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  • For a second the colors mesmerize me, bright green and deep blue and brown.†   (source)
  • Hades had the same intense eyes, the same kind of mesmerizing, evil charisma.†   (source)
  • But he couldn't move; he was too mesmerized, too scared.†   (source)
  • Sophie was mesmerized.†   (source)
  • Mesmerized, Harry looked up, high above him, and saw the eyes of the black dragon, with vertical pupils like a cat's, bulging with either fear or rage, he couldn't tell which...It was making a horrible noise, a yowling, screeching scream.†   (source)
  • Garvey's dance seemed to mesmerize Peter, who watched closely, following every movement.†   (source)
  • It called her speech "mesmerizing, hypnotic, mysteriously touching."†   (source)
  • It's dusty and confusing and mesmerizing all at once.†   (source)
  • Mesmerized, I lost all track of time.†   (source)
  • I watched that hand, mesmerized.†   (source)
  • I read through four of the twenty-five pages, mesmerized by how many laws exist to separate us.†   (source)
  • Ishmael had sat with him by the Bendix in the living room, and they had both been mesmerized by the urgency Leo Lassen imparted to a battle so many miles away in Seattle, Portland, or Sacramento.†   (source)
  • Lydia, rocking in her wheelchair, appeared to be mesmerized by the one-sided phone conversation; Ethel held the candlestick like a weapon.†   (source)
  • Mesmerizing.†   (source)
  • Still the sleek brown head bent mesmerized over the list.†   (source)
  • She seemed entranced by the music, a little frenzied piano piece with this mesmerizing quality, sort of quick passages and then teasing lilting ones before it returned to the quick playful parts.†   (source)
  • I'm looking down, at the sidewalk, mesmerized by the women's feet.†   (source)
  • The four of us sat there mesmerized by the song, trying to understand what the black fellows were saying.†   (source)
  • Cinder watched, mesmerized and disgusted, as the android pressed the blade into Sacha's wrist.†   (source)
  • I was mesmerized by the intricacy of the procedure and didn't realize how long I had been neglecting my work.†   (source)
  • I stared at it, mesmerized, and slowly ran my hand over the top, brushing my fingers over the well-worn leather as tears filled my eyes.†   (source)
  • The gigantic eye was mesmerizing and beautiful.†   (source)
  • I was mesmerized.†   (source)
  • The rest of Angela was nowhere near as mesmerizing as her lips.†   (source)
  • They mesmerized.†   (source)
  • She mesmerized them with her tellings.†   (source)
  • 'Yes, Fairy, told us what?' echoed Juliet belligerently, still a bit miffed over the mesmerizing.†   (source)
  • Brom's words dropped to a mesmerizing whisper.†   (source)
  • I became mesmerized by the action scenes and the fast-paced music that carried the film.†   (source)
  • "I feel very safe with you," I confessed, mesmerized into telling the truth again.†   (source)
  • I watched Mom play, mesmerized.†   (source)
  • I'm mesmerized by her ability to hypnotize an entire audience with such powerfully portrayed words.†   (source)
  • In his faded tartan bathrobe and brown leather slippers with the rundown heels, his hair all in sleep corkscrews and Alfalfa cowlicks, he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course or alter it in any way.†   (source)
  • She stood mesmerized, watching one of her mother's cells divide in two, just as they'd done when Henrietta was an embryo in her mother's womb.†   (source)
  • As he sat mesmerized by the fire and wrapped in its warmth, he prayed, mostly prayers of thanksgiving.†   (source)
  • I was mesmerized.†   (source)
  • Dee's fingers moved in the water, the ripples languid and mesmerizing.†   (source)
  • He found the antenna too powerful, the magic it summoned too mesmerizing, as though he were eating a banquet of limitless food, stuffing himself, stuffing himself, until he felt dazed and sick, and so he had removed or hidden or restricted all but a few applications.†   (source)
  • I watched his hands working, mesmerized.†   (source)
  • He sings softly to the bees as he walks through the village, and the children all run after him, mesmerized by the prospect of honey, their eagerness for a sweet causing them to vibrate and hum like the bees.†   (source)
  • That was when I became mesmerized by the work of columnists Mike Royko and Jimmy Breslin, admiring them from afar.†   (source)
  • Even truck drivers, hardly the most intellectual of people, had radios and tape players to keep from becoming mesmerized.†   (source)
  • The sucking mesmerized me; the warm struggling of the man was.†   (source)
  • Momentarily I stared, mesmerized by her smile.†   (source)
  • Dan was mesmerized by the photograph.†   (source)
  • A mesmerizing reinterpretation of the dance fads of the '60s—as seen through the Kodachromic lens of the author's childhood in NYC's Barrio—this piece is a riveting and joyful homage to the scratchy, catchy, and soon-to-be-lost tracks of the decade.†   (source)
  • Donald Moine, a behavioral psychologist who has written widely on the subject of persuasion, told me to look up Gau because Gau is "mesmerizing."†   (source)
  • Within its walls were the blond wood furniture, two white cotton dresses, the empty canary cage, the basket with her unfinished knitting, her decks of magic cards, her three-legged table, and the stacks of notebooks in which she had recorded fifty years of life and which much later, in the solitude of the empty house and the silence of the dead and disappeared, I put in order and read, completely mesmerized, so I could construct this story.†   (source)
  • "Yessir," I said, mesmerized by his trick.†   (source)
  • I sat there mesmerized by his self-assurance and skill.†   (source)
  • She apparently felt that her status as Richard's agent created a bond of intimacy between herself and Cass; who, helplessly and miserably mesmerized, and handicapped by the volume of Miss Wales' voice and the razorlike distinctness of her syllables, trotted obediently behind her into the bedroom where coats and hats were to be deposited and where the women could repair their makeup.†   (source)
  • "Actually, I was mesmerized by your arms," Howard noted, referring to the hundreds of shots David had taken.†   (source)
  • "Thanks," she told Elliot, flashing him a toxic smile that, for reasons beyond me, mesmerized the opposite sex.†   (source)
  • I tried to stop listening after the first few examples, but he went on and on, and I was mesmerized like a bird in front of a snake.†   (source)
  • Mesmerized by the come and go, the sad drift and flow of lives in painful transition, I sat, waiting for an ending.†   (source)
  • Hanna was mesmerized.†   (source)
  • Dame is mesmerizing.†   (source)
  • She had pushed up the sleeves of her dress, and when it came her turn to handle the cards her white arms all but mesmerized him.†   (source)
  • I shuddered; against my will I was completely mesmerized.†   (source)
  • Kate had been enthralled by him, riveted, mesmerized during the first few rehearsals.†   (source)
  • Kelley cuddled up beside Adam and together they stared at Nathan as he slept, mesmerized.†   (source)
  • I had never seen a woman in labor before and was both mesmerized and horrified to watch Doris enter a zone in which her body and her baby were taking over, regardless of surroundings.†   (source)
  • She was mesmerized by who he was.†   (source)
  • The Augur doesn't break eye contact, seemingly mesmerized by my anger.†   (source)
  • None of the men spoke at all on the drive back through the heavy, mesmerizing quiet blanketing mountains, sea and forests.†   (source)
  • And with his precisely trimmed beard, noble nose, and startling brown eyes rimmed with blue, he cut a mesmerizing figure.†   (source)
  • I lean against Bobo's den, mesmerized.†   (source)
  • I sat in my car for a moment, watching someone in a black helmet ride down one side, then up the other, back and forth, mesmerized, as if someone were swinging a watch on a chain before my eyes.†   (source)
  • Vila and the machines he used mesmerized Cristian.†   (source)
  • Jean Louise was mesmerized.†   (source)
  • Didn't know why Bill was so mesmerized by the water.†   (source)
  • I'm mesmerized by my byline.†   (source)
  • I don't know what's so mesmerizing about it but I'm not arguing, because while she's preoccupied with studying the room, I can study her.†   (source)
  • New York, N.Y. U.S.A. He stared at it, transfixed, mesmerized by the letters.†   (source)
  • He can't help it if his voice is mesmerizingly sexy.†   (source)
  • The effect was mesmerizing.†   (source)
  • Bridge watched, mesmerized, as Celeste moved from one section of her hair to another, brushing it all the wrong way.†   (source)
  • A skilled, mesmerizing speaker, she admitted in print.†   (source)
  • We mesmerize our children in the name of truth into knowing that they are reality.†   (source)
  • Do, continue with whatever mesmerizing thing you were saying.†   (source)
  • Roarke watched her, mesmerized.†   (source)
  • The mesmerized apprentice wasn't even aware of the growing intensity of the fire.†   (source)
  • We reached what they called "Springville" after driving across miles of flatland, past the mesmerizing blur of furrows recently plowed in soil enriched by periodic flooding of the Brazos River.†   (source)
  • Her beauty has changed, but she is still mesmerizing.†   (source)
  • He had always been mesmerized by newspapers.†   (source)
  • This time, however, the tides did not mesmerize, and he was unable to guide his troubled mind into calmer currents.†   (source)
  • Lourdes is mesmerized by the greenish water, by the sad, sputtering fountain, and a wound inside her reopens.†   (source)
  • "Hmmm," Finn answered, mesmerized by the twitching miniskirt.†   (source)
  • Erlene Barlowe had an almost mesmerizing Southern drawl and a sweet kind of charm about her.†   (source)
  • That mesmerizing stage when language develops exponentially from one day to the next, when children are little sponges for language: the Whitshanks missed every bit of it.†   (source)
  • For over half an hour, I sat mesmerized by the things Homer was doing.†   (source)
  • But we'd reached that age where the science behind it mattered, where the wonders of the universe needed to be further explained to mesmerize us.†   (source)
  • Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.†   (source)
  • It was more than a little alarming, this mesmerized appearance.†   (source)
  • He held it in front of her, but like one mesmerized, she did not move.†   (source)
  • Yet the year was 1969, and Bernie had mesmerized white parents sufficiently so that they were accepting fifteen black children into their homes.†   (source)
  • Then he blinked and looked around: He was surrounded by mesmerized girls.†   (source)
  • Thomas couldn't help but stare, mesmerized.†   (source)
  • Harry paused to watch them, for the effect was quite mesmerizing.†   (source)
  • The scene was utterly mesmerizing, alarming even to him.†   (source)
  • His eyes were so mesmerizing, I completely forgot how to use my brain.†   (source)
  • He seemed simultaneously terrified and mesmerized.†   (source)
  • Slack-jawed, mesmerized, emancipated, he pulls out an imaginary baton, giggles and sways.†   (source)
  • Cinder angled the chip back and forth, mesmerized by how its reflective surface caught Iko's light.†   (source)
  • He was mesmerized by the Doctor is IN Doctor is OUT sign.†   (source)
  • Eragon settled back and listened to the man's mesmerizing voice.†   (source)
  • That was the kind of music that shouldn't have mesmerized a kid.†   (source)
  • For a while, I just close my eyes and listen, mesmerized by the beauty of the song.†   (source)
  • I stood mesmerized by the woman's perfectly manicured red fingernail in my face.†   (source)
  • I stared at her, mesmerized, wondering if I were looking into a mirror of my future.†   (source)
  • The morphling seems mesmerized by Peeta's words.†   (source)
  • We stood at the corner for a while, mesmerized by the displays.†   (source)
  • The water bloomed with exotic, fractal-like patterns, mesmerizing and hypnotic.†   (source)
  • Robert Langdon stood mesmerized at the glass portal, absorbing the power of the landscape below him.†   (source)
  • Trudy was mesmerized, repeating the signs and following Mrs. Wilkes's corrections studiously.†   (source)
  • She's mesmerized, at least for a minute, and I envy Nathaniel's ability all the more.†   (source)
  • They were mesmerizing in an odd, unpleasant way.†   (source)
  • I looked up at him, mesmerized by that possibility.†   (source)
  • The colors and shapes and words and pictures are so garish, so abundant, that they are mesmerizing.†   (source)
  • Travis was mesmerized as she moved toward the bed and playfully pushed him onto his back.†   (source)
  • Walked into the room and stared at the wall, mesmerized.†   (source)
  • Sophia turned to study his face, mesmerized by the reflection of firelight in his eyes.†   (source)
  • My foster parents sat in front of me totally mesmerized.†   (source)
  • He stood there, mesmerized, for a long time.†   (source)
  • Julian, beside her, had caught sight of his father; he seemed mesmerized, as if by a snake.†   (source)
  • Mesmerized, they waded into the sea of color beneath a patchy sky.†   (source)
  • He was sick with lust and mesmerized with regret.†   (source)
  • We sit there, pretending to be mesmerized by the flashing lottery sign.†   (source)
  • Alessandro was mesmerized by the uneven and halting gait of the condemned men.†   (source)
  • The guard, mesmerized, perhaps sickened by what he had seen, backed away.†   (source)
  • Mesmerized, Ronnie hadn't realized someone had taken a seat beside her.†   (source)
  • What followed was mesmerizing in its efficiency.†   (source)
  • They were frozen, mesmerized, absorbing every word, as if in disbelief.†   (source)
  • Kate, almost mesmerized by Miro's recital, asked, "What was your assignment in America?†   (source)
  • Gentlemen gather around the dancers, mesmerized by their sinewy charms.†   (source)
  • But the drow's second scimitar was out with the first, interweaving in a mesmerizing dance of death.†   (source)
  • 'They draw me in, mesmerize me, refuse to release me.†   (source)
  • After I hung up the phone, I stood mesmerized.†   (source)
  • The small, bald man was not only garrulously instructive, but in his own way mesmerizing.†   (source)
  • What he saw was both mesmerizing and not a little frightening.†   (source)
  • Her features are a mesmerizing amalgam of before and after.†   (source)
  • He now leaned forward, mesmerized by the bizarre story.†   (source)
  • Mesmerized, the drow watched the silent descent of the huge icicle.†   (source)
  • But we have lived through it, watching in fascination, and now we are mesmerized.†   (source)
  • 'Oh, Jesus!' whispered Alex, mesmerized by the cold, precise elder statesman of covert operations.†   (source)
  • Mesmerized by d'Anjou's performance, Bourne winced as if struck.†   (source)
  • He reassumed the pose of the mesmerized sightseer and listened.†   (source)
  • ' Was,' said David, mesmerized by something he could not define.†   (source)
  • She had mesmerized the kids by simply tossing around a few lines by Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • The pack mind is mesmerizing.†   (source)
  • Peeta and I, on the other hand, are so mesmerizing with our ever-changing coal costumes that most of the other tributes are staring at us.†   (source)
  • "This is fine," I agreed, concentrating less on what he was saying and more on the mesmerizing way his lips moved when he spoke.†   (source)
  • Maybe he was too mesmerized by her to notice anything; or maybe, thought Jimmy, love really was blind.†   (source)
  • She paused, mesmerized by the churning and rolling of the water, and when she finally turned her head, she realized his image had left her as well.†   (source)
  • The three soldier ants advanced, their ten-foot-long antennae waving and bobbing in a mesmerizing way, trying to distract me from the true danger of their mandibles.†   (source)
  • Geoffrey had led her to Misery's tombstone, and the two of them stood looking down at it, as if mesmerized.†   (source)
  • Mesmerizing.†   (source)
  • Mesmerized, I watched her dreams.†   (source)
  • Together they sat down at its end and dangled their bare feet in the water, watching the mesmerizing effects of the wind on the surface of the lake.†   (source)
  • His golden eyes mesmerized me.†   (source)
  • Thousands of people stood huddled together in the streets, stretching off into the distance as far as the eye could see, mesmerized by the blaze.†   (source)
  • But the raucous swallows, the woman's droning commands, the ground bass of the machinery mesmerized her.†   (source)
  • What we witnessed with the death of Kennedy was the triumph of television; what we saw with his assassination, and with his funeral, was the beginning of television's dominance of our culture—for television is at its most solemnly self-serving and at its mesmerizing best when it is depicting the untimely deaths of the chosen and the golden.†   (source)
  • Both men were especially careful to watch their artificial horizon; a solid overcast denied them a fixed reference point aloft, and flying over water at night was mesmerizing.†   (source)
  • Although the brands themselves were mesmerizing-artifacts few Illuminati scholars even believed existed-Langdon suddenly realized there had been something else about the box that had ignited a wave of foreboding within.†   (source)
  • I was mesmerized by her, by her transformed, by her every gesture: She was not a child any longer, she was a vampire child.†   (source)
  • I'm so mesmerized by all that pink, it takes a few seconds to hit me how bad this could turn out for me.†   (source)
  • Holly was mesmerized.†   (source)
  • Mesmerized when she said things like "slippery slope," which, behind her lips, exposed the underside of her tongue.†   (source)
  • The masses of commuters standing mesmerized under the departure boards, watching for their trains, reminded me of a mob in a zombie movie—which, granted, I shouldn't have watched as a young child, but I was always rather precocious.†   (source)
  • Blue-lipped and dinner-plate-eyed, they watched, mesmerized by something that they sensed but didn't understand: the absence of caprice in what the policemen did.†   (source)
  • He had me mesmerized, enchanted.†   (source)
  • Siobhan—a woman of immense presence whose huge body was both beautiful and mesmerizing as it moved in smooth undulations—was the leader, but she and her hard-faced mate, Liam, were long used to trusting the judgment of their newest coven member.†   (source)
  • Ron!" he shouted, but the Riddle-Harry was now speaking with Voldemort's voice and Ron was gazing, mesmerized, into its face.†   (source)
  • He was both disgusted and mesmerized as the servant turned the blade toward herself, clutching the handle with both hands.†   (source)
  • At the high point, he mesmerized little Alex Franklin into throwing a snowball into the playground teacher's ear.†   (source)
  • Not bad, just not mesmerizing.†   (source)
  • I'd been there umpteen times with Mother and twice with Elizabeth and Hilly, but I was mesmerized by the vast white marble floors, the miles of hats and gloves and powdered ladies looking so happy, so healthy.†   (source)
  • Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, all of thirteen years old, was mesmerized by this instrument the size of a good strong man.†   (source)
  • Mesmerized.†   (source)
  • Voldemort did not speak, but prowled in a circle, and Harry knew that he kept him temporarily mesmerized at bay, held back by the faintest possibility that Harry might indeed know a final secret.... Is it love again?" said Voldemort, his snake's face jeering.†   (source)
  • I found myself mesmerized by the sight.†   (source)
  • Her hair swayed down her back in a mesmerizing kind of way, which of course he didn't care about either.†   (source)
  • Though she seemed mesmerized by the movement of the crank, Thibault could tell she was lost in her memories.†   (source)
  • Elijah had a way of making the young children howl with laughter while mesmerizing his older listeners with mystery and intrigue.†   (source)
  • Both witnesses nodded, at first mesmerized, then repelled at the sight of Panov's grimacing pale face and the tears that began to flow from his wide-open eyes.†   (source)
  • Mark had been staring at the back of the pilot's chair as if something mesmerizing were painted there.†   (source)
  • A strange man with a mesmerizing voice.†   (source)
  • It was hard not to be mesmerized by the half-squirrel/halfbass creature or the opossum's head grafted onto the body of a chicken.†   (source)
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