How To Use Mesmerize In A Sentence

The kids stand frozen and slack-jawed, mesmerized by the adults capering around in rented tutus.
I was mesmerized with his humanity, his tiny features and newborn mewl and with the fact that he was mine. Oh, Boy.
These poor kids are … learning from each other that their worth (in the eyes of the opposite sex) is found solely in the skin they expose and how they physically mesmerize the other. ProWomanProLife » Modesty, nudity, identity
At the end you are mesmerised by the linear rhythm and the counterpoise of the relief.
Older and chubbier, which doesn't matter, he is a torrentially powerful, elemental actor, whose outbursts mesmerize, and whose very silences impress.

The television footage of resistance fighters aired on Lebanese broadcasting stations mesmerized her.
Regrettably, it seems to have mesmerized my daughter, who responds with a mixture of fascination and horror.
Among the curiosities are the necklace [FN#682] of human bones given to Burton by Gelele, some specimens of old Istrian china picked up in the cottages near Trieste, and a three-sided mirror and two crystals with which Burton used to mesmerise his wife. The Life of Sir Richard Burton
Together we're leafing through the final proof copy, and I'm mesmerised by the rich colours, those magical prints, the way Rhodes has channelled inspiration gleaned from world travel.
Despite the disastrous night prior, Devin still dwelt in a sublime state, mesmerised by tantalizing blue eyes and a rosebud mouth.
The rabbit stopped, mesmerized by the beam of the car's headlights.
The sounds of the organ and the choir used to mesmerize the faithful in those days.
We sat there mesmerized by the ringing baritone of his inspired voice, coming, as if from the hollows of a cave from some part of a high mountain range, where civilization could never reach or discover.
Not only is she an Arab-American, but she could mesmerize the Israelis and Arabs into a peace deal. nbt Says: Matthew Yglesias » A Team of Coreligionists
Her story, however, will overwhelm adults and mesmerize kids.
The first time I saw Diana I was mesmerized by her beauty.
While Pakistan beckoned us with its antique wooden chests, Turkey had me mesmerised with its flying dervishes.
Or had the man with a cough, for his own nefarious purposes, mesmerised or hypnotised me, and to some extent succeeded?
He'd mesmerised the home defence with a beautiful dummy before picking up a short pass and slotting the ball past the helpless Roy Carroll.
I always feel vaguely cheated because lightning mesmerizes me and I watch it avidly when the opportunity arises.
She mesmerized a neighborhood gathering with a description of her transatlantic flight.
She brings a romantic and mystifying element to each role that mesmerizes me.
Jack walked around the hotel and was mesmerized by its sheer size.
As Vida disinters the life she meant to bury for good, Margaret is mesmerized. The Thirteenth Tale: Summary and book reviews of The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield.
Great post - I got kind of mesmerized looking at all the pretty (and similar) covers. The Cover Debate — Covered [updated - more covers] « Urban Fantasy Land
But since there are no celebrities left of Diana's stature, we are mesmerised by a vacuum.
She tries to combat this by living in a world of fantasy, mesmerized by white Hollywood glamour and beauty.
Jack walked around the hotel and was mesmerized by its sheer size.
Flying in, I had been mesmerized by sinuous curves of sloughs and streams which wove together, then apart, meandering toward the gulf.
The evening ended with an amazing five-minute firework display, which entranced and mesmerised the huge crowd.
But as the controversy continues to mesmerize and roil the cyber miasma, I have come to another conclusion that I believe is worth tossing into the cauldron apologies for mixing my metaphors. Dr. Jim Taylor: Tiger Mom Is A Scaredy Cat
I was mesmerised by the interplay of the tuna and sharks, fusiliers and jacks.
Before that we were mesmerised by mystic barcarolles, and a world in which laguna irresistibly and constantly rhymed with luna. Times, Sunday Times
I sat eavesdropping, mesmerized by their bodiless sounds. DOUBTING THOMAS
Barbra," over and over again, as though mesmerized. Mark C. Miller: African Tribe Worships Barbra Streisand's Nose
The rabbit stopped, mesmerized by the beam of the car's headlights.
I spent an hour mesmerised by the waves, washing in and out across the sand, every now and then throwing up coloured gems.
I felt the panic of his watchful father, but I was mesmerized by his youthful passion.
Swallowing, Daphne feels mesmerized as she stares into his steady gaze.
He could mesmerize an audience by the sheer force of his presence.
Or that the word mesmerize comes from the German hypnotist Franz Anton Mesmer? Archive 2006-10-01
The brightness, and the rhythmic way it struck his retina, seemed to mesmerize him. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
I stood in the half-light of the glowing canopy of stars, mesmerized. Night and the spell that gave me peace
His eyes reflected the light as he stared at the object; he seemed almost mesmerized by the crystal.
KAYE: Mrs. Obama's audience seemed to hang on her every word mesmerized by her tales from Chicago's South Side, her middle-class upbringing. CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2009
She mesmerized a neighborhood gathering with a description of her transatlantic flight.
It is more than probable that so many of the audience have never been quite so close to performing actors and during my visit a party of local school children was completely mesmerised.
She was approaching a hill when she became mesmerized by the stars and wasn't paying attention to where she was going.
I sat eavesdropping, mesmerized by their bodiless sounds. DOUBTING THOMAS
I remember many years ago, sitting with my mother and brother, in front of a roaring coal fire, gawping at a black and white tube, mesmerised by the likes of Cagney, Bogart, & Hepburn.
I sat on a bench shrouded in soft pillows, unaware of time's passage as I stared out the window, mesmerized by the droop and sway of the blossoms in the breeze.
On the way here, she had been enthralled, mesmerised, spellbound by the area.
All the employees, right down to the cook, have been taught to 'mesmerize' patients to the point where they are in a state of complete anesthesia. Mind Over Matter
It creaked as it made its kaleidoscope rounds and mesmerized me with the transitions from blue, to green, to red, and so on.
The latter ray also allows Ultron to mesmerize and outright mind-control his victims, or implant subliminal hypnotic commands within their minds to be enacted at a later time. Hero/Villain of the Week! « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more
I was afraid we were about to be flim-flammed again, as has happened so many times with the Rove Machine, and that the easily-distracted American public would get mesmerized yet again by smooth talk and fairy dust while a Democratic candidate ten times better qualified would go down in defeat AGAIN. Deanie Mills: John McCain's Sarah Bobbitt
He was absolutely mesmerised by Pavarotti on television.
The audience sits mesmerised by his expressive choreography, watching each inflection of the hand or eyebrow.
I remember being entirely mesmerized from the second that epic music came on and we skated on the words in that endless vision of space. Hoisting up my Geek Flag: A Tribute to 30 Years of Star Wars
She has hazel eyes and if you looked close enough you could see a design in her eyes like little swirly lines forming around her pupil to mesmerize anyone who spent the time to really look.
Carved a single block of stone, this enormous cat - like sculpture has mesmerized millions of visitors.
This advice was greeted with a coughing demonstration of such force and magnitude that the audience was mesmerized.
I followed the Lisa S. link and was mesmerized with her description of the construction details of her dress: boning to support and shape the bodice! a petersham waistband to support the weight of the skirt! Dot's right. - A Dress A Day
His second, nine minutes later, was a rasping left foot drive from twenty five yards which hit the stanchion as the Castleton keeper stood mesmerised.
Reading, listening, even thinking, I was mesmerized by the sounds and the movement of words.
It is more a difference between 'confused thinking and feeling people' and an 'easily mesmerised and manipulated 'vulgate', that is to say the GOP and tea party set. Is the lunatic fringe hijacking America?
I had this great view and I was mesmerized by all the boys moshing around, and the one girl who joined them, a little spitfire with bleach blond hair who pounded her chest at one point and howled.
William was mesmerised by his fellow student as she sashayed down the catwalk in the outfit at a university fashion show eight years ago.
Headed up by choreographer Moses Pendleton, this troupe of dancing illusionists and contortionists have been known to mesmerize.
Reporters and staff were mesmerized as the one-time Illinois Senator and notorious 'doper' went into the details of describing his single-handed capture of a famous alien known to millions as simply E.T. Obama described an action that supposedly occurred in 2002 when he was living in Chicago. TheSpoof.com : Spoof News : Front Page
I was mesmerized by Camara's and the lead female dancer's awesome dance moves, as well as by their colourful costumes.
ESPN's famous hype can't always mesmerize — recall the fates of Cold Pizza, Arena Football, Stephen A. Smith and ESPNHollywood — but it can always pound away. It's ESPN/ABC's turn to deal with falling NASCAR Sprint Cup ratings
I was mesmerized by the tale of the town without a name, his family, and the doings of the neighbors.
It glowed an eerie blue, which could mesmerize anyone.
‘Barefoot’, a fascinating space (you can't call it a shop) with its range of durries, spreads, cushions, sarongs and innumerable knick-knacks will mesmerise you.
But even his words flowed effortlessly and mesmerised the audience.
The country girl stood by the road, mesmerized at the speed of cars racing past.
The combination of sentiment and silliness works brilliantly, and the sight of Ricky in full voodoo witch doctor regalia mesmerized by his newborn son is an iconographic moment in I Love Lucy's run.
When the 2010 Chilean tsunami arrived in California, people in Santa Monica Beach were mesmerized by the rapid withdrawal of the shoreline and went out to gawk at stranded marine life.
I was also mesmerised by scratching once I got decks at 17, so I was just away in my room experimenting.
Mesmerized by the floorshow, nursing a mini-can of lubricant, was a dirty, banged-up rover. Analog Science Fiction and Fact
During the last song, he draped the material over the entire band, and I was mesmerised by the vision of an undulating, pulsating white mass blazingly lit up by the stage lights of the Van East Cultural Centre.
Russell recalled being mesmerized by a picture of a hero sandwich that Chicca, an excellent artist, had drawn for him.
He loved catching bugs in jars and would peer in through the glass, mesmerized, to watch them scurry about.
Though she's the only one that Mike doesn't recognize, he immediately is mesmerized by her intense, almost electric topaz gaze.
He seemed mesmerized by Dekkeret's personal force, his charisma, his vibrant strength. LORD PRESTIMION
My finals remain unwritten, my morning shower un-taken because I am mesmerized by the fascinating case of Priya Venkatesan. Archive 2008-05-01
In his youth he was both mesmerised and embarrassed by the coarseness of the music.
His voice is hypnotic, soporific - the kind of voice that could mesmerise you into taking all your clothes off and biting into an onion.
The actor and his look-alike 12-year-old, Madelaine West, are both mesmerized by the Feb. 9 basketball game between the New York Knicks and the Sacramento Kings at Madison Square Garden.
I had this great view and I was mesmerized by all the boys moshing around, and the one girl who joined them, a little spitfire with bleach blond hair who pounded her chest at one point and howled.
You listen and listen for some noise to break the silence, till you grow half mesmerised by the intensity of the strain; your sense of your own identity is troubled; your brain reels, like that of some gymnosophist poring on his own nose in Asiatic jungles; and should you see your own outspread feet, you see them, not as anything of yours, but as a feature of the scene around you. Essays of Travel
Instead, I stood mesmerised by his soporific chanting.
While hypnotic powers are dubious, there can be no doubt that a significant portion of the populous is mesmerized by Obama's rhetorical skills. Discourse.net: The Right Wing Unhinged
As he lifted up his hood, his aqua blue eyes immediately mesmerized me.
I was mesmerized by the sound of its voice. He spoke in cursive writing, his words all flourish and curly letters.
‘Uh, uh, yeah,’ he stammered, a bit mesmerized by her bewitching presence.
As the countdown continued and the ritual of docile thanatopsis became more intense, Matt and Emily began to edge away from their half-mesmerized guards, pushing Eve in the antigrav chair and keeping close to the outer ring of lepidos. Perseus Spur
Flying in, I had been mesmerized by sinuous curves of sloughs and streams which wove together, then apart, meandering toward the gulf.
The visitor is mesmerized by its sunny beaches, snowy mountain peaks, endless plains where black bulls graze, shimmering lakes and mountain streams.
Wearing a dazzling blue jacket and white silk shirt, he mesmerised the fans on Sunday night.
The big top is back in the Temple City to mesmerise kids and elders alike with acrobatic performances.
I was mesmerized, and deeply touched, to see Jews there at that hour of the morning, "davening" in dozens of dialects, in front of that centuries-old symbol of Judaism. Closer to the Sun
He was absolutely mesmerised by Pavarotti on television.
Mesmerized by his own visions, Hitler did much of the talking, lecturing and declaiming on his plans to motorize Germany and build new highways. The Prize
Even so, Nichols, watching from the Caledonia's quarterdeck, was almost mesmerized by the lifeboat coxswain 's seamanship. LET NOT THE DEEP
Four pinpoint freckles at the angle of her jaw mesmerize me. MOON PASSAGE
And for nearly two hours they were mesmerized watching Meadowlark Lemon and his teammates perform amazing stunts with a basketball, stunts that would be discussed and reenacted by young boys for weeks to come. The Sins of Brother Curtis
The perfidy and mendacity that follow mesmerize as much as they ring true. The Race by Richard North Patterson: Book summary
‘What a yawner,’ the guard's eyes were slightly mesmerized by the bright, gray light emanating from the television screens.
I just stared mesmerized at the advancing natural terror as it came quickly towards my home.
He thought about this for a moment as he stared mesmerized by Maria's eyes, seeing the secrets she had locked behind them.
The tackling was hard and uncompromising and at times seemed to mesmerise the man in the middle, Martin Corcoran.
The scene is still vivid in my memory - I was mesmerised, I could feel my heart pumping and the adrenalin flow.
My first teachers weren't just writers but artists of all kinds; I still derive tremendous inspiration from dancing and painting, when I'm not being mesmerized, that is, by people like Edith Wharton, Gabriel Garcia An Interview with Mylène Dressler
The way she moved demanded my rapt attention while her eyes kept me completely mesmerized.
Calaf is mesmerized by the princess' beauty and resolves to answer her three riddles and win her hand.
Four pinpoint freckles at the angle of her jaw mesmerize me. MOON PASSAGE
The kid mesmerized; woman secretly a mesmerist?
It's easy to be mesmerized by the promise of deep-space exploration by astronauts in otherworldly space suits. A Question Of Priorities - NASA Watch
The brightness, and the rhythmic way it struck his retina, seemed to mesmerize him. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
On the way here, she had been enthralled, mesmerised, spellbound by the area.
They wandered through the Big Room, mesmerized by the translucent, calcite soda straws in the Doll's Theater, transfixed by threads of aragonite — sharp as needles — that spun around The Temple of the Sun. The Devil's Inkwell
No matter how many times I've stood here and stared at the setting, it still mesmerized me every time.
Shyness hitherto had been no infirmity of this young Canadian; but Bertie somehow had mesmerized her into a state of consciousness -- it was a cobwebby kind of fetter, but the first she had worn. Bluebell A Novel
This robots-on-the-rampage actioner won't be everyone's cup of tea but I was mesmerised.
But you'd be wrong: this was the fag-end of the Clinton era, when Democrats were as mesmerised by financial markets as Republicans and the word "unregulated" was seen as go-ahead and exciting rather than worrying. Bankers and politicians have turned food into a betting game | Aditya Chakrabortty
`No," she replied, almost mesmerized by the miraculous synchronism of those two shining faces. SURE OF YOU
The children were mesmerised with how unique, in the context of world resorts, this one in the Bushveld of South Africa's north-west province was.
Colourful and sparkling images mesmerize the onlooker.
Jack walked around the hotel and was mesmerized by its sheer size.
He uses derivatives of the word ‘mesmerise’ in too many places.
Even so, Nichols, watching from the Caledonia's quarterdeck, was almost mesmerized by the lifeboat coxswain's seamanship. LET NOT THE DEEP
Flying in, I had been mesmerized by sinuous curves of sloughs and streams which wove together, then apart, meandering toward the gulf.
Sure, television eventually mesmerized the nation and the globe, but the number of books printed in the fading century surely dwarfed the pro - duction of all previous eras. It's Time To Turn The Last Page
Rated of 5 by evercince being hypnotized and mesmerized, is always a pleasure when koontz is doing the writing talking about a real trip this is the one you wont want to miss. so climb aboard and be ready for the adventure ...... Reader reviews of One Door Away From Heaven by Dean Koontz.
He has left to Egypt as good as spin entranced, mesmerized, drugged by Cleopatra. Archive 2009-11-01
Pop still mesmerises the callow tastes of the young, but rock seems to have been sidelined into a form that reflects the thought processes and last-gasp ambitions of the middle-aged.
I was completely mesmerized by the performance.
KAYE: Mrs. Obama's audience seemed to hang on her every word mesmerized by her tales from Chicago's Southside, her middle class upbringing. CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2009
Glass's violin concerto No 2, intended as an imaginative companion piece to Vivaldi's Four Seasons, was given a fine European premiere by its dedicatee, violinist Robert McDuffie, who mesmerised us with his memory in this 40-minute work, as much as his effortless virtuosity. LPO/Alsop; Varèse 360°
I watched, mesmerized, as she receded down the leaf-thick lane, clots of black earth being kicked up in the anapest meter of a gallop. THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
Four pinpoint freckles at the angle of her jaw mesmerize me. MOON PASSAGE
The country girl stood by the road, mesmerized at the speed of cars racing past.
The French veteran has a grace about his movement which seems to mesmerise opponents.
The brightness, and the rhythmic way it struck his retina, seemed to mesmerize him. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
So it's only natural that the Republicans are looking high and low for a leader to bring them back, and right now, they'll take anybody, including a radio talk-show host with enough lung power to mesmerize the masses and enough ego to think that he could actually wrestle the spotlight away from a very popular president. Fools Rush In
I was staring mesmerized at the erratic pfft coming from the brown-paper cylinder when - bang!
They had deep sea blue eyes that mesmerized most men they came across.
No wonder the fishermen on the old bridge seem so languid in their movements; they've been mesmerised by the scenery.
Although his voice is still young and at times untutored, he does mesmerize as in Get Your Shine On.
None other than Gen. Brent Scowcroft told the Financial Times that former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had George W. Bush "mesmerized;" that "Sharon just has him wrapped around his little finger. Coleen Rowley: Only Obama Can Manage the Iran Situation
I was completely mesmerized by the performance.
On the way here, she had been enthralled, mesmerised, spellbound by the area.
Here indeed was an unforgettable spectacle, designed to mesmerise the West.
She stared fixedly through the windscreen as if mesmerized by the line that glistened whitely down the centre of the wet road. AT THE STROKE OF TWELVE

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