo and Gabriela, whose intricate and sun kissed slices of Spanish guitar made even the most hard hearted of Gringos jump for joy.
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He did not use any of the hypnotic or mesmeric influences.
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Again only the shrilling of the crickets, the shu-shu of feet, the gentle clapping; and the wavering hovering measure proceeds in silence, with mesmeric lentor -- with a strange grace, which, by its very na´vetÚ, seems old as the encircling hills.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series
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Mesmeric fingers softly touch The eyes of many elves.
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a sharp mesmeric intelligence which she uses to shock with subtlety, in throwaway detail and quiet changes of direction.
The Literary Review and a bit of a back track.
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There was a mesmeric, far-away look in their eyes, even when upside down or with their legs wrapped around their head, that was more than just the effect of fantastically dilated pupils.
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Occasionally producing abstracted images of mesmeric beauty, constituted by surfaces overlaid with countless dots and stippling influenced by both Zulu beadwork and Impressionism, he is, however, also prone to awkward figuration.
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Then they will play Over The Ocean, three minutes 47 seconds of mesmeric, heartfelt sorrow, and the audience will bite its collective lip to hold back the tears.
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The effect is a lilting, mesmeric tidal flow of rhythm and melody - you might find yourself slipping into a trance, with or without the aid of controlled substances.
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There is something very strange, and almost mesmerical, in the _rapport_ between two evil natures.
The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II
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But it was his mesmeric thrust in the 47th minute which should have given Chelsea a two-goal cushion.
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Facing each other on stage, they swapped instruments and at times deployed two drum kits to truly mesmeric effect.
Times, Sunday Times
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Escaping relatively unwarped from Rick Jenkins' mesmeric power, he's had a nice career, written some truly inspired stand-up best "Ladies, tell me if this is true" line ever and also been way ahead of the curve with his web presence.
Eugene Mirman
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You are aware that I possess in rather a remarkable degree what we have agreed to call the mesmeric power.
Roundabout Papers
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He specialized in mesmeric, often nightmarish visions of scenes from Shakespeare, Milton and Norse mythology.
New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn
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Malick exalts the beauty of the land in this exquisitely shot picture, creating a form of visual poetry which is quite simply mesmeric.
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For me, there's something absolutely mesmeric about this.
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Virtuoso piper Jarlath has fused world music and traditional music to create a mesmeric and powerful sound.
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The sense of touch is also brought into play in hypnosis; Richet set great value on the so-called mesmeric strokes or passes.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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There is no documented report of Virginia being placed into a mesmeric trance in the hours preceding her death.
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But it soon becomes mesmeric.
Times, Sunday Times
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The final chapters on the 2004 Tour are mesmeric.
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And there are mesmeric moments in Smith's performance where he does transform into this extraordinary man.
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she had a warm mesmeric charm
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At times their flowing, passing, attacking football style was almost mesmeric, and Mowbray and his crew brought long-starved fans back to Easter Road and won many new admirers.
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I was immediately conscious that in his eyes there was, in an especial degree, what, for want of a better term, one may call the mesmeric quality.
The Beetle
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It can't just have been the mesmeric, beguiling videos by hip, ascendant directors.
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Mr. Vigors persuaded Mr.. Ashleigh to come at once with him and see this clairvoyante herself, armed with a lock of Lilian's hair and a glove she had worn, as the media of mesmerical rapport.
A Strange Story — Complete
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As the wicked replicant, Helm's performance becomes a mesmeric facial anthology of wickedness: sneering, leering and winking.
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Despite the weight of the office, vivacious men such as Churchill, Clarke and Jenkins remained unstilted: in April 1929, the Spectator praised Churchill’s final budget speech both for its content and for its “mesmeric and witty delivery”.
Brown is either fleet-footed or indecisive – he cannot be both
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They are all made of mesmeric, rainbowed soap and hot air.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her qualifications as white witch were boundless cunning, equally boundless good nature, considerable knowledge of human weaknesses, some mesmeric power, some skill in "yarbs," as she called her simples, a firm faith in the virtue of her own incantations, and the faculty of holding her tongue.
Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth
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For all the hamminess, it has a kind of mad, melodramatic, mesmeric power, a thrilling sort of staginess – and of course, back in 1942, it was far from clear his threat would not be carried out.
Mrs Miniver shares Downton Abbey's Julian Fellowes feeling
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While in a state of mesmeric sleep, he said that, yes, he was asleep but would rather sleep more soundly.
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The dull life at Oxford was varied by the occasional visit of a mesmeric lecturer; and one youth caused peals of canorous laughter by walking round in a pretended mesmeric sleep and kissing the pretty daughters of the dons.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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Yet the result is mesmeric: it shows how little you actually need to make powerful dramatic radio.
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And I bow to your magical mesmeric powers of ESP, in delving into the subconscious of the dead spirits, drawing forth the knowledgeses that they only thought they were religiously motivated.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books
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He had seen a summer camp counselor demonstrating hypnosis using mesmeric passes and postural sway tests and was intrigued by what he saw.
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We know now that, during his fifty years of virtual isolation, Darger had been constructing his own unique imaginary world, a world which he drew and described with mesmeric finesse.
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Those who have had the privilege of seeing him bowl will not forget his mesmeric skill.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many persons affirmed that the history and elucidation of the facts, long so mysterious, had been obtained by the daguerreotypist from one of those mesmerical seers who, nowadays, so strangely perplex the aspect of human affairs, and put everybody's natural vision to the blush, by the marvels which they see with their eyes shut.
The House of the Seven Gables
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Ballard's work is powered by a number of key obsessions and his voice quietly leads us through them in these notes, mesmeric, dream-like and yet powerfully clarifying.
