mesmerize

Still there is the natural arm talent that can mesmerize with effortless form and quick release.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 18, 2023

This was the first domestic event since CNN’s creation in 1980 to mesmerize the nation with saturation coverage by cable television.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2023

Sociologist Jean Boudrillard called the social world a "simulacrum," a hyper-reality full of noise, images, and symbols designed to mesmerize the mind and replace the boring real world.

From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2022

After multiple viewings, “Plot Point” still leaves me mostly mystified, and not intriguingly so; it doesn’t mesmerize in the way of her remarkable “Emergence.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2022

For a second the colors mesmerize me, bright green and deep blue and brown.

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth

Not yet 30, the energetically self-assured German refugee soon mesmerizes the narrator and his four closest classmates—Aharon, Dan, Yair and Aya, the only female among them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

But he also mesmerizes the cops to salute him and Laszlo by telling them he's Captain "Sully" Sullenberger and Laszlo is Tom Selleck's character from "Blue Bloods."

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2023

But what really mesmerizes are the windows, and the speculations they invite about who lives behind them.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 2022

“The painting completely mesmerized me, and it mesmerizes almost anyone who sees it.”

From New York Times ● May 4, 2022

Every artist mesmerizes us into his personal vision.

From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by John Cowper Powys

The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson later recalled being mesmerized by the album, the first record, to his mind, that didn’t have any filler.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

“Son of Sam just mesmerized everybody for a long period,” recalled Michael Oreskes, then a reporter for the Daily News, whereas “LaGuardia was a one-time thing that then nobody could explain, nobody could figure out.”

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

“It may be,” Mr. Meese says, “that he became mesmerized with the—what did they call it? What was the name of the woman who was the reporter that wrote about the Supreme Court?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

“I was mesmerized by the landscapes and architecture,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025

Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

“It was mesmerizing to me, his words becoming something that we increasingly can’t trust.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

The Renaissance part of the exhibition is so mesmerizing that the modern portion feels like a bit of a letdown.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Our critic called the actor’s performance, for which Mr. Lithgow won a Tony, “a mesmerizing highlight of the theater season.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026

Three original songs and a mesmerizing live performance from Lady Gaga!

From Salon ● May 1, 2026

He toured the country, mesmerizing crowds with thundering calls for black people to shake off the undermining ghetto stereotypes and claim their long-denied political power.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama