| 单词 | mesmeric |
| 例句 | The mirror was mesmeric, with its triple panels trimmed with false oak. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Singing, and the thought of doing so in front of an audience, was another mesmeric way of whittling hours. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The Guardian called it “stunningly moving and powerful: intimate, passionate, often shocking, and almost mesmerically absorbing.” Amy Winehouse Documentary Unveiled in Cannes 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z After this, Hough played Schumann's Carnaval as though for relaxation, but his weighting of each note, from gossamer lightness to muscular force, was mesmeric. Stephen Hough – review 2012-10-10T14:25:13Z The film is mesmeric, riskily incorrect, outrageously watchable and simply outrageous. Cannes 2013 live blog day 7: Behind The Candelabra, The Great Beauty 2013-05-21T09:41:01Z Meryl Streep talked to me about his “mesmeric power over an audience” onstage. Denzel Washington, Man on Fire 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z Still, Pollock doesn't seem overly disheartened, her mesmeric vocals oozing hidden depths. Emma Pollock | Pop review 2010-03-22T22:30:00Z The orchestra drew mesmeric circles around her, conjuring a world of glass, as Mutter’s sound irradiated a childlike innocence full of whispered awe. The Boston Symphony Finds Surprises and Strengths in New Music 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z That this last idea is a nonsense was proved by Portishead on the same stage on Friday night, with their mesmeric set. The xx at Glastonbury – review 2013-07-01T00:00:00Z Ibragimova produces a mesmeric reading of the Partita before leaving the audience at liberty to explore the ancient stacks of Britain's oldest public library to the disembodied strains of Biber's Mystery Sonata. Alina Ibragimova/Quay Brothers ? review 2011-07-06T18:15:01Z So then to Trump’s favourite movie, about which he can be seen speaking rather mesmerically in historic footage recently released by the acclaimed documentary maker Errol Morris. What Donald Trump’s butler saw: behind the scenes of a real-life Xanadu 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives is a glitteringly strange, mesmeric and mad film set among American criminal expatriates in Bangkok. Cannes 2013: Only God Forgives 2013-05-22T09:45:00Z The Hollywood Reporter's Todd McCarthy, meanwhile, said the film was "never less than engrossing, and sometimes more than that" and reactions would range "from the mesmeric to outright rejection for arguably hokey contrivances". Nolan's Interstellar 'a flawed epic' 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Strange hexagonal windows, nearly 60 in all, pattern its walls, making the exterior enigmatic and the interior mesmeric. The Melnikov house and the battle for the Soviet era's artistic soul 2011-01-16T00:05:37Z The prose here is more relaxed and vernacular than the precise, mesmeric lyricism of Messud's The Hunters or The Emperor's Children. The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud – review 2013-05-17T09:00:02Z A nobody who, through a rare curatorial eureka moment, has become an instantaneous, mesmeric somebody. Unearthing Rick Barton, a Boho Bard of North Beach 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z I love the mesmeric rumble of grainy asphalt under my Goodyear Eagle LS tires. My generation, living on the road 2014-04-20T23:59:00Z Twenty years on, Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction has been rereleased in cinemas, and it looks as mesmeric and mad as ever: callous, insolent, breathtaking. Pulp Fiction review – Tarantino's mesmeric thriller still breathtaking 20 years on 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Like that other low-born icon of Hindi cinema, Nana Patekar, he has a raw and emotive presence, and a mesmeric screen persona full of pathos, vulnerability, intelligence and a hint of unpredictable menace. London Indian film festival shows subcontinent cinema in confident mood 2013-07-22T16:58:10Z But the unequal social scaffolding built around Natasha is overshadowed by the grotesque peculiarities of the character herself, and Denisova’s mesmeric rendering. Review: A Bracing Trial by Zoom in ‘State vs. Natasha Banina’ 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z While some of it is certainly heavy of touch in comparison with the mesmeric understatement of Nine Stories, I'm still hopeful for an authorised, annotated edition of Salinger's early fiction. JD Salinger is best revealed in his work 2011-01-31T13:08:28Z Barker's band played with captivating fizz, even on the chugging rhythms of the early swing pieces, and Stan Tracey and saxist Bobby Wellins mesmerically unfurled their dark classic Starless and Bible Black. Big Band Britannia/Vortex Jam 2010-06-22T20:59:00Z "However, Ejiofor's performance in '12 Years' is so mesmeric that there needn't be this year." 'Gravity', '12 Years a Slave' lead UK film awards 2014-01-08T14:21:10Z However, The Terror proves mesmeric rather than difficult. The Flaming Lips: The Terror – review 2013-03-28T22:45:03Z But Nocturnal Animals is such a step up: dazzling, shocking, mesmeric. Golden Globes 2017: who will win – and who should win – the film categories 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Available for the first time as a stand-alone album, “Dry — Demos” is sparse, often consisting of just Harvey’s mesmeric voice and rhythmic stabs of guitar. How Pop and Jazz Wrapped Up the Past in 16 Boxed Sets 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z The resulting body of work — transcendent, mesmeric — vindicates the old dream that uncompromised personal vision might equal artistic success. Review | David Lynch writes a memoir — but reveals only more mysteries 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z His singing was precise, clipped, mesmeric, and you couldn't take your eyes off him. Green Umbrella titles the concert 'Outrageous,' but is it? 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Over a minimal, mesmeric loop, our anti-hero wakes up to find his girlfriend not in bed next to him. New band of the day ? No 799: Ghostpoet 2010-06-02T14:50:00Z In the mesmeric, deadpan fever dream of a play that is “Distant Observer,” at La MaMa, you grasp onto what you can in trying to keep track of who’s who, and what’s occurring. Review: ‘Distant Observer’ Shifts Shape as Authors Take Turns 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z Together, they make work that is mesmeric, both for its quality and its seamlessness. The Endless Pop Shimmers of the Weeknd 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z But there is something in the infectious and mesmeric weirdness of David Lynch which makes it feel all right. David Lynch's Blue Velvet: why I still can't take my eyes off it 2012-02-10T12:49:31Z The trumpeter had reigned as the crown prince of jazz for nearly two decades, his music mutating subtly through hard bop to the mesmeric lyricism of 1959's Kind of Blue. The muse who changed Miles 2010-09-04T23:05:00Z Surprised that Ms. Reagan’s mesmeric powers weren’t more effective. 'Narcos' Episode 1 Recap: Meet Pablo Escobar 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z Ecstatically vibrant with a mesmeric graphic style, they take color theory to its implausible extreme, like a Josef Albers exercise on psilocybin. Art Gallery Shows to See in February 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z The Portuguese Nun is mesmeric – that overused word – subtly comic and weirdly gripping. The Portuguese Nun ? review 2011-01-20T22:29:01Z Job done, then, because we have identified what they do and it is: create a mesmeric beat and surround it with subtly detailed sonics, adding vocals intimating hypnosis. New band of the day: Jungle (No 1,536) 2013-06-19T14:21:15Z Sometimes, though, this claustrophobic style breaks like a fever, yielding to flights of mesmerically expansive prose. A Mexican Novel Conjures a Violent World Tinged With Beauty 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Each major event was illustrated with a song, in Bambara, with Traoré's exquisite, cool, clear vocals matched against mesmeric, repeated riffs from her musicians. Rokia Traoré – review 2012-06-20T17:20:54Z A philosophy graduate who has been diagnosed with depression, Krell must be one of the humblest, chattiest artists to front such mesmeric music. How to Dress Well – review 2012-11-06T11:15:38Z Dozens of reimaginings of Shakespeare's work at the festival include "Measure for Measure" in a mesmeric and critically acclaimed Russian-language staging. Fair and foul: Shakespeare in many guises at Edinburgh Festival 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Their songs are rhythmic, nearly mesmeric, but never feature percussion. The Magnificent Cross-Cultural Recordings of Kenya’s Kipsigis Tribe 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z His wife was at the end of her tether, his youngest daughter cried herself to sleep and his eldest teenage daughter, Victoria, was so ill all she could do was stare mesmerically at her smartphone. Property shows: room for improvement? 2011-08-10T13:27:22Z Or how Michael Myers disappears altogether from “Halloween III: Season of the Witch,” which instead concerns itself with a toymaker implanting Halloween masks with the mesmeric power of Stonehenge. Analysis | From slasher villain to LGBT icon, ‘Child Play’s’ Chucky changes with the times 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z It's mesmeric, hypnotic stuff, which might explain the voodoo connection. New band of the day – Goat (No 1,361) 2012-09-28T15:02:33Z Like Ms. Abramovic, he was a mesmeric presence, shifting spectators around as though they were iron filings drawn by a magnet. Jay-Z is Rhyming Picasso and Rothko 2013-07-12T22:13:27Z Up Down Up Down is a repetitive and mesmeric instrumental. New band of the day ? No 972: Koreless 2011-02-22T15:02:58Z Nivola’s taciturn performance is mesmeric, while Haley delivers an affecting film debut. ‘Weightless’ Review: A Look at Tough, Working-Class Lives 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z It was the perfect example of how mesmeric and transcendent Glass's work can be, and it brought this packed audience to a rousing standing ovation. Philip Glass – review 2012-12-16T18:15:01Z It is truly fascinating to read about things like mesmeric fluid — people grasping to understand physical law without the proper tools of discovery. Jason Segel: By the Book 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Of the story songs, the most mesmeric are “Reality Winner” and “The Symbol.” Son Volt's Jay Farrar is "singing about the dark times" on "Union," the new protest album 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z The Great Beauty stars Toni Servillo — that mesmeric Italian actor who has worked with Sorrentino so often in the past — as an ageing writer who recalls his vanished youth in Rome. Cannes 2013 lineup: heavy-hitters and unexpected gems 2013-04-18T15:22:59Z Astbury has the mesmeric allure – not to mention the bone structure and hair, even at 50 - of a proper rock star. The Cult: 'We're the Fulham of rock music' 2012-08-23T19:00:03Z A mesmeric set of canons for nine instruments, it sounds at once simple and elusive, at times blanketed with a still calm, at others coursed by a polyrhythmic, microtonal blizzard. Bach, Reich, Bartok, Beethoven and More 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z This mesmerically imagined work of realism tells of an outbreak of polio in Newark, New Jersey in the 1940s. A plague in both these novels: why does disease make such infectious fiction? 2011-01-12T17:28:16Z There is a hushed, meditative reverence to the Wooster Group’s show “Early Shaker Spirituals,” a mesmeric combination of traditional music and dance, based on a recording. Your Week in Culture: Kendrick Lamar, Leonard Bernstein and Crime Scene Dioramas 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z But what really confounds her is the depressive’s maddening self-absorption, a mind trapped in that mesmeric hall of mirrors where every affirmation of hope looks ridiculous and the only pathway seems to spiral downward. Book review: ‘All My Puny Sorrows,’ by Miriam Toews It’s completely mesmeric and beautiful in an apocalyptic way, and it just goes on and on. 50 documentaries you need to see 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z An extravagant character with loud taste in suits and mesmeric capabilities, he used the catchphrase, “I’m here to settle the score.” Can Superheroes Sing? The Flash and Supergirl Give It a Whirl 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Sun Kil Moon – Heron Blue Pretty much off-topic, but the guitar picking is mesmeric and, along with the subdued vocals, forces you into an introspective trance. Readers recommend: Election songs 2010-04-29T23:01:00Z Ritualistic, mesmeric, melancholy, enveloping, the Third supplied sonic ambience in many a home that otherwise lacked classical trappings. Cult Fame and Its Discontents 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Black Mouth is slower but no less in thrall to the demands of the mesmeric beat. New band of the day (Jupiter Lion 1,560) 2013-07-24T14:21:00Z On my last day, after a storm, I had my first taste of Utah’s legendary powder, dropping into a steep bowl and gliding through the trees in mesmeric silence. Movies and mountains: mixing film and skiing at the Sundance festival 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z On his rendition of “Light Blue,” a swaying, mesmeric ballad, Mr. Okazaki makes it through the melody twice using only single notes, piquant and quavering, with no chords. For the First Time, Thelonious Monk’s Songbook Swings Solo 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z His merest, mesmeric touch puts bad guys into the big sleep. Taken 2: Liam Neeson Proves Age and Body Count Are Just Numbers 2012-10-05T14:00:18Z Several interviewees, including Brandon, talk about his mesmeric effect on people, insinuating that he hypnotized folks into believing what he wanted them to. This imposter fooled a Scottish school and became a popular student in fascinating "My Old School" 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z How is it that the 10 puppet suns — rice-paper lanterns bobbing high in the air on long, slender stalks — are quite so charming and mesmeric? Review: In ‘Book of Mountains & Seas,’ Puppets Embark on Mythic Quests 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z I Still Do is stark, sad and mesmeric. I Am Kloot – review 2012-11-11T16:21:50Z Her song Crystalline was mesmeric, Björk's pitter-patter around the stage accompanied with Wonder Woman punches; Pagan Poetry was a cosmic aria. Bonnaroo: Paul McCartney rules 2013-06-18T14:39:13Z We know Young has a mesmeric final round in him because he delivered one at St Andrews last year, going round in 65 to only lose by one to Cameron Smith. Hunter becomes hunted... but can anyone stop Harman? 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z Though written on the eve of a cataclysmic war, the piece is dreamy, sensuous, mesmeric — and deliciously detailed as only Ravel can be. Your guide to this summer chamber music festival 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z Jan Versweyveld's versatile set, suggesting a range of personal and professional spaces, is flanked by two screens of video projections that lead us slowly and mesmerically through eerily empty streetscapes of New York. A Little Life: Critics split over James Norton's 'distressing' play 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, a cache of the valuable ore is discovered in the Atlantic Ocean, where a mysterious tribe of feathered, fishlike creatures defends it with a combination of mesmeric powers and fierce fighting spirit. Review | ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’: One long eulogy to Chadwick Boseman 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z It was a mesmeric second-half performance from the Premier League club, who now just need a draw against Ajax in Amsterdam in two weeks to advance to the next stage. Six-minute Salah treble inspires Liverpool at Ibrox 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z That exception was Tines, who began the first program with a mesmeric solo intonation of Julius Eastman’s “Prelude to the Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc,” a recitation in rage and awe of saints’ names. Review: At the Ojai Music Festival, the sublime and the shocking 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z A mesmeric dribbler whose sweet left foot delivered enticing crosses, Barnes also had a fine goals record in an era when wide players weren't expected to score regularly. Who makes your all-time Liverpool XI? 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z This mesmeric run to stiflingly hot Seville has meant so much to so many, not to mention the 100,000 expected to cook in the Spanish sun in the coming days. Van Bronckhorst's road to brink of Rangers legend 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z Former Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand said on BT Sport: "Diaz was the difference maker. He was mesmeric. He's a fabulous player and one of - if not the - signing of the season for me." 'Quadruple, why not?' - Liverpool keep hopes alive 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, after pledging allegiance to the Red cause in the light of talk that Barcelona want him back, it’s perhaps time for a mesmeric performance from Thiago Alcântara. Liverpool v Porto: Champions League – live! 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z But that mesmeric dribbler with the ferocious pace was never quite the same. The electric trailblazer who met a tragic end in Madrid 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Mojica Rodríguez’s electrifying debut, “For Brown Girls With Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts,” channels mesmeric prose to heal the wounds of white supremacy. More than a ‘nameless maid’: A memoirist's manifesto on Latinx colorism 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z The longer the repetition goes on, the stronger its mesmeric force. This Centuries-Old Trick Will Unlock Your Productivity 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z Ms. Abdulhadi discovered techno, a form of electronic dance music in which D.J.s typically create intense and mesmeric soundscapes. She Was a Star of New Palestinian Music. Then She Played Beside the Mosque. 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z But the films that featured their derring-do and mesmeric skills were produced only a few times a year. This 14-Year-Old Ski Daredevil Is Already a Pro, and Trying Not to Scare His Parents 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z A Beethoven fanatic, the mesmeric Ferré liked to conduct Beethoven by walking up and the down the middle of an orchestra, pounding his fists in the air and reciting, angry, erotic, surreal poetry. It's Beethoven's 250th birthday. Our critic's guide to the best new recordings 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z River seem a scintillating destination, grant the economically achieved piece a mesmeric quality. Review: 'La Leyenda Negra' wages a fight for truth from Compton 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z Variety writes that the “dreamy, mesmeric power” of filmmaker Oliver Laxe’s “rustically beautiful” rural parable lies in the waiting. New movies to stream this week: ‘Kindred,’ ‘Prospect’ and more 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z These are the characteristics of great teams: that essential tension between spontaneity and choreography, a mesmeric game of perpetual fission where every pass seems to detonate two rehearsed runs. Impatient Bayern find keys to unlock Chelsea as Hansi Flick restores old fire 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z In this case it is the piano chords that get reinforced through mesmeric repetitionm, which produces a host of sound effects that you would otherwise expect to come from an electronic arsenal. Commentary: A winter darkness concert series? Think Joshua Tree moon music and an L.A. sound bath 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z “Parasite,” his first fully Korean-made film since 2009’s mesmeric maternal murder mystery “Mother,” follows a poor but enterprising clan who ingratiate themselves into the lives of a wealthy family with darkly comic and tragic results. Why everyone is talking about Bong Joon Ho's 'Parasite': A thriller rooted in class conflict 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Antony and the Johnsons’ haunting version of Beyoncé’s Crazy in Love appears alongside a Trinidadian steel band’s strangely mesmeric remake of Gary Numan’s Cars. Jarvis Cocker: 'Politics has turned into Game of Thrones – I can't see it ending well' 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Photographs, snippets of songs, moments of longing and regret, scenes of confusion, loss and horror become part of a mesmeric whole. Colin Dayan's 'In the Belly of Her Ghost' exorcises memories of mother after she's gone 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z In the breathtaking centerpiece, Berry and Reeves move wordlessly in concert with her attack canines across a perilous Moroccan marketplace at night, felling their enemies in mesmeric synchronicity. Review: 'John Wick 3' expands the Wickverse with another artfully ridiculous body count 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z The Portuguese brings his own wow factor to Manchester City, with an ability to play wide or centrally, a schemer’s vision, mesmeric dribbling, and a shoot-on-sight instinct. Premier League 2018-19 season review: our writers’ best and worst 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Chelsea’s skill and mesmeric interplay were far too much for the visitors. Ruben Loftus-Cheek hits hat-trick in Chelsea’s Europa stroll against Bate 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z All the while, singers and drummers play mesmeric songs to embolden fighters. These Boxers Fight With Cords Wrapped Around Their Fists. Crowds Love It. 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z The more fetid the swamp of public life, the more important it became to understand the mesmeric techniques of deception. Opinion | Donald Trump, Mesmerist 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z He provided goals, assists and mesmeric dribbles and will have been privately disappointed to finish only third, even if his declaration that his time at Chelsea may be up was a sting in the tail. World Cup 2018: Guardian writers pick their highs and lows 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z As it was, it was a player inspired whose two first-half goals and mesmeric display ensured Crystal Palace, for the first time in months, boast breathing space. Wilfried Zaha’s double clinches huge derby triumph for Crystal Palace 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z After his mesmeric performance and subsequent triumph, the article was published and the conversation changed. Adam Rippon, John Curry and figure skating's complex history with gay athletes 2018-02-17T05:00:00Z It was nothing short of mesmeric, all the more so on repeated viewings. The Handmaid’s Tale held a mirror up to a year of Trump | Matthew d’Ancona 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z “He is manly and graceful and his dancing is effortless and mesmeric,” Burton told an entertainment blog. An American (musical) in Paris. Once seen as lowbrow, Broadway shows now ride high in France 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Just before the hour the new man took possession on the left and gambolled across halfway, swaying mesmerically inside two challenges before exploding into a drive which crashed in off the bar. Golden Goal: Ronaldinho for Barcelona v Chelsea (2005) | Daniel Harris 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Rami Malek’s starring eyes, somewhere between the unblinking focus of a screen addict and the wide-eyed paranoia of a drug addict, add a mesmeric quality to his performance of Mr Robot’s complex persona. Blade Runner 2049 – And Why Eyes Are So Important in This Vision of the Future 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z It is, however, a literary award, so it’s difficult to see past the mesmeric economy of Salt-N-Pepa, as exemplified in their 1986 hit Push It: The 2017 Nobel prize in literature – live 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z As with kindred Taiwanese rockers Skip Skip Ben Ben, the results – as geographic and stylistic differences dissolve – are mesmeric. 'A language we use to say sentimental things': how shoegaze took over Asia 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z The mesmeric Ronaldinho was a huge favorite from 2001-03, securing a big move to Barcelona - where he won the Golden Ball. Neymar to PSG? Barcelona’s denials don’t stop transfer talk 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z Perhaps she’s thinking back, as I am, to the mesmeric performance she gave on Later... Lorde: ‘I want to be Leonard Cohen. I want to be Joni Mitchell’ 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z It is the cars, as much as anything else, that have taken his breath away – the Buicks, the Chryslers and how the traffic flows, mesmerically, around the clock. Christian Bassogog: ‘The Chinese Super League has the power. More players will come’ 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z For someone so young, Vertappen’s mesmeric drive that day drew widespread admiration for the skill and courage involved. All eyes on Max Verstappen as new F1 season gets underway 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Two high‑tempo, dynamic sides with different attacking philosophies produced an enthralling end-to-end contest featuring mesmeric passing moves, incredible bursts of pace – and some quite dreadful misses. Jürgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola cancel each other out in frantic contest | Michael Cox 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z They have pined for the entertainment which would veer from comical to thrilling on a weekly basis, a mesmeric combination of crunching tackles and flamboyance on the ball. David Luiz is not really Antonio Conte’s type, but Kanté will offer protection | Dominic Fifield 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z But a chance to spend time with Cruyff, a mesmeric footballer and the most influential thinker in the modern game as a coach for Ajax and, especially, Barcelona was different. Johan Cruyff: ‘Maybe we were the real winners in 1974. The world remembers our team more’ 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z Then Hogg scored a mesmeric try - a scintillating break from inside his own half, cutting a gorgeous line between Rory Best and Mike Ross - but normal business resumed thereafter. Six Nations 2016: Ireland 35-25 Scotland 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z Their abstract, voluminous shapes slinked past guests with the back of the garment — the part that holds the most weight — bouncing almost regally in mesmeric three-dimensions. Colorful, big hitting shows ensured Paris Fashion Week got into its groove Friday, as celebrity guests including Rosamund Pike and Jessica Alba hit Dior's mirrored fall-winter Louvre spectacle 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Play raced from end to end, Graham and Taylor narrowly missing with headers, and Hayes failing to finish a mesmeric dancing run towards goal. Ross County 2-3 Aberdeen 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z The 97th PGA Championship has been mesmeric from the get-go, and there’s no reason to suspect holes 55 through 72 will be any different. US PGA Championship 2015 – final round! | Scott Murray 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z Ajax’s performance during the first 20 minutes of the 73 final against Juventus is legendary, one of the most mesmeric passages of play in history, total domination. A brief history of the Champions League – and why it's so hard to win two in a row 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z His one talent is his ability to captivate people with mesmeric rhetoric. In Defense Of Barack Obama (To A Point) 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z This follows a flurry of recent research on the magnetic and mesmeric nature of eye contact and its essential role in developing emotional stability and social fluency. Psst. Look Over Here. 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Yet coal continues to exert a mesmeric hold on the world's imagination, especially on the left. Renewable energy won't rid us of the horrors of coal 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z The 97th PGA Championship has been mesmeric from the get-go, and there’s no reason to suspect holes 55 through 72 will be any different. US PGA Championship 2015 – final round! | Scott Murray 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z "His acting voice was slightly Welsh but it was completely and utterly mesmeric and very expressive. "Some people said there was a melancholy to Richard's voice but the Welsh are melancholy by nature. Remembering Under Milk Wood at 60 2014-01-25T00:02:35Z Their rallies rarely lasted more than five or six strokes, but the display of power was mesmeric. Straight Sets: Berdych Continues His Dominance Over Anderson 2013-06-29T18:36:53Z Other critics loved it, with describing the film as "a glitteringly strange, mesmeric and mad film set among American criminal expatriates in Bangkok". Scott Thomas on the joy of being evil 2013-05-26T22:34:25Z This latter point I find amazing, especially in the case of Jimmy Anderson, because if ever there were a bowler designed for the Nursery End, it is this mesmeric manipulator of a cricket ball. England and New Zealand bowlers get hold of wrong end of Lord's stick 2013-05-18T19:20:40Z Returning to a theme he has explored on camera and in writing before, Junger essentially poses the question: What is it about war that exerts such a mesmeric pull? In the Eye of War 2013-04-15T08:45:00Z Anfield can be mesmeric on occasions but not, perhaps, what it was. Roberto Mancini has to accept the blame for Manchester City's decline 2013-04-06T21:59:01Z There are few bowlers in the world who possess almost mesmeric command over the ball, bending it to his will, and he is one of them. England's Jimmy Anderson fine-tunes swing secrets for career milestone 2013-03-02T20:00:01Z There's a mesmeric quality to watching any of the aggregators. Six things people have learned about Vine 2013-01-31T12:45:22Z Sure enough Scotland were beaten 10-8, pipped by Sharp's mesmeric score, and the title was secure. The forgotten story of ... Richard Sharp 2013-01-30T14:13:17Z It’s mesmeric watching Harper, David Mason’s battle-hardened teammate – suddenly be hit by panic and fear – his eyes widening and body tensing up. 10 out of 10: The Love-Hate Relationship Of Britain's Biggest-Selling Newspapers And Call of Duty 2012-12-18T21:07:31Z Maroney's work on the vault was not the only mesmeric sight of the Games. The gifs that keep on giving: shocking misses, Olympians and a Pacman KO 2012-12-15T10:00:00Z There was a mesmeric quality about Bale's turn, surge and rasping shot. Tottenham Hotspur 3-1 West Ham United 2012-11-25T18:36:36Z It would be so mesmeric the fans would never want to leave the ground. Artful dodger Jimmy Bullard dreaming of a new role in football 2012-10-13T21:30:01Z His ruling was unusually blunt, describing a murky network of shell companies with secret offshore accounts as a plan of “mesmeric complexity” that reeked of dishonesty and sharp practice. Deadline Looms in Irish Bank Case 2012-08-30T16:21:03Z Does that, then, explain the strange behaviour of the senior bankers – is it simply a matter of an acquired mesmeric focus on rewards and a stunted appreciation of risk? Do bankers have greed hardwired into their brains? 2012-07-02T14:30:01Z How to retain the continuing confidence of bond markets is a real question, but their power, so mesmeric over 24/7 politicians, is grossly inflated. The eurozone's people are like prisoners in Colditz 2012-06-19T19:30:01Z And with all the mesmeric revelations at the royal courts, poor Tommy Sheridan sits in his living room, ringed by an electronic tag that forces him home before the moon rises. Watching Hunt at Leveson revealed the depths of politicians' debasement 2012-05-31T17:30:01Z I remember once being wonderfully struck with the mesmeric attraction he possessed with them. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z And across the gap of years came memories of his mesmeric eyes, his wonderful voice—the eyes and voice no woman could resist—the inspired manner of his love-making. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z How many of the people prayed to death have really been dissected and prepared for burial while at first under mesmeric influences! Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z In France political excitement allowed the mesmeric theory and practice to drop out of notice till the fall of the first Empire. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z There's a friend for you, a friend who changes not, a friend who soothes all your troubles with a soft caress, a mesmeric touch of balmy forgetfulness. Solomon 2012-02-29T03:00:26.127Z Atkinson, the "mesmeric atheist," struck her as "a fine instinctive nature, with a head for Leonardo to paint," who "seems bound by no tie, yet looks as if he had relatives in every place." Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z An unconscious mesmeric sympathy beyond their own volition fixed the gaze of three people upon that portrait of the wicked earl, while the same thought struck each of them in turn. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z There was something about his Grace that repelled her, even while his mesmeric personality fascinated. The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z This may be to exaggerate: yet it serves to impress the comparatively secondary character of many of the circumstances on which the specially mesmeric or hypnotic experimentalist is apt to lay exclusive stress. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z What Bernheim has done is to cure a number of people without mesmeric passes, and without any special predisposing belief on either side,—beyond a trust in his own power. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z The first instance of a surgical operation being attempted while the patient was in mesmeric sleep, was that of Madame Plantin, a lady of sixty-four years, who suffered of cancer in the breast. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z If the hair now would have obeyed a mesmeric pass, without the need of manual contact,—if the job could be performed with closed eyes, and insensible nostrils, and absent mind! The Captive in Patagonia 2011-12-27T03:00:10.803Z Or, volition may be profoundly asleep, while the senses are preternaturally excited, as in the abnormal mesmeric state. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z A mesmeric patient is sent into the hypnotic trance by continued staring at the same stationary object. Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers 2011-12-21T03:00:45.660Z Just as in the mesmeric days, so also now there are continual instances where much more than the mere command has been needed for effective hypnotisation. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z A Mr. Chapelain prepared her by throwing her for several days into a trance by means of the usual mesmeric passes. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z "It's nothing but a hash of old mesmeric tricks I've seen performed at country fairs." Amusement Only 2011-12-04T03:00:06.637Z We are astonished to hear men refusing to credit the evidence of their senses as to mesmeric phenomena, on the ground that they can not "understand" them. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z Unfortunately I do; the name meant nothing to me; I had never heard of such a person; I acted on Trevor's persistent suggestion practically like a man might do who was in a mesmeric trance. A Woman Perfected 2011-12-02T03:00:24.420Z Persistence, proximity, passes—all these prove needful still in the practice even of physicians who place no faith at all in the old mesmeric theory. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z The words, the mesmeric glance seemed to take him out of himself—to take him back; back to—something. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z It contains instructions for the performance of mesmeric experiments. Amusement Only 2011-12-04T03:00:06.637Z She made the distinctly feminine error, while she rapidly surveyed the present contingency, of taking for granted that her husband possessed some obscure and mesmeric intuition regarding this same unseen piece of writing. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z He watched it till it began to exert a mesmeric influence on, him and his head began to feel light and swimmy. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z The supposed mesmeric effluence was then treated as an entirely isolated, yet an entirely physiological phenomenon. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z He had, sir, beyond any other man whom I have ever seen, the true mesmeric touch of the orator,—the rare art of transferring his impulses to others. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z "I say that I hypnotised her--that is, produced the mesmeric state, but that I--I couldn't get her out of it." Amusement Only 2011-12-04T03:00:06.637Z The bill had been made the object of opposition and ridicule; one prominent official, to show his contempt for the project, proposed that half the amount asked for should be used in mesmeric experiments. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z He had no longer the mesmeric martinet who had tamed an unruly audience at sight; the last of Mr. Jingle's snap had long been in abeyance. The Crime Doctor 2011-09-09T02:01:05.570Z I see no reason to assume that the varied and concordant statements made by patients in the Zoist and early mesmeric works merely reflect subjective fancies. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z No mesmeric phenomena of any kind were produced, not even sleep, but from the first day a degree of comfort and also improvement was experienced. Telepathy and the Subliminal Self 2011-08-26T02:00:28.567Z The mesmeric influence of the excitement filled Lucia with a glowing beauty; with a brilliance which made her seem a goddess—of her order. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z His interest in her case was enlisted by their mutual friend, Basil Montagu; and Mr. Atkinson undertook to direct the mesmeric treatment by correspondence. Harriet Martineau 2011-08-05T02:00:51.493Z But we are learning that there is yet something in the living man, in his voice and his manner and his mesmeric force, which cannot be expressed through the cold lead of type. Increasing Personal Efficiency 2011-07-31T02:00:10.480Z This mesmeric episode brought the doctors upon the poor lady, who never forgave her being alive when they said she ought to be dead. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z In twenty minutes he fell into the mesmeric sleep. Telepathy and the Subliminal Self 2011-08-26T02:00:28.567Z She was the very hunting ground of the garish world, and in this mesmeric garishness this little company of Christians had their home. The Whole Armour of God 2011-07-12T02:00:30.060Z While suspended in this fashion she is draped in various pleasing costumes, finally awakening from her pretended mesmeric trance under the passes of the magician, and bowing herself off the stage. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z There is an overpowering and mesmeric influence in the very atmosphere. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z I believed that she had exerted some mesmeric or other influence over the child, that caused it to moan and toss its head. Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity 2011-07-04T02:00:24.763Z Several of the mesmeric phenomena were then produced in the presence of his skeptical friends, after which he was allowed to sleep undisturbed for two hours. Telepathy and the Subliminal Self 2011-08-26T02:00:28.567Z She held him by that mesmeric gaze, where the soul stood plainly forth pleading for mercy. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z Finally she is placed in the first position, and awakes from her supposed mesmeric slumber. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z His voice dropped to a throaty and mesmeric gurgle. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z In the conversation between Helena and Rosa about Drood and Jasper, Rosa betrays her horror of Jasper and his mesmeric power over her, which makes her ashamed and passionately hurt. The Problem of 'Edwin Drood' A Study in the Methods of Dickens 2011-06-05T02:00:15.443Z While there, they engaged in some mesmeric experiments, and after a time Sparks was able to put Cleave thoroughly into the hypnotic condition. Telepathy and the Subliminal Self 2011-08-26T02:00:28.567Z I believe the mesmeric trance and the spiritual trance are produced by similar means, and I believe the mesmeric and the spiritual forces are the same. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z A lady is laid on the board, and pretended mesmeric passes made over her by the magician. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z So I kept on pouring in mesmeric reinforcements, as she sat with her head bent, and her whole moral being in turmoil. Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography 2011-06-02T02:00:21.050Z He possessed, perhaps, something of mesmeric power, for unconsciously I fell asleep; but mine was not a deep or perfect slumber. Daisy Burns (Volume 2) 2011-05-20T02:00:30.427Z During this experiment I must have fallen into a mesmeric sleep, for, although I was conscious, I could not move my limbs. Telepathy and the Subliminal Self 2011-08-26T02:00:28.567Z There is neither evidence nor foundation for a conjecture that she was ever pupil of teachers of medical science, or of jugglery, nor that she belonged to any mesmerically developing circle. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z No other causes are at all necessary to account for the mesmeric prostration. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z There really is slight distinguishing difference between the concentration of writer, speaker, or inventor, and the mesmeric, or hypnotic state of the sensitive. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z Tired out by excitement and strain, bearing the constant aching regret for Stanief's setting star, Allard had been gradually lulled into mesmeric quiescence by the shifting lights and shadows. The Game and the Candle 2011-04-03T02:00:16.907Z It is now some years since we received our first inkling of mesmeric revelation. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z I remember on one occasion her describing her agony when, in a mesmeric state, she knew a wasp had settled on her nose, and yet was unable to move. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z A few words on each of these heads may not be out of place, as a qualifying postscript to the foregoing letter, which, in our opinion, treats the mesmeric superstition with far too much indulgence. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z The influence of some men when brought into contact with criminals is explained by their strong mesmeric or hypnotic influence. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z You will always be nervous, Augustus, until you have watched the process of mesmeric influence. Professor Huskins 2011-03-13T03:00:20.620Z You observe, ladies and gentlemen, how remarkably the natural character is developed during the operation of the mesmeric trance. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z You are like one of those mesmeric men; there’s no keeping anything from you. Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir 2011-03-11T03:00:14.423Z The question in regard to mesmerism is two-fold: first, how is the mesmeric prostration to be accounted for? and secondly, how is it to be disposed of? The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z The mesmeric state is equivalent to the hypnotic. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z When you know what I am doing, you will not feel as you did, when, without warning, you found your mother in a mesmeric state. Professor Huskins 2011-03-13T03:00:20.620Z Is it possible that, in the mesmeric trance, the mind in some cases rejects as artificial fabric all the educated conventionality of tongues, and resumes unconsciously the original and genuine dialect of the world? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z This reinforces Grimandi's belief that Nasri is starting to warrant mention in the same breath as some of Barcelona's mesmeric stars. Barca test 2011-03-07T13:47:41Z I. The existence of any physical force or fluid in man or in nature, by which the mesmeric phenomena are induced, has been distinctly disproved by every carefully conducted experiment. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z In the commencement we must free ourselves from the commonly received idea that sleep has any resemblance to any of these several states which are usually called magnetic, mesmeric, or clairvoyant sleep. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z He believed he had solved the cause of various phenomena through the use of mesmeric influence. Professor Huskins 2011-03-13T03:00:20.620Z In this state, the boy, though professedly in the mesmeric sleep, could see nothing. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z The beautiful rural stillness is monotony itself, and monotony is the spell and the condition of all mesmeric impressions. The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3 2011-03-04T03:01:04.443Z In those persons of a better organized structure, who yield themselves up to the mesmeric degradation, the physical causes are less operative; but the moral causes are still more influential. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z Natural somnambulism comes without warning, and illustrates the condition induced by mesmeric passes. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z It gave Merle particular pleasure to know William eclipsed all other demonstrators of mesmeric power, feeling flattered to be chosen by so wise a man as his principal subject. Professor Huskins 2011-03-13T03:00:20.620Z We selected and paid for a front seat, and located ourselves in the neighbourhood of a very smart bonnet, which had mesmerically attracted our eye. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z With her recovered health had come a resolve to throw off the mesmeric influence he had exercised over her when she had been weak and starving. A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z But he continued the practice of mesmerism, holding s�ances in his home and editing a magazine, The Zoist, devoted to the subject, and in 1849 he founded a mesmeric hospital. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z The Count professed to have great mesmeric powers, and declared in reply to Mr. Browning’s avowed skepticism, he would convince him of his powers. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z Alice had never known for what reason she was entranced and did not now know she had been instigating intelligence to produce a book upon mesmeric influence. Professor Huskins 2011-03-13T03:00:20.620Z You see, ladies and gentlemen!" said the operator, after the scuffle was over—"You see how the power of the mesmeric fluid operates above the exertion of physical force. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z Durgo stared at her in a mesmeric sort of way, and threw out his hand. The Solitary Farm 2011-02-04T03:00:21.943Z The hearts of those who heard were uplifted, for this man had the mesmeric faculty of compelling those who heard him to feel what he wanted them to feel. The Ivory Gate, a new edition 2010-12-25T03:00:10.617Z It held a curious fascination for him, repulsive and mesmeric at the same time. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z Her present attitude toward him was the result of her fear of mesmeric influence, not her husband himself. Professor Huskins 2011-03-13T03:00:20.620Z I am curious to see if the mesmeric principle applies equally to all the muscles.' Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z I was sitting in the press box, chewing the fat with David Lloyd while watching Graeme Swann, from the Pavilion End, wheeling away mesmerically at Pakistan's batsmen. Mike Selvey: Swann may have passed the Titmus test 2010-09-29T23:06:00Z When the torturer tired, he would switch on a tape recorder repeating a mesmeric Shi'ite chant recalling the battleground where Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammad, was killed: "Kerbala, Kerbala, we are on our way..." Torture victim's saga mirrors Iran's history 2010-07-15T07:13:00Z That spring I watched Steinbrenner in all his glory — mesmeric, comical and repugnant. The Parking Pass Interview 2010-07-14T02:12:00Z She was ill and nervous and knew very little about mesmeric influence. Professor Huskins 2011-03-13T03:00:20.620Z Their mesmeric passing patterns resulted in almost complete domination of possession in the first half but the World Cup favourites were reluctant to shoot from any distance. Owen Gibson: Cautious tactics cause goal drought 2010-06-16T19:40:00Z Five times they fell behind on the scoreboard in a mesmeric Guinness final and five times they clawed their way back on top. Leicester 33-27 Saracens 2010-05-30T23:06:00Z But critics, cinephiles and programmers will be enraptured, as will viewers adventurous enough to surrender to the film's Buddhist rhythms, mythical underpinnings and mesmeric images, ensuring a narrow but rich future life for Uncle Boonmee. Winning reviews? 2010-05-24T03:52:00Z Do Martyrs always feel Pain?—Is it not possible that an exalted state of feeling—approaching perhaps to the mesmeric state—may be attained, which will render the religious or political martyr insensible to pain? Notes and Queries, Number 229, March 18, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc His mother's anxious scrutiny marked the pallor and symptoms of yielding to what she thought his father's mesmeric influence. Professor Huskins 2011-03-13T03:00:20.620Z His dreams he believed in, and, being possessed of a mesmeric personality, Barrifield sometimes persuaded others to believe also. The Bread Line A Story of a Paper After a few minutes he fancied he felt his own senses urging him to join in the monotonous, mesmeric swaying, the soft barbaric chant. Dick's Desertion A Boy's Adventures in Canadian Forests The two others were as easily transferred to a mesmeric state. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 Be sure the circle follows the same course as the sun, or we may break the mesmeric current. The School by the Sea Wait until I am well, William, then you shall explain to me the science of mesmeric control, and we will work together with Alice to find out those facts that you do not know. Professor Huskins 2011-03-13T03:00:20.620Z We had hardly recovered from the dream state into which the marvellous music of Quasimodo had plunged us with strange mesmeric influence. Glories of Spain But the somewhat amusing fact is that every human being is a clairvoyant—which could be shown beyond disagreement if the doubter were placed in the mesmeric trance. The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 You ask me if the mesmeric phenomena—which you ridicule, yet of which I believe you covet a closer investigation—are not part and parcel of the same incomprehensible farrago? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 There are few sadder thoughts than this—to think how the Church has thrown away the power that once it knew how to use, the mesmeric instinct of the crowd. Victory out of Ruin With his wife's help, he became a noted writer and exponent of mesmeric influence, reasoning from the effects or phenomena, back to the basic principles which produce them. Professor Huskins 2011-03-13T03:00:20.620Z As H. C. had said, there was a certain mesmeric influence about the woman to which the sensitive animal world might very probably respond. Glories of Spain Whether any sort of mesmeric influence is produced we know not, but the snake remains on its back, perfectly still, as if dead. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. How like is this to some of the mesmeric visions! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 She laughed, and the medium, speaking for the first time, and with difficulty, out of his mesmeric sleep, said, “tell her there is great danger.” Reveries over Childhood and Youth And sitting here beyond the storm, Alone within the lonely house, It seems that some mesmeric charm Hangs over all.—Why, even the mouse, That gnawed, has come to harm. One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue Hence, in tipping a barber a patron is yielding in a peculiarly timid way to the mesmeric influence which the tipping custom exerts over its devotees. The Itching Palm A Study of the Habit of Tipping in America Nature had suddenly started from her mesmeric trance, and was wide awake once more; and all the human hearts imprisoned in the Anne responded to her electric touch. Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life Vol. II. The blasting, mesmeric power of the eyes, surcharged with hate, seemed to freeze the very marrow of his bones. John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising When free from mesmeric influence, she lived with him as his daughter, and was quite innocent of any other relation. Trilbyana The Rise and Progress of a Popular Novel In about a minute pick up the the bowl, and going to him, request him to open his eyes; gaze in them, and then make a few mesmeric passes over his face. More Conjuring Simple Tricks for Social Gatherings “It threw the House into a mesmeric trance,” said the seconder of a hostile motion. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) Also seek cunning men, feigning, by mesmeric ken, Missing property to trace and indicate the thief, Cure ailments, give predictions: all of these enormous fictions Are, among our higher classes, matters of belief. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) She had mesmeric visions, and was evidently a “sensitive;” and some of the people believed in her, as inspired and divine, and some came, perhaps mockingly, to test her. Witch Stories Miss Harned's Trilby, though rather a faint reflection of the original, has the merit of being attractive and womanly, as well as free and frank, and exhibits true pathos in the mesmeric scenes. Trilbyana The Rise and Progress of a Popular Novel There is, assuredly, little mesmeric relation between the expecting host and the lingering guest, or we should not witness all that we do of our friends' unpunctuality in this life. The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life As you slept last evening in a mesmeric slumber on that sofa; but I will hear no further questioning. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life When the moon rose, like a cup Lay the valley, brimmed with wine Of mesmeric shade and shine, To the moon's pale face held up. Idyllic Monologues Old and New World Verses Never since then have I been able to persuade myself to witness any more mesmeric cures. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. Just as the mesmeric subject has no remembrance of the mesmeric sleep, or of anything which happens in it. The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II Time-travel continues to exercise its mesmeric fascination upon writers, readers and editors of science fiction alike. The House from Nowhere The mornings were passed in mesmeric experiences with her doctor, or what she fancied were theological discussions with the Abbe D'Esmonde. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life Mr. Sewell had a certain something of mesmeric power in his eyes which children seldom resisted; and with a shrinking movement, as if both attracted and repelled, the little girl got upon his knee. The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine Before the mesmeric cure had been commenced I went with my friend to the hospital, and saw the patient. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. There was a lifting of skirts, revealing many high-born insteps, and a scramble for chairs, as the ladies reflected upon the long lines of rats in the train of the mesmeric Pied Piper. Mistress Nell A Merry Tale of a Merry Time Held and blended by a mesmeric force, they began to give and answer question for question, secret for secret. Wings of the Wind She had just recovered from a mesmeric trance, into which, to calm her nervous exaltation, her physician, Dr. Buccellini, had thrown her. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life What ulterior processes were to be exhibited I do not know, but the first result to be obtained was to throw Dr. Becker into a mesmeric state of somnolence, under the influence of the operator. Records of Later Life Surely J. Turner, with all his mesmeric influence, could not do much better. A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath and the Commandments of God With a Further History of God's Peculiar People from 1847-1848 You have just the same mesmeric strength that used to soothe me when a boy. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart There is a mesmeric force about the human hair, a woman's hair, resting on a man's upturned face—although I do not mean this in a sentimental sense. Wings of the Wind Its mesmeric influence upon the poor and ignorant is a continuous tragedy.” Carmen Ariza In fine, was mesmeric sleep-waking not only a state, but entitled to rank as a distinct state, clearly and permanently characterized; and, as such, set apart from all other abnormal conditions of men? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 Shelley's missionaries of liberty preach to a nation of slaves, as the apostles of the Salvation Army preach in the slums to creatures reared in degradation, the same mesmeric appeal. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle No wonder men lose their hearts over her at the first fatal glance into their wonderful, mesmeric depths. Pretty Madcap Dorothy Or, How She Won a Lover "That would be a vain repetition, darling, especially as I know it all quite well," murmured Mary Grey, with a smile, and still passing her hand with mesmeric gentleness over his hair. Victor's Triumph Sequel to A Beautiful Fiend Yes, the great Paul was at times under the same mesmeric spell of human belief, even after he had seen the vision of the Christ. Carmen Ariza By this sermon it appears to have occurred to the philosophic mind of the reverend divine, that mesmeric marvels may be accounted for as accomplished by the direct agency of Satan! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 “I am glad you told me of it, for her melancholy had an almost mesmeric effect on me––and her eyes!” The Bondwoman She had only to smile at a man with those ripe, red, perfect lips, and give him one glance from those mesmeric eyes, and he was straightway her slave. Pretty Madcap Dorothy Or, How She Won a Lover After this, while Mr. Sparrow lived, he went often, and comforted him greatly in his last hours, not only by his mesmeric influence, but indirectly as well by keeping those boys out of the way. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 What is it but the Christ-knowledge, the knowledge of good, and its correlated knowledge, that evil is 263 only the mesmeric lie which has engulfed the world? Carmen Ariza Of the phenomena which were to be developed in the mesmeric state, she knew absolutely nothing; thus all deceptive imitation of them, on her part, was rendered impossible. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 The blue eyes of the Carolina girl and the mesmeric amber eyes of the Parisian met, with the slight conventional smile ladies favor each other with, sometimes. The Bondwoman Still more unfortunately the last year had added to her already great beauty a magnetism that was almost mesmeric in its effect. A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties There is a very strong flavour of mesmeric suggestion about a woman's attitude towards these matters, considered in the light of her customary common sense. Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences And the awful warning has rung down through the corridors of time from the mouths of the prophets, whom we slew lest they wake us from our mesmeric sleep! Carmen Ariza Having ascertained this, I once more threw Johann into the mesmeric state, with a view to discover how far a second mesmerisation could strengthen his natural eyesight. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 There are, in fact, many instances in which it has been seen by the person thought of—most probably by means of the unconscious mesmeric influence emanating from the original thinker. Clairvoyance She was aware of him as if in a mesmeric state. The Rainbow To all his "passes" she responded with gratifying promptitude, only to suffer a relapse the moment she was released from the mesmeric influence. Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters Again the temptation which he had stubbornly resisted for a lifetime urged upon him with all its mesmeric insistence. Carmen Ariza The real nature of vision is as shut to the vulgar as the mesmeric mode of sight is to the learned. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 It needs to be set free by the temporary suspension of the outer senses in the mesmeric trance before it can use the diviner faculties which are but just beginning to dawn within it. Clairvoyance On looking towards her brother she saw he was making the mesmeric passes with his hands. The Power of Mesmerism A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies “I don’t know—I can’t tell—I’m so surprised and––” “And glad,” laughed the stranger in a deep, mesmeric voice. Rose O'Paradise Nor did she return until the deepest recesses of the human mind had revealed to her their abysmal hideousness, their ghastly emptiness of reality, and their woeful mesmeric deception. Carmen Ariza And what is more strange, the mesmeric ether conveys correct, and not distorted impressions. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 To the first of these subdivisions belong those who are clairvoyant only when in the mesmeric trance—who when not so entranced are incapable of seeing or hearing anything abnormal. Clairvoyance It was a hard task to fix the gaze of his youthful companion, but by patience and perseverance Frank succeeded at last in putting him also into a perfect state of mesmeric sleep. The Power of Mesmerism A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies He came toward her, piercing her face with a pair of compelling, mesmeric eyes that made her stagger back to the wall. Rose O'Paradise My opposition is directed only against the entrenched human thought that makes men spiritually blind and holds them in the mesmeric chains of evil. Carmen Ariza Clairvoyance, or the power of perception without the use of the usual organs; and second-sight, or the power of prediction respecting the mesmeric state and remedial agencies. 6th. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 In so small a work as this I have no space for that; such people must study the many books containing lists of cases, or make experiments for themselves along mesmeric lines. Clairvoyance At this juncture Frank willed the parson to awake from the mesmeric trance. The Power of Mesmerism A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies The star held her gaze as though it possessed some mesmeric power. Otherwise Phyllis The mesmeric belief in evil as an entity and a power opposed to good alone prevents that. Carmen Ariza Curiously enough, he was instructed in the manipulation by the sceptical patient, who had previously seen public mesmeric exhibitions. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 The finding of property through him in a mesmeric condition was a thing of common occurrence, and in some instances he seemed to be conscious of the mental conditions under which the property was lost. Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12 It is now time that some explanation should be offered as to the cause of the mesmeric power and voluptuous development so strikingly manifested in Frank. The Power of Mesmerism A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies The oval face was thinner, and her form had lost its roundness, but the countenance retained its singular loveliness, and the mesmeric splendour of the large eyes seemed enhanced. Macaria Alas! only because of its mesmeric promise of immortality beyond the grave.” Carmen Ariza The experiment thus performed would have been optically conclusive; and we cannot see, according to any of the mesmeric hypotheses, any mesmeric reason why it should not have succeeded: it was, however, declined. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 Hallucinations that take place under mesmerism are seldom remembered in a subsequent waking state, but are generally recalled with vividness in a subsequent mesmeric state. Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12 Yet her eyes were closed, and there was no doubt of her being still under the mesmeric influence. The Power of Mesmerism A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies It is impossible to explain satisfactorily the sheathing of the tiger's claws on his account alone; did Cervantes exercise unconsciously a mesmeric influence over Azan? The True Story Book The increased hankering after physical excitements and animal pleasures, to the utter abandonment of the search for that which is real and satisfying, is an exhibition of gross, mesmeric stupidity, to say the least. Carmen Ariza This will give the reader a fair idea of his attractive style, and of his state of mind previously to witnessing, for the first time, mesmeric effects. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 He performed a series of mesmeric experiments in the Hotel Dieu of so potent a nature that twenty M. D.’s of that celebrated hospital signed the minutes of these proceedings. Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 6 A few days after what has just been related, Harry Mortimer paid them another visit, which the family council had resolved should be a regular "mesmeric seance." The Power of Mesmerism A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies That mesmeric property to which Hazon had alluded more than once as one of the effects of the interior was upon him too. The Sign of the Spider In the afternoon, between four and five, Barty had his interview with the doctor—a splendid, white‑haired old man, of benign and intelligent aspect, almost mesmeric, with his assistant sitting by him. The Martian At the close of Mr Townshend's book is a short appendix, containing some testimonials to the verity of mesmeric effects. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 I resolved to place him under mesmeric influence. Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 6 Few people knew that an order made during a mesmeric trance, even an order to forget or an order to desire, could be given so as to be obeyed after the trance was over. Tales of Space and Time I hope that the above arguments will do away with the plea of mesmeric power being accountable for this myth. Indian Conjuring He won you, I claim, through a mesmeric spell; You dreamed of an Eden, and wakened in hell. Three Women Others are testimonies to mesmeric effects produced upon the patients, E—— A—— or Anna M——. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 The list is limited to those works written on the lines laid under the methods of the modern school, all books being excluded whose authors hold to “mesmeric” theories, or who are even professional magnetizers. Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 6 This criticism is sometimes true even of the American woman, who is certainly a much more delightful person than the mesmeric millionaire with his shaven jaw. What I Saw in America As we shall see later, he had already often been under mesmeric influence. An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet She was prepared for the operation by M. Chap�lain, who on several successive days threw her into trance by the ordinary mesmeric manipulations. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 In this, as in every mesmeric case, the marvellous effects are developed by the uneducated—the most easily deceived, and the most ready to be deceivers. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 The predominance of this region renders the person liable to the mesmeric phenomena. Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 6 It is the history of the human race itself that holds him with a mesmeric spell, as century after century it unrolls its acts and scenes, under the indifferent stars. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions It was by no mesmeric power, but by a threat of injury to her father that this fellow held her under bond. A Black Adonis As I drove to my hotel, I felt that the mesmeric trick, or whatever artifice had been practised upon me by Brande and Grey, had now assumed its true proportion. The Crack of Doom We have witnessed several mesmeric exhibitions—we have never seen any effect produced which was contradictory to the possible of human experience, in which collusion or delusion was fairly negatived. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 Thus your Buddhism seems to me more mesmeric than satisfying. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance Are we not familiar with the hypnotic or mesmeric conditions in which the subject sees, hears and feels just what the master tells him to feel and see? Nagualism A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History These proceedings, which are called magnetic, or named after Mesmer, mesmeric, have had to battle for recognition, for existence even, against the college and the church. Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 5 He is then entirely in the mesmeric state. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources The more startling the proposition, the more rigorous should be the proof; we have never seen the tests which are applied to the most trifling novelty in physical science applied to mesmeric clairvoyance, and withstood. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 And as the grey fumes float above my face, slowly they lay a spell upon me like the waving of mesmeric hands. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance I never saw such mesmeric eyes, and yet they are soft, though powerful. When the Birds Begin to Sing For several years past a number of French physicians have been experimenting on hypnotised or mesmeric subjects and on hysterical patients, with results of the most extraordinary character. Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 5 The youth in a kind of mesmeric trance took down a battered, dog’s eared book and turned over the pages. The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol These facts, which would probably be explained by mesmerists on the ground of the whole power of sensation being concentrated upon one object, rendered, however, the experiments upon mesmeric attraction inconclusive. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 Did you not form your plan in the twilight of misinformation, or beneath the spell of some malign and unholy influence, that exerted a mesmeric power over you? John the Baptist In innumerable cases mesmeric subjects, in their somniloquent condition, have made most accurate predictions in reference to their own cases and others, which have been accurately verified. Buchanan's Journal of Man, April 1887 Volume 1, Number 3 He felt good for his own job, but very helpless against the mesmeric fascination that the older man might exert if he would. The Rapids I resolved to sit at the feet of Miss Chandos, and, should her mesmeric efforts prove satisfactory, "aid her in promoting a knowledge of psychological phenomena." Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis In order to determine this, it was requisite to observe how far individuals of different ages, stations, and temperaments, were capable of mesmeric sleep-waking. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 Despite the persistent and virulent attacks of the medical press, he continued his mesmeric researches up to the time of his death, sacrificing friends, income and reputation to his beliefs. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Mesmerist I am not; for mesmerism implies the throwing of the patient into a mesmeric sleep. Buchanan's Journal of Man, April 1887 Volume 1, Number 3 It was now an old story with him to watch the faces of men reflect their gradual surrender to the spell of his mesmeric brain. The Rapids In the same way, mesmeric passes may be helpful in the liberation of your clairvoyant powers. Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers After hearing these things, shall we start at the notion of mesmeric sensation being conveyed through another medium than that in ordinary action? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 Investigations were instituted, and Esdaile was placed in charge of a hospital at Calcutta, for the express purpose of mesmeric practice; he continued to occupy similar posts until he left India in 1851. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science The girl was thrown into a mesmeric trance by the usual means, and Dr. Berillon suggested that she should say on waking, ‘I am twenty.’ Buchanan's Journal of Man, April 1887 Volume 1, Number 3 The most trying moment was passed, and for once the mesmeric influence had failed. The Rapids Over his face, into his very clothes and manner, had passed something that tumbled her rudely back to the Koppy she knew best, the malignant, sneering, mesmeric, uncouth underforeman her father and Adrian suspected. The Return of Blue Pete That medium, in our ordinary condition, is light, the action of which seems cut off and intercepted in the case of mesmeric vision. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 But on the stage, this custom is an almost mesmeric one to watch. Over the Fireside with Silent Friends The nasal addigitation did not succeed with the others, and, in order to bring on somnambulism, they projected the construction of a mesmeric tub. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Birch, he reckoned, would be the necessary balance-wheel, and it was safe betting that he would not yield to the mesmeric influence of the man in St. Marys. The Rapids Out before him, painted in the vivid mesmeric colours of evening, lay a vista dear to him—a new railway built in silent places. The Return of Blue Pete The mesmeric ether has, therefore, not only the power of conveying impressions, but of preserving their continuity through any impediment. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 We sat down and, such was the influence of her mesmeric eyes, we ate a tolerable breakfast. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 Her face paled slightly, and into the depths of her eyes leapt a passionate, mesmeric glow that faded as quickly as it came. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 This faculty was one of his outstanding gifts, no less than his mesmeric and communicative influence. The Rapids It requires the keen vision and the genius of the artist to give him a realization of the mesmeric influence nature frequently exerts. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide And to my no small astonishment she now shut up like an umbrella, and at once recommenced her mesmeric monotone. Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers We give the following in his own words:— I shall now relate a circumstance, proving that the natives of India apply mesmeric power to the removal of diseases with the utmost success. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 457 Volume 18, New Series, October 2, 1852 “It was of you that I was thinking, my beloved, when I wrote that name on the cards,” he continued, as he still smoothed her hair with his light mesmeric touch. Cruel As The Grave He had been interested and even thrilled by the doings at St. Marys, but he had never yielded himself completely to Clark's mesmeric influence. The Rapids No. He loved her—but it was in a dark, mesmeric way, which did not let her be herself. The Lost Girl When he is placed in the "mesmeric" trance, he remains en rapport with the operator, and the deeper the trance, the more complete and effective this rapport is. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal Our military friend gives two other instances in which the effects produced were really and truly mesmeric, though of course ascribed to magic. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 457 Volume 18, New Series, October 2, 1852 Dr. A. T. Schofield believes that in certain rare cases individuals are endowed with the faculty of curing by touch, to which the terms magnetic, psychic, occult, hypnotic, and mesmeric have been applied. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Incomparably more value belongs to the artificial sleep, the mesmeric state of earlier days, the hypnotism of our time. Psychotherapy Truly, there was something mesmeric about that gaze of his, a mystery that I have never solved. The Minister of Evil The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia The medium-trance is, therefore, probably a hypnotic or mesmeric trance, induced telepathically by operators out of the body. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal The other returned it less vigorously, but no less sincerely, and Donald experienced a peculiar mesmeric thrill which startled him a little. 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands It may be a drug prescribed by a physician, imposition of hands, mesmeric passes, the touch of a relic, or visiting a sacred shrine. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery One is tempted to ask, in view of such a result, why waste time on the color-cure when the mesmeric system succeeds so admirably? Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Rasputin had fascinated the Empress by that mesmeric glance of his, and it had probably been deemed wiser that my mouth should be at once closed. The Minister of Evil The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia His father said: “It really seems like a case of mesmeric influence.” The Flight of Pony Baker A Boy's Town Story The Baiga cures ordinary maladies and the bites of snakes and scorpions by mesmeric passes fortified by the utterance of charms. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II The effect of the mesmeric influence on the Chief. The Wonder Island Boys: Treasures of the Island Surely there must be a sympathy, a mesmeric influence, between a horse and his rider which sends a thrill through each. Six Months at the Cape Drawing them up in a line, the man began at the first, and made the passes or signs which are necessary to throw men into the mesmeric state. The Pirate City An Algerine Tale The mesmeric or magnetic fluid which emanates from man to man, or even from man to what is termed an inanimate object, is far greater. Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution From his instrument, his bow, his fingers, himself, went out a strange, mesmeric influence that seemed to stretch over the House, the audience, bending it, forcing it to his will; compelling it to his mood. The Black Cross After tossing about for many hours, I dropped off into a sort of mesmeric sleep, full of confused images, among which the singular face of Dinah North haunted me like the genius of the night-mare. The Monctons: A Novel, Volume I We speak lightly of mesmeric influence, but, after all, there is only one mesmerist for youth—a good woman or a good man. Better Dead With the other he makes waving, mesmeric passes. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People He also mentions a servant girl, quite uneducated and of ordinary intelligence, who nevertheless became a veritable philosopher during mesmeric somnambulism and delivered learned discourses on lofty problems dealing with cosmogony. Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution It was as though every bit of her loving body would shield the dear one way off in France from this compelling, mesmeric man. The Secret of the Storm Country This last covers the phenomena of ordinary mesmeric exhibitions at which travelling mesmerists "control" persons before audiences and make them obey their commands. The Story of the Mind I was conscious, but I was in a kind of mesmeric sleep. Real Ghost Stories There was no word—no smile, only unwavering eyes mesmerically fixed on that wonderful tree. In Happy Valley The use of water in communicating an ecstacy similar to the mesmeric lucidity, is largely dwelt on by the mystical writers known as the Neo-Platonists. The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Burnett was piercing him with a strange, mesmeric gaze. The Secret of the Storm Country Knowing this, you can place any person in a mesmeric sleep, and then be able to do with him as you will. Cad Metti, The Female Detective Strategist Dudie Dunne Again in the Field Can you place that man in the mesmeric sleep? Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform It may have been merely that mesmeric influence of an intently concentrated gaze that caused them suddenly to turn. The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee In the Colophonian oracle, they were the spectators, not the prophetess, who had need thus to be put under the influence of the mesmeric glamour. The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II "I guess if you ask for Doctor Tarrant, any one can tell you," she said; and then suddenly the address came to her—the residence of the mesmeric healer was in Monadnoc Place. The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) Did some mesmeric rapport tell him in his sleep she was there? Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel Confound it!" said he, "I wish they were in Hades with their mesmeric stunts! Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain The same rule applies to gesture, tones of the voice, and mesmeric passes. Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use Quimby was led to identify sickness and wrong beliefs through this analysis of mesmeric diagnosis and health and right belief through his own experiences as a healer. Modern Religious Cults and Movements Oh, she thought she had mentioned that; he was a mesmeric healer, he made miraculous cures. The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) Now, by reason of the tact and knowledge of my nature, possessed by the invisible party, and still more because of my state of mesmeric subjection, I was sighing like a furnace or a Romeo. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy A mesmeric influence drew her eyes from the portrait to encounter those of Aaron Burr, regarding her with a gentle look of wistful melancholy. A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett Here, then, we have something like a clue to the phenomena--phenomena which, as I have pointed out, are similar to and have much in common with mesmeric sleep, hypnotism or electro-biology. Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use Then opening his fingers, he drew back his arm suddenly, sharply, then jerked it forward again—it was the old mesmeric pass of the magicians. The Mark of the Beast The people who had just come in were Doctor and Mrs. Tarrant and their daughter Verena; he was a mesmeric healer and she was of old Abolitionist stock. The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) I felt as if you had lent me wings, and that now I could rise with you up above the clouds, captivated by your mesmeric influence upon me. Dr. Dumany's Wife There seemed a sort of mesmeric influence between the two, occasioning in both similar twistings and contortions of the body, shakings of the head, lookings upward, lookings downward, and louder words of exclamation and approbation. First Impressions of the New World On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858 They sought the fluid, not by the study of the cures affected, which was considered too complicated a task, but in the phases of mesmeric sleep. Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use Dr. Braid thought the mesmeric trance was only a state of somnambulism artificially brought about, and he coined the word hypnotism to indicate the artificial sleep. Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence This remark he heard dropped in a low tone by the mesmeric healer; "in report" was apparently Tarrant's version of en rapport. The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) I shall now, with your kind permission, put my daughter into a mesmeric or hypnotic trance; and while she is in it, I hope to show you some particularly interesting experiments. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 She leaned back, closing her eyes, against the eloquent pleading of that mesmeric countenance which was slowly robbing her of her stern purposes; renewing the spell she had never been able to fully resist. Infelice After a few enquiries as to her health, he took one of her hands in his, and, with the other, made passes over her face, until she fell into the mesmeric sleep. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life He conjectured that the actions of the mesmeric subject could be explained without a fluid by the suggestion of phantasms to him on the part of the mesmerizer. Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence People seem to think there is something uncanny about him, and the strangest stories are told and what is more, believed, about his mesmeric experiences—at the mention of which he always smiles. The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe "Speak child," answered the Priestess, caressingly clasping Sarthia to her bosom with one strong arm, and with the other making soft, mesmeric passes over her trembling body. Within the Temple of Isis During his stay in the house, Esther often went into a state very similar to the mesmeric sleep, during which she talked with people invisible to all present; among others, her dead mother. The Haunted House A True Ghost Story The woman's case was a remarkable combination of natural and mesmeric causes, but presented no reason for serious apprehension. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life The theory of a mesmeric fluid, until then the only one advanced, had evidently to be abandoned. Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence One Benjamin Perkins, "a charlatan believer in mesmeric influence," plied his trade in early Manhattan. Greenwich Village The magnetizers had had the address to intimate that the mesmeric crises manifested themselves only in persons endowed with a certain sensitiveness. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men She had a great horror of submitting herself to mesmeric influences. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II He said little, but followed Douglas back to the cabin like one in a mesmeric sleep. Ungava Bob A Winter's Tale This is what chiefly favored the early theory that a mesmeric fluid emanated from the mesmerizer by means of which he could act in his subject as he pleased. Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence In the “Strange Effects of Mesmerism on a Dying Man,” the animation is mesmerically suspended at the very instant when it was about naturally to cease. Lost Leaders The touching or stroking practised in mesmeric treatments, as auxiliaries of magnetism, properly so called, required no direct experiments, since the principal agent,—since magnetism itself, had disappeared. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Bluebell continued her mesmeric efforts, every fibre quivering. Bluebell A Novel It was four o'clock in the afternoon of Monday when I awoke, and only then, I believe, from the mesmeric influence of being gazed at. Miscellanea Science has discarded the original theory of a mesmeric fluid as the cause of these phenomena, just as it has discarded the formerly supposed fluids of electricity and magnetism. Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence This was the mesmeric effect of those reproachful eyes fixed steadily upon him. In Luck at Last My belief is that, waking, you hold me subjugated: but, once your godhead has put on its spiritual nightcap, and begun nodding, your mesmeric influence relaxes. An Englishwoman's Love-Letters His glance slowly stiffened out of widening eyes to the face it had caught there—a face new, strange, mesmeric, that all at once enchained him soul and body. The Seeker There was the same look in Bell Cameron's eye, a kind of mesmeric influence which commanded obedience. Family Pride Or, Purified by Suffering But the mesmeric power which Jerrie possessed drew the Kentucky girl to her at once, and they were soon in a most animated conversation. Tracy Park He must have been the victim of mesmeric influence not to see through their vile knavery in pleading poverty when they were asked to carry out an act of common humanity. Drake, Nelson and Napoleon On the contrary, she would, if necessary, ask him to hold her baby for a moment, and the child would go to him unhesitatingly, so great was the mesmeric power he exercised over his fellow-creatures. Bessie's Fortune A Novel A few respectable-looking men, to get up in the room and make speeches on the subject of the mesmeric science, will also be treated with. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 25, 1841 Why not mesmerise the Chinese? and, as for the Chartists, call out Delafontaine instead of the magistrates—a few mesmeric passes would be an easy and efficient substitute for the “Riot Act.” Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841 The Times gives a horrible description of some mesmeric experiments by a M. Delafontaine, by which a boy was deprived of all sensation. Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 1, July 31, 1841 She sat, with hands clasped, and pale, set face, watching her cousin as if his story had a mesmeric effect. The Stowmarket Mystery Or, A Legacy of Hate Bessie was interested in Grey, and already felt the wonderful mesmeric influence he exercised over all who came in contact with him. Bessie's Fortune A Novel I was always nervous in his presence; there was, I fancy, something mesmeric in the odd sort of influence which, without effort, he exercised over my imagination. Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh By a judicious application of the mesmeric fluid, the greatest domestic comfort can be insured at the least possible trouble. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841 We suspect that some one has been operating upon the Poor Law Commissioners, for their total want of feeling is a mesmeric phenomenon. Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 1, July 31, 1841 He tried to analyze and then to resist this mesmeric power, but gradually succumbed. The Redemption of David Corson "MESMERISM" is a fanciful but vivid description of an act of mesmeric power, which draws a woman, alone, in the darkness, and through every natural obstacle, to the presence of the man who loves her. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) Her touch had a mesmeric effect on his nerves when he could endure it, but nine times out of ten he struck it away. Nightfall The phenomena of mesmeric cures find their full explanation in the theory just enunciated. Five Years of Theosophy By-and-by, induced by these, the excellent people whom, as by mesmeric attraction, goodness soon draws to itself, he began to go out a little into society. A Noble Life Step by step they drew back as if compelled by some strange mesmeric power. The Elephant God I had for a long time been aware that I had an unusual mesmeric or magnetic influence—call it what you will—over others. Master of His Fate They saw him in a catapultic lunge, mesmeric in its swiftness, and they saw Pilzer go down, his leg twisted under him and his head banging the floor. The Last Shot Some lingering disease, hitherto deemed hopeless, may take a favourable turn; or he may develop healing mesmeric powers himself; or some hitherto unknown sharpening of his senses may delight him. Five Years of Theosophy One of the young ladies, at length, shakes herself free from the pall upon her spirits; the mesmeric spell is broken; and presently all are chatting again, gaily oblivious to Art. Walking-Stick Papers In Paris I had had opportunities of attending some most interesting s�ances, in consequence of which I soon proceeded to investigate the mesmeric phenomena on my own account. In Bohemia with Du Maurier The First Of A Series Of Reminiscences Some people have a magical, mesmeric power of soothing and controlling; it was hers. Mistress and Maid I almost always fall asleep when under the mesmeric influence of a capillary administrator. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 18, 1891 He could cast a horoscope, summon departed spirits, heal the sick and read the reticent by mesmeric force, and explain the past as well as prophesy the future by the lines in the hand. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 The reason why all artists are not alike inspired by the great masters is that they are not all subject to mesmeric influence, or on the same plane of thought. Strange Visitors Du Maurier was particularly interested in one of these, Virginie Marsaudon, and had a way of putting puzzling questions concerning her faculties and my mesmeric influence. In Bohemia with Du Maurier The First Of A Series Of Reminiscences Specious instances of irony playing the manliest part: flashes of meteoric, mesmeric eloquence, fitfully flecking the embossed page, as one tier or set of ideas, in rhetoric orchestration, symphonizes with or eclipses another. Original Letters and Biographic Epitomes I was going to suggest that you be thrown into a mesmeric sleep; but you could not be depended on. Weapons of Mystery At other times the falcon is not flown, but only used to attract, with his mesmeric eyes, birds; these then, when within reach, being shot with old flint-lock guns. Corea or Cho-sen The Land of the Morning Calm Maggie was conscious of a sudden sense of escape from her almost mesmeric state. The Great Prince Shan The faint murmur of a prayer came down from above, and while it lasted both were as though held motionless by its mesmeric monotony. Hillsboro People Connection, an element of robust mesmeric cohesion with this prized author being the adamantine hyphen, the articulating link, which compacts the roll. Original Letters and Biographic Epitomes Simon was again in a mesmeric sleep, or whatever the reader may be pleased to call it, in a few seconds after he had sat down. Weapons of Mystery Do you not know that every mass of matter in motion carries with it an invisible gravitational field, every magnet an invisible magnetic field, and every living organism a mesmeric field? Back to Methuselah A basin of soup dashed in his face and a few mesmeric passes soon brought him round, however; and presently he was able to explain to the assembled carousers the cause of his agitation. Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series If it is credible that a person in a mesmeric sleep can taste the sourness of the vinegar on another person's palate, I am ready to go the whole length of the transmigration of senses. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) Undoubtedly their "medicine men" developed great mesmeric powers, and this force, combined with rather clumsy juggling and ventriloquism, enabled them to perform a semblance of "miracles". Pioneers in Canada We wasted no time after breakfast before setting out—I with beating heart, Simon still calm and collected, looking with critical eyes on the sketch he had drawn in his mesmeric sleep. Weapons of Mystery And as she made a few passes, the Fairy sank into a mesmeric trance. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, December 27, 1890 Beginning with what may be admitted as possible, we find that the Dènè Hareskins practise a form of healing under hypnotic or mesmeric treatment. Cock Lane and Common-Sense Unfortunately it appeared that news of the wreck had reached the town shortly before her vision, and that she had been out of doors immediately before submitting to the mesmeric trance. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) A mesmeric doctor, of an impossibly great age, gave me pamphlets at Louisville. Yesterdays with Authors He had either found he could do no good by his mesmeric influences, or else he had lost them, and so he was working up some other scheme against me. Weapons of Mystery But this time he remained standing; and for once he kept those mesmeric eyes to himself. The Shadow of the Rope Dr. Carpenter exposed and exploded a quantity of mesmeric spiritualistic myths narrated by Dr. Gregory, by Miss Martineau, and by less respectable if equally gullible authorities. Cock Lane and Common-Sense Show us a tiger with sawdust bowels, and we will stand in front of him and make mesmeric motions for a week without the quiver of a nerve. Elbow-Room A Novel Without a Plot The mesmeric lecturer and the sickly girl are almost equally disagreeable. Yesterdays with Authors Those possessing them, and thereby having the power to mesmerize, may subjugate the will of those who are susceptible to mesmeric influences, and hold them in a complete and terrible slavery. Weapons of Mystery The Japanese understand better than we do the mesmeric effects of sights and sounds. Kimono I was conscious, but was in a kind of mesmeric sleep. Clairvoyance and Occult Powers These facts, of course, rather point to an element of truth in the old mesmeric hypothesis of some specific influence in the operator. The Making of Religion Od, name given to a physical force recently surmised and believed to pervade all nature, and as manifesting itself chiefly in connection with mesmeric phenomena. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge Evidently he is susceptible to mesmeric influences, and he knows the man you wish to find. Weapons of Mystery |
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