The word "mesmerise" is correct and usable in written English.
It means to captivate or fascinate someone in a way that they are unable to look away or resist. Example: The magician's performance was so mesmerising that the entire audience was spellbound, unable to take their eyes off of him.
There is a debate to be had about exactly how you factor in a big payment like rescuing a broken banking system; I imagine it would mesmerise accountants everywhere.
But Mr James's chronicle of late 20th-century Jamaican politics and gang wars manages consistently to shock and mesmerise at the same time.In this section Winged victory Gang stories Making Tenn out of Tom Desire delayed ReprintsThe story is told through various points of view.
Yet only a few have the ability to mesmerise the camera lens, and not all of those will fall within the conventional modelling guidelines.Model businessBritain's supermodel Kate Moss was spotted at JFK airport as a waif-like 14-year-old by Sarah Doukas, founder of London's Storm modelling agency, and it has never worried the agency's clients that Ms Moss grew to be only 5'8" tall (some say less).
See articleIn this section Politics this week Business this week KAL's cartoon ReprintsIn Mexico accusations of atrocities by the security forces continued to mesmerise the country.
AN UNDERAPPRECIATED feature of the iPhone, Apple's fancy new handset, is its ability to mesmerise a toddler in her terrible twos long enough for a parent to take an espresso break.
See articleIn this section Politics this week Business this week KAL's cartoon Reprints Related topics Parliament of Canada Politics North Korean politics Turkish politics Asia-Pacific politicsIn Mexico accusations of atrocities by the security forces continued to mesmerise the country.
When I was a kid watching the Italia 90 World Cup, that stadium mesmerised me.
It is as if both parties have been mesmerised, both by the rise of Ukip and the opinion polling which reflects people's fear of immigration.
Instead, the jury prize goes to The Screaming Man, a measured, soulful drama from Chad, and the grand prix to Xavier Beauvois's mesmerising Of Men and Gods.
Hopkins' mesmerising narrator is not for the faint-hearted and easily offended.
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (180 pages): the classic American novel is a must-read both for its mesmerising use of language and for its depiction of love, the jazz age and the perils of the American dream.
