The Lapiners impulsively selected California, which had mesmerized them on their honeymoon.
It's hard to tell whether spreaders of the sake gospel are winning over converts — or simply mesmerizing them with magical tales.
On certain evenings, the main medicine man himself, Albert Trummer, stood in the back bar lined with classic Latin-labeled druggist vials and soothed grateful patrons with curative elixirs and stress-relievers, even as he mesmerized them with his mixological rituals.
But the Mets looked helpless against the Astros rookie Carlos Hernandez, a 22-year-old left-hander who mesmerized them by pitching to both sides of the plate and got them to swing at high fastballs in the strike zone.
As a graduate student in 1989, Dr. Evers pioneered a way to capture the skittish birds by mesmerizing them with a bright spotlight at night so they could be scooped up with a net.
But last night the Yankees were tumbling toward their first World Series loss since Greg Maddux mesmerized them on Oct. 21, 1996, looking like a team that was about to wilt.
People had to pay $1,200 a year to belong to his Millennium Group, and Cope mesmerized them with quotes from Confucius and Dale Carnegie.
He absolutely mesmerizes them.
Ron recently addressed a small gathering of Jewish leaders that I organized together with Birthright-Israel's co-founder, Michael Steinhardt, mesmerizing them with his erudition on the Middle East.
Each of us, manager or not, can be mesmerized by them, and so let them manage us.
Its various parts and the back and forth among them will mesmerize, if you let them.
