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- verb Present participle of
mesmerise .
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Examples
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Nashville's newspaper described the concert as "mesmerising" -- arguably an understatement.
Eason Jordan: U2, Blind Fan Team Up for Electrifying Performance Eason Jordan 2011
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Nashville's newspaper described the concert as "mesmerising" -- arguably an understatement.
Eason Jordan: U2, Blind Fan Team Up for Electrifying Performance Eason Jordan 2011
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Featuring what was described as a mesmerising solo performance, it is expected to be available to millions of fans once the terms of Jackson's estate are settled.
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Music is a form of passion and akind of mesmerising sort of hypnotic ridddaments that eases the soul even in distress and hard times.
Music warms the Soul 2007
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The Hollywood Reporter meanwhile described the film as "mesmerising," but noted that
New Zealand Herald - Top Stories newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz 2010
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'I've made a fortune looking cheap,' she says, but at 64 she doesn't look cheap, she looks kind of mesmerising - a potent blend of real and fantasy.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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The prosecutor quoted from a diary kept by Kapoor that spoke of the "mesmerising" effect of being with a celebrity and added: "Can she ruin me?"
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So far, however, Munn's Zelig-like appearance in the lives of those he writes about has had a kind of mesmerising effect, not least on reviewers and readers.
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The Slits' bouncing, chaotic songs were then championed by the DJ John Peel, who described their live appearances on his radio show as "mesmerising".
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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He said most men found presenter Mariella Frostrup's voice "mesmerising" because it was deep, slow and confident.
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