Nonetheless, Boulez's many eventual recordings for Deutsche Grammophon included a mesmeric account of Messiaen's Chronochromie (Cleveland Orchestra, 1993).
This week's celebrations of their victory – they scored nul points from the UK – included a party at the Swedish embassy in London and a celebration at Tate Modern, which featured the mesmeric magic skills on Charlie Caper.
Yet a decade ago she was a mesmeric sleepyhead in Kevin Elyot's Forty Winks.
He makes for a mesmeric, sexually charged Emcee.
Nor was it a collective trance under a mesmeric leader.
The Soviet persecution of Jews is evoked in a mesmeric sequence.
Gabriele D'Annunzio, a priapic, drug-addicted poet, war hero, military adventurer and man about town, was a mesmeric figure who encouraged triumphalism in Italy's nationalist right-wingers.
And the dance gained its greatest intensity as she sunk into a squat and began dropping her heels in a mesmeric rhythm.
Like Ms. Abramovic, he was a mesmeric presence, shifting spectators around as though they were iron filings drawn by a magnet.
Hugh Montgomery: From the Vegas bling to the nebulous ethnicity, this Treacy creation is a mesmeric omen for Madge's return to lily-gilding brilliance.
