mesmeric in a sentence
Examples
- In the 1840s and 1850s, Carl Reichenbach began experiments to find any scientific validity to " mesmeric " energy, which he called Odic force after the Norse god Odin.
- Years later, many Pakistanis still speak of the mesmeric effect she had at that moment, as the daughter who had avenged her father and the politician who had restored democracy.
- With some 16 cast members, including the mesmeric Heather Gillespie in the central role, this 1939 work is the sort of old-fashioned melodrama that no one does anymore.
- Mixing Jamaican creole with urban British slang, and recited to a mesmeric heavy reggae beat, the poems excoriated police persecution, racist politicians and black-on-black violence.
- Undeterred, in 1843 Elliotson continued to advocate for the use of animal magnetism in surgery publishing " Numerous Cases of Surgical Operation without Pain in the Mesmeric State ".
- "The strange, poetic intervention of the natural world, combined with the well-known nature of the place where it is performed, creates a compelling and mesmeric work.
- Under his mesmeric spell, no one is told he or she is a mallard and should act accordingly, waddling about the stage, preening and looking for hunters and uttering quacking sounds.
- And of course he himself did more landscapes than people tend to realize, like the late mesmeric monotypes, near-abstractions, which are overshadowed by the popularity of his ballerinas and jockeys.
- Proust, in the seclusion of his famous cork-lined room, recreated a past free from the interference of the present : a separate world, mesmeric, endlessly suggestive and utterly controlled.
- An adept might lie so for years, when his body was carefully prepared for it beforehand by mesmeric passes etc . It is a beautiful spot where he is now in the square tower.