Sentence examples for mesmerised audience from inspiring English sources

Johnny Depp plays Thompson, and also owns his archive, including the fax that Steadman read to a mesmerised audience at the Tricycle theatre, in London.

Mason is doing three jobs at once: training an intern at his side, calling out directions to the ship's captain, and explaining whale behaviour to us, his mesmerised audience of tourists.

Although she made over 60 movies and mesmerised audiences on both sides of the Atlantic, she is now largely forgotten.

A big problem was that the man who counted film stars and politicians among his supporters and who had mesmerised audiences with his performances, in which he apparently pulled ash from his hair, had not named a successor to carry on his work.

Conor Lovett's staging of Samuel Beckett's story, First Love, at the Arcola theatre in London, mesmerised its audience by not getting in the way of the words.

George Bush likes Mr Blair and worships Churchill, but he hardly yearns for Shakespeare as his grandfather Prescott did.So America's Anglo-Protestant inheritance no longer enjoys the reverence it drew when Churchill mesmerised the audience at Fulton.

In the recent London Jazz Festival, the thirtysomething American Brad Mehldau mesmerised an audience (which mingled students and pensioners) with a seamless flow of improvisations on standard songs and the occasional Lennon/McCartney or Radiohead theme - but no electronics at all, not even a microphone.

It was no shock to see Suárez take either award after a campaign in which he finished as the Premier League's top scorer with 31 goals and consistently mesmerised his audiences with his talent and endeavour.

He was compared to the great Victorian actor, Sir Henry Irving, who was capable of mesmerising an audience.

In fact, Hendrix was the complete package, the full-service rock star as one-stop deity; the only other pop star I ever saw who could literally mesmerise an audience the way Hendrix could was the young David Bowie.

The boy-terrorists' nonchalant willingness to kill – and be killed – mesmerised their international audience.