We never cease to be mesmerized by the vessel in which music is contained, whether it's the piano, the phonograph, the MP3, or the Cloud.
Mr. Glass, who was in attendance, received a rousing ovation from operagoers, who seemed grateful for a chance to be mesmerized by the motoric music.
Growing food, riding bikes, pruning fruit trees, meeting strangers, storytelling, fermenting food, foraging, dorking out about transit and active transportation, hiking, backpacking, and taking time to be mesmerized by nature, people, and life.
My sisters and I would scurry into the kitchen, grab our cartons of chow mien and chopsticks that we were too young to properly use, and then race into the living room to drop onto the well-worn leather couch, ready to be mesmerized by the best of the '80s: "Teen Wolf," "Ghostbusters," "The Goonies".
I may have been distracted for a minute (it's easy to be mesmerized by the beauty of the outdoor setting just beyond the tent), but there doesn't seem to be much of a setup of Julia's decision to pose as a man and go to Milan to find out what her boyfriend is up to.
When Mr. Lee's drawings conjure before you a soft, densely inked snowflakelike blob with feathery edges, or a pattern that recalls a distant constellation, or foliage, or even stones in a pool of clear, shallow water, it is hard not to be mesmerized.
This was far enough from the way opera is done today to be mesmerizing.
Each time I see this fountain in motion, the movement of the sand never fails to be mesmerizing.
Still, he and Mr. Scibelli understand that Rossini's highly ornamented vocal lines are meant to be mesmerizing and eerie, not just decorous and frilly.
Events that are memorable enough to be mesmerizing to everybody tend by their nature to be so simple or obvious that they cannot have very subtle or intricate meanings.
Children will be mesmerized.
