The word 'mesmerize' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a situation that captivates and draws in an audience with its power and intensity. Example sentence: The mesmerizing performance of the singer entranced the audience.
He was able to mesmerize opponents with a sleight of foot that made sufficient space for openings in opposing defenses.
Gazing at mementos of Wagner in a display case, he imagines a young black artist who will one day mesmerize the world with comparable genius.
He did, however, mesmerize large crowds with a series of "polytopes," or multimedia experiences, which blended electronic sound, live performance, light shows, and temporary structures.
Sanchez didn't want to talk about Cloud, who had allowed Hopkins to mesmerize and frustrate him.
Just as potboilers, brainless best-sellers and pulp fiction can translate brilliantly into film, second-order fiction can mesmerize on audiodisc, with the right performance.
I could see it in advance only on film, which diminishes its power to mesmerize.
Of course, he is summoned again to Vallejo's bedside, where he attempts to mesmerize the dying poet.
This isn't a column about l'affaire Scheindlin, which is still unfolding, continuing to mesmerize and baffle the New York legal world.
The half-Jewish czarina, who sleeps during the day and breakfasts at night — offering vodka, beluga caviar, Japanese soba on ice — poses a threat to the state because of her unpopularity, but up close her royal breasts mesmerize.
Mr. Wang suggests the public drama surrounding Mr. Bo — a narrative laced with ambition, murder and lust and reminiscent of a Jacobean revenge tragedy — may actually be a piece of deliberate, deadly political theater whose aim is to enlighten and obscure simultaneously, to mesmerize the world with lurid detail and to distract attention from what has actually happened.
She has an ability to mesmerize audiences with her presence while also making frequent careless misstatements.
