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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
mesmerize .
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Examples
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On her 2009 album "El Ú ltima Trago," though, she paid tribute to the iconic Costa Rican singer Chavela Vargas, who mesmerizes with her compelling, melodramatic interpretations of Mexican rancheras folk music.
A Festival With a Garden Party Jim Fusilli 2010
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A surfeit of video this time not only mesmerizes, it also reassures.
TV review: Shocking footage from Japan, amplified by cable news 2011
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Many among this new generation appear to follow Bronson's lead in practicing art as some vaguely shamanistic ritual, if not something akin to a healing spirituality, or at the least, some sleight of hand that mesmerizes with the kind of tropes that ensure cinema will remain the most sensual of the arts.
G. Roger Denson: MoMA and AA Bronson Present "Queer Cinema: Today and Yesterday" G. Roger Denson 2011
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The lure's rhythm mesmerizes everything from bluegills to bass to bonefish.
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Many among this new generation appear to follow Bronson's lead in practicing art as some vaguely shamanistic ritual, if not something akin to a healing spirituality, or at the least, some sleight of hand that mesmerizes with the kind of tropes that ensure cinema will remain the most sensual of the arts.
G. Roger Denson: MoMA and AA Bronson Present "Queer Cinema: Today and Yesterday" G. Roger Denson 2011
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What is it about the way the ocean moves, reflects, glimmers and glows that mesmerizes and transfixes us?
Wallace J Nichols: Why Do We Love To Stare At the Sea? Wallace J Nichols 2011
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When a young boy preaching peace and joy mesmerizes all who come in contact with him, a large following grows quickly - one that soon includes Morning Star and the Wildman.
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Simultaneously provokes and mesmerizes the reader.
Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011
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Universal is set to remake this unsettling David Cronenberg movie (Why oh why?) that features James Woods as a public-access TV channel owner who programs a mysterious show that mesmerizes viewers by showing scenes of torture and murder.
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Skillful, self-confident, a powerful magus with the infinite as a halo floating above his head, the Magician mesmerizes the Fool.
Embracing The Fool As A Metaphor For The Writing Life | The Creative Penn 2010
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