mesmerize

As a narrative of life — or ancient history or modern America — the paintings mesmerize.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2024

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

Garvey’s dance seemed to mesmerize Peter, who watched closely, following every movement.

From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen

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

As a gorgeously conceptual art-horror object, “El Conde” frequently mesmerizes; as a proper evisceration of its subject, it can’t help but feel curiously defanged.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2023

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

And if we find that any material thing so mesmerizes us that we are held in fatal bondage, we are to sacrifice it.

From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by John Henry Jowett

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

Jiyoung Sohn and Timothy W. Martin review the case that has mesmerized South Koreans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 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

Absolutely mesmerized by the project that the whole team did.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026

“It’s okay,” I say, mostly because he normally doesn’t talk so much and I’m a little mesmerized by it.

From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy

America’s most-loved fictional titans, Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne, have bottomless wealth to fund their vigilante adventures, making them especially mesmerizing to an audience raised on rags-to-riches fables.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 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

Bardem already proved with his Oscar-winning portrayal of the stun-gun-toting maniac in “No Country for Old Men” that he has a mesmerizing power in playing sinister characters.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026

She seemed entranced by the music, a little frenzied piano piece with this mesmerizing quality, sort of quick passages and then teasing lilting ones before it returned to the quick playful parts.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan