| 单词 | mesmerize |
| 例句 | She stares at Baba with that defiant look that mesmerized me the first time I saw her. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z They draw me in, mesmerize me, refuse to release me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “I feel very safe with you,” I confessed, mesmerized into telling the truth again. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I hadn’t noticed their clothes before — I’d been too mesmerized by their faces. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I noticed during this nauseating performance that Granddaddy stared at her as if mesmerized, which depressed me right into the ground. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z There, and in a private meeting with Hitler, he had been mesmerized, as many visiting Americans were, by Hitler’s force of personality and by his undeniable accomplishments in resurrecting Germany’s economy. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I’m looking down, at the sidewalk, mesmerized by the women’s feet. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he blinked and looked around: He was surrounded by mesmerized girls. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z His freakish stillness has a kind of mesmerizing quality to it. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Each child, mesmerized by the assault of color, stared into the drift of presents with a seasonal greed as pure as angel hair. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Sefia was mesmerized and horrified at the same time, because he made it look easy. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z But he couldn’t move; he was too mesmerized, too scared. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He watched Martin move about the barbershop, exchanging words with the customers and the other barbers, and it mesmerized Moss. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Blue-lipped and dinner-plate-eyed, they watched, mesmerized by something that they sensed but didn’t understand: the absence of caprice in what the policemen did. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It called her speech “mesmerizing, hypnotic, mysteriously touching.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z That was what her hunger was like: mesmerizing, directed, floating like a public secret just under the cloud cover. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She stood mesmerized, watching one of her mother’s cells divide in two, just as they’d done when Henrietta was an embryo in her mother’s womb. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z But the results were mesmerizing, and tonight was no exception. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z But when I gaze up at the food court skylight, I’m mesmerized by the elephant-colored clouds galloping past. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z Bridge watched, mesmerized, as Celeste moved from one section of her hair to another, brushing it all the wrong way. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Everyone seemed mesmerized as they watched Crow on a small screen in the front of the cafeteria, the memories of it, the absolute magic of it, suddenly flooding back. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Big Ma uttered a faint “Yes, Ma,” mesmerized by the darkness and glow of black-and-white photos of the sorry Ted Kennedy and the drowned blond secretary who could not be saved. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z By the time Dr. Martin pulled a bald eagle from a crate, inside that very quiet gymnasium, Axel was mesmerized. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I stared straight ahead, mesmerized by the strip of blacktop leading to the Rolland fairgrounds. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “Yes, Fairy, told us what?” echoed Juliet belligerently, still a bit miffed over the mesmerizing. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z I am mesmerized by their perfect tiny beaks, their creamy clawed feet, and their layered gray feathers that fold together like a beautiful silk fan. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z It was so mesmerizing to see plain cupcakes become beautifully decorated within seconds. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z While mesmerized by the beauty of the area, I was constantly rebuked by the buildings and streets that bear the names of white imperialists who suppressed the very people whose names belonged there. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Colonel Meecham chewed gum belligerently and Ben watched the white lines until he was mesmerized by their repetitiveness. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She swung down from the tree where she had been hiding and stood at the edge of the jungle, mesmerized. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Arm in arm they navigate the crowd, circling around the glowing bonfire that many patrons are still gazing at, mesmerized by the dancing white flames. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I read through four of the twenty-five pages, mesmerized by how many laws exist to separate us. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z For a while, I just close my eyes and listen, mesmerized by the beauty of the song. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He pretended to be mesmerized by the scabs on his knuckles, but I caught the way he stiffened. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The more he sketched, the closer she leaned in, seemingly mesmerized, until she finally knelt down to be closer, the tips of her curls brushing his arm. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “It looks like a kingdom in a fairy tale,” Gittel murmured, mesmerized. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z But the raucous swallows, the woman’s droning commands, the ground bass of the machinery mesmerized her. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They had dedicated an entire show to us, a fact that mesmerized us into complete and utter silence. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The Augur doesn't break eye contact, seemingly mesmerized by my anger. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Still the sleek brown head bent mesmerized over the list. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Hades had the same intense eyes, the same kind of mesmerizing, evil charisma. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z She seemed mesmerized by the group, a huge grin spread across her face. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z But the prayer was mesmerizing; she had felt sure nobody’s spirit could possibly be broken now. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He was mesmerized by the Doctor is IN Doctor is OUT sign. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Kingshaw kept nudging and pushing against him, trying to get him to look or speak, but he only stared straight ahead, mesmerized by the puppets. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The golden pendant swung before them, mesmerizing wealth in Pima’s fist. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z It had been running along the ridge of the fence and she’d been mesmerized by the undulating arc its body and tail had traced as it ran. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He was sick with lust and mesmerized with regret. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He watched Javier’s tall and lanky body from the couch, mesmerized by the way he moved. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I’m so mesmerized by all that pink, it takes a few seconds to hit me how bad this could turn out for me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I’d been mesmerized by her beauty and just the idea of her—I didn’t know I was supposed to talk to her. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z They wore long blanketlike cloaks with mesmerizing stitched and beaded patterns. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z She seemed entranced by the music, a little frenzied piano piece with this mesmerizing quality, sort of quick passages and then teasing lilting ones before it returned to the quick playful parts. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the two daughters left their grouchy mother and sat mesmerized by the fantastic tales. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I follow my mother, mesmerized by the many possibilities of her journey. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “That’s a nice pair of earrings,” the attendant said, mesmerized by the sight of the whirling argollas humming against my cheeks. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z It’s dusty and confusing and mesmerizing all at once. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He smiles, but it doesn’t mesmerize me like the day I first saw him at his house. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z I'm mesmerized by what she chooses to adopt from American culture. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He toured the country, mesmerizing crowds with thundering calls for black people to shake off the undermining ghetto stereotypes and claim their long-denied political power. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He’s mesmerized by the eaglet making little hops across the mulch-filled cage. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I had sat mesmerized in the almost holy silence in which she worked, as she wove the needle in and out of stitches, forming pictures with thread. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He was mesmerized by it all, by the smells and the sounds, he could not have stopped looking even when he did not want to look. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The people couldn’t help but listen, mesmerized by his terrifying descriptions of those dark days. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Mark had been staring at the back of the pilot’s chair as if something mesmerizing were painted there. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He looks mesmerized with the money as I pick up my bags again. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The rest of Angela was nowhere near as mesmerizing as her lips. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z As he moved onto my other hand, either not caring what the other boys might think or just entirely oblivious to it, he continued talking to me in that mesmerizing lilt of his. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z And there was my own grandfather sitting on that seat, peering intently at the steering wheel as if mesmerized. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Harry paused to watch them, for the effect was quite mesmerizing. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z We pulled a bunch of chairs around the loan officer’s desk and sat mesmerized as he asked our parents for some papers that they’d already filled out. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I likened the top sixteen fencers in the world to superheroes, insanely fast, mesmerizing to watch, and lucky enough to not even have to fence the first day of World Cup competition. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z We sit at the counter, and Ronan is mesmerized watching Saucepan. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z They swayed in unison, some to the left, some to the right, with slow, mesmerizing movements. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The slapping and dripping of food was so mesmerizing that I didn’t notice the pile of cilantro the lunch lady dumped on my serving of guacamole until I slid out of line. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z These are the thoughts that go on in my mind and really mesmerize me. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I stood mesmerized by the heat and the luscious scent until the rain interfered, running its icy fingers down my back, forcing me back to life. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z In his mesmerizing voice, Shelton laid out the awful plot against the white race and its pinnacle of nobility, Southerners. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I was mesmerized by the intricacy of the procedure and didn't realize how long I had been neglecting my work. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The colors and shapes and words and pictures are so garish, so abundant, that they are mesmerizing. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z None of the men spoke at all on the drive back through the heavy, mesmerizing quiet blanketing mountains, sea and forests. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Voldemort did not speak, but prowled in a circle, and Harry knew that he kept him temporarily mesmerized and at bay, held back by the faintest possibility that Harry might indeed know a final secret.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z They made crisp, mesmerized treks from base to base where the men perfected the martial arts and where families settled into counterfeit security for a year or two. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The metamorphosis was bedazzling, and I was mesmerized by her exquisite face, her dark luminous eyes, her appreciative smile. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Her hair swayed down her back in a mesmerizing kind of way, which of course he didn’t care about either. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “It’s okay,” I say, mostly because he normally doesn’t talk so much and I’m a little mesmerized by it. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z His lines were confident and sure, the emerging picture comical and twisted and breathtakingly mesmerizing all at the same time. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z All of us are waiting for Brian to speak, watching the dancing stone, mesmerized by it, as the air sizzles with coming violence. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z It tortured him at sundown to tear away from the pageant before him, the mesmerizing dance between commerce and desire. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The four of us sat there mesmerized by the song, trying to understand what the black fellows were saying. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z We all stared at the envelope as if mesmerized. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z But just as the peach was almost within arm's distance of the emperor, someone broke through the mesmerized crowd and grabbed it! When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z But the flowers, the smell, the movement of the leaves persist, rich, mesmerizing, desolating, infused with grief. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The forest and sky that mesmerized me for hours. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z But Joe lingered, mesmerized by his peek at how the other half still lived. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I’m mesmerized by the pile of little round pills. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Kingshaw tried to drink his orange juice silently, eyes huge, mesmerized by the screen. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Peeta and I, on the other hand, are so mesmerizing with our ever-changing coal costumes that most of the other tributes are staring at us. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Prepare to be mesmerized, shocked, and astounded! For I am the Great Timdini! Piff-piff!” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z Lourdes is mesmerized by the greenish water, by the sad, sputtering fountain, and a wound inside her reopens. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Even if he were to say nonsense, his mesmerized students would never know because of his unquenchable self-confidence. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z I used to sit in my closet and pry open the paint can and stare into the shiny pink circle and was mesmerized for hours. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She mesmerized lecture halls of students with her drama and passion, with ideas critics called daring and groundbreaking. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “Used to book him whenever I could get my hands on him, years ago now. Absolutely brilliant, completely mesmerized every audience. Never seen anyone to match him, never.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The freedom of their flights always mesmerized him. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z We stood at the corner for a while, mesmerized by the displays. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z She pretended to be mesmerized by the squashed cockroach lying on the floor. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I sat on a bench overlooking the court, mesmerized by their impeccable styles. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z They sat back and enjoyed the rhythmic ride, mesmerized into a weary silence by the fullness of their stomachs and the steady movements of the wobbly cart. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z My father watched, mesmerized, as the old man took a paper out of his sleeve. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z I stood in the snow, almost mesmerized by the soft click, click of the pearls, and tried to understand what I’d just heard. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z For a second the colors mesmerize me, bright green and deep blue and brown. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z It's a cerebral process that results in elegant, organic and mesmerizing effects. Artists build a skillful 'Architectural View' at Prographica 2011-11-10T22:23:09Z The first thing you see through the museum’s new main entrance is the mesmerizing view of a broad terrace overlooking three stepped reflecting pools. Clark Art Institute Reopens With New and Renovated Space 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Modeled after Versailles, its exterior is a superior example of French chateau style, but its interior mesmerizes with Baroque and Rococo elements, floor-to-ceiling, wall-to-wall. Oktoberfest means wine in Franconia, the enchanting German region you don’t know yet 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z For what it’s worth, there were few walkouts during the screening; it’s definitely mesmerizing. At TIFF: The Amanda Knox story inspires a movie 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z That’s not to say it’s boring; on the contrary, it’s thrilling and mesmerizing. Review: ‘Dream House’ at Dia:Chelsea, a Hallucinatory Show 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Though the piece lasted about 30 minutes, this mesmerizing music invited you to turn off your internal stopwatch. Review: The Composer Tristan Perich’s Proudly Lo-Fi Electronic Sounds 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Glenn Seven Allen was a mesmerizing Quint, singing with agility and a sweetness that grew appropriately cloying or menacing. Music Review: ‘The Turn of the Screw,’ by Opera Moderne, at Symphony Space 2012-05-28T22:04:32Z Mr. Postilio: “I was mesmerized by the sparkle in his eyes.” Off Broadway, Showmen Seal Their Biggest Deal 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z All those contradictory kinetic clichés are pulsing away in Elevator Repair Service’s mesmerizing “The Sound and the Fury,” which opened on Thursday night at the Public Theater. Review: ‘The Sound and the Fury,’ Elevator Repair Service’s Take on Faulkner 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The angels mesmerizingly invoke the symbolisms of Old World Catholicism, Peru’s indigenous culture, and, thanks to their malevolent European-looking faces, the clashes that resulted when these forces met. For Tony Kushner, It’s Angels Over the Breakfast Nook 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z She may make it worth our while to stick around and watch her flame grow into a mesmerizing blaze. "House of the Dragon" is a slow ride back to Westeros that takes its time in lighting our fire 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z But once the light from a lone window in a grim prison cell catches the eyes of Robin Wright as Surratt, "The Conspirator" becomes mesmerizing. 'The Conspirator' dramatizes little-known Lincoln assassination details 2011-04-14T22:05:57Z In real life, I was just sort of mesmerized and intrigued. Jon Ronson gets inside ‘Frank’s’ head The ghost of Angelina Jolie past — that mesmerizing dark star, to the screen born — hangs over the new, suitably titled “Tomb Raider.” Review: ‘Tomb Raider’ and the Perils of Blockbustering 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z For a few mesmerizing seconds the novelist waits for him to leap — or fall. In ‘Forest Dark,’ Nicole Krauss Plays With Divided Selves 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Our next adventure, a cruise up the Irrawaddy from Bagan to the fabled city of Mandalay, was equally mesmerizing. Where to find the unspoiled splendors of Southeast Asia 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z Commuting back to my friends’ house in Seattle, I veered off the main drag along the port, mesmerized by the massive, colorful walls of shipping containers. Six wheels, will travel: Crossing America with a bike in the car 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z He bought one of Holley’s works during the meeting in Birmingham — a mesmerizing assemblage alluding to the struggles of Black people, made from a mannequin and chains. Lonnie Holley’s Life of Perseverance, and Art of Transformation 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z There is about Ms. Moss, he added, “this amazing phenomenon, yes, but more to the point, this incredible free-spirited, animal-like-ness, which is so mesmerizing.” A Few Words With Kate Moss, Fashion’s Garbo 2012-11-05T18:07:07Z The narrator of this mesmerizing Japanese novel moves with her husband to the countryside and finds herself in a landscape rich with life and mystery. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z The film remains mesmerizing, thanks to Almodóvar's striking production design and Dash's actions. Tilda Swinton mesmerizes as a woman possessed in Pedro Almodóvar striking take on "The Human Voice" 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z One after another, they violently succumb, bodies shuddering and falling in front of their mesmerized team members. Review: In ‘The Fits,’ a Graceful Tale of a Girl Who Follows Her Own Beat 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z “It’s a mesmerizing process and a communal ritual that takes the better part of the day.” Grilling Turns Back to an Ancient Fuel: Wood 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z “There was an old department store that was also half bombed out. So it was a whole experience: You would party in this mesmerizing architecture experience. Sensorial.” How Does Time Pass at This Rave? With Hypnotic Precision. 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Other acts to watch include hot young rock band Radkey, who move with the riffed fluidity of Queens of the Stone Age, and the mesmerizing New Orleans-based guitarist Benjamin Booker. Which of Coachella's smaller acts will go on to make it big? 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z The solo violin, led on a transcendent journey by an 18-piece droning ensemble, relies on the intensity of bent tones with otherworldly implications, and Koh made every note mesmerizing. L.A. Phil covers lusty Modern Italian with gusto 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z In a mesmerizing slide-show, archaeologist Jeffrey H. Shanks surveyed the use of ancient ruins and lost civilizations in horror fiction and crackpot scholarship. Review | Dispatch from a ‘horror’ convention: It began in a dark, candlelit room . . . 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z What held the images together was the mesmerizing lighting, which shifted between a sepia veil and a range of the palest greens, blues and yellows. Dance Review: The World Spins (Bicycle Wheels, Too) 2011-02-27T23:11:42Z But watching the two perform "Baby, It's Cold Outside" was also mesmerizing. Why this "Baby, It's Cold Outside" update works, where others have failed 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z I'm sure my baby doesn't fully grasp all of the concepts yet; however, she was mesmerized by their beautiful uniforms, leaps and, most importantly, their twirls. My preschooler's first police stop: I'm embarrassed — but not for us 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z Its mesmerizing illustrations are a revelation for anyone interested in color theory and human perception. | Josef Albers’s ‘Interaction of Color’ Goes Interactive 2013-07-23T20:30:55Z Seven of the 15 objects are from the collection of Eugene Epstein, who first became mesmerized by seeing Wilfred’s work as a graduate student in 1960 at the Museum of Modern Art. Left in the shadows for decades, light artist dazzles anew 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z From as young as I can remember, I'd sit in front of the set mesmerized. T Magazine: The Manhattan Project 2012-11-30T14:00:46Z Still, the campers in Ashkelon, Israel, about 35 miles south of Tel Aviv along the Mediterranean coast, were mesmerized by the layer of white ash that adhered to a blackened base. Journeys: In Israel, Treasures for Those Willing to Dig 2011-03-25T18:55:00Z Perhaps the very first thing to grasp about this mesmerizing metropolis is that there is no such thing as Istanbul. Read Your Way Through Istanbul 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z What Mr. Franco does have is Mr. Haze, whose mesmerizing performance gives the movie its ballast and its fitful, nervous energy. An On Screen Adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s ‘Child of God’ 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z It's designed to keep you mesmerized for hours with an endless series of voluptuously frightening images and worst-case scenarios. Why TV news is addicted to weather porn 2011-08-29T12:30:00Z He was a true filmmaker and he actually spoiled me because I would sit back and I was mesmerized by his process. From hood films to a "The Banker," Nia Long wants to change the narrative for black dreams 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z "You are me," she whispers ardently to Derek at the beginning of the movie — but what's mesmerizing about "Middle of Nowhere" is that we watch Ruby, gradually, becoming herself. Introspective 'Middle of Nowhere' a mesmerizing tale of growth 2012-10-18T20:16:07Z With his dark ponytail and mesmerizing way of chanting his verse, Mr. Hassan proved a forceful presence at the book fair, an annual event that drew 175,000 visitors in March. Young Immigrant in Denmark Lashes Out in Verse 2014-04-02T17:00:39Z Each of the three half-hour episodes made available for review locked me in with breezy scripts, an agile narrative energy and a mesmerizing, near-photorealistic animations style. Marvel 's "What If...?" is a thrilling ride into the multiverse, albeit with minor irritations 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z A versatile, enchanting artist, Mr. Bleckmann added his own mesmerizing songs and participated in chattering ensembles by Julia Wolfe from the 1999 Bang on a Can opera “The Carbon Copy Building.” Music in Review 2011-04-09T00:11:04Z A sprawling, subversive and mesmerizing novel about families and the power of storytelling. 8 books about Muslim life for a nation that knows little about Islam 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z Not only did Rollin imagine his public as tiny but in a trance, so mesmerized by the slow rhythms and repetitious imagery of his work that even a flesh-and-blood monster can’t distract their attention. Video: Five Cult Horror Films by Jean Rollin, Remastered for DVD 2012-01-29T04:38:09Z It’s always undeniably mesmerizing to watch the unwitting JFK, us knowing that his mischievous grin and magnetism are about to be snuffed out with his 1963 assassination. Ben Bradlee: the ground-breaking editor who helped bring down Nixon 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z On Twitter, mesmerized viewers seemed to be hate-watching the show as they would a terrible camp classic. Jeanna de Waal Has Already Forgotten About That ‘Diana’ Film 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z A mesmerized couple blurts: “It’s our first trip to Italy. We’ve seen Milan and Venice. Had we known, we’d have headed here straight off.” Paradise found: Lago Maggiore, the ‘Eden of Italy‘ 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z She was sitting in her home in Port Antonio, mesmerized as she watched synchronized swim teams competing in the Olympics as they twirled, bobbed and danced in brightly colored swimsuits and glistening makeup. Jamaica Has Never Had Olympic Synchronized Swimmers. These Girls Want to Change That. 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z One mesmerizing photo comes from the annual Kentucky Derby festivities, where a crew of well-manicured white youths looks scornfully at the photographer, as he attempts to capture their drunken revelries. Peter van Agtmael’s Decoding of American Violence 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z So at the ripe old age of 35, I picked it up again and found it absolutely mesmerizing. Readers Share Their Favorite Books of 2022 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z Do you think the Anatomical Venus’ legacy as a medical and educational tool is in danger of being overshadowed by its aesthetic — that shocking, mesmerizing image of a beautiful woman with her guts on display? Resurrecting the Anatomical Venus: Death, sex and ecstasy intersect in 18th-century dissectible wax women 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z It was a reminder that while cartoon violence can be exhausting and meaningless in live-action shows, it can still be mesmerizing and meaningful when done where it belongs. The Best TV Episodes of 2022 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z It is a contemplative concert work — utterly mesmerizing, despite modern-leaning harmonies — and enchanting. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2016 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Mr. Santos de Silva is particularly mesmerizing, as a dancer and a personality; there’s not much suspense regarding whether he will land a spot with a major ballet company. | 'Only When I Dance': Inspiration Through Movement 2010-07-01T22:10:00Z But there’s a mesmerizing intricacy to the indie-rock understatement of “Land Rover.” The Playlist: Christine and the Queens’ Clever Pop, and 8 More New Songs 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z With a plot so rudimentary as to be virtually nonexistent, this experimental and aggressively inscrutable horror movie is mesmerizing in its dearth of action. ‘Skinamarink’ Review: Night Terrors 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Thousands of years after their invention, kites are still mesmerizing humanity with their wonder. From pterodactyls to flying fighters, kites are more fun than ever 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z His studio portraits shimmered with elegance and, through a lighting technique he developed that he dubbed the "beauty light," Avedon mesmerized the magazine's readers. Richard Avedon, Truman Capote and the brutality of photography 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z I was an awkward teenager who was immediately mesmerized by Jason Miller’s exploration of modern-day masculinity, and although I’ve reread the play several times, I’ve never had the opportunity to see it. Spring Performance: Theater: Been There, Done That, and Now Going to This 2011-02-20T02:01:27Z “Clients, journalists, fellow professionals are mesmerized by her dynamic forms and strategies for achieving a truly distinctive approach to architecture and its settings,” the Pritzker jury wrote in 2004, when she was awarded the prize. Zaha Hadid, Groundbreaking Architect, Dies at 65 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z I stood mesmerized as Franco and his girlfriend, Pasqualina, appeared in the middle of the herd, riding bareback together on the same horse, like a mythological god and goddess. ‘Oh-Oh, Ay-Ay!’ Riding to an Italian Rhythm on the Transumanza 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z The principles of every significant technology, from tree-felling and carpentry to shipbuilding and papermaking, are described with a precise, almost mesmerizing detail. Three New Books on the Predigital Technologies That Shaped Our World 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z Beattie is currently a professor of literature and creative writing at the University of Virginia; I suspect, from reading this book, that her classes are mesmerizing. 'Mrs. Nixon': Stories, real and imagined, of an enigmatic first lady 2011-12-01T00:41:04Z And yet he's mesmerizing for precisely that reason. Why Charlie Sheen is still winning 2011-09-20T16:20:00Z When she performs her big solo, “Little Girls,” with a possessed, mesmerizing loopiness, it feels less like a declaration of war than like a private nervous breakdown. Theater Review: ‘Annie,’ Starring Katie Finneran, at the Palace Theater 2012-11-09T03:37:23Z The bloodletting heartbreakers are, of course, the most mesmerizing performances: the rueful “God Bless the Child,” the harrowing protest song “Strange Fruit.” Theater Review: Audra McDonald in ‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill’ 2014-04-14T02:00:01Z In an introduction to Vikki Tobak’s new visual history of hip-hop, “Contact High,” the musician Questlove writes about his fascination with the split seconds that precede and follow the mesmerizing instant captured in a snapshot. Perspective | Nicki Minaj and a stack of pancakes? These rare images capture another side to hip-hop. 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Chuck D’s speechifying is pugnacious and mesmerizing, accented by Flavor Flav’s urgent exhortations. ‘Fight the Power’ Roars Back to Relevance at the Oscars 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Through a garage door entrance and past a bar stacked with vinyl, descend a few steps into the cozy dining room with piles of old books, exposed brick and a wall covered in mesmerizing doodles. 36 Hours in Gothenburg, Sweden 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z But from her first scene, in which she reads aloud Macbeth’s letter explaining the mysterious prophesies of the witches, Ms. Netrebko sang with a mesmerizing blend of steely resolve and seductive allure. Review: Plácido Domingo Is Gone, but He Still Haunted ‘Macbeth’ 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z The range of Ms. Traoré’s performance as Barbary — her rich and mesmerizing voice, regal bearing and fluid movement — has enchanted critics. Toni Morrison?s ?Desdemona? and Peter Sellars?s ?Othello? 2011-10-25T21:57:27Z There wasn't a moment in the intense recital not made to mesmerizingly matter. Pianist Andras Schiff mesmerizes with last sonatas of 4 composers 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z "The Fool" provides a tantalizing snapshot of the band's sound — with mesmerizing hooks peering out from between a tangle of gauzy guitars and rubbery rhythms. Warpaint's patience is paying off 2011-03-18T22:10:00Z Bouman brings his world to life with texture that gives every room and vehicle and person a history and character, keeping us immersed in this mesmerizing and often terrifying story. Book review: ‘Dry Bones in the Valley,’ exciting debut thriller by Tom Bouman The spareness was mesmerizing because it was so counterintuitive. Perspective | JFK Jr. and Carolyn showed us the right way to be famous for being famous 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Ever since I was a child, I was hypnotized, completely mesmerized, watching these giant creatures. ‘Colossal’ director on his lifelong fascination with creature features 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Giovanna is mesmerized and elated by her loss of innocence; Ferrante lets us both share the intensity of this formative experience and be amused by it. Review | Elena Ferrante returns with ‘The Lying Life of Adults,’ and fans of the Neapolitan novels will be thrilled 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z Opening with a highlight — the mesmerizing young upstart Sumney and his version of "Title of This Song" — "Song Reader" is best when artists avoid conservatism. Beck's latest 'Song Reader' reels in professionals 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Rather, it's a methodically paced, odd but mesmerizing piece set to an infectious soundtrack highlighted by its strategic use of '80s soft rock hits. "The Shrink Next Door" is a compelling stranger-than-fiction anchored by Paul Rudd and Will Ferrell 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z A series of soloists arrived onstage with excerpts from the same mesmerizing material, mapping past onto present. Review: Reviving Andy de Groat’s Works in New York 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z The hunt for the family's killers mesmerized the nation and drew journalists from throughout the U.S. to the small western Kansas town of Holcomb. Correction: In Cold Blood-Records story 2013-04-26T20:54:19Z It's not necessarily a matter of the actor's physical attractiveness I'm talking about either, although the rippling silver waves topping Mount's dome are as mesmerizing as any deep space nebula. Boldly take us where we've been, Captain Pike 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Even for a philistine like me, who fell asleep when a date took her to the opera, “Aria Code” presents a mesmerizing appreciation of these powerful solo performances brimming with universal feelings. Podcasts About Beyoncé, Arias and Health Care: Worth a Listen 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z Five years later, his independent studio, thatgamecompany, captured several Game of the Year awards for Journey, a mesmerizing downloadable game that yields a sensation of personal, even religious, transformation. Talented Designers Stream Into M.F.A. Video Game Programs 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z His soundtrack was a vocalist’s mesmerizing rendition of “Money, Money, Money.” ‘Game to do it all’: From TV to WWE, Trump the showman set the stage for Trump the candidate 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z That groove — subtle, almost mesmerizing repetitions of a theme — was the essential characteristic of the Crusaders’ music. Wayne Henderson, a Founder of the Jazz Crusaders, Dies at 74 2014-04-10T00:02:26Z Those mesmerizing eyes, that luxurious dark hair and flawless skin. Fanning inspires look at 5 great child actresses 2013-03-14T20:18:20Z That doesn’t mean it isn’t mesmerizing from time to time. Review | Why isn’t John Mayer’s music as weird as John Mayer? 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z They sparred, mesmerizingly, over the allegations of Trump’s sexual misconduct. Megyn Kelly’s killer moment with Gingrich was a welcome return to badassery 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z It’s no surprise that watching actors naturally age on camera without latex and digital effects makes for mesmerizing viewing. Movie Review: Linklater’s ‘Boyhood’ Is a Model of Cinematic Realism 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Shelley chants about mind-reading — “Do you believe in ESP?/I do and I’m trying to get through to you” — over a mesmerizing guitar loop that builds for five minutes. Remembering Buzzcocks’ Pete Shelley: The ultimate punk romantic 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z The film — narrated personably by Laurie Anderson — is a treasure trove of mesmerizing archival footage, spanning decades. Amplifying the Women Who Pushed Synthesizers Into the Future 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Manley’s mesmerizing performance shows that a vulnerable Simon lives within all of us. ‘The Ballad of Pondlife McGurk,’ a One-Man Show 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Oyelowo’s orations throughout the film are simply mesmerizing and held the audience in rapt attention. Palm Springs Film Fest: 'Selma' a powerful opener 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z Mr. Manahan and the orchestra gave a mesmerizing account of this fiercely original music. Music Review: Who Killed This Woman?s Lover? And Other Elusive Operatic Issues 2011-03-27T22:01:56Z Sofia Ayala, an M.I.T. sophomore, tested the project after I did and emerged — as I did — with a mesmerized flush on her face, a feeling of meeting someone not really there. Meeting ‘the Other’ Face to Face 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z It’s also a landscape film, mesmerized by the sublimity of this verdant, rocky stretch of countryside. ‘Il Buco’ Review: Notes From Underground 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z “Statuary Inc.” centers on a mesmerizing peek through a shop door to shelves full of tiny bright statues. A New Level of Ambition in Art by 3 Women 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z A mesmerizing record, "Contract" advances the modern and traditional fusion Robertson began to cultivate on "Music for The Native Americans." How Robbie Robertson's hidden Indigenous and Jewish heritage influenced The Band's mournful songs 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z Besides, Nasim was mesmerized by his first glimpse of the ocean, and fascinated by the giant oil tankers and cargo ships that disappeared on Gaddani’s shores. Shipbreaking: World’s most dangerous job? 2013-03-21T16:37:00Z Plucked from storage or scavenged from construction sites after the buildings they once wrapped were demolished or remodeled, they are mesmerizing simply as objects. SCI-Arc show cleverly tweaks the myth of the all-powerful — and typically male — architect 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z On land, “The Wind Rises” is just as mesmerizing: Cigarette smoke forms a gliding fog around the characters; a sea of pink and lavender cherry blossoms let us smell their perfume. ‘Wind Rises’: master animator’s ode to sky-high dreams 2014-02-20T20:00:07Z As though mesmerized by her photogenic locations, Ms. Kana dawdles endlessly over gamboling children, picturesque beaches and endangered lifestyles. | 'Beautiful Islands': Floating Away 2010-07-01T22:56:00Z My partner and I fly to NY every year to get mesmerized for about a week. 36 Hours in Manhattan, Below 59th Street 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z The cinematography in “The Miniaturist” imitates a Vermeer masterpiece's interplay between light and shadow, engulfing the action in mesmerizing glow that both augments and glamorizes the weight of what is essentially Petronella’s imprisonment. Smart Watch: “The Deuce” returns with more strut in its street tales 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z “The Returned” is mesmerizing television, with an ethereal electronic soundtrack by the Scottish band Mogwai, inky nighttime scenes like old masters paintings, and strikingly composed shots that contrast the mountain landscape with the fluorescent-lit village. Review: In ‘The Returned,’ the French Zombie Drama Deepens 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Some of the most mesmerizing projects are the couple’s collaborations with scientists. The Lewis and Clark of the Digital Building Frontier 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z This repeated action — steps in slow motion — was more menacing than mesmerizing. Review: A Cuban Troupe’s Strong Dancers, Less Strong Premieres 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Spiky and mesmerizing, and a favorite of President Obama’s, the book examined a marriage, first from the husband’s perspective and then from the wife’s. Lauren Groff’s Stunning New Collection, “Florida,” Unfolds “in an Eden of Dangerous Things” 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z He alternately sang, sat behind a piano -- guy’s got some great barrelhouse chops -- blew typically mesmerizing harmonica runs, coughed-forth couplets and occasionally did a quirky little groove dance that signified approval or joy or something. Bob Dylan opens three nights in Hollywood with grunts, grim themes 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z The staging uses some effective video segments, including huge, mesmerizing black-and-white close-ups of Faust’s and Marguerite’s faces. Music Review: A Review of the Metropolitan Opera?s ?Faust? 2011-11-30T13:23:05Z California light artist Doug Wheeler’s current installation at David Zwirner’s 20th Street location in New York is mesmerizing, even before you enter the space. Doug Wheeler Creates an Ethereal Installation at David Zwirner Gallery 2014-02-13T05:00:00Z Several musicians are tucked away in the upper reaches of Dane Laffrey's mesmerizing cat-walk-strewn set, while others jam front and center with the cast. Deaf West revisits 'Spring Awakening' with fresh vigor at the Wallis 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Even if the plot is sparse, the images are mesmerizing. Tilda Swinton moves through the dreamy and confounding "Memoria" at her own frequency 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Difficult to describe and confounding to follow, the film is best when you submit to the surreal nature of it; then, you will be open to witnessing one of this year’s most mesmerizing movies unfold. ‘Slow Machine’ Review: What Do Paranoid Actresses Dream Of? 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Company co-founder David Melville towers above all in one of the most mesmerizing performances in memory. A mesmerizing Iago drives Independent Shakespeare's scaled-down 'Othello' 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The cinematography, costumes and overall style of “Into the Badlands” are mesmerizing. Smart Watch: "What We Do In the Shadows" is a comedy with bite 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z Prepare to be mesmerized by “A Field in England,” a movie of singular originality. ‘A Field in England’: an original, mind-blowing trip set in 1648 2014-02-06T22:43:31Z Watching the reckless eccentric at the center of "Daddy Longlegs" is like sitting beside a mesmerizing, garrulous kook. 'Daddy Longlegs': A wildly irresponsible father creates chaos 2010-06-24T19:29:00Z Then he read it and was mesmerized by the poetic, atmospheric story of a young man’s heroic journey that dealt with religion, politics, destiny, heritage, the environment, colonialism and giant space worms. Denis Villeneuve’s dreams of ‘Dune’ reach the big screen 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z Figure skaters are so mesmerizing to American audiences in part because they’re consummate athletes whose sport also performs traditional femininity. Our figure skating obsession: Why America loves watching women fall 2014-02-20T21:45:00Z Duo Rose, a male-female trapeze act, were no less mesmerizing as their limbs turned to pretzels and slipknots, and their acrobatic feats yielded to tenderness in midair: a light caress, a delicate kiss. Moisture Fest, celebrating 10th anniversary, dazzles, delights 2013-03-22T19:08:56Z In much the same way that we can’t resist the external weather, the very best artists summon interior weathers that mesmerize us, psychic precip and visceral barometric pressures that move us. Artistic Forecasts, From Sun to Snow 2014-02-20T21:21:30Z Mysterious, portentous, mesmerizing: Learn about these enigmatic nocturnal birds through more than 200 color photographs of owls in the wild. Inspiring, transporting and just plain gorgeous coffee table books 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z David Foster Wallace’s magnum opus “Infinite Jest” depicted an America so distracted and obsessed with entertainment that a mesmerizing movie becomes a potential terrorist weapon — capable of making viewers die of pleasure. Books of The Times: Maximized Revenue, Minimized Existence 2011-03-31T21:14:33Z The objective: To hunt down the elusive, mesmerizing lights of the auroral oval. Chasing Yukon magic: Fall under the spell of the northern lights and all northwestern Canada has to offer 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z He enrolled in art classes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, read the newspapers religiously and became mesmerized by photos of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Vets preserve memories of war with their own art 2012-11-10T17:08:10Z Still, it’s rare to see a musical with so much narrative ambition, tragic scope and musical inspiration, all wrapped up in one messy but mesmerizing package. Venice: A Hiphop Dystopia Comes to New York 2013-06-19T09:45:17Z It finds its most eloquent expression, however, in Ms. Hashmi’s “Pin Drawings,” a mesmerizing series of works made by piercing sheets of white paper with needles of various sizes. Art Review: ‘Zarina: Paper Like Skin,’ at the Guggenheim Museum 2013-01-31T21:46:37Z And whether or not you care about these historical and theoretical debates, or the sleight-of-hand methodological moves Ms. Lockhart has performed in making the work, the exhibition is exceptionally handsome, meditative and, at times, mesmerizing. Art Review: ‘Sharon Lockhart/Noa Eshkol,’ at the Jewish Museum 2013-01-31T23:00:41Z A roomful of rapt retirees; two mesmerized men at a bar; a line of breathless female colleagues in cottage-core knitwear. ‘Paint’ Review: Watch It Dry 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Just watching its white surface of mutating triangles curving toward the center is mesmerizing. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z It’s mesmerizing – a freaky, glittering, meditation on death. Damien Hirst at Tate Modern 2012-07-09T14:15:00Z Musical colleagues and fans say the lanky, baritone singer and guitarist was a mesmerizing performer with a charismatic, larger-than-life personality. Late Reggae Icon Peter Tosh Receives Jamaica Honor 2012-10-16T02:02:42Z Theron, meanwhile, gets too screechy; with her imposing height, deep voice and mesmerizing beauty, she's far more powerful when she dials it down. Capsule review of `Snow White & the Huntsman' 2012-05-30T19:22:17Z Realism in Qing art, however, often veers into the surreal, as is evident in a mesmerizingly bizarre furniture ensemble. Art Review: A Man of Contradictions, With a Collection to Match 2011-02-03T23:00:07Z She said the students were “mesmerized with the music and the instruments and the loudness of the event.” Bowie State band performed at a preschool. A 4-year-old became part of the show. 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z Much of its mesmerizing power came from Ms. Riva’s riveting performance. Emmanuelle Riva, oldest lead actress to be nominated for Academy Award, dies at 89 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z Our little audience squirmed too, but seemed on the whole receptive, curious — mesmerized might be too strong a word. Pampered Critics? No, Critics in Pampers 2010-11-19T20:43:00Z As a Latin nerd, I found the city’s monuments mesmerizing, but beyond that, it was the passionate personality of the place that won me over. In the south of France, Nimes celebrates and preserves ancient Rome 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Others, like “The Death of Louis XIV,” a mesmerizing elegy from the Spanish director Albert Serra, will doubtless continue to find their most receptive audiences on the festival circuit. Cannes Keeps Its Traditions, Including Its Boos 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z A nip in the air doesn’t dissuade some of us from enjoying the exterior, warmed by tall heat lamps and romanticized with mesmerizing fire pits. Review | Ana at District Winery pairs good food with fine drinks — and a sweet view 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z The result is the new book "Air," a mesmerizing collection of photographs taken from extreme heights of up to 12,000 feet. High-flying photographer Vincent Laforet captures the radiant world below him 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z “It devastated me. I found its imagery overpowering. And after that, I found that every single Hitchcock film that came along absolutely mesmerized me.” Donald Spoto, Biographer of Hitchcock and Many More, Dies at 81 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z To the director, the central problem was keeping audiences mesmerized by an impossibly handsome hero who was a wizard with women and who always seemed destined to defeat the villains. Guy Hamilton, resourceful James Bond director, dies at 93 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z At the Orsay, I was struck mesmerized in front of the Van Goghs I had seen many times before. Mourning in Paris 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z As relative newcomers to the screen, the two are mesmerizing, and it's easy to see why Finney has already landed a role in the upcoming season of "Doctor Who." The best breakout TV performances of the year, from twins and vamps to werewolves and superheroes 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z Like the best fiction, it feels truer and more mesmerizing than some true stories. A Musician’s Daughter Faces His Music — and His Choices 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z There is simply and once again Reeves, the axis who centers this franchise with his grave sincerity, beatific glow and mesmerizing, rooted fighting style, with its heavy-footed solidity and surprising suppleness. ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Review: There Will Be Blood, Yeah 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z One glance at the miraculously active dance floor within the Yuma Tent for Loco Dice's hard, mesmerizing set of future house was compelling evidence. Coachella 2015: Jack White bids farewell, Kanye West says hello in week 2 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z Maltman, throughout, was a mesmerizing presence, especially in his revelatory approach to the prologue of "Pagliacci," which he treated like proto-Postmodernism. Dudamel coaxes a sense of urgency from two of opera's staples 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Crowds were spellbound as O’Connor, in bare feet and a hijab — she converted to Islam in 2018 — mesmerized them with a 17-song set that stretched across her career. Sinead O’Connor is still in one piece 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z An unstable but mesmerizing cop, an iconic private eye, and a grieving woman ensnared in espionage star in three new works of crime fiction. New in crime fiction: tales from Wales, Los Angeles and Cairo 2014-03-10T07:02:36Z She mesmerized the public reception a week later. The first celebrity first lady: Frances Cleveland “You Might Think,” which won the first MTV Video of the Year, was especially mesmerizing. Ric Ocasek’s Eternal Cool 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z It’s a charmer of a story, and a welcome respite in a collection of mostly grim but mesmerizing tales. ‘Vampires in the Lemon Grove’: the real lives of vampires, monsters and bullies 2013-02-28T00:07:34Z But there was something so mesmerizing about seeing my father peel back the husk with such ease and dispose of it in a nearby bin. To shuck or not shuck? People are divided on what the proper etiquette for purchasing fresh corn is 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z Whether the camera observes horseback riders atop a bluff or a distant thunderstorm on the horizon, you are mesmerized by the desolate beauty of the Great Plains and the changing sky overhead. Review: In ‘Songs My Brothers Taught Me,’ Reservation Dreams and Their Limits 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z It’s an “emphasis on the human and humane implications of Gödel’s life and work that gives this book its mesmerizing pull,” our critic Jennifer Szalai writes. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z The first floor galleries hold plenty of other enticements, though, including a mesmerizing, immersive music installation, “The Visitors.” Los Angeles’ hottest ticket? The new Broad art museum 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z Hints of these tactile origins reveal themselves in the mesmerizing new pieces, each one reminiscent of a wire sculpture dynamically suspended in a shadowy void. Preview Artist Elliott Puckette's New Show 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z There’s a hailstorm and also a mesmerizing peek into the barn as Lofgren ad-libs on the “After the Gold Rush” piano. Neil Young made ‘Barn,’ his new album, in a barn 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Moments like these reveal — even as a production is breathing for the first time — that Synetic is still firmly in the mesmerizing business. Perspective | A critic goes to a Synetic preview and finds much to praise 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z The artist John Lurie returns for a third and final season of his mesmerizing collage series, which braids his music, paintings and musings into one of TV’s most evocative and distinctive shows. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Appropriately, in early live footage, Hutchence was already a mesmerizing presence, all unassuming charisma and confidence. New INXS doc revives Michael Hutchence's vibrant mystique amidst the band's diminished legacy 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z A fascination with skeletal remains haunted the collection, the mesmerizing patterns creating a trompe l’oeil effect on streamlined clothes, many tailored, but also high-protection outerwear worn with balaclavas and more than a hint of menace. 2010-01-20T05:21:00Z Even a tracking shot of EO trotting through a lighted tunnel is mesmerizing. "EO" is the gorgeously hypnotic drama about a donkey whose journey will break your heart 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z When Mr. Bush entered the grand 8,500-square-foot throne hall, with its gold-plated woodcarving décor, Ms. Taratynova said, he froze, mesmerized, and said simply, “Wow.” Russia Reopens the Last Czar’s Palace, a Century After His Execution 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z This thoroughly original, mesmerizing debut novel weaves several tales from different eras in an unnamed stand-in for the author's homeland — the former Yugoslavia — with the heartbreakingly common thread of the ceaselessness of war. 32 of the year's best books 2011-12-07T23:43:04Z Mr. Romanek sent in a mesmerizing single-take film of a street dancer gliding to Glass under a freeway overpass in Los Angeles. Handel and Philip Glass, but Make It Fashion 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Benjamin Scheuer is a mesmerizing guitarist, and he tells his story strumming in his solo show “The Lion.” Singer-guitarist Benjamin Scheuer purrs his life and times in ‘The Lion’ 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z In a starring role as a murdered Irish journalist who's determined to tell the story no matter what the cost, Blanchett is mesmerizing. A toast to Cate Blanchett 2010-05-14T18:48:00Z In the latter half of the 19th century, many Americans were literally mesmerized by a practice called Spiritualism. ‘The Ghost of the Mary Celeste’: a haunted 19th century 2014-02-05T21:15:29Z During a crying baby meltdown, he resorted to putting on Ella Fitzgerald and it worked, his daughter mesmerized. Kwame Alexander on winning the Newbery Award: 'I'm going to keep it real with you' 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z As we walked down the street, mesmerized by the abundance of scooters, I mentally searched for what might have caused the food poisoning. "Of course, he’s coming": Single-lone mom with kid travel taught me the joys of not playing it safe 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z But the film comes into its own when Jake gets access to Yang’s memory bank and is mesmerized by what he finds. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z “We filmed in front of the biggest blue screen in Europe, so the whole time I was completely awe struck and mesmerized by working in this big expanse of space,” Mx. Olive Gray, an Actor Since the Age of 10, Stars in ‘Halo’ 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z Critics occasionally faulted Mr. Williams for overusing his trademark long line, or wandering too far in the direction of prose, but most found his voice mesmerizing, his poetic tales spellbinding. C. K. Williams, Poet Who Tackled Moral Issues, Dies at 78 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z And Gilliam, a mesmerizing Hurt, is there to explain and inspire. Hurtling along in Bong Joon-ho's train movie 'Snowpiercer' 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Almost unconsciously, he stretched his legs along the wooden banquette, silently mesmerized. Restaurants Near Hospitals Offer Real Comfort Food 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z The art enveloping Kazerne’s diners ranges from kinetic sculpture to mesmerizing lighting in exhibits rotating every few months. Restaurant Report: Kazerne in the Netherlands 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z But after such a turbulent year, there was something particularly calming and mesmerizing about watching Ariel, Betsy and Heinz feast on lettuce. Escape From the City: 9 Winter Outings That Fight Cabin Fever 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z There was the mesmerizing wordless vocal melody that ushered in the tragic "Little Birds," which at times suggested a very dark children's tale or fable. Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum returns with his songs and their durability intact 2012-02-08T06:00:00Z Her voice is so overwhelmingly powerful and rich, and when you hear it in the flesh, it’s mesmerizing. Lily James Taps Her Inner Meryl to Become a Dancing Queen 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Among the awed and mesmerized is the theater director Robert Falls, who will also admit to some bafflement, if not quite exasperation. ‘2666,’ a Most Difficult Novel, Takes the Stage 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z There was a second mesmerizing aspect to Odetta’s performance: her natural hair. Remembering Odetta, Whose Powerful Voice Met a Profound Moment 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z “It’s supposed to be terrible, but of course it’s mesmerizing,” said James Sanders, the author of “Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies.” Am I in Manhattan? Or Another Sequel to ‘Blade Runner’? 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z “The painting completely mesmerized me, and it mesmerizes almost anyone who sees it.” Louvre Bids to Keep a Chardin Bought by U.S. Museum in France 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z The dominant figure in this “Evita” is Josh Young’s mesmerizing Che, with a forceful presence and rich, handsome voice to match his glowering good looks. Christopher Plummer in Stratford, Ontario 2010-07-09T04:28:00Z The sight was so mesmerizing that I didn’t, for the moment, focus on the mordant message to the world, etched in the toilet-stall window: “Enjoying the view?” The Monoliths of Bratislava 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z He returns again here, within the confines of a tiny, near-abandoned mountain village, to create a four-chapter film that somehow manages, in 88 mesmerizing minutes, to encompass the entirety of existence. 'Le Quattro Volte' offers a transformative look at a soul's cycle of life 2011-05-12T19:25:14Z You might also like “Transparent,” on Amazon, which mesmerized me from the very first episode. What to Watch This Week: Smart, Non-Violent TV 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z The film dramatizes the cave-in at a mine in Chile's Atacama desert and the globally televised rescue of the miners that mesmerized millions worldwide. Chile miner happy to be played by Banderas in film 2013-05-20T20:25:08Z I reached for “mesmerizing,” and found that the publisher’s ad copy contained it. The Latest in Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z The record’s song is plucky and mesmerizing, as is the movie; its end, frank and poetic at once, is the end we will all meet. The Screening Room: “(Otto)” 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Ray’s 1929 portrait of Lee Miller is a good example — surely one of the most mesmerizing photographic portraits ever taken. Review | Glamour, gossip, sex, scandal: Man Ray’s portraits captured Paris between the wars 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z That diary mostly contains tablature notation, but one entry, from before quarantine, last December, reads: “Try to find resonances — textural miracles that are confusing as to structure but spinning and mesmerizing.” A Composer and Her (Very) Long String Instrument 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z When producers didn’t insist that he cover up, he knew that they knew that viewers would be mesmerized by the sight of his blurred-out junk. Donald Trump, the ultimate “Survivor”: How watching Richard Hatch win laid the groundwork for Trump the GOP nominee 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z From this bleak premise, a mesmerizing tale unfolds. William Trevor, Writer Who Evoked the Struggles of Ordinary Life, Is Dead at 88 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z This part of the installation is mesmerizing, a kind of Light and Space work for the selfie generation. What to see in L.A. galleries: Andrew Masullo's off-kilter world, plus Gary Lang and Ruth Pastine 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z “I once did love,” Orlando says wistfully, and the play leaves us hopeful that this mutable, mesmerizing character will find his, or her, or their, own way to do that again. Review: In ‘Orlando,’ Emma Corrin Straddles Genders and Centuries 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z He sympathetically hooks us for the whole tragic journey as he sinks into disturbed oblivion with mesmerizing panache. With Fitzgerald adaptation 'Up & Down,' Eifman succeeds on his own, melodramatic terms 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z If the star shape of the fountain feels reflexive and cliched, the visual seduction of fire dancing on a calm pool of water is mesmerizing. American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial has impact larger than its size She watches children mesmerized by the black-and-white cooking show excerpts and Child’s distinctive voice, discovering her for the first time. How do you keep Julia Child’s legacy alive? Pay it forward. 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z His mesmerizing, acid soliloquies on clock repairing and climate despairing and small-town farce have no analogue in fiction. 12 Surprising Reasons to Be Grateful for the Arts in 2017 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Ms. Hannigan conquered its fierce challenges in a mesmerizing performance with the stalwart pianist Stephen Gosling. Best Classical Music of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z He couldn’t much abide reading “junk prose,” or watching television or movies, but he was mesmerized and thrilled by sports, and especially the Red Sox: “I sit with my mouth open, witlessly enraptured.” Donald Hall’s Life Work 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z Her show, “Being Naomi,” is both vacant and mesmerizing, almost Warholian level, and a canny master class for the aspiring brand-building narcissist. 11 Things About Naomi Campbell 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z The strangeness and emotion that made the first two films occasionally mesmerizing is replaced in “Purgatory” by crime-procedural efficiency. Television Review: ?Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory? on HBO - Review 2012-01-11T23:08:35Z "Source Code" - Duncan Jones' first film, the mesmerizing, sci-fi character drama "Moon" from 2009, was a marvel of efficiency, tension and pacing. Capsule reviews: `Hop,' `Source Code' 2011-03-30T15:37:20Z It’s hard to explain to a normal person — one of the 79 percent of American adults who don’t use Twitter — why the platform mesmerizes the news media. Trump, Twitter and the Art of His Deal 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z But I was also mesmerized by the scale of the picture and the great emotion within the picture, and I thought, “I’d love to tell stories that way.” Jeremy Irons Is Transported by Renzo Piano and a Dog Named Smudge 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z When I was 4 or 5, I was watching a Fred Astaire film — there was a whole series on British television at the time — and I sat with my nose almost against the screen, mesmerized. The Making of Black Ivy Style 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Not a lot happens, except the delicate drama taking place on Cotillard’s face — and it’s mesmerizing. At TIFF: ‘Laggies,' ‘The Judge,' and lost girlhood 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z In an emotional acceptance speech, he recalled being a chubby kid from meat-and-potatoes America who was enamored with fashion and mesmerized by the stylish women he saw in his grandmother’s boutique. For state dinner dress, the first lady chose Brandon Maxwell. Who? Ask Lady Gaga. 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z But he remains an equally mesmerizing and annoying presence. A Beginner’s Guide to the Golden Age of Live Theater on TV 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z There’s something mesmerizing about watching a bad dancer. On Love: Amelia Gingold and Aneet Makin But it is also undeniably mesmerizing, and the caliber of technical musicianship is consistently high. The secret, unreleased albums of Brother Ah, D.C.’s jazz guru 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z While the world is exploding around you — yes, it is complete chaos — you call for a deep, mesmerizing truce by truly, finally, relaxing. Sign Language: Horoscopes for people oblivious to Astrology 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z Within this, there is a more nuanced, and thus more mesmerizing, consideration of purpose and atonement, but because it’s subsumed by Cueto’s flailing prose and tiresome stereotypes, in the end, it doesn’t amount to much. The Problem of Wartime Guilt and Its Long Life Span 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z When I was about 10, they were in their 70s and 80s, and I was mesmerized by the way they moved and spoke. A ‘Menagerie’ That Fulfills a London Dream 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z These words describe the German Expressionist cinema during the Weimar era after World War I — a bravura brand of filmmaking that is still mesmerizing audiences and influencing filmmakers today. LACMA spotlights '20s German Expressionist films 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z Now a new film allows moviegoers to experience the Apollo 11 mission from unexpected angles through mesmerizing footage and recordings that were never intended for a large viewership — or even necessarily for the public. Piecing Together the Visual and Audio Puzzle of ‘Apollo 11’ 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z It was "an exquisite novel of mesmerizing depth and suspense," wrote Margo Kaufman at the time. Henning Mankell is gone, but he leaves enduring legacy with Wallander novels 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z “All of them are artists of such mesmerizing vitality that I just can’t wait to get their seasons planned,” Thomas W. Morris, the festival’s artistic director, said in an interview. Ojai Festival Names Future Directors 1458-02-24T05:00:00Z A mesmerizing, beautiful drama, "Jean Gentil" is the rare film that teaches one to see. 'Jean Gentil': Tale of Haitian teacher's hardships divinely told 2012-04-26T20:10:05Z In one particularly mesmerizing moment, he gets Kristen to go to the lowest point of her average day with Frank. "Breakthrough With Tony Robbins": Robbins needs a little self-help 2010-07-28T19:40:00Z As she speaks, the crowd is mesmerized, even giddy, applauding at key moments, laughing at others, feeling with it and hip. The Sound of Silence: what it means to be LGBTQ and a Zionist in today’s America 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z But you can depend on Mr. Ouramdane, a French-Algerian choreographer, to weave in poetry and mesmerizing theater from the darkest side of human nature. The Week Ahead: Oct. 9 ? 15 2011-10-06T15:27:01Z “The sight of my father’s body entering the cremation chamber is mesmerizing and numbing,” Rodrigo writes. Review | Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s son recalls the death of a literary giant 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z But he’s a master of restraint and he doesn’t need accessories to hold you as he proved with his mesmerizing turn in Steven Spielberg’s Cold War drama “Bridge of Spies.” ‘The Outfit’ Review: The Violent Measure of a Man 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z He found another convert in Langille, a recent Yale Law grad mesmerized the moment she saw him sit at a piano to improvise with a saxophonist in 1984. The Remarkable, Resilient Loren Connors 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z That they do through Jeff Russo's opening theme, which incorporates notes from the original series' melody with dreamy images of prismatic colored nebulas, jewel-like asteroid belts, and other mesmerizing sights along the Enterprise's cruising path. Salon's picks for the best TV title sequences of 2022 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z While we do often glimpse extreme penetration closeups, with its accompanying, and at times mesmerizing, ball pendulums, little attention is paid to much else. 10 ways porn perpetuates myths about men and sex 2014-01-06T01:00:00Z But by far the most mesmerizing sequences of the film star the animals themselves, especially when they’re seen in candid, close-up footage captured by the cameras Rabinowitz uses to track the tiger population. Where semi-aquatic Royal Bengal tigers live among people 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z A child wanders through a door and into a mysterious world, meeting fantastical new creatures, in this mesmerizing wordless book. Need Gifts for Readers? Check Out Our Holiday Book Suggestions 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z At the age of 5, the fake reality of a stage set mesmerized me. Your First Theater Crush 2013-08-21T16:24:20Z Yet she was mesmerized by Hendrix, who was building his reputation with blistering live shows in the city’s clubs. Hendrix and Handel Slept Here: A Museum’s Strange Bedfellows 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z These adventurous players gave dozens of mesmerizing performances and made a top-selling recording of their signature piece, Messiaen’s mystical “Quartet for the End of Time.” A Critic and a Pianist, Close but Not Quite Friends 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z I wanted to understand what it was about Bowie that made him so mesmerizing. Beyond “The Man Who Fell to Earth”: Coming of age with David Bowie’s films 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Indeed it is, one of many strange forms that, woven into new fabrics on "Many Faces," create mesmerizing comfort. Box-set highlights: Paramount Records, William Onyeabor, Joni Mitchell 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z In a mesmerizing and surprisingly comical turn, Melville gleans every ounce of nefarious gusto from Richard, eliciting hoots and hisses from an appreciative audience. A rocking, rollicking 'Richard III' kicks off Griffith Park Shakespeare festival 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z The Vocal Adrenaline numbers are treated this way, and that's why their performances on the show are always a little bit more mesmerizing than those of New Directions. "Glee" could be great -- if it weren't so awful 2010-10-09T23:01:00Z “Her daughter was really mesmerized by her mother always,” he said. The Story Behind a Well-Timed Photo of Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z “Songs,” which debuted in 1994, is by all accounts a profound, mesmerizing, visionary work. Cloud Gate Dance Theatre performs in Seattle March 6-8 2014-02-26T20:26:38Z That familiarity allows Smith to conclude with a mesmerizing work of literary origami, folding the translucent layers of time so tightly that contemporary and previous eras appear to mingle while retaining their respective hues. Review | What was it like to live in a world both more formal and more brutal than our own? 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z No. 13 mesmerizes with the melody in block chords in the left hand, while the right ladles on a repeated theme above. CD reviews: Two piano recordings worth attention 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z His acute grasp of our language made them mesmerizing. Mothering in a Newly Quiet World 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z Better as an intro to zesty color combos than to red, yellow and blue, but certain to mesmerize all ages. | Board Book Roundup: This Season?s Board Books 2011-10-19T16:33:40Z The effect remains mesmerizing — a defiant expression of comfort and a comfortable expression of defiance all at once. Review | Is Blueface ahead of his time? Or does he just rap like it? 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Featuring just a small amount of dialogue, the short film used McDowell and his mesmerizing slide guitar as a backdrop for the gritty existence of residents near Como, Mississippi. Christian Garrison, author, filmmaker, dies in NC at age 78 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z Some shots conjure Busby Berkeley, the Hollywood choreographer known for his mesmerizing bird’s-eye-view shots of synchronized swimmers and dancers. OK Go’s New Music Video for “I Won’t Let You Down” Won’t Let You Down 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Stare at the giant, mesmerizing mass “The End of the World at the Edge of the Earth,” as the pointed piece is titled, and the glacier is imperceptibly advancing. Bruce Yonemoto at Luckman Gallery: Of grow lights and glaciers 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z While there is violence and horror aplenty in “Climax”, Noe’s cast of top-notch dancers deliver stunning performances filmed by a swirling - sometimes upside down - camera that is mesmerizing and disconcerting. Gaspar Noe's 'Climax' takes Cannes on a drug-fuelled dance 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z You stand mesmerized by her pyrotechnic language, strafing contentiousness and sass, but you also want to run for cover. ‘The State We’re In,’ a splendid new collection of stories by Ann Beattie 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Moreover, like these epics, the novel is a mesmerizing story of power, love, hubris and betrayal — but, above all, the portrait of what one might call a tragic villain. The coldly brilliant crime novel, ‘GBH,’ by Ted Lewis 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z When he writes that one of the icebound scientists was “mesmerized by its character; its power; its spectacular unsettling sounds — sometimes cracking like gunfire, sometimes shrieking as it split and cleaved,” we understand the fascination. Arctic Explorers Trapped in a Frozen Hell 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z Though the rhythmic writing sometimes seemed square and formulaic, Ms. Yamane’s intent, it seemed, was to convey a mood of mesmerizing ritual. Music Review: ?Resonances of the Kugo,? Part of Music From Japan at Merkin 2012-02-19T19:53:15Z She is also a mesmerizing actress and assumes different characters to tell a story, as a program note explains, “to amuse the gods.” Dance Review: At the Baryshnikov, Cambodian Dreams, Far From Home 2010-06-25T22:29:00Z They were glad to know about her mesmerizing, otherworldly music, which manages to be sombre and warm-hearted at once. My Most Memorable Cultural Moments of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z It’s a small place and not fancy, but the atmosphere is electric, the music is sparkling and the dance skills are mesmerizing. 36 Hours in Medellín, Colombia 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z In “Agon,” the masterful 1957 collaboration between Balanchine and Stravinsky, a performance of the first pas de trois — with India Bradley, Taylor Stanley and Meaghan Dutton-O’Hara — was mesmerizing in its tautness. Standing (and Dancing) Strong at New York City Ballet 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z I was mesmerized by the remarkable precision, care and artistry displayed by more than 600 model makers in molding this tiny, but expansive, 3-D universe. From undercover to underwater: Four new Times Square attractions offer a variety of immersive experiences 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Urie is mesmerizingly hammy: His eyes pop and his mouth shapes each word with ferocious emphasis, then just as quickly breaks out into a maniacal grin or a vicious sneer. Panic! at the Disco’s Flourishes Weren’t Just Dramatic. They Were Theater. 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z As always, Twain addressed the reporters, as he spoke to friends, in a s-l-o-w manner with his mesmerizing voice with a hint of a twang, similar to his stage performance. The night Mark Twain brought Huck Finn alive 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z First, there is his exquisite use of the mesmerizing music. Review | “Layla and Majnun”: An Azerbaijani dance opera for the ages 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z The musicians seemed swept away yet fully in control throughout the mesmerizing performance. Music Review: Ensemble ACJW Performs ?De Staat? at Zankel Hall 2010-05-11T22:20:00Z I asked him how he wrote the mesmerizing title track. Joe Jackson, Past, Present, and Fast Forward 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z In addition to being a mesmerizing image — it suggests a high-fashion version of “The Handmaid’s Tale” — it adds to the small number of female artists in the museum’s sizable Surrealist holding. MoMA, the New Edition: From Monumental to Experimental 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z But Ananda is mesmerized, so much so that he decides to organize a French film festival. ‘Adieu Godard’ Review: A Poor Imitation 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Or, perhaps better yet, they might be more properly enjoyed in your living room, where you can fully lose yourself within the album’s mesmerizing sonic embrace. The Beatles’ new remixed White Album box set is a marvel 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z In celebration the company is occasionally presenting a 50-dancer version, performed for the first time on Friday night to live music conducted by Ms. Jamison and featuring onstage the mesmerizing singer Ella Mitchell. Dance Review: Ailey Continues to Build on Its Proud Tradition 2010-12-05T23:11:00Z I was mesmerized watching them dance past the boat. Sailing Into Today on a Boat From Our Past 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z In “Jell-O Girls,” she weaves together her family history and the story of the classic American dessert to produce a book that alternately surprises and mesmerizes. In ‘Jell-O Girls,’ a Dark Family History Behind a Candy-Colored Dessert 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z Also here are two mesmerizing precursors to the sculptures: drawings made with soot from Ms. Bontecou’s welding torch. Art Review: Lee Bontecou , From MoMA?s Permanent Collection 2010-08-12T21:12:00Z The Glitch Mob: With a devotion to muscular synthetic beats and an almost Black Sabbath-like love of mesmerizing bass lines, the Los Angeles beat trio has been crafting dubstep-inspired tracks for the last eight years. Coachella music fest: 10 picks out of 166 acts 2014-04-09T17:36:48Z “Best Boy” is an eventful novel with a mesmerizingly rhythmic narration and a little journey story thrown in. ‘Best Boy’ review: An unforgettable novel narrated by an adult with autism 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z When Valadon finally began painting, she carried on this sublimated conflict, the mesmerizing mix of alienation and claustrophobia that she plumbed in her drawings. Revolutionary Model Turned Uncompromising Painter 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z It's called simply Sky, and it looks as mesmerizing and visually balletic as indie studio Thatgamecompany's last three games, Flow, Flower and Journey. This Is the Creator of Journey's Stunning Next Big Indie Game 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z The mesmerizing Tsikurishvili is even dressed like smoke, in filmy black layers that practically float around her as the nameless witch — not called Maleficent — infiltrates and darkens this evergreen fairy tale. No thorns in Synetic’s wordless yet enchanting ‘Sleeping Beauty’ 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z He was mesmerized by their glamour and, he said, “that’s how I got street poisoned.” Review: ‘Street Poison: The Biography of Iceberg Slim’ Studies the Life of a Pimp 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z All of these shows juxtapose the violence and ruthlessness that define the genre with mesmerizing cinematography reflecting the untamed allure of the mountains and prairies. The "Yellowstone" effect: Welcome to the new era of TV Westerns 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z And, indeed, it was mesmerizing to watch Trpceski's fingers strike the keys in a blur of motion. Review: Passel of Frenchmen fit into symphony's evening 2010-06-11T18:48:00Z The theatrical effect — dozens of lighted cellphones in the darkened theater, the soft murmuring echo of the recorded voice as we listened — was mesmerizing. Dance Review: Where Human and Animal Worlds Come Together 2011-03-13T22:46:35Z In her acting debut, Barbeau, a professional ballerina at the Paris Opera Ballet, is mesmerizing in motion, and her training is obvious; she points her toes even while jogging. ‘Rise’ Review: Step, Repeat, Recover 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z The two leads are mesmerizing, hurling themselves into their physically demented roles with ferocious commitment. Review: Sandra Oh and Anne Heche in One Ferocious ‘Catfight’ 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z For this moment in “Dougla,” Geoffrey Holder’s celebrated 1974 ballet that she is helping to revive for the company, she fanned her elegant fingers — in the mesmerizing way that she does most everything. Bringing Back ‘Dougla’ Is a Family Affair 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z I see it mesmerize grown men and women and send them paddling nonstop for days until they stare like zombies. Float Through the Heart of Texas 2010-06-09T18:53:00Z My review will be posted Thursday; in the meantime, I found this trailer strangely mesmerizing. ‘Gone Girl' meets . . . ‘Toy Story'? 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Riding propellant but gentle rhythms that seemed to glow with warmth, the group generated mesmerizing energy, much of it courtesy of songs from Gonzalez's new album, "Vestiges and Claws." Jose Gonzalez rides a vibe of gentle, mesmerizing energy 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Sometimes they move toe to toe, swaying gently, in a mutually mesmerizing rhythm. Theater Review: ?Cockfight Play,? Directed by James Macdonald, at the Duke 2012-05-18T02:00:02Z All of these shows juxtapose the violence and ruthlessness that define the genre with mesmerizing cinematography reflecting the West's untamed allure. The "Yellowstone" effect: Welcome to the new era of TV Westerns 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” has a more complex, impressionistic structure as it moves fluidly forward and backward, changing perspectives and locales, keeping us mesmerized but never confused. Review: ‘The Narrow Road in the Deep North,’ by Richard Flanagan On this debut album’s three mesmerizing tracks, the players delve deep into their toolbox of extended techniques, including double-stopping and circular breathing. Classical Playlist: Gluck, Jonathan Biss, Morton Feldman and More 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z But the most mesmerizing couple is Mr. Angle, the company’s most refined partner and male dancer, and Ms. Hyltin, a gutsy wisp of ballerina, who after a nasty slip, regained her momentum with daring. Dance Review: ?Agon? and ?Chaconne? at New York City Ballet 2010-05-20T21:22:00Z Given the breadth of Ms. Du’s imagination, it made compelling, even mesmerizing listening. Music Review: Du Yun at the 21st Century Schizoid Music Concerts 2010-06-29T20:58:00Z “To say I was immediately mesmerized would be a massive understatement,” Mr. Sullivan said. Music: Korea Rediscovers Its Rock 'N' Roll Soul 2011-10-20T12:30:16Z The group offered a brilliant performance of this mesmerizing piece, which is distinguished by both its emotional power and its fascinating construction. Critic?s Notebook: Unearthly Harmonies, Best Heard in the Dark 2011-02-15T22:20:14Z Whiteley lingers on the toll of attempting near-impossible group gymnastics, and the mesmerizing work of practice – when the stunts work, it’s thrilling; one misstep is your teammate’s concussion or broken bone. Leading the way: how Cheer became a Netflix megahit 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z I offered my reading of “Big Wheel,” which had mesmerized me — raising themes, I thought, of labor, manufacturing decline, and the slippage between seductive and toxic masculinity. At His Moment of Triumph, Arthur Jafa Is Looking for Trouble 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Pictures don’t do justice to Obama’s portrait, or the mesmerizing vitality of the surrounding verdure. Inspired by the Obama portrait’s ‘living wall’? Not so fast. 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z If you’ve spent the last few weeks mesmerized by “Station Eleven” and are still craving more post-apocalyptic stories, try “Sweet Tooth.” How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z On that basis, who’s to say where any of the talented youngsters that make up the mesmerizingly toxic ensemble of “Posh” will end up two decades or so from now? Review: Satiric Assault on the Origins of Scabrous Male Bonding in Politics 2010-05-04T12:00:00Z It’s a little like watching a gang of buskers in a subway tunnel, yet it’s mesmerizing to see in a concert hall. Multimedia Tafelmusik concert immerses audience in Bach’s creative cycle 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z One way to think of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk’s magnum opus, “The Books of Jacob,” is as the fictional gospels of this apparently mesmerizing and highly problematic cult leader. Savior? Monster? A Messianic Leader Rallies His Followers. 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z Two weeks ago, Lester posted an Instagram video of him lettering the word “mesmerize” with two pencils in one hand and flourishes above and below. The Calligraphy Stars of Instagram 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Riveting and exhausting, fascinating and relentless, brilliant and tedious, it is a mesmerizing exploration of synchronicity, patterning and rhythm. Dance Review: Repetitions Build Drama With Rhythm and Gesture 2011-06-14T23:56:46Z He stirs class resentments; the crowds are mesmerized. ‘All the King’s Men,’ Now 70, Has a Touch of 2016 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z In “Music for a Summer Evening,” for two pianos and percussion, the musicians become celebrants in a mesmerizing ritual that requires the pianists to reach deep into the instrument’s strings. His Music Full of Echoes, a Maverick Composer Turns 90 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z As if mesmerized, she rushes toward him, as when she helps him hide from the police during a riot, violence that they seal with a kiss. Movie Review | 'Vincere': From Marco Bellocchio, a Dictator as Young Lover 2010-03-18T22:19:00Z Ever since, Eversley has been drawing viewers into mesmerizing optical and acoustic experiences, coloring and reframing the world through and around his lenses. The Artist Who Throws Newton a Curve 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z Then they become mesmerized by the undeniable emotional force of the content. Richard Linklater’s career has all been leading up to his ‘Boyhood’ masterpiece As always, she is mesmerized to the point of obsession with masculine codes of behavior. "Restrepo" vs. "The Hurt Locker" 2010-07-01T19:39:00Z It’s mesmerizing, in a twitchy sort of way — but in place of depth and enigma, we get candy-colored titillation and a nagging sense that nothing exists beneath the surface. Young Digital Artists, Anxious About ... Technology 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z Her blond head was a beacon, bobbing next to the booth where a D.J. was tending to a mesmerizing simmer. How Robyn, Pop’s Glittery Rebel, Danced Her Way Back From Darkness 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Even though it is not one of Tennessee Williams' strongest works, the mesmerizing set and the injection of Sicilian folk music are effective and poignant touches. Review: Marisa Tomei, in Extremis, in ‘The Rose Tattoo’ 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z She said she was mesmerized by the images of the poems, so she wanted to see them now in words. Salma Hayek on Her New Movie and Donald Trump, the 'Beast' 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z I was mesmerized by ‘Shady Grove,’ and I played it over and over again. Abigail Washburn scales her own personal wall of China 2012-10-12T16:18:00Z On it goes, with the eye mesmerized by the cascade of gazelle puppets and the heart arrested by the elegant lionesses, whether they are on the prowl or mourning the death of their king. ‘The Lion King,’ exuberant as ever, takes pride of place at the Kennedy Center The album’s mesmerizing combination of power pop interlaced with grinding guitar work, relentless bass and drum lines, and Mould’s charged lyrics were a welcome evolution of rock. Sugar's Copper Blue Reissued: 20th Anniversary of Bob Mould's Groundbreaking Album 2012-07-24T14:00:09Z But all that paled compared with the mesmerizing white and blue we found in the frozen world at the heart of Wrangell-St. Explorer : Ice Climbing in an Alaskan Glacial Paradise 2014-04-23T16:25:57Z But the anger and energy that had always driven Mr. McQueen to his finest work had turned to a mesmerizing calm for this 15-piece collection, which he completed before his suicide last month. Special Report: McQueen's Mesmerizing Finale 2010-03-09T18:27:00Z The bizarre and gorgeous sounds of their voices, combining rhythmically over rocking keyboard phrases, are sometimes mesmerizing, sometimes bore-into-the-skull repetitive. Dance Review: Multitasker Reverses the Aging Process 2011-06-10T23:56:26Z Mr. Lewis played with such calm intensity that the repeated notes were mesmerizing. Music Review: Beethoven Devotee Makes Some Keyboard Time for Schubert 2011-05-01T22:22:48Z Tsikurishvili is as mesmerizing as ever, even if he’s just executing a bit of pantomime as a puppet master jerking invisible ropes that yank his subjects into place. ‘Dr. Moreau’ delivers the blood, but not so much guts, at Synetic At sound checks on the day of the show, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder sat alone in the empty front row of the arena, mesmerized as he watched the other performers. Sony to release new DVD/CD of legendary Bob Dylan tribute concert 2014-03-03T17:24:10Z This was far enough from the way opera is done today to be mesmerizing. Baroque Operas, Under Reconstruction 2012-07-27T14:43:55Z But Morgan Jerkins’s latest book, “Wandering in Strange Lands,” is a mesmerizing reminder that this divide between Black and white is a false binary. Morgan Jerkins Heads Down South in Search of Her Black Identity 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z Dean resurrects this beloved saint in Russian history who cared for the poor, juxtaposing the crudest poverty and extravagant displays of wealth in a mesmerizing, spare style. 'The Mirrored World': the clash of faith and reason in 1700s St. Petersburg 2012-09-06T20:20:04Z Ms. Hunter’s delivery of this haunting, incantatory text, describing an elderly woman’s withdrawal from the world — “Time she stopped,” the character mutters time and again — into death’s enveloping embrace is utterly mesmerizing. | 'Fragments': ?Fragments? at Baryshnikov Arts Center - Review 2011-11-15T22:05:03Z Millions of us lapped up Bundy’s mesmerizing duplicity as a diversion. Ted Bundy, "I Am the Night" and our secret obsession with psychos 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z There’s a mesmerizing appeal to many of its panoramas, with their variegated colors, dense vegetation and drifting, swirling white mist. Review: ‘Legend of the Mountain,’ a Magical Mystery Marathon in Ancient China 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Their quality is mixed, but at their best, Gabritschevsky’s drawings are difficult to parse but unforgettably mesmerizing dispatches from some archetypal dream world. Descending Into Madness, a Russian Scientist Turned to Drawing 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Something about the bold, brassy sound, coupled with the distinctive physicality involved in playing the instrument, never fails to mesmerize the little folks. Weekend Miser: ‘The Carter Family Project’ at the Jalopy Theater 2013-01-10T20:19:48Z He reached a sweet spot with “The Shepherd’s Dog” in 2007, a mesmerizing blend of Appalachia, West Africa, dub reggae and the Grateful Dead. Music Review: Bells and Whistles Turn Up the Volume 2011-01-30T22:55:08Z His music evokes, and in some cases adapts, the complex interplays of light, sound, space and motion found in nature, to mesmerizing effect. Music Review: Turning It Outside-In at Armory 2011-02-21T22:53:56Z There is, after all, something mesmerizing about confession in a smoky railroad car, delivered by someone you’ll never see again. Theater Review: ?The Kreutzer Sonata,? Based on Tolstoy, at La MaMa 2012-03-12T02:00:00Z As demonstrated in Tiffany and Hoggett’s preternaturally fluid staging of the Tony-winning musical “Once” and their mesmerizing handling of Gregory Burke’s “Black Watch,” bodies in motion have a poetry all their own. 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' reminds us of the power of courage in the face of evil 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z “I wanted it to be futuristic — but in a beautiful way, looking forward positively,” said the designer, whose expression of flowers budding and breaking made a mesmerizing and beautiful collection. Fashion Review: Marc Jacobs Conducts the Louis Vuitton Express 2012-03-07T18:26:32Z The video is mesmerizing — very strange and very normal at the same time. Music: James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem Talks About Discoveries 2010-05-28T21:35:00Z Videos, in which cookies are piped and flooded with icing with mesmerizing precision, pull down millions of views. Meet the Cookiers, Home Bakers With a Bond Stronger Than Royal Icing 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z A roomful of individual reactions somehow adds up to a collective one, which might crest into a spontaneous ovation or a mesmerized gasp. Disconcerted: A Music Critic’s Empty Nights 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z He mesmerized the neighborhood kids with his magic act. 'Safe at Home: An Evening With Orson Bean' is a local treasure waiting for you to discover it 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Providing superb support was DeJohnette, whose fierce but controlled rhythmic explosions on "81" were particularly mesmerizing. Herbie Hancock & friends throw rousing jazz shindig 2010-06-25T22:05:00Z Ensemble Vulpine Lupin performed “Gravity of Shadows,” a mesmerizing study in tenebrous shades and timbres by Morgan Krauss, a young composer from Columbia College. Critic’s Notebook: A Hurricane Benefit in Chicago for a Brooklyn Record Label 2012-12-18T23:24:53Z But Trucks seemed most engaged -- and his playing most distinctive -- at less pyrotechnic moments, as in the mesmerizing, raga-like solo that led into “Midnight in Harlem,” a slow-rolling R&;B ballad beautifully sung by Tedeschi. Tedeschi Trucks Band, Gary Clark Jr. rethink the blues at Greek 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z I immediately fell in love with her piano playing and was mesmerized by her voicings as well. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mary Lou Williams 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Just don’t be so mesmerized that you forget to look ahead. Quiet hikes and undiscovered cabins at Washington’s favorite state park 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z Every time I would get in the car they’d be on heavy rotation, and I got absolutely mesmerized by their music. David Tennant Craves Old English Dinners and Cigarettes After Sex 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z “And I just found him mesmerizing and surprising and I said, ‘OK, how did he, from the inside out, become that way?’ ... and from that moment I was just obsessed ... Christian Bale gives a weighty performance in ‘Hustle’ 2013-12-24T21:19:44Z We are mesmerized by every variety of public shame, however, he observes, because in many ways “we all live on the edge of humiliation, in danger of being deported to that unkind country.” Books of The Times: Shame on Me, and You for Taking Pleasure in It 2011-08-02T21:23:10Z Gradually and almost inexplicably in this lucid, mesmerizing account, the two approaches fuse into a singular strain of austere sound poetry. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Leonard Bernstein, Keller Quartet, Cassandra Miller and More 2013-12-18T18:17:02Z I grew to love the simple act of walking and being mesmerized by the changing water. A reluctant visitor discovers the unhurried charm of Brittany, France 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Its chunky, grainy peanut butter surprised with tiny pops of cardamom, the soft, brown-edged wheels of zucchini and yellow squash somehow mesmerizing when dragged through the murk. Review | Cherry needs to bring more heat to the W Hotel 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Besides the mesmerizing beaches and beautiful display of ocean life, the Keys hold scores of early American history. West of Key West, an Under-the-Radar National Park 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z I left, mesmerized by their stealth and resistance. Encounters With Ghosts on Georgia’s Golden Isles 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z “How We Do” is mesmerizing in its capaciousness. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z In mesmerizing moments like this, FastHorse neatly sets up the tension between identity and the performance of identity — a tension she doesn’t resolve but upgrades over the course of the play to a full-scale paradox. Review: In ‘The Thanksgiving Play,’ Who Gets to Tell the Story? 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Such threads afford the likes of Isaiah Washington, almost unrecognizable in his outstanding performance as the town's crooked mayor, to churn out mesmerizing appearances. Eyes up here: In "P-Valley," the strippers and their grueling labor are the headliners, not men 2020-07-12T04:00:00Z Rise above the din of Friday rush hour by heading to one of the city’s rooftop bars, built atop sparkling skyscrapers that provide a mesmerizing view of the city’s broad boulevards and chaotic traffic circles. 36 Hours in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 2014-05-08T17:13:04Z The unblinking gaze from her ice-blue eyes, which once telegraphed a monastic intensity, looks, in hindsight, like the mesmerizing stare of a hypnotist. The Vexing Inscrutability of Elizabeth Holmes 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Like all of Beard’s work, it is also a mesmerizing read, as I’ve discovered too late. Review | 12 books I should have reviewed this year: A critic’s lament 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z For Brahms’s Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Ms. Mutter’s tone grew rounder and fuller, with a mesmerizingly well-calibrated alternation of single notes and double stops in an eloquent Adagio. Music Review: In a Finale, Comfort Trumps Provocation 2011-06-06T22:06:28Z She began producing her first trademark “Infinity Net” paintings, huge canvases — one was 33 feet high — covered with mesmerizing waves of small loops that seemed to go on and on. How Yayoi Kusama, the ‘Infinity Mirrors’ visionary, channels mental illness into art 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z It’s more like a philosophical horror monologue — and it’s as mesmerizing to watch as it is difficult to explain and experience. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Now Showing | ‘Lone Star’ The blazing sun is at the heart of the artist Jason Glasser‘s mesmerizing new show, “Lone Star,” which is on view through June 10 at Parker’s Box in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. | 'Lone Star' 2012-05-29T21:35:44Z June Han and Bridget Kibbey gave a mesmerizing account, their harps twinkling, rippling and bristling in alternation and in tandem as they cooed, murmured and chanted the text. Music Review: Karlheinz Stockhausen Seen in a Different Light 2010-05-04T21:25:00Z In the 1990s, I watched its mesmerizing Zoo TV tour in the pouring rain from the nosebleed seats of the old Giants Stadium in New Jersey. U2’s Music Shaped My Life. Then It Helped Save It. 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z “Oh William!” investigates those timely themes — loneliness, grief — in such a rich, mesmerizing narrative, I devoured it greedily. Review | Elizabeth Strout’s ‘Oh William!’ is yet another dazzler 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Here and there, groups of kids watched, mesmerized, as young adult workers demonstrated their various skills. The childhood home of lauded author Colette is open to the public in this small French village 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Their stories are a mesmerizing patchwork of determination, courage and survival. What to read in 2021 based on what you loved in 2020 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z The mundane and fantastic converged with uncanny, mesmerizing presence. 'Understory' is two artists' ode to the American basement, and every surface is covered in felt 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z In both Ms. Shick will show her mesmerizing skill at simple movements that shift from sensuous to pedestrian and back again. Spring Performance: Dance : Princely Majesty, Sensuous Simplicity 2011-02-20T02:01:29Z “I was just mesmerized by him,” she said. A Food Writer Gives His Bride ‘Four Stars’ 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z One yearns to stroke the long, curved ears, marvel at the shape, and stand mesmerized by the rich patina. The Museums Times Reporters Like to Visit on Their Days Off 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z This mesmerizing and timely novel, the author’s second, provides an on-ramp into conversations about racism, environmentalism, journalism, economics and sisterhood. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z “Black Panther,” by far the most commercially successful of the nominees listed here, takes on these themes in a way that honors the thorniness of the topic while mesmerizing the audience. Hollywood still loves a white savior: "Green Book" and the lazy, feel-good take on race 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z Ms. Futral inhabits this role and sings this demanding work with a mesmerizing combination of vocal elegance and expressive ferocity. Music Review: Kaija Saariaho’s ‘Émilie’ at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater 2012-07-20T23:33:07Z Seated at the eye of the storm, the visitor is untouched by the particles, but mesmerized by the spectacular patterns they form on the plastic walls. Art: A Beijing Exhibition on Art for the 'Post-Human Era' 2011-08-11T11:30:08Z It was mesmerizing from the start, but as we got closer to the island, the color of the water blossomed into the most breathtaking shades of sapphire-blue, turquoise and emerald-green I had ever seen. This 5-minute, rum-spiked fruit salad will transport you to a tropical island 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z We remain mesmerized, providing far too much attention to the daily circus he provides. Perspective | Trump has played the media like a puppet. We’re getting better — but history will not judge us kindly. 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z He drove cabs from his mid-30s right up to the moment, in 1978, when he received a commission from the Netherlands Opera to write what would become the mesmerizing Gandhi tribute “Satyagraha.” Review: Philip Glass’s ‘Words Without Music’ Tells of a Life Full of Changes in Rhythm 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z The Notts have now swapped road trips with the family for tours opening for Haim and, soon, Sam Smith, earning fans around the world with their effortlessly mesmerizing songs. 9 Under the Radar Artists You Should Be Listening to Right Now 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z Though it might not sound it, watching Kumiko brood is mesmerizing. 'Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter' chases her 'Fargo' dream 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z “To make a character simultaneously dull and mesmerizing takes quite some talent,” she added. Devil in the Details: How David Tennant Played a Serial Killer 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z It was mesmerizing, affirmative, flexible and incredibly artful. Music Review: At Lincoln Center, Using Both Sound and Silence 2010-09-26T06:11:00Z But Binoche is a virtuoso of sentiment, with a mesmerizing control of her face. ‘Who You Think I Am’ Review: A Woman of Feeling, in Bed and Out 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Without the concentration of his early works, without mesmerizing stretches of repetition, the noodling arpeggios seem just so many swatches of musical wallpaper slapped together, some colorful, some merely odd. Music Review: World Science Festival Opens at Alice Tully Hall 2010-06-03T22:59:00Z The mesmerizing sound of a harmonium wafted across a reflecting pool. Cultured Traveler: Thin Places, Where We Are Jolted Out of Old Ways of Seeing the World 2012-03-09T21:51:17Z No need for taxis: historic houses and mosques, mesmerizing bazaars, a castle, several museums, countless tea houses and restaurants are all in walking distance from the numerous hotels in the small downtown area. Frugal Traveler: Into Pistachio Country, in Southeastern Turkey 2011-07-12T19:47:32Z Her contortions are mesmerizing, and for a moment we relax in expectation that “Over the Limit” will be a rather soothing sports documentary. Review: A Russian Gymnast Goes ‘Over the Limit’ 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z This dance, such as it is, is about as mesmerizing a depiction of a miserable situation as one can think of. Smart Watch: Emmy winner “Mrs. Maisel” is still marvelous in a dazzling season 2 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z The golden orbs under the furrowed brow of the great horned owl are mesmerizing. The Great Outdoors: From Your Backyard to a Garden in Japan 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Intense and sharp, with tons of spinning lifts, that dance could’ve continued twice as long and I still would’ve been mesmerized. 'Dancing With the Stars' recap: First perfect 10s; Michael Sam leaves 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Hall approaches the material with a mesmerizing combination of connectedness and detachment that gives every scene a craggy tension underneath each demonstration of propriety. Thanks to its stars, "Passing" is a masterpiece of subtle expression, rendered in black and white 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Fiasco's mesmerizing way around a rhyme is on full display on the first single, "Deliver," a track that hints at success for "Tetsuo" after a series of hit-and-miss one-off tunes. Under-the-radar pop albums to watch for this year 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Not as busy as An Bang Beach to the north, this stretch of sea and sand is mesmerizing with a moderate surf, and view of the Cham Islands on the horizon. 36 Hours in Hoi An 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z I’ve always wanted to see whirling dervishes perform the mystical Sufi ceremony known as a sema, in which their series of mesmerizing turns help them, and the audience, reach a state of nirvana. Here’s what you should know before attending a whirling dervish ceremony in Turkey 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z In the case of Robbins, the program is a glorious trifecta: “Glass Pieces,” set to Philip Glass’s energizing composition; “Moves,” a mesmerizing ballet performed to silence; and “The Concert,” his delightful comic ballet. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Ms. Koh played both with the intensity they demand, in beautifully shaped, mesmerizing readings. Music Review: Jennifer Koh at the American Academy of Arts and Letters - Review 2011-10-25T22:11:59Z Taking a look at the coastal summer salmon fishing season totals with still about a month fishing left one would be mesmerized at the sheer number of anglers and fish caught. Ocean summer salmon fishery angler turnout and numbers of fish caught are a season to remember 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z From there, the chronicle of Billy’s growth as a dancer becomes mesmerizing, especially in the emotional number, with tap, that concludes Act 1, “Angry Dance,” and then in an Act 2 dream ballet. Review | You’ll be happy you gave yourself a night off to watch Billy Elliot soar again 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z On the level of an adventure story, McBurney delivers a good two hours’ worth of mesmerizing material. What you hear is what you get in 'The Encounter' 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z As told by Wald, the story of Dylan at Newport is not so much about music as it is about stories themselves, how they mesmerize even as they bumble along and don’t always end cleanly. What really happened the night Dylan plugged in his guitar? 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Revolving around the assassination attempt on Bob Marley in 1976, this mesmerizingly powerful novel addresses politics, class, race and violence in Jamaica. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z But the third part was Genesis with her band Thee Majesty, so she was just reciting poems with some guitar background, and I was really mesmerized by her. ArtsBeat: Marie Losier on ?The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye? 2011-04-25T14:00:08Z It was his presentation that was such a favorite … his characters, his voices, his persona that you were mesmerized by. Louie Anderson Remembers Robin Williams 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z Rogers had seen Griffin on her “Hell of a Story” tour and had been mesmerized. Kathy Griffin Is Trying to Get Back on the D-List 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z Put more broadly, their art, their mesmerizing energy and, most important, their joy springs from a sense of community and fellow-feeling. What the Rockettes and ‘The Hard Nut’ teach us about the meaning of life 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Mulligan recalled rehearsing a scene when Brie, playing Cassie's med school nemesis Madison, walks into Cassie's parents' home, and was genuinely both mesmerized and surprised by the set. Carey Mulligan on "Promising Young Woman," a feminist revenge story for the ages 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z During a visit to Chicago later that year, she caught Christian's "River Rats" show at the Western Exhibitions gallery and was mesmerized. In artist's show, creation merges with destruction 2013-02-22T13:55:08Z But anyway, he liked the movie — he calls it a “bleak but mesmerizing piece of filmmaking”– so what’s there to complain about? The Carpetbagger: The Film With the Broken Embargo 2011-12-05T16:13:08Z In this staging, by Rosemary Dunleavy and Arch Higgins, we were ideally caught between Balanchine’s mesmerizing mastery of changing geometric patterns and the image of bright, youthful graciousness embodied by each couple. Dance Review: School of American Ballet Workshop Performances 2013-06-03T21:09:56Z One of the year’s most-acclaimed films, Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master, earned only one nomination, supporting actor for Philip Seymour Hoffman as a mesmerizing cult leader. Lincoln, Les Mis, Playbook Lead SAG Awards 2012-12-12T19:24:58Z In one oddly mesmerizing skit, she acts on command for random Times Square tourists. TV listings: Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z Not surprisingly, Vann’s mesmerizing but grim books are a lot more popular in Europe, especially in France, where they reportedly sell hundreds of thousands of copies. David Vann’s ‘Aquarium’ delves into the depths of mother-daughter tension 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z The lobby walls are mesmerizing collages of old wooden furniture pieces; the restaurant columns, bedecked with chest drawers and table legs, resemble a fairy-tale forest. Businesss as Usual for the New Hotel 2011-10-17T03:40:00Z Say’s recreations of Castle’s work illustrates a mesmerizing vision of the world. Gorgeous Picture Books That Reveal the Power of the Pencil 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z The vista from its rocky peak is mesmerizing. On the Colombian island of Providencia, the pace is slow but charms come thick and fast The women appeared mesmerized by the towering artworks, and by Kenny Jr. in his flowing shalwar kameez. House Proud: Pink Robots at the Gate 2013-08-21T22:22:38Z I stood on a forested mountaintop in Mexico in late February, mesmerized by monarch butterflies swirling around me, darting in and out of the trees and pockets of sunlight. Monarch butterflies in Mexico allow brush with fragile beauty 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z The Met has come slowly to the works of Mr. Glass, but Mr. McDermott’s imaginative, mesmerizing staging of “Satyagraha,” in 2008, was one of the company’s recent landmarks. The Met Opera’s New Season: What Our Critics Want to See 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Lauren Wolkstein and Christopher Radcliff’s mesmerizing film — based on their earlier short film of the same name — opened the first week in January, and still remains one of the year’s best films. The 18 most memorable movies of 2018 — for better and for worse 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Highlights and high points: The red rocks are completely mesmerizing. A visit to seductive Sedona, Ariz. The Buddha emits a mesmerizing fusion of abstract enlightenment and bodily energy that seems to emanate from its exquisitely precise upward-flowing posture. Art Review: Asia Week in New York Includes More Than 40 Shows 2012-03-15T22:26:26Z Mr. Daniel was 3 when they came out, and remembers listening to them “and being mesmerized, like, ‘Yo, that’s my mom’s voice, over music and everything.’ Detroit House Music Takes a Swaggering Step Out of the Darkness 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Over the days, I’d kept wandering back to stare at the Yukon, a mesmerizing waterway so forceful, the town’s tiny ferry sometimes heads almost directly upstream to get across. 125 years after gold was discovered in the Yukon, we ventured up to Dawson City. Here’s what it looks like now 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Migos, “Culture” This Atlanta trio raps in mesmerizing staccato triplets, blasting new life into an old idea that’s been attributed to Mozart, Debussy and Miles: Music is the space between the words. Perspective | Best music of 2017: Cardi B paints the world ‘Bodak Yellow’ 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Yes, Will’s climactic act of heroic vigilantism involves him burning down a Harlem warehouse where the Klan is manufacturing mesmerizing films meant to incite black people to mass violence. HBO's "Watchmen" trolls history and heroic whiteness in the most extraordinary episode yet 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Mr. Goldstein, who is enjoying an international career, began his recital with a curiously cool, even careless, at times, performance of Beethoven’s “Tempest” Sonata, though he brought rippling allure to the work’s mesmerizing finale. Alexander Schimpf and Alon Goldstein at Mannes Festival 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Sitting there, I realized that the experience had mesmerized me. A Mesmerizing Marathon of Robert Frank’s Movies 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z “With the sand dunes, the grasses and the ocean beyond, it’s just mesmerizing.” Beach House, Meet Ocean View 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Among the lyrical and mesmerizing tracks lies “Brighter!,” which features the late actress/singer Karen Black. Fall 2013 Music Preview 2013-09-06T09:45:57Z Alejandro said he’s always been mesmerized by performers and participated in his own school’s theater, talent shows and art programs. AP Breakthrough Entertainer: Rauw Alejandro, higher level 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z These align with the reviews from my home, both from humans and animal: our cat, also an orange tabby, joined the ranks of felines mesmerized by game play. The video game "Stray" taps into why we fancy being a cat 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z “The total J. Lo Effect was kind of mesmerizing,” The New York Times’s fashion critic Vanessa Friedman wrote. What Is the ‘J. Lo Effect’? 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z His emphasis, when yoga itself was still exotic in the United States, on the then relatively unpopular hatha yoga and breathing techniques wound up having mesmerizing effects on his disciples. Books of The Times: ?The Great Oom,? by Robert Love, on Yoga?s Pierre Bernard 2010-04-14T22:33:00Z The Hollywood Reporter's David Rooney wrote that the revised revival production "maximizes the material's strengths and minimizes its weaknesses, serving up mesmerizing entertainment veined throughout with haunting poignancy." 'Side Show' revision on Broadway earns praise from critics 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z In this quietly mesmerizing book about journalists covering the war in Vietnam, the first glimpses of the place are the most familiar. Books of The Times: Tatjana Soli?s ?Lotus Eaters? Offers Lessons From Vietnam 2010-03-29T04:59:00Z The motifs come equally from nature, geometry and instinct: worms, cells, flowers, triangles, eyes and circles-within-squares are among the words they bring to mind without accounting for their mesmerizing yet adamantly modest effects. Museum & Gallery Listings for Feb. 14-20 2014-02-13T23:43:41Z Mr. Shindo combines austerity and sensuality to stirring, sometimes mesmerizing effect. | 'Children of Hiroshima': Japanese Survivors Shaded by Puzzlement and Sorrow 2011-04-21T23:19:01Z Duplicating his father’s gorgeous Kodachrome slides of the primordial Pacific Coast, and adding present-day scenes of his parents in New York, Daniel made a mesmerizing video called “My First Wife Stella.” What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Excited visitors clump below, pointing up and mesmerized. Costa Rica’s ‘biologically intense’ Osa Peninsula is truly wild 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Fans say the lanky, baritone singer and guitarist was a mesmerizing performer. Late reggae icon Peter Tosh receives Jamaica honor 2012-10-15T16:39:17Z As the “mesmerizing and delicate” novel follows them on their quest, our critic Molly Young writes, “it centers on faith, history, language and yearning.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Reading, say, “The First Hour of the Night,” which ranges in emotion from solemnity to rage, you’ll find the absorption mesmerizing. Five Decades of Frank Bidart’s Verse, From Masks to Self-Mythology 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Best Use of a Boston Accent: Donald Driver told the tragic tale of the loss of his best friend to cancer in 2010 and then danced a sultry rumba that Carrie-Ann deemed “mesmerizing.” Dancing with the Stars Watch: So Many Tears, So Many 10s 2012-04-03T12:29:20Z That basic reality of life seems lost on a world mesmerized by the wonders of the digital age, but Crane seems determined to use Oak Spring to shout it from the treetops. Opening the door to a place of plants and privilege 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z First, because I was mesmerized by those amateur videos that I found on the internet. Russia and Ukraine Have Long Been This Filmmaker’s Subject 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z It was magnificent — a mesmerizing recital by a supremely elegant and charismatic singer. Siberia's bleak, beautiful baritone sweeps across L.A. Opera 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z “It’s what makes it fun for me. When I fly, I like to put ear buds in and listen to music. It’s like a dance. I’m just mesmerized. “I’m old and I can hardly move. From pterodactyls to flying fighters, kites are more fun than ever 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Plus I was so mesmerized by the feathers and the shaking and Mark's insane body to even notice if the rest of the components were working until I rewound a bit. Guy-on-guy dancing perks up "So You Think You Can Dance" 2010-07-15T12:01:00Z In the quartet, performed at the Chocolate Factory Theater in Long Island City, Queens, Ms. Davis creates a mesmerizing world in which bodies morph into ever-shifting sculptures. Your Week in Culture: Clive Owen, St. Vincent, ‘Marshall’ Before the Supreme Court 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Now, the restless can reach for their smartphones and browse until the sun rises or sleep descends, mesmerized by something that provides stimulation without strain, distraction without effort. Sleep-Tracking Apps Can Help You Make it Through the Night 2014-03-06T00:23:45Z The book collects Ortiz’s dreams over a period of four years, in spare and at times mesmerizing prose. In the space of dreams: Wendy Ortiz's 'Bruja' is vivid and dark 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z McKellen’s mesmerizingly idiosyncratic recitations from “Hamlet,” “Macbeth” and “The Tempest” — which located a brooding acknowledgment of existential nothingness in three very different works — had me shivering. When Home Is a Big Broadway Stage 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z I stared at his pink, puffy mouth as he slept, mesmerized by the way it opened and shut like a fish, sniffing its milky exhalations. Divorcing while pregnant 2013-01-16T01:00:00Z He attacks life with such mesmerizing gusto; you can’t help getting swept up in his enthusiasm – and imagining getting swept up by him. Salon’s Sexiest Men of 2012 2012-11-14T13:22:00Z And for a long while in late fall, I found myself mesmerized by a video of it, starring men spinning off a staircase and onto a trampoline. The Acrobatic Artwork That Pretty Much Sums Up 2017 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z The back of Sela Ward’s white dress had a mesmerizing gold zipper. It’s not a party without Joe Biden: Scenes from the correspondents’ dinner aftermath 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Go for the show and you'll bask in the wavy glow of the mesmerizing modular arts panel backing the musicians. Bake's bops into Bellevue, blowing changes in the kitchen 2012-08-16T20:54:04Z But, I will say, deep inside Michael Cimino’s deranged epic there is something mesmerizing. When geniuses bomb 2012-06-12T14:00:00Z “When I met him I was totally mesmerized by his fanaticism,” he said, regarding Mr. Leigh. Book and Film on Ralph Rucci 2011-12-28T17:41:11Z Porter’s New Yorker columns were a mesmerizing fusion of criticism, scholarship, and cultural commentary. Postscript: Andrew Porter (1928-2015) 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z She follows him, and after 90 minutes of random but often mesmerizing dance/acrobat numbers, they are reunited in a romantic aerial pas de deux. ‘Cirque du Soleil’: New 3D film is beautiful and strange 2012-12-26T18:17:21Z This quintessentially American story — tracing the author’s heritage through enslavement, emancipation, multiculturalism and migration — is a mesmerizing reminder that the divide between Black and white is a false binary. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z In some ways, we slowed way, way down, watching the South unfold in a blur outside bus and train windows, with long stretches of mesmerizing nothingness. On the Path of Chuck Berry’s ‘Promised Land,’ Five Decades On 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z He used measurements of a Texas cave to create mesmerizing pedal steel guitar pieces, then asked electronic artists to remix them. Vilified for Virus, Bats Are a New Album’s Seductive Stars 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z With just two acoustic guitars backing him, he was at his mesmerizing best on a sparse reading of Zep’s “Going to California.” Concert review: Robert Plant at Taste of Chicago 2013-07-13T03:44:00Z “We need to have a balance, and she is so generous and engaged, it’s mesmerizing. And from there, her aura just spreads.” Claire Chase Is Changing How People Think of the Flute 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z This is a trick he pulls off steadily through this often mesmerizing mixtape, one of the most arresting and alluring-sounding releases of the year. Critic’s Notebook: He’s Acting Out; It’s on Purpose 2013-07-10T21:52:21Z These discursions are among the book’s keenest pleasures, expanding the scope of the narrator’s thinking and deepening the meaning of her intimate reminiscences through a mesmerizing succession of echoes, parallels, and associations. “Sight” and The Pleasures of Overthinking Motherhood 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z As the sun beat down, I watched the sand that my guide’s camel sent flying as it walked — which was mesmerizing and something to focus on other than how uncomfortable I was. For visitors to Senegal’s Lac Rose, a closer look at the colorful lake’s salt harvest 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z There are no long, mesmerizing passages here, no quirky punctuation, no nimble leaps between grim reality and zany comedy that are Saramago’s hallmark. Book review: ‘Skylight’ by Jose Saramago 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Advertisement Advertisement Inside, the ceilings are painted with mesmerizing depictions of the Hindu epics, most notably the Bhima Swarga story, in which a man enters the underworld to rescue his parents. Finding the Other, Cheaper Side of Bali 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z In a daringly slow, mesmerizing monologue, Guinevere strangles herself with her own long hair. Review: To a Rare King Arthur Opera, Bard Says ‘Welcome Back’ 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z Watching her in this official role mesmerized him. Perspective | One of the most powerful works of video art will be available free online this weekend. Here’s why you must watch. 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Still, his videos acutely explore themes of the opera, even specific words from the libretto — fire, water, night, light, certain kinds of gazes — to mesmerizing effect. Operas Filled With Forbidden Love in Madrid 2014-01-28T13:02:07Z There's something weirdly mesmerizing, for a while, about the atmosphere Daniels creates, and the actors, glowing in their shiny '60s synthetics, throw themselves into the swamp with gusto. Meandering 'Paperboy' misses the mark 2012-10-11T20:07:05Z More than 3 million TikTok users were mesmerized when Babs demonstrated how to prevent a garbage bag from collapsing inside the trash can. Is this grandma-approved dishwasher hack too good to be true? 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Onstage, Karen O is still mesmerizing, geysering liquids and power-posing on monitors, but she has tamed, ever so slightly, her wild dervish style. The Electrifying, Emotional Return of Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z In “The Painted Wall,” the Provincial Graduate Zhu visits a Zen monastery where he lingers before a mural, mesmerized by the image of a smiling maiden with unbound hair. Review | The perfect book to help celebrate the Chinese New Year 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Zink has confessed to being mesmerized by “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” as a child, and the influence shows. ‘Nicotine’: The new zany-brainy novel from Nell Zink 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z But what makes Bartlett’s script so mesmerizing is less its plot than its language—he has written the play in blank verse, like counterfeit Shakespeare. Theatre’s Superpower 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z While the Rogan work is jolting and mesmerizing at the same time, several works seem purely hypnotic. Review: Western Bridge exhibition lets light dawn in the dark 2011-03-10T22:42:03Z That gorgeous, mesmerizing guitar, and a watery pattern moving onscreen behind him. “The Bells”: Lou Reed Out of Doors 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z I was so mesmerized by that film, and I felt so much part of that family. | Drew Barrymore and Robert Osborne on Classic Movies 2014-03-08T00:30:51Z This helped ensure that material that often feels like filler was continually mesmerizing. The Vienna Philharmonic Tends the Classics With a Perfect Partner 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z “I was so mesmerized by him,” she said. Bob Ross’s Strange Afterlife 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z I know I'm not alone when I say that the video is mesmerizing — the clip has been viewed 2.3 million times, undoubtedly inspiring many breakfasts over the years. How to make an omelet, according to pros 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z It’s smart and jazzy, the costumes are mesmerizing, and it’s a breezy show without being a dumb show. What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Iris’ and ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z Gunn's a mesmerizing musician whose allure has drawn equally skilled collaborators, and "Way Out Weather" gets deeper with each listen. Arresting beats of James Blake, Steve Gunn, Miguel 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z One is 50-feet long - a mesmerizing black-and-white all over geometric abstraction tightly integrated with his figurative imagery. NY exhibit focuses on early career of Keith Haring 2012-03-25T00:46:05Z This bravura performance from Raf Simons raised the vivid color and volume of last season to mesmerizing heights. Special Report: Fashion: Surface Attraction 2011-02-27T17:05:09Z Their most fraught marital battles were as intense and mesmerizing as any by Edward Albee or Tennessee Williams. The TV Watch: A Complicated Actor Who Made a Complicated Mob Boss Indelible 2013-06-20T23:08:03Z Yet there was no overshadowing Ortega’s commanding voice as she delivered searing takes on the Bee Gees’ “To Love Somebody,” Janis Joplin’s “Mercedes Benz” and a mesmerizingly unique rendition of Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire.” Lindi Ortega: The pipes of Patsy Cline with the visual flair of Amy Winehouse 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z While our cultural consciousness has remained mesmerized by Manson, “The Girls” is far more fascinated by his female acolytes. ‘The Girls,’ by Emma Cline: Charles Manson, reimagined 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z But a succession of deep cuts, minor rearrangements and savvy segues mesmerized. Concert review: The many faces of Elvis Costello 2010-12-21T12:13:00Z International vocal coach Herbert Burtis was in the audience, and he was mesmerized. Portrait of a young singer on the cusp of stardom 2011-05-28T22:31:06Z We discussed why I feel guilty watching; mesmerized by something that's morally ambiguous. Is Woody Allen a Great Filmmaker? Discuss 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Add to this a fierce dragon rider and a war between East and West, and you’ve got a mesmerizing diversion for a cold February weekend. The 10 books to read in February 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Wearing a pale yellow unitard and point shoes, she guided her body through a sequence of static positions, creating an oddly mesmerizing movement meditation. Dance Review: Fall for Dance Festival at City Center - Review 2011-11-03T01:15:46Z Another work, “Memory,” is a mesmerizing frog metamorphosis screen print that Point and Cannell worked on together. Review: South Sound exhibits explore contemporary art with ancient roots 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z The mystery isn’t entirely solved — Maier took many of her secrets to her grave — but the film is nonetheless mesmerizing. ‘Finding Vivian Maier’: a secret artist of street life 2014-04-10T20:22:21Z Today it is guarded as a mesmerizing tropical ecosystem, but more than a century ago entrepreneurs and politicians saw it as a useless swamp ripe for development. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Roswell, New Mexico’ and ‘Corporate’ 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z “I was mesmerized by the best-looking guy I’d ever seen,” she said. They Found the Harbor for Their Hearts 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z But there’s something mesmerizing about how the scene’s staged: in the inky blackness of downtown Twin Peaks, with Nadine’s drapes noiselessly opening and closing behind a crackpot YouTube star and his biggest fan. ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3, Episode 13: Starting Position 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z But between her tighter-than-hell L.A.-based backing band, Icewater, her distinctive voice and jazz-horn-like phrasing and a bizarre kind of force when approaching the songs from “New View,” she delivers a mesmerizing live show. A great year for live music: From Wilco to Eleanor Friedberger and Philip Glass 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z Although she belonged to a generation of gifted ballerinas at the Paris Opera, she was set apart by a mesmerizing elegance that was never confused with chic. Yvette Chauviré, Ballerina and Symbol of French Culture, Dies at 99 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Sociologist Jean Boudrillard called the social world a "simulacrum," a hyper-reality full of noise, images, and symbols designed to mesmerize the mind and replace the boring real world. Randy Rainbow, singing truth to power 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z As we watched, mesmerized by white-clad figures carrying out this final celebration while sacred cows roamed among them, one of our number quietly floated her husband’s ashes off the stern of our boat. From Delhi to Kochi: A couple’s 23-day adventure in India 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Through tears, she recalled Leonard Bernstein’s reaction: “I don’t know what is going to happen with this play,” the composer announced, “but that was the most mesmerizing audition I’ve ever seen in my life.” Get Out of My Light, Honey. I’m Auditioning Here. 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z I could see it in advance only on film, which diminishes its power to mesmerize. Spare Times for Children for April 26-May 2 2013-04-25T22:27:06Z The piece’s focus drifted toward the end, but these three guys were always mesmerizing. L.A. Dance Project delivers mesmerizing debut at the Wallis 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z Their mesmerizing display of spouting and cascading water amused us both for hours. St. Petersburg’s Unexpected Side: Plenty of Family Fun 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z There’s plenty to stare at: a mermaid mural, the skeleton of a shark’s jaw, and, mesmerizingly, live tropical fish, swimming in a glowing oval tank. Sarah Larson: Sea Witch, a Nautical Bar in South Slope 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z "The Dead" wouldn't be the mesmerizing and moving story it is but for the masterful way James Joyce, a highly talented tenor, weaves the well-known Irish ballad, "The Lass of Aughrim" into its text. Review: ‘The Dead, 1904’ Brings Existential Unease to the Party 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z She is also a commanding and mesmerizing presence onstage. 11 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z For 20 mesmerizing minutes, waves crash over the canvas construction as it bobbles, floats and returns. Zilia Sánchez’s Island of Erotic Forms 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z He recalls one day off from his job as a kimono salesman, seeing the Zep concert film “The Song Remains The Same,” and being mesmerized by the power of Page’s playing. ‘Mr. Jimmy’ Review: Trying for That Perfect Page Re-Creation 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z So long as the camera is studying Franny maniacally bestowing his largess or throwing temper tantrums, “The Benefactor” is mesmerizing. Review: Richard Gere, ‘The Benefactor’ Who Pulls the Strings 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Rosie pleads, but Mazie is too mesmerized by “the streets and the bars and the men and the women and the whiskey and the beer and the smokes.” ‘Queen of the Bowery’ embraced roles of sinner and saint 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Old Ideas may not have another “Hallelujah,” but it’s a mesmerizing document of the late years of a master. Leonard Cohen's New, Beautiful Old Ideas 2012-01-31T14:30:28Z The primary relationship, for each character, is with fate — but fate has rarely been so many-faced, so muscular, so mercurial, or so mesmerizing as it is in “A Burning.” A Facebook Post Lands an Innocent Woman in Jail in This Riveting Debut Novel 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z His abrupt death at 42 shocked legions of fans still mesmerized today by his singing, sex appeal and on-stage charisma. Thousands mark Elvis's death, get surprise visit 2012-08-16T11:01:16Z At the start two film projectors run optically mesmerizing abstract films by Len Lye in which scratches in the film seem to dance to percussive tribal music. Art Review: ?Print/Out? and ?Printin? ?at the Museum of Modern Art 2012-02-16T23:07:07Z During our initial sessions, as I complained about my father and his autocratic rules, Ron focused his unrelenting gaze on me, listening intently in a way I found mesmerizing. The sex-talking therapist I went to as a teen: “Do you want to learn how to be a woman, not a scared little girl?” 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z The cyr wheel is paired with Dvořák’s mesmerizing “Slavonic Dance,” while waltzes by Johann Strauss II will match the pendulous rhythm of the trapeze. Seattle trapeze artists team up with live orchestra for what may be a first-of-its-kind performance 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z This Argentine writer’s stories are propulsive and mesmerizing, laced with vivid descriptions of the grotesque and the darkest humor. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z At 52, he said "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" was the first movie he ever saw as a boy, in an audience mesmerized when the car drives off a cliff and sprouts wings and propellers. Ian Fleming's magical Chitty car flies again 2012-03-08T16:41:14Z The Jesus and Mary Chain also mined the past, culling material from their ‘80s and ‘90s albums when they combined distortion and melancholy to mesmerizing effect. Concert review: Riot Fest at Humboldt Park 2012-09-17T05:46:00Z The more we burned, the more hypnotic it became — a mesmerizing spectacle of pages curling and embers dancing into the void. Why ‘Fahrenheit 451’ Is the Book for Our Social Media Age 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z One of the novel’s most mesmerizing elements is a series of short chapterson how to be safe in the modern world. Review | 3 novels that aim for the heart of America’s love affair with guns 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z I noticed the attendant staring, and I assumed he must be mesmerized by the sight of my father, who was only 57 but looked 90. I took my dead father to a Red Sox game 2013-03-09T15:00:00Z You know, growing up in Germany and running away from the war, and being such a statuesque and mesmerizing beauty as a fashion person. Q. and A.: With John Cale in Paris and Along the Borderline 2013-01-15T15:30:12Z But on the issue of taking care of Audrey, she is as focused — and as mesmerizing — as a starving cobra sizing up its next meal. Nicky Silver’s ‘Too Much Sun’ Stars Linda Lavin 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z Each of Carr’s bijoux is truly a work of art, conjuring its namesake—a frog prince, phoenix chicks—from mesmerizing gemstones. Jewelry Designer Temple St. Clair Carr's Collaboration with Artist Nancy Lorenz 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Anthony Doerr’s “Cloud Cuckoo Land” is a mesmerizing book with multiple storylines that takes us back to 1453, the siege of Constantinople. Read Your Way Through Istanbul 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Spielberg coaxed great “performances” from the seven or eight steeds who played Joey; but theatergoers mesmerized by the NT show must think: No fair using real horses. War Horse: Spielberg's Searing, Splendid Christmas Gift 2011-12-22T21:17:44Z This is one of the year’s best suspense novels, a mesmerizing, surprise-jammed mystery that works purely on its own, character-driven terms. Review: Noah Hawley’s ‘Before the Fall’ Is One of the Year’s Best Suspense Novels 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z I mention this in such detail because I was watching it, mesmerized -- it was far more interesting than what was currently going on onscreen. And a little more 'Downton Abbey' scoop 2012-07-25T17:51:32Z Another difference: Mary Sue is as invested in the Cause, and nearly as mesmerizing as her husband. Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master: There Will Be Boredom 2012-09-01T18:40:38Z But this makes her mesmerizing book sound more helpful than it is, or than it needs to be; “Self-Portrait” is less tidy and more surprising than such a potted purpose would allow. ‘I Am My Own Subject’: Celia Paul on Lucian Freud, Motherhood and a Life in Art 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z “Sinatra 100” is a spacious and mesmerizing picture book, documenting Frank Sinatra’s life, from his birth in Hoboken, N.J., through his final years. ‘Sinatra 100’ gets his good side 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Reviewing Mr. Wright’s book, The Boston Globe took it to task for stylistic infelicities while lauding the overall story as “mesmerizing.” William Wright, Biographer of Lillian Hellman, Dies at 85 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Smack in the center is Ms. Dorrance, the light within: her sunny charisma and lanky body work in mesmerizing combination as she glides across the floor or hits it with fury. Dance Review: In Church, Tapping Out Memorials 2011-03-11T22:55:21Z Harold C. Schonberg wrote in The New York Times that her voice was not quite strong enough for the part, but that he was mesmerized by her acting, calling her “beautiful, lithe, intense.” Joyce Bryant, Sensual Singer Who Changed Course, Dies at 95 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Michelle said his gallantry, along with a mesmerizing night under the Northern Lights “and some Champagne to take the edge off,” rekindled the magic between them. The Hail-Mary-Moon 2013-08-01T00:59:19Z If you are unfamiliar with the weird and wonderful world of the New Zealand folk musician Aldous Harding, the mesmerizing music video for her 2019 single “The Barrel” is probably the place to start. Aldous Harding’s Gloriously Peculiar World of Songs 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z In one mesmerizing sequence, the protagonist shadowboxes in precise rhythm with the percussion. How the Blaze’s Emotional Dance Music Brings Listeners to Tears 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z “We’re creating it with historical obsession and mesmerizing detail,” Thomas Krens, the former Guggenheim Museum director and a Mass MoCA founder who is spearheading the project, said in a phone interview. Frank Gehry to Design Museum for Architectural Gems (and Model Trains) 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z As distinctive and mesmerizing as the gameplay is, "Lost in Shadow" becomes more about guesswork and less about the journey and the tension the environment evokes. Game On: 'Active 2' a decent workout 2011-01-11T22:25:04Z And there were some images that simply mesmerized or delighted: a horseback ride in California, steam clouding Lower Manhattan, a snail named Velveeta surrounded by miniature groceries. Our Favorite Arts Photos of 2021 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z A tanned, willowy woman with a cascade of light-brown hair, Naye has drawn perhaps disproportionate attention from the throngs of Internet sleuths mesmerized by the scandal. The Colorado soap opera that could be a major 2016 headache for the GOP 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Spanning six decades, the show includes performance videos, drawings, writing, photographs and three mesmerizing holograms, now owned by major museums. Simone Forti’s Experiments Transcribing Bodies in Motion 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z A museum label observes, “The mug shot-like portrait captures Hickock’s sullen, lopsided face with mesmerizing clarity, as if searching for physiognomic clues to his criminal pathology.” Review: ‘Crime Stories: Photography and Foul Play’ Is a Rogues’ Gallery 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z With his mesmerizing, pointillist paintings of appliqué ducks, flowers and complex mandala patterns resembling needlework, Glenn Goldberg also operates in the confusingly gendered gap between domestic craft and Modernist abstraction. Art Review: The Allure of the Homespun in the Maw of the Digital Age 2010-09-02T21:48:00Z You can find a 1980 studio recording of this mesmerizing four-movement meditation for modified organ, but its crystalline sheen lends its surface too much polish for my taste. Perspective | Scrap the romantic ballads. Use this eclectic playlist for your first Valentine’s Day stuck at home. 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z “It’s going to be, I believe, mesmerizing and have a lot of theatrical emotion.” ‘Elton John of the fountain world’ shows just how far water features have come 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Readers will be mesmerized by Dibbell’s staccato prose as much as they are by the harrowing circumstances this mother and child must endure. The best science-fiction and fantasy books for March 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z This horseshoe-style wreath of flowers glistening in brown and gold mesmerized us. Mine: The wreath She would ponder the passage of time while mesmerized by birds “darting in all directions,” or a fountain’s flow that “splashes up, the drop in endless formations.” These Books Move Heaven and Earth 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z The visually mesmerizing “Diamond’s Dream,” presented by Chicago Children’s Theater, is even shorter — just under 18 minutes. Exploring Race and Resistance for Young Audiences 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z “These places that were once alive with sound and movement are now silent and still, but they are no less mesmerizing,” he says. 12 Insanely Beautiful Abandoned Buildings 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Skillful improvisers, they repeatedly built the music into a frenzy, riffing off a mesmerizing cascade of ever-changing rhythmic patterns. Concert of Afghan traditional music at UW beautiful, mesmerizing 2012-04-25T20:12:05Z In the opening seconds, a young girl dances in front of a television set, mesmerized by “106 & Park,” BET’s answer to “Total Request Live.” Normani and the Work of the Pop Princess 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z And while there are some intriguing prospects—Mr. Robot’s Rami Malek would be mesmerizing, and Michael B. Jordan proved he has the chops in Creed—a newbie is the safest bet. Why Disney Should Cast a Total Unknown as Young Han Solo 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z The same textural temptations applied to the black lace dress with feathered cloak that so mesmerized the front row invitees. Special Report: Fashion: Givenchy: Pure Is Beautiful 2011-07-05T17:12:09Z The neon sculptures of James O. Clark are also here; they draw on Minimalism, as do anodized titanium paintings and a mesmerizing kinetic sculpture by Nathaniel de Large at 247365. Review: At NADA Art Fair, Collecting for Pleasure, Not Status 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z In narration, Mr. Clapton talks of being practically mesmerized by music by African-American musicians he heard on the radio as a child. Review: ‘Eric Clapton: A Life in 12 Bars,’ of Triumphs and Tragedies 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z Alternating mouthfuls of tart, pungent noodles with sips of warm broth is a mesmerizing experience in any weather. A Far-Ranging Thai Menu That Started With a Slurp 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Writing for The Times, Judith Freeman called "West of Eden" "mesmerizing" and "compulsively readable." PEN America launches $75,000 book prize, one of the country's biggest 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Slow and mesmerizingly romantic, Kizomba is performed in an extremely close embrace by two people in a loose ballroom hold. Travel the World Through These Dance Tutorials 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z Her beats tend to be slow and mesmerizing, and she’s one of the guest curators for the whole festival — this will probably have long lines, so show up early. What to See at Upstream: Day Two 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z I know a man in Spain who has been accumulating long-forgotten photographs and other private relics from the war: a mesmerizing and mysterious stash of soldiers’ snapshots and letters, and documents scrawled with Hitler’s notes. Abroad: 13th Linz Album of Hitler?s Returned to Germany 2010-05-18T23:58:00Z Guitars intertwine and gather around them, in ever-thickening skeins of picking and strumming, pulling a listener into all the mesmerizing turbulence of those troubled romances. New Music: Dum Dum Girls, Peggy Sue and Helen Sung Release Albums 2014-01-27T22:37:10Z “It was the first time I was mesmerized by glamour.” The New Image Makers 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z But there was, at least, something mesmerizing in watching Melisandre do her work. Review: Jon Snow's Fate Is Finally Revealed 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Produced by Lou, “Okay Cupid” is the mesmerizing, warped track that ultimately got the attention of the New York Times and nearly everyone else on the Internet. The New Face of Rap: Young, Female and Ready to Blog 2012-05-30T10:45:30Z Before the dancers could even start to drift and swirl — the sort of delicate micro movements that help make this seemingly simple dance mesmerizing — their torsos began to buckle. Trisha Brown on the Beach: Catch a Wave of Dancing Bliss 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Then, the mesmerized viewer says, “Take me, please!” Johnny Depp in Tim Burton's Dark Shadows: Death Warmed Over 2012-05-10T10:45:28Z It's a spectacular tableside experience, complete with spun sugar, smoke and other intricate details that leave you mesmerized. A new guide to traveling — and traveling to eat — while fat 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Pomus died in 1991, and the crowd at his service was mesmerized when Mr. Scott began to sing, but few knew who he was. Jimmy Scott, hard-luck singer with a haunting voice, dies at 88 Mr. Kentridge’s 24 stop-action films — made up of animated ink drawings and collages — offer a visually mesmerizing and thought-provoking commentary on Schubert’s song cycle. ‘Winterreise’ Augmented by Kentridge Video Art 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z It was mesmerizing, but the new music set a tone distinct from De Falla, and the applause for Garrido's solo drowned out the ballet score's own Introduction. Dudamel plants seeds for the future with De Falla and flamenco 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z The screenplay — by the French Mauritania director and Malian co-writer Kessen Tall, in her feature debut — is a mesmerizing blend of the horrific and the humorous as it boils ideology down to the personal level. 'Timbuktu' a compelling exploration of extremism's absurdities 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Escaping the palace, the prince, performed with a mesmerizing innocence by Mr. North, makes his way to a park, where he scribbles a suicide note. Dance Review: Prince?s Fate, Entwined With Desire 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z The one-story buildings are dwarfed by a mesmerizing canary-yellow mosque with a green roof. Next Stop: Nikoi Island Offers Splendid Isolation 2010-04-29T21:58:00Z Most mesmerizing are the stories of those who cross his path, including a man doomed to escape the Grim Reaper and a battered deaf-mute child bride — the wife of the novel's title. 'The Tiger's Wife': tales of kindness, brutality, superstition and faith in a Yugoslavian homeland 2011-03-10T01:56:36Z Biking through the landscape is like a long panning shot, mesmerizing and endless; it seemed natural to have musical accompaniment. “Gimme Shelter” in Central Park 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z I am absolutely mesmerized by the film and by Kaluuya's performance. Daniel Kaluuya Isn’t Waiting for Your Approval 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Without the other flashlights lighting the way, I was mesmerized by the brilliance of the Milky Way. In Cairo, soaking up the simple pleasures and the wild, beautiful Sinai Desert 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z When people today ask, “How did this show even get on the air?” that pilot is essentially the answer: It’s accomplished, mesmerizing and within the accepted universe of TV genres. Was ‘Twin Peaks’ Ahead of Its Time? Let’s Look Back and See 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Part of what makes these scenes mesmerizing is that these are real planes flown by real people in the real sky, unlike the computer-generated worlds of most contemporary blockbusters. Who’s Your Wingman Now? Pushing the Envelope With ‘Top Gun’ 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z “You had a nonchalance about you that was mesmerizing,” he wrote. Anna Shay, Star of Netflix’s ‘Bling Empire,’ Dies at 62 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z Interesting episode; like many this season, a little slow to get started, but mesmerizing once it reached full steam. Mad Men Monday: Roger and Don take trips 2012-04-23T16:59:06Z This is America in 2022 — tantalized by immersive special effects, mesmerized by reality TV, upended by misinformation spread by both the malevolent and the sloppy. From Hollywood’s illusion factory, some unexpected reality 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z And I was mesmerized by the sense of time captured in those images — the pyramids of Egypt or a tender family portrait caught as if in amber. A photograph captured a past that only she could see 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Like a Bruckner symphony, the work is monumental, mesmerizing, cumulative in its impact and mostly lacking in air, light and sex. Review | Seeing Jasper Johns: Blockbuster exhibition reveals a brilliant but bleak legacy 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z For his part, Mr. Roberts said he was mesmerized by the barefoot, uninhibited Ms. Logan: “I had never seen a teacher like that, so expressive and open.” An Ailey Dancer Loyal to His Miami Roots and Mentor 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z She’s a mesmerizing subject, and with her permission the crew follows her. Review: ‘Bikini Moon’ Finds a Documentary Crew Under Its Subject’s Spell 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z The most striking piece at the show is Hung Keung’s “Dao Gives Birth to One,” a Taoist-inspired work with screens showing a mesmerizing black-and-white pattern of Chinese characters and radicals constantly moving and melding. Global Gloss, but Where Is Hong Kong's Local Art Scene? 2010-07-07T12:00:00Z The single room is high and airy, its design is thoughtful and inviting, and the clothes are as narratively mesmerizing and original as the sequence of Louise Bourgeois paintings on the back wall. There’s Nothing to Fear at Simone Rocha 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z The sinuous narrative meanders, its desultory pace mesmerizing, and Ondaatje’s characters seem adrift on currents that are slow moving yet menacing. Review | ‘Warlight’ is a quiet new masterpiece from Michael Ondaatje 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z With its ingenious recastings of Russian Orthodox chants and the Catholic “Dies Irae,” this can be a grand, mesmerizingly intense score, a danse macabre written as World War II was underway. Review: A Chinese Concerto and a Romantic Classic Gaze Back 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z When the dancer is finally wearing only his long white robe, he is assumed to be without fault and ready to start the mesmerizing complex whirls that define the sema. Here’s what you should know before attending a whirling dervish ceremony in Turkey 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z It's the knowing cockiness that he can do whatever he wants, and the audience will be helplessly mesmerized. "Fright Night:" Farrell's mesmerizing in campy remake 2011-08-18T20:45:00Z The coiling fullness of Mr. Brooks’s choreography, brimming with detail, frequently mesmerizes; you wonder how the dancers keep up. Review: Brian Brooks Moving Company Keeps Things Off-Center at the Joyce Theater 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z I was mesmerized — she was a stunning, powerful black woman going head-to-head against and one-upping the biggest diva on television. Diahann Carroll, Indelible Fixture of My Childhood 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z A few young children left their mother’s side and wandered toward the handmaids, mesmerized by the unusual garments. The absurdity and dread of witnessing ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ filming in D.C. 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z In Ms. Mahwash’s singing, words, expression, ornamentation and piercing plaintive sound combined with mesmerizing naturalness. Music Review: Afghanistan Veteran, Afghan Sounds 2011-06-19T22:09:51Z In the “Benny’s Dispatch” scene of “In the Stuy,” three women start stepping, clapping and slapping in mesmerizing synchronization. This High School Musical Teaches Confidence, Power and Teamwork 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Owen is mesmerizing for about two-thirds of the play, but as Deeley begins to crack emotionally, his performance loses credibility. Clive Owen and Sam Rockwell hit Broadway in 'Old Times' and 'Fool for Love' with different results 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z But the Moog guitar – a kind of high-octane cross between acoustic and electronic instruments – lately has mesmerized him. Switched-on guitar: Fareed Haque meets the Moog 2011-01-24T14:43:52Z When the fire marshal reopened the arena before Todd Terje's mesmerizing set of thumpy disco, the cavernous room quickly filled back up. FYF Festival has new venue but old headaches 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z This mesmerizing maestro of navel-gazing neurosis created a confessional style that has been widely mimicked but rarely surpassed. Perspective | A critic taken with Lithgow’s ‘Stories by Heart’ lists 10 other favorite solo shows 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z There’s something both meditative and mesmerizing about the way they play with line and contour as they pull you into their enigmatic depths. 3 don’t-miss gallery shows around Seattle, May edition 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z “I don’t teach,” Leslie says, looking directly at Ali with a kind of mesmerizing venal gaze. ‘Transparent’ Season 2, Episodes 4 and 5: Raffles and Mee-Maw 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Tourists flock to Milford with its picture-perfect Mitre Peak, but Doubtful Sound is three times as long and its remoteness far more mesmerizing. Wildlife and wilderness galore on New Zealand’s South Island 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z Many great medieval works were left on view, like a mesmerizing carved-wood 12th-century “Virgin and Child,” but Morgan is the name in the credit line. Art Review: ‘Salvaging the Past,’ on Hoentschel, at Bard Graduate Center 2013-05-09T20:53:25Z There is also a dried-up well in Oyamada’s brief tale, a follow-up to her similarly enigmatic debut, “The Factory,” but it’s only one of the many holes in this surreal and mesmerizing book. She Tumbled Into a Hole, and Her World Broke Open 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z He added, “O-Dog was mesmerizing. Some of us liked talking like him. A few of us liked acting like him. That had deadly consequences for one or two of us.” ‘Menace II Society’ at 30: A Bleak Nightmare Then, a Milestone Now 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Best performance you probably didn’t see: Roomful of Teeth, an a cappella quartet who won for best chamber music performance, brought a mesmerizing mix of avant-garde harmonics and lush, hushed beauty. Grammy Awards: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis big early winners 2014-01-27T01:01:00Z It’s mesmerizing to watch Leonardo’s warper machine in motion, spinning and perfectly aligning warp threads from a row of twirling spools onto the creel, which gathers the precious threads. A Glimpse Inside a Florentine Silk-Weaving Workshop 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z A boy whose parents rob a bank in Montana in 1960 takes refuge across the border in this mesmerizing novel, driven by fully realized characters and an accomplished prose style. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z Much of the work he showed last week was beautiful, with its mesmerizing transformations of coats into dresses. As Jean Paul Gaultier takes a bow on ready-to-wear, a look back at a fashion agitator Ben Fry, who turns sociological and scientific data into mesmerizing digital images, was honored for his interaction design. | Awards: Honoring a Designer Who Gave Computers Their Fonts 2011-05-25T22:50:03Z By the end of the five-day program, Johnson said, “they read historical documents so much better,” and were mesmerized to unlock their secrets. From punishing to pleasurable, how cursive writing is looping back into our hearts 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Commissioned by the Swiss Institute, this piece is repellent but mesmerizing, introducing a talent to reckon with. ‘The St. Petersburg Paradox’ at the Swiss Institute 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Commuters, tourists, kids: we looked up at this thing, mesmerized, in jeopardy of missing a train. Queen, Ally and the Alchemy of Musical Stardom on the Big Screen 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z “She was also a very talented artist with a great sense of humor. I was mesmerized by her.” She Had a ‘Million’ Questions. He Had One for Her. 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z I sat with my mom on our couch, in the middle of Omaha, and was completely mesmerized by the medley from this show called “Falsettos.” Andrew Rannells: The First Time I Watched the Tony Awards 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z This annual showcase of music and dance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where tradition and abandon merge to the mesmerizing beat of a drum, radiates heat. Review: DanceAfrica Excels With Tradition. Why Go Beyond? 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z What he doesn’t really do is convey the spell these plays cast, the mesmerizing immersion in the river of language that pours from Shepard’s characters. The real Sam Shepard behind the man we think we know 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Not at all disappointing is the great bulk of this generally mesmerizing novel, including its occasional wit. Review | Jo Nesbo’s ‘The Kingdom’ is a suspenseful bundle of Norwegian noir that’s almost impossible to put down 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z The sheer strangeness of the film may be mesmerizing at first, but even the slim 70-minute run time eventually feels tedious when so little happens. ‘Tito’ Review: An Oddball Character Study 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z “Dr. Mona Lisa Saloy beautifully captures the culture and essence of Louisiana in her mesmerizing poetry,” Edwards said in a news release. Dillard professor, folklorist next Louisiana poet laureate 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z “Abigail” is at once harrowing and mesmerizing, all the more so because we glimpse its dramas through the uncomprehending lens of Gina’s youthful simplicity. In Magda Szabo’s Magical Novel, a Statue Protects Students From the Nazis 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z But after a beginning that was, typically, mesmerizing and confounding, the ending came together gorgeously and symphonically to suggest that there was a chance. Review: The Leftovers Season Finale: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z He was, in his own words, “mesmerized and fascinated” by Dr. Gruessner from the very beginning, singing her praises constantly to anyone within earshot. First a ‘Third Wheel,’ Then a Couple 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z The concert opened with a visually mesmerizing percussion solo, “Quark — Intermezzi III.” Review: A Composer Inspired by Quarks and Chromosomes 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z She’s mesmerized and entirely shocked that they are, in fact, drag queens, blithely unaware of their existence outside this club, never mind in New York, or in the Village where she often performs. Drag Queens on the Screen: There to Prove a Woman’s Authenticity 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z We were just mesmerized by this little girl that sounded like a grown woman. Black, Female and Carving Out Their Own Path in Country Music 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z You came away with the feeling that you had stepped in and out of a mesmerizing fin de siècle novel. Perspective | Best visual art of 2020: Sublime Degas, spellbinding El Greco, Dorothea Lange and a defining video for our time 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z “Standing in the control room and watching Ringo and Jim play together, I was mesmerized. Of course I am thrilled, honored. Shocked, really. I kept thinking, ‘Is someone doing somebody a favor here?'” A rough journey to new music for Jenny Lewis 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z I couldn't tell you what I ate because my friend and I were too mesmerized by the scene unfolding below. The horrors of terrorism makes travel an imperative not a luxury 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z That vivid image is actually seen in one of the many disturbing sequences in this mesmerizing drama that received its North American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival this past week. Michel Franco's dystopian drama "New Order" is an electrifying cattle prod to the nether regions 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z His loss was mourned by the acting world, who praised his versatility and mesmerizing performances on both screen and stage. Slattery swaps Manhattan for 'God's Pocket' in directorial debut 2014-05-09T21:55:32Z My 5-year-old son was mesmerized by pirate ships floating in air and dizzying sword fights. Five Children’s Movies to Stream Now 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z “He’s a poet who mesmerizes not by stillness but by zigs and zags, and he very much wants to take the reader with him as he island hops from idea to idea.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Suddenly she froze, mesmerized by an oversize Birkenesque bag in fluorescent pink neoprene. Anna Netrebko Shops the Way She Sings: Exuberantly 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Describing a lilac door "made of something like light, but not," the piece is nine-plus mesmerizing minutes that roll along the same speedy groove, a meditation that seems to fly by in seconds. 'High Life' elevates the Eno-Hyde rhythm 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z For those fascinated by style — or just by mesmerizing personalities — "Diana Vreeland" is a pleasure. 'Diana Vreeland' is no showstopper but still a pleasure to watch 2012-10-18T20:15:10Z Mr. Kesting’s mesmerizing Cohn has no vestige of political caricature; he’s a pugnacious, demonic life force, struggling to survive. Ivo van Hove Brings ‘Angels in America’ to BAM 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z And while the Boston trio Elder draws from musical traditions as diverse as German kosmische, prog rock and doom metal, the group’s heavy-lidded tunes mythologize just as much as they mesmerize. Pop & Rock Listings for Aug. 19-25 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z At sunset, a symphony of crickets mesmerizes, as the fading light bathes the surrounding river and towering palm trees. Next Stop: A Pocket of the Past in Battambang, Cambodia 2011-12-15T21:22:50Z An evil pastor dominates Cash’s mesmerizing first novel. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z “Recurring words in people’s comments are ‘mesmerizing,’ ‘hypnotic,’ and ‘satisfying.’ The Calligraphy Stars of Instagram 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z The Welsh bass-baritone was in splendid voice and commanded the stage with mesmerizing, hulking presence as the Dutch mariner condemned to sail the seas until he finds a woman faithful unto death. Review: Terfel shines in Zurich's odd 'Dutchman' 2012-12-10T11:31:05Z Originally, Mitchell depicted him as a mesmerizing Greenwich Village character, a brilliant, blue-blooded raconteur cadging booze and ketchup meals, “restless and footloose as an alley cat.” What is biography? Who can be trusted? asks Jill Lepore in 'Joe Gould's Teeth' 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z The show’s most mesmerizing component is the use of boleadoras, entwined cords attached to heavy stones. Review: With Chests Held Proud, These Argentine Dancers Storm the Stage 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z It’s a mesmerizing performance, and when it finally ends, Mr. Ware removes the instrument from his lips but leaves his eyelids shut, lightly fluttering. Memorial Service for David S. Ware, Jazz Saxophonist 2013-01-08T23:13:50Z Twitter next informed me that a St. Louis alderman got arrested for illegal assembly as mesmerizing Benin singer Angelique Kidjo harnessed the percussive punches of Brown's "Say It Loud!" Watching James Brown tribute at the Bowl, thinking of Ferguson 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z But Depp, creating yet another marble-skinned oddball, is once again weirdly mesmerizing, and he and Green are a match in Burton heaven. Tim Burton's campy, vampy 'Dark Shadows' 2012-05-10T00:40:05Z Both he and Ms. Stiles are mesmerizing in that episode, a little stand-alone gem that turns the entire series on its head and begs for a sequel. Watch List: WIGS Channel on YouTube, Aimed at Women 2012-10-05T04:27:20Z I became mesmerized with his project, how it resonated, its allegorical nature, its lack of dependence on one particular philosophy to conjure a complicated telling of the world in which we live. ‘He Raises the Bar for Me’: 4 Artists on the Influence of Bob Thompson 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z With unfailing energy, fearless abandon and gleaming sound, she was a mesmerizing Brünnhilde. Two Major Met Opera Arrivals, Just 15 Hours Apart 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z In those mesmerizing works, the Iranian-born, New York–based Neshat made visible the striking differences between the masculine and feminine experience in contemporary Islamic culture. A Captivating Survey of Works by Iranian Artist Shirin Neshat Will Open at the Hirshhorn Museum 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z “I was mesmerized,” he said, “not only by the beauty of the region, but mainly by the peculiarity of its inhabitants.” Rudolf Hulka Photos Show Europe and North Africa in the 1920s 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z There was a lack of depth in the mesmerizing unwinding lines for the violins in the Adagio, and some iffy intonation in the brasses. The Philharmonic Tests Its New Home With the Classics 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z No point in asking whether Una, the character played with mesmerizing neuroticism by the waifish Williams, is closer to Carol, the avenging student in Mamet's "Oleanna," or lovesick May from Shepard's "Fool for Love." Jeff Daniels makes a powerful return to 'Blackbird' alongside a captivating Michelle Williams 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Sharp-eyed Liebling was picking up a potential weakness in the mesmerizing young heavyweight that other sportswriters were overlooking. Muhammad Ali, Beginning to End for the First Time in a Book 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Here, the languidly unfolding melodies created sufficient space for her to play with a mesmerizing array of tone colors. Review: Jamie Barton Shows That She’s a Powerhouse of a Mezzo-Soprano 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z The installation allows viewers to immersively experience the power of the sun as they witness massive eruptions and mesmerizing flares. NASA’s Latest Art Installation Projects Videos of the Sun 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z While living in Tel Aviv as a member of Israel’s renowned Batsheva Dance Company, the mesmerizing performer Shamel Pitts began making his own work, including a solo called “Black Box — Little Black Book of RED.” 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Our representatives-elect were hamstrung in governance, stuck in legislative limbo as of dusk Thursday, but the fight to become the next speaker of the House — whoever that is — makes for compelling and mesmerizing television. Perspective | The House speaker vote is the best thing on TV right now 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Like Sarah Larson, I was also mesmerized by the new podcast “S-Town,” which at first seems like yet another true-crime story but becomes an immensely moving investigation into the soul of a genuine eccentric. Weekly Culture Review: “Big Little Lies,” Pepsi, and More 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z A large assemblage of reflective pink shapes is a vortex of kitsch, as mesmerizing as it is gaudy. In the galleries: Strangely familiar objects for the eyes and ears 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z It’s not pure Park or pure Hitchcock but a muted, mildly mesmerizing blend of the two. Stoker: Gloom with a View 2013-03-01T04:30:31Z Ms. Millard turned a relative footnote into a newly mesmerizing story. Books of The Times : ?Destiny of the Republic,? on Garfield, by Candice Millard - Review 2011-09-11T22:00:13Z “But not until now have we had all four at the same time,” says Lieberman, who calls the Jan. 6 hearings a “mesmerizing” indication of our predicament. The Jan. 6th hearings: Was the finale just the beginning? 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Watching a video is not as mesmerizing as really riding a train, of course, and not nearly so demanding as driving one. Lose yourself in the hypnotic allure of YouTube’s ‘cab ride’ train-travel videos 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Energy bars are in big demand, judging from the mesmerizing variety at my local market. Make Ellie Krieger’s nutty energy bars 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z With a voice that mesmerizing, her music barely needs anything else: six guitar strings, a few tiptoed piano lines, fleeting woodwinds and a tambourine that rustles with hesitation in the album’s final minutes. Review | Let’s get small with Jessica Pratt 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z It’s the sheer size and staggeringly variable quality of Liszt’s output that ultimately makes it so mesmerizing. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z The god’s voice is mesmerizing, tender and careful, full of admiration for Eolo. Sublime New Fantasy Fiction 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Some images are recognizable, others alien, but all are mesmerizing, their intricate patterns like crop circles—both elegant and disconcerting. Jeffrey Milstein Photographs Los Angeles and New York in a Way You’ve Never Seen Before 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z David Shiffman grew up in landlocked Pittsburgh mesmerized by Shark Week. Discovery Channel looks to regain its bite with its favorite franchise 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z We switched it on and were soon engrossed in the Fendi channel, which shows a mesmerizing cartoon on a loop. Fashion designers are extending their talents (and brands) to hotels 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Two years ago, Joseph Kim mesmerized an audience — in person and online — with a speech about his experience in North Korea. A surgeon confesses his mistakes, and other best memoirs for May 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z But we were mesmerized by the pulse of the ocean, alive to the sound of the surf and the scent of the briny air. In Hawaii, a Swimmer’s Communion With the Wild Ocean 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Of the ones I did see, my personal favorites were Joe Wright's swirling, gorgeous "Anna Karenina"; David O. Russell's utterly and unexpectedly winning "The SIlver Linings Playbook"; and Paul Thomas Anderson's strange, mesmerizing "The Master." At TIFF: 'To the Wonder, 'What Maisie Knew' 2012-09-12T20:16:05Z Even a minor deer herd mesmerizes: we watch their watchfulness. ‘The Ancient Woods’ Review: Deep in the Forest 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z “Her work is very strong, very charismatic, extremely mesmerizing when she performs,” Ms. Abramovic said by phone. Indonesia’s Maverick Performance Artist 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z I was mesmerized by the dancing and intense drumbeats until I saw one of the dancers texting while dancing and another running for a quick cigarette break. A first-time visit to Mexico includes margaritas and Frida-mania 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z They partially obscured the excellent musicians on drums, guitar and organ, as well as the mesmerizing vocalist and bassist Meshell Ndegeocello. Review | Ronald K. Brown/Evidence rises to a spiritual level in performance at the Kennedy Center 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z Let us summarize one scene from this week’s utterly mesmerizing episode of “Twin Peaks,” which strung together revelatory moments like beads on a candy necklace. ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3, Episode 11: There’s No Backup for This 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z And then we sat there for the longest time mesmerized by the sound of absolutely nothing. Four days of silence 2012-10-16T00:00:00Z Stritch was a star but a pill, a life force with a self-destructive streak, a mesmerizing presence who also tended to push away those closest to her. Our Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2019 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Ashford uses his experience as a celebrated director of musicals to stunning, time-bending effect here, in sequences that include a funeral that turns into a coronation and a mesmerizing procession of royal apparitions. A Fast and Furious ‘Macbeth’ at Park Avenue Armory 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z For a spell, the story itself also seems drugged, or maybe mesmerized. How the “Sharp Objects” Finale Sums Up the Show’s Excellent Feel-Badness 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z When other voices went for hyperbole and panic, she was measured and mesmerizing. In a Time of Crisis, Her Voice Was the One That Galvanized Alaska 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z For children’s entertainment marketers, it’s one more leap toward the globalization of childhood consumerism — mesmerizing prekindergartners who watch again and again on tablet and phone screens. The story of ‘Baby Shark’: How toddlers around the world made a K-pop earworm go viral 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Yet the cafe, with its mesmerizing views of the churning East River and Lower Manhattan, is noteworthy on other fronts. View From the River Café: 40 Years of Feasts and Firsts 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z “When I walked in — I was mesmerized!” he said. A Trick of the Eye Turns a Luxurious Embassy Inside Out 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z Boseman would watch the action onstage, mesmerized by verbal directions he strained to comprehend, and by the lights, and by the grace-filled bodies in wordless dialogue. How Chadwick Boseman Embodies Black Male Dignity 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z I settled in and was mesmerized by Spanish cinema and the interesting cast of this movie. Antonio Banderas Doesn’t Think You’ll Remember Him. Not Yet. 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z She seems mesmerized by the camera; she practically stares a hole through the lens. Elizabeth Taylor Dies at 79: Actress Defined Modern Fame 2011-04-14T08:35:00Z I’ve always been mesmerized by the way she seems to be holding back on “The Moon Represents My Heart,” one of her greatest ballads. The Melancholy Pop Idol Who Haunts China 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Eye-catchingly luminous and large enough to immerse the viewer’s attention, Stockton’s pictures are as mesmerizing as glints of sunlight on a rippling pond. Review | In the galleries: ‘Evolving Traditions’ from a nontraditional artist 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z In “The Mysterious Landscapes of Hercules Segers,” a large, mesmerizing exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, we experience Segers’s epic prints whole, at full force. A Dutch Master’s Surreal Visions 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z In the presence of her pop goddess Ni'Jah whether on a TV screen or in person, she's a slack-jawed, mesmerized cipher ready to be absorbed whole or devour anything in her way. With "Swarm," two "Atlanta" collaborators kick the beehive of toxic fandom 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Such is the attire of Hoffmann, the mesmerizing raconteur whose fanciful yarn-spinning is at the center of Seattle Opera’s revival of composer Jacques Offenbach’s “The Tales of Hoffmann.” Costumes help tell ‘The Tales of Hoffmann’ at Seattle Opera 2014-04-23T19:38:37Z The projections, by Keith Skretch, are another engaging, at times mesmerizing element — which becomes something of a balm when the players’ onstage antics try your patience. Review: ‘Memory Rings.’ Forget About It. 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z My wife and I sat mesmerized as we watched him sing a long-ago duet with Frank Sinatra. Pursuits: Moving to the Rhythms of Rio 2013-07-12T17:36:49Z Mundruczó creates a mesmerizing early sequence, but the rest of his film never quite matches that intensity. In "Pieces of a Woman," Vanessa Kirby survives the worst in a heartbreaking, measured performance 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Perhaps the marchesa, whose blackened eyes, bejeweled costumes and silent stance mesmerize the fashion world to this day, might have her own label, not just one named for her. Three Wealthy Women and Their Venetian Mansion 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z “Folks are mesmerized in many cases to see people who have talents that perhaps they don’t possess, but wish they did,” Sarlitto said in an interview. 11,000 Free Pairs of Shoes Will Dance Across New York 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Most all of the actors are mesmerizing; Helen Sjoholm, as Simon’s mother, in particular is a deep well of complex feeling. Movie Review: ‘Simon and the Oaks,’ From Sweden 2012-10-12T17:00:07Z But it's the land, and the time that mesmerizes most. TV Picks: 'Outlander,' 'Legends,' 'Dick Cavett's Watergate' 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Knowing every song and lyric is to be mesmerized all over again. "Stop Making Sense" converted me into a Talking Heads fan 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z And Hatch’s full-body motions operating clunky machines are a mesmerizing contrast to our fingers flicking across smooth screens. A printing press operator and a snail expert? These museum workers have become unlikely TikTok stars. 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z Siobhan Magnus, though, was the clear winner of the night with a mesmerizing performance that just gained momentum throughout "Paint it Black." Stones night on 'American Idol': Only Siobhan Magnus nailed it 2010-03-17T18:58:00Z Last summer, Davis Thompson, then 22 and from small-town Indiana, booked a cheap flight to New York and found himself walking through an empty Times Square at midnight, mesmerized. This Is the Summer the Youth Own New York 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z A crumpled piece of paper hanging on the far wall had me mesmerized. Spellbound by Harry Potter and the Museum of Magic 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z The variety, control and detail of his actions, as he unspools himself in response to the music, are truly mesmerizing. Whim W’Him show lets PNB’s Andrew Bartee shine 2013-05-18T15:28:32Z The performers' grace and physicality is gorgeously exploited by the mesmerizing choreography. Martha Graham at VPAC: Dance as bridge from past to future 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Magical realism is unusual on television, and it is deployed here gently and judiciously, though the mesmerizing effect is sometimes dashed by the characters’ apparent inability ever to put their phones on silent. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z The system was cumbersome and slow, but the theatrical effect it produced, especially in rehearsed presentations on an open stage, was mesmerizing. Revisiting the Unusual Celebrity of Stephen Hawking 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z This doesn't sound like a lot of fun to watch, but Weir — in his first movie since 2003's "Master and Commander" — makes it mesmerizing and occasionally lyrical. 'The Way Back': Prisoners take it step by step in Peter Weir's great escape drama 2011-01-20T22:53:21Z He had barely reached his teens when he was mesmerized by the street dances sweeping the neighborhood, as dancers twisted, flipped and glided to remixed records and rapid-fire raps. Webcast by a Hip-Hopper Who Cooks 2011-03-26T15:00:17Z The brushed calligraphy on view is mesmerizing, too, he added. At These Exhibitions, Death Is a Lively Subject 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z The backstory of this smart, ferocious, unconventional female character is mesmerizing — a girl growing up dirt-poor in a nearly savage family on the ice-cold banks of a lake in the farthest reaches of Siberia. Review | In ‘The Huntress,’ a dangerous Nazi goes on the run 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Paul Thomas Anderson's tale of two men is strange and mesmerizing. 17 top entertainment picks for the week of Sept. 23-29, 2012 2012-09-19T20:42:04Z The professor was watching these movies, mesmerized, when a young man in one clip caught his eye. Marcel Proust, Caught on Film 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z On either side of the ideological one-way mirror, the spectacle of American exceptionalism mesmerizes. ‘Homeland Elegies’ Sings for a Fading Dream of National Belonging 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z It includes footage of the Moon landing, the trailer for Godard’s “Breathless” and a strangely mesmerizing short film of Warhol laconically unwrapping and eating a fast-food hamburger. Art Review: ‘Sinister Pop’ at the Whitney 2012-11-25T22:37:12Z On Sunday night, in his first of two sold-out concerts at , Mr. Gabriel made some interior sentiments feel momentous, practically seismic, and kept others small but mesmerizing, like lightning bugs in a jar. Music Review: Peter Gabriel and Orchestra at Radio City Music Hall 2010-05-03T23:48:00Z I kept returning, mesmerized, to a bowl of sango de camarón, which is neither quite soup nor stew, shrimp in a sauce of young plantains, not yet sweet, pulverized and merged with ground peanuts. A Menu That Roams Ecuador From Queens 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z “People are mesmerized that something from the beach is converted into a piece of art. Then the ocean reclaims it.” Sand Sculptures for a Beach Wedding 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z I was mesmerized by her performance in Women in Love in 1969. Glenda Jackson on Quitting Parliament, Playing Lear and Returning to Broadway 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z “It is also a mesmerizing story about difference and adolescence.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z One mesmerizing sequence follows one hero to another as they cross paths on the battlefield. My Favorite Summer Blockbuster 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Set over eight harrowing months, “Pieces of a Woman” is a ragged, mesmerizing study of rupture and reconstruction. ‘Pieces of a Woman’ Review: A Raw, Ragged Study of a Loss 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z It is after one of these trips that she comes across a soca dance group and is mesmerized. ‘She Paradise’ Review: Coming of Age Through Soca 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Together, they embody snapshots of the hypnotic ellipses that made up Aten Reign in triptych tribute to the mesmerizing artwork. A New Line of Prints Captures James Turrell’s Most Captivating Work 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Yet four mesmerizing novels — built on a grand scale and chock full of suspense — are an admirable record. The writer who liberated the mystery story from drafty castles 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z David Lynch has always said that one of his original inspirations for “Twin Peaks” was the sound of the wind in the trees in the Pacific Northwest, which he finds mesmerizingly beautiful. ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3, Episode 7: Absent Friends 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z His passion, and compassion, was infectious, and his stories, many of which he’d heard from World War I veterans, were mesmerizing. The 52 Places Traveler: A Pilgrimage to Ypres 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z Works are categorized both thematically and chronologically and include jewelry, headdresses, ceramics, ancient stone carvings and textiles as well as the mesmerizingly morbid masks, weapons and vessels used in sacrificial ceremonies. Peru's Private Treasures at Museo Larco 2011-04-07T10:40:00Z Step right up, ladies and gentlemen and cine-revelers of every type, to the mesmerizing motion picture and humbly titled extravaganza, “Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese.” ‘Rolling Thunder’ Review: A New Ballad of Bob, Sung by Marty 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z They performed a mesmerizing version of “Joy to the World.” Good luck, Trevor Noah: Stephen Colbert just raised the bar very, very high 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z And while she champions the “living spirit” of the late 1960s, she was not so mesmerized as to ignore that “all the world around me was dying.” Review | Rickie Lee Jones offers a raw and roving account of her life in ‘Last Chance Texaco’ 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z From the beginning, Iturbide used monochrome film and relied exclusively on natural light—a technique that lent a mesmerizing rawness to her scenes. Graciela Iturbide’s Art of Seeing Mexico 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z In another mesmerizing story, “The Hearts of Our Enemies,” a woman’s unconsummated affair creates a rift with her daughter. Review | Dantiel W. Moniz’s ‘Milk Blood Heat’ thrums with life while considering death 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z On this bedrock—the weird and paradoxical appeal of the less than symmetrical—some of the most mesmerizing artists have built their mystique. The Ugly Truth 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z It’s a predictable existence, until a shiny new employee arrives, mesmerizing the office. Review | ‘The Very Nice Box’ is a very funny office satire 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z It’s a mesmerizing interlude, partly because the man’s gestures are so exacting and relatively unfamiliar but also because the light and high-contrast colors are beautiful. ‘Dos Estaciones’ Review: A Tequila Factory’s Story, Sip by Sip 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z It is also a mesmerizing story about difference and adolescence, one that is far more realistic than most. ‘The End of Eddy’ Captures a Savage Childhood and a Global Movement 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z The black pupil at the center of all this activity continued to stare straight ahead, spookily, not moving a fraction of an inch left or right, as if mesmerized by visions of an apocalyptic future. The eye surgery I never should have seen 2014-01-28T00:00:00Z The judges praised the novel for blending “the intellectual rigor of post-modern technique with a story that is timely, mesmerizing, and in the end, unsettling.” Susan Choi Wins National Book Award for ‘Trust Exercise’ 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Oyelowo is mesmerizing in the moment, but each moment dies behind him. David Oyelowo mesmerizes in 'Nightingale' on HBO, but that only goes so far 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z In his memoir “Untold Stories” the English writer Alan Bennett recalls how Ferrier’s artistry mesmerized his parents, even though “they weren’t big ones for singing.” Kathleen Ferrier and Her Centennial CD 2012-07-08T02:54:24Z This evening of improvised tap and live music showcases his mesmerizing combination of nimbleness and powerful propulsion. 6 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z The men operating those machines are cutting mountains for a development, which is as mesmerizing to watch as it is appalling to think about. ‘Earth’ Review: Humanity Is Digging Its Own Grave 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z But the sequence, danced on point with an acrobatic performance by Young Gyu Choi, is an interpretation of a mesmerizing Indonesian ritual as seen through Western eyes. The Mysterious Mata Hari, in Dance 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z The novel is “serious, sober and frequently mesmerizing,” according to our critic Dwight Garner. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z The book, an all-enveloping and mesmerizing social panorama, continues Mr. Kynaston’s grand project of chronicling everyday life in Britain from the end of World War II to the beginning of the Thatcher era. David Kynaston’s ‘Modernity Britain: 1957-1962’ 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Valentine bases her latest novel on a mesmerizing, surreal retelling of the Brothers Grimm tale “The Twelve Dancing Princesses.” The five best science fiction/fantasy books of 2014 While Mr. Mancini mesmerizingly guides us to his present, Mr. Kriegel, friends like the actor Ed O’Neill and others advance the story of his past. Movie Review: ‘The Good Son,’ Documentary About Ray Mancini 2013-08-09T00:34:08Z The Associated Press in a review praised the new novel, released May 19, as “mesmerizing” and called Collins “a master of building a fascinating world around complex characters.” New ‘Hunger Games’ book sells more than 500,000 copies 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Chiuri’s shows challenge the intellect, even if the clothes sometimes fail to make the kind of emotional connection that the most mesmerizing fashion can. Perspective | Dior was part of the patriarchy. Then she changed everything. 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z Today, her mesmerizing mane measures about 70 inches long – which presents its own set of unique challenges. 'Real-life Rapunzel' discusses life with 6 feet of hair 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z “Poise, mental agility, and a poker face,” writes Willetts, “were Edgar’s key assets,” though it didn’t hurt that he was also handsome, charismatic and, by all accounts, a mesmerizing orator. Review | The most shameless con artist of the Jazz Age knew that the biggest lies work best 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z I’m pretty mesmerized by what he’s done at such a young age.” Hugh Evans, 29, Force Behind Global Festival on Great Lawn 2012-08-22T22:01:04Z In any event, given the odd tenor of the week and in keeping with this abnormal, repellent and mesmerizing election cycle, it seems perfectly reasonable to view this semi-august event through a theatrical prism. A political convention as improv farce 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z But before that renunciation, he produced many mesmerizing images, including his most celebrated, of two girls descending the Pasaje Bavestrello, an outdoor staircase in Valparaíso. Stumbling Upon Greatness: Discovering Sergio Larrain 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z Stroll another 20 minutes and you end up in an ultramodern neighborhood anchored by the neo-futuristic Turning Torso, a mesmerizing skyscraper that twists a full 90 degrees from base to roof. Fresh, local and unpretentious: A Swedish city with a stirring culinary scene 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z On Wednesday evening, the Lincoln Center Festival offered a mesmerizing concert of new music that explored resonance as a central expressive device. Review: Yarn/Wire Mesmerizes at Lincoln Center Festival 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z If her mystery tends to mesmerize devout fashionistas, it’s not for the first time. Isabelle Huppert: ‘The Best Way to Please Is Not to Please’ 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Eiko & Koma’s undefinable performances — part dance, part living artwork, part installation, all potent drama — have been mesmerizing audiences since they first moved to the United States 40 years ago. The Week Ahead: Aug. 8 ? Sept. 3 2011-08-28T04:30:07Z Piotr Anderszewski might be the most convincingly unconventional Bach pianist since Glenn Gould, and he has certainly taken a creative approach to his first, mesmerizing recording of preludes and fugues from “The Well-Tempered Clavier.” 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z As their world expands, the clipped straightforwardness of events becomes almost mesmerizing, the reading compulsive and the direct language a guard against sentimentality. Jane Smiley’s elegiac look at an American family in ‘Early Warning’ 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Like a “Breaking Bad” or “The Sopranos,” his presidency invited fans to compartmentalize their own morality from the dishonesty, racism and bullying of the protagonist whose exploits mesmerized them. President Trump’s Show Has Been Canceled 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Moog, who began building theremins when he was a teenager, is credited with reviving interest in the mesmerizing, one-of-a-kind instrument that is played in the air, without touching its two antennas. The theremin brings good vibes to Seattle 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Be warned that one core member of the Dragon family will be mesmerized into killing another core member. How to Train Your Dragon 2 at Cannes: Beasts of the Viking Wild 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z Her morbidity created the exceptional life force apparently read in her mesmerizing eyes and perceptibly evident in her work. Death haunts Frida Kahlo's long and clumsily winding road to the lyric stage 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z He was “mesmerized,” he told Mr. Rowlands, and soon began pursuing a career as an actor. Barry Newman, Star of the Cult Film ‘Vanishing Point,’ Dies at 92 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z The lights on both sides were fantastic and mesmerizing. A South Korean homecoming with a side of Shanghai and Hong Kong 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Mr. Wooley, the trumpeter, developed his mesmerizing “Seven Storey Mountain,” a continuing project, in a residency at the Issue Project Room last year. Music Review: Philip Glass at Issue Project Room 2012-06-14T21:26:50Z Theron, at the opposite end of the spectrum, tends to get too screechy; with her imposing height, deep voice and mesmerizing beauty, she's far more powerful when she dials it down. Review: `Snow White' a gorgeous take on fairy tale 2012-05-30T19:46:42Z At first sight, Mr. Stingel’s pictorial wonderland is mesmerizing; you seem to float like a fish in an aquarium or fall, like Alice, into some unusually lavish rabbit hole. Critic’s Notebook: Rudolf Stingel’s Carpeting Makeover in Venice 2013-08-20T22:13:15Z The resulting drama was a mesmerizing technical and aesthetic feat that allowed the audience to watch the characters and the actors playing them physically age and change in myriad subtle ways before our eyes. When you were at the movies this year, reality wasn’t too far away 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z It’s hard to tell whether spreaders of the sake gospel are winning over converts — or simply mesmerizing them with magical tales. In Las Vegas, a Good Story Helps Sell Expensive Sakes 2011-02-02T05:40:04Z One is Doane, whose slow action is as mesmerizing as the flashiest dance move. Byrd and Dance Theatre of Harlem: a thrilling 'Contested Space' 2012-11-17T17:06:18Z Both rappers have figured out how to wander off the beat in mesmerizing ways — and without ever bumping into each other. Perspective | The best DMV rap songs and albums of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z The overtaken structure houses mechanisms that drive the plants’ mesmerizing movements. Transforming metal: ‘Metalmorphosis’ exhibit at BAM shows new possibilities 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z “Father Figure” was sensual and mesmerizing, and, like so many of his songs, melodically irresistible. George Michael’s Pop Paradise 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z And his voice was mesmerizing when first deployed on the American public during the epic Iran-contra hearings of 1987 — lowering to a reverential hush, or hiccuping with emotion, as if he were drunk on patriotism. You can’t keep a good culture warrior down: The return of Oliver North 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z The warring Capulets and Montagues show occasional signs of pathological pyromania, and the buildings of Verona appear to be wallpapered in mesmerizing images of flames. Theater Review: Love?s Flames Amid a City in Flames 2011-07-12T21:27:37Z Silhouettes of shapes gradually morphed into different patterns; slowly dabbed blobs of paint and white squiggles mirrored the textures of the music to intriguing, if not mesmerizing, effect. Review: John Luther Adams’s ‘The Light Within’ Highlights Ensemble Program at National Sawdust 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Compositionally, these songs are fairly spare—a synthesizer, a pulsing drum machine—which allows Yorke’s strange, mesmerizing voice, sometimes raw and sometimes processed, to anchor each piece. Thom Yorke’s “Anima” Is His Best Solo Album 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z In the midst of this real-time adventure, though, there is nothing to do but hang on and be swept up in all the mesmerizing, outlandish inevitability. Victoria Is a Single Shot of Adrenaline 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z When the director was searching for twins to play Johnny's favorite, mesmerizing strippers, a friend of Coppola's suggested the Shannon twins from the E! reality series "The Girls Next Door." Sofia Coppola takes stark look at a Hollywood life 2010-12-20T04:44:51Z The results are “fascinating, even mesmerizing scenes and situations.” What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Daughters of Destiny’ and ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z They contain some mesmerizing right-hand detail, soulful left-hand changes and runaway melodic currents that seem to sketch mobile states of mind. New Music From Real Estate, My Brightest Diamond, Harold O?Neal 2011-10-17T22:37:44Z The characters’ bonds are weak, but fate has rarely been “so muscular,” “so mesmerizing.” New in Paperback: ‘Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why’ and ‘Billion Dollar Loser’ 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z Roth's response to all that outrage, equal parts petty and mesmerizing, foreshadows how Chappelle and other besieged artists handle cancellation controversies. From Philip Roth to Dave Chappelle, how an artist's "meta move" fuels an endless cancel culture war 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z There’s something mesmerizing about the spectacle — like watching your family’s resident pyromaniac resuscitate a dying campfire. Review | I used to think Ansel Adams’s photographs were boring. This exhibition changed that. 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z There are also some fantastic cut-steel figurines and a mesmerizing film featuring Walker and others performing a shadow play with paper puppets. Issues of today echo in BAM exhibit ‘Emancipating the Past: Kara Walker’s Tales of Slavery and Power’ 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z It's a mesmerizing tribute to a legendary American artist, and proof of the truth of the song's defiant message that death is far from the end of a great individual's story. Ten Grammy nominees that don't suck 2011-02-12T17:10:00Z We stopped and became mesmerized at witnessing the birth of a cloud. How to travel the world with 2 little kids: Teach them that every step counts 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z On “Second Opinion,” Warfield, now on soprano sax, parlayed the audience’s palpable intrigue into a halting, inquisitive line, slightly monotonous but mesmerizingly so. Review | George Burton takes the audience on a wild ride 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z It’s enshrined in Muybridge’s mesmerizing “Panorama of San Francisco,” shot from the rarefied precipice now known as Nob Hill, where Stanford was putting up an enormous mansion. Art Review: Tracing Muybridge, Pioneer of Photography, at the Corcoran 2010-04-26T22:54:00Z Tires squealed, metal crunched, cars missing tires sprayed mud into the grandstand — why was it so mesmerizing? Frugal Traveler: From Fashion to Crashing at County Fairs 2013-08-27T19:12:05Z Ms. Martin said she found Ms. Jinich’s initial proposal unremarkable, but her show mesmerizing. Forget the Wall: Pati Jinich Wants to Build a Culinary Bridge to Mexico 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z In short — or rather at mesmerizing, necessary length — this film has everything, and is well worth a day of your life. | 'A Brighter Summer Day': ?A Brighter Summer Day,? by Edward Yang - Review 2011-11-24T21:00:30Z Smiley's eye is keen, and the book's historical pageant is often mesmerizing and always elegantly composed — and yet, "Private Life" leaves you thinking about its smaller events rather than its large ones. 'Private Life': Jane Smiley's quiet novel of a Midwestern girl's odyssey 2010-05-05T22:35:00Z Seattle Times reader Steven Bright’s photo of a mesmerizing fox on San Juan Island. Reader’s Lens | Look deep into my eyes 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z People smile and say sweet things that I will not recall later on — but if the bride or groom adjusts a smile two degrees, I am mesmerized. A Wedding Day Saga Ends With Words From the Heart 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z The mesmerizing opening image — a steadily framed and angled overhead shot of a cafeteria — immediately sets her parameters. 2010-02-16T22:18:00Z In the movie, there’s a scene where time stops and the main character walks through a circus tent — a mesmerizing scene. Hollywood’s Big Bet on Broadway Adaptations 2013-08-01T12:00:07Z The area inside is still reserved for sports like basketball, and it’s worth a look: The elaborate structural ornamentation is mesmerizing. Roman Architecture, Beyond the Colosseum 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z They also use that happily trashy space to play their own mesmerizing, expertly assembled garage-rock. Pop and Rock Music Listings for Dec. 20-26 2013-12-19T23:08:11Z There’s something mesmerizing about his work — in how he appears to strut through the pandemic, snapping his fingers to transform its dire reality into droll material. When Vaccines Become an Internet Personality Test 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z On the recording Ms. Brewer is mesmerizing in the final scene from “Salome.” On the Disc, Not the Stage 2010-09-03T15:19:00Z It’s part of what made her mesmerizing, and it’s what makes her seem so relevant. Why Do We Care So Much About Diana’s Dresses? 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z The interplay between live performers and animated machine was mesmerizing. Chunky Move troupe visits Seattle with 5 dancers, a giant mobile 2012-04-13T16:50:04Z “It’s folly,” I said, all the while mesmerized and hoping my words were having no effect. She Slipped Past My Age Filter 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z But once inside, standing beneath its dome, with natural light streaming in through the oculus, I found myself, for the first time ever, totally mesmerized by my physical surroundings. Crowning Glory 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z That collections don’t have to be loud and raucous to mesmerize and excite us. Marc Jacobs marks a poetic end to a fashion season of reassuring upheaval 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z It mesmerizes, suggesting some ancient rite, primitive and deep, whether of birth, baptism, initiation or burial. Lygia Clark’s Many Twists and Turns, at MoMA 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z “We hope that people will stay for two minutes and start empathizing with the siphonophore. It is like a mesmerizing alien that you can enjoy from far away.” Dancers From the Deep Sea Shine on the U.N. for Climate Week 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z It is mesmerizing whether he is enthralled by Colette or enraged by Chester. 'Two Faces of January' a twisted tale driven by talented trio 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z And it’s every bit as mesmerizing and vertiginous as desire can be. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-01-17T22:03:49Z As the weekend winds down, the mesmerizing avant pop of Annie Clark's project St. Vincent is sure to provide both a visual and a sonic feast. One possible road map through Coachella, Weekend 1 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z What it does offer is a vivid portrait of a mesmerizing central character — the stoic Reseng. Review | ‘The Plotters’ is a chilling portrait of a killer for hire 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z That might sound like a glib evaluation, but the filmmakers are shameless in leavening Samba’s woes with blushing scenes between him and Alice, who seems instantly mesmerized. Review: ‘Samba,’ About the Travails of an Illegal Immigrant in France 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z These images feel deeply, privately coded and, depending on your mood, mesmerizing or maddening. Menil’s New Drawing Institute: A Full-Service Home for Fragile Art 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z The climactic scene of the opera, in which Akhnaten’s kingdom is overthrown, is particularly mesmerizing. How a Fast-Rising Opera Singer Prepared for Her Met Debut 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z On Monday evening, too, the capacity audience at Carnegie Hall spilled over onto the stage, where it offered Mr. Kissin a welcoming embrace during his mesmerizing performance of works by Schubert and Scriabin. Music Review: Evgeny Kissin, Russian Pianist, Plays at Carnegie Hall 2014-03-13T22:28:15Z Instead of a jumble of forms clad in a jumble of materials — Gehry’s familiar Rauschenbergian approach — the unruly shapes were wrapped, across much of the building, inside a consistent and mesmerizing titanium skin. Two decades after Gehry's Guggenheim Bilbao, where does architecture stand? 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z As she tilts the machine, her mesmerizing, architectural animations illuminate a smooth white wall, slide across a window and corner and activate the floor. Seattle’s Oxbow gallery offers an unusual way to support artists 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z He recalls being “mesmerized and terrified” by the 39 lashes endured by Jesus as heard in the song “Trial Before Pilate. ” ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ in a Live TV Revival 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Rowbottom — a descendant of the Jell-O fortune — weaves together her family history and the story of the classic American dessert to produce a book that alternately surprises and mesmerizes. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z “Mister Mellow” leans instead toward smoothness, the better to mesmerize and disorient. Washed Out, a Pioneer of Chillwave, Considers an Escape on ‘Mister Mellow’ 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z During this long central segment of the 60-minute act, this mesmerizing Michael soars in his rotating cage above groups of instrumentalists, all the while playing with authority, imagination and, when called for, sassiness. Music Review: A Karlheinz Stockhausen Work Has Its North American Premiere 2013-07-19T21:29:24Z It’s certainly Ms. Rao’s muse: she seems mesmerized by its hurly-burly and has tried to find a narrative that can contain its multitudes. Movie Review : ?Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries)' 2011-01-20T22:18:39Z There is something still lugubrious and overwrought about “True Detective,” but there’s also a mesmerizing style to it — it’s imperfect, but well made. ‘True Detective’ Season 2: New cast, setting, same grim self-seriousness 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z While we do not know who will take home the gold statue on Sunday, it is undeniable that Davis and Day gave two of the most mesmerizing performances of the year. Why Is It So Hard to Show Black Women’s Musical Genius Onscreen? 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z The program highlighted the impressive gifts of the soprano Julia Bullock — a mesmerizing performer who combines an alluring voice with a natural theatricality. New York Festival of Song at Merkin Concert Hall 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z The men made jokes and comments to ease the workload and entertain their mesmerized audience. One Huge Hog, One Long Day and a Nourishing Southern Tradition 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z At the same time, the ease with which Bearden’s scissors cut these ripples makes the material surface itself mesmerizing. Romare Bearden’s Rarely Seen Abstract Side 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z A mesmerizing hall of mirrors, “Clouds of Sils Maria” won defenders but no prizes at Cannes. Olivier Assayas Talks of His New ‘Clouds of Sils Maria’ 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z You can look at footage of him mesmerizing classrooms full of kids with a fuzzy puppet and see the gentleness there, but you'd be blind to miss the focused dignity he affords to every child. Mister Rogers was actually a badass: New film “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” shows his tough side 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z An “emphasis on the human and humane implications of Gödel’s life and work,” Szalai wrote, “gives this book its mesmerizing pull.” Times Critics’ Top Books of 2021 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z But he’s none too pleased with the song that opens the show — although you would hardly know it from Mr. Hall’s mesmerizing performance. Review: In ‘The Total Bent,’ a Father-Son Rift and a Sensational Score 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z “I did. I will be mesmerized for days and days.” A Selfie with Lady Gaga at MoMA PS1 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Rather than restraining fantasies, or intentionally focusing on them to get off, I try my best to be mesmerized by the touch — as though I’m only just discovering myself. Did porn warp me forever? 2013-01-13T02:00:00Z Tiny schools of fish swam around us, mesmerizing Marceau. Within the Grand Canyon, the Lure of Havasu Falls 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z But as he says, Men at Work's music had a definite Beatles quality to it, due to the "great love of melody" he developed being "mesmerized" by their albums for so many years. Colin Hay on Men at Work, the Beatles’ mesmerizing melodies and his new song with Ringo 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z Seemingly mesmerized by her own image, she is captured at the innocent early stages of preoccupation with womanly self-presentation and self-making. Abigail Heyman’s Groundbreaking Images of Women’s Lives 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z But the most mesmerizing component is the diffuse, shadowy emptiness surrounding them. 36 Hours in Syracuse, Sicily 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Instead, with a cast led by a young, mesmerizingly authentic Claire Danes, the show had a tone that managed to be awkward yet heartfelt. Forever Angela Chase: “For young women who were just forming and just getting angry, it was the only thing out there” 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z I first listened to it on a train heading out of New York, and then in the woods of Cape Cod, mesmerized. David Berman Made Us Feel Less Alone 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Like one of the woodland animals of which he’s so enamored, the boy is mesmerizingly fragile and vital, with a mind balanced between naivete and wisdom. Review | Lydia Millet’s ‘A Children’s Bible’ is a blistering classic 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Not rue, not regret, not extraneous affect; the reader is invited to supply all of that herself, and the effect is both mesmerizing and sometimes maddening. From Hollywood ‘Pretty Girl’ to Empowered Novelist 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Of course, the Skywalker Saga never called attention to that part, preferring to mesmerize children and the young at heart with philosophical musings about not giving into hate and lifting boulders with focused thought. There's no hiding from it: The politics of "Andor" look a lot like the type troubling our world 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Like the song or not, the entire presentation is mesmerizing, and unlike anything we’ve seen in pop music. The World's First Amputee Pop Star Is Here, And She's Incredible 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z For now, "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night" is a mesmerizing taste of Amirpour's work, filled with enough creative invention to whet the appetite for more. 'A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night' has a definite bite 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z My Modern Met reports on the latest installation to hit New York City's Park Avenue Armory—a mesmerizing 37,000-square-foot reflecting lake by Douglas Gordon. Links We Love: What We're Reading This Week 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Although no one was asked to stop talking or put down plates — in fact they were encouraged to do the opposite — the entire room sat mesmerized. L.A. Opera for the late-night cocktail crowd: Checking out the new 'After Hours' series 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Spin pumpkin purée into the mascarpone filling, which not only amps up the fall flavor, but also gives each slice a mesmerizing orange hue. 30 best pumpkin dessert recipes to bake immediately 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z This process mesmerized DuVernay when she first met Davis several years ago. Behind 3 Champions’ Smithsonian Portraits 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z While each of these pieces is mesmerizing — hypnotic, even — I’m skeptical of their ambitions. In San Francisco, Art That Unspools the Mysteries of the Universe 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Levine called Davis a “class act” and said his performance had been “absolutely mesmerizing” and “flawless.” 'The Voice' recap: The Top 6 sing for the moms 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Early on in “Fever Dream,” Samanta Schweblin’s mesmerizing debut novel, a young mother tells a friend about a calculation she is forever making and remaking. A haunting story by one of the best young Spanish-language writers 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Neither the piano nor the organ mesmerized him as much as the harpsichord, which he first heard at the age of 9, sitting in the library after school. The Pugnacious Performer Who Wants to Take the Harpsichord Mainstream 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Here, she pours such mesmerizing energy and inventiveness into Alison’s wrecking-ball antics that you almost forget that this charming, dangerous woman doesn’t quite track as a credibly motivated character. Review: Marin Ireland Brings Down the Halfway House in ‘Blue Ridge’ 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Twenty-seven of these old-fashioned drawings, hanging in a grid, constitute a mesmerizing meditation on that deadly post-internet idea, “content generation.” What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z It’s an unapologetic, unmitigated, mesmerizingly diverse assembly of 23 feature-length movies and 25 shorts that constitutes a kaleidoscopic portrait of self-discovery and shame. Critic’s Notebook: Looking at Gay Movies Before Stonewall 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z "I’ve seen schools of jacks like this several times, and I am always impressed by the beautiful and mesmerizing shapes the schools make." School of fish swimming in heart formation stuns onlookers: Drone footage 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z This wonderful show is going to completely stun and mesmerize millions of eclipse virgins who have no idea what they are in for. Why I chase eclipses 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z “Theirs is a terrible, mesmerizing story of curdled idealism, one that has been told before but rarely as well,” Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times in August. DVDs: On DVD, Pedro Costa?s ?Letters From Fontainhas? 2010-03-24T22:24:00Z “They are mesmerized,” Akyol said with a laugh, after the last person left. Turkey’s Psychedelic Rock Star Speaks Her Mind, Ambiguously 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z But as a snapshot of a moment in time, "Margin Call" is often mesmerizing. 'Margin Call' is a timely Wall Street thriller 2011-10-20T20:07:04Z Could her global fans even name her accomplishments, or were we merely mesmerized by a leader who seemed to want to do things differently? Perspective | Jacinda Ardern didn’t make working motherhood look easy. She made it look real. 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z But over all, it exercises restraint in revisiting a mesmerizing case. ‘Footsteps in the Snow’: Solving a Murder After 55 Years 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z Though some other residents giggled throughout the show, Joan was reportedly mesmerized. Christmas wish granted for woman, 89, surprised by stripper with 'large chest and big biceps' 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z The mingling of Christmas and Hanukkah began for my children when they were tots and noticed the world sprayed in Christmas lights for the first time — the beauty and the twinkling otherworldliness mesmerized them. Motherlode Blog: Tough Choices This Hanukkah (Holiday) Season 2011-12-26T21:18:24Z Nearly half of Ron Rash’s mesmerizing new story collection is devoted to the eponymous “In the Valley,” a sequel to his 2008 novel “Serena.” Lady Macbeth in Appalachia, and Other Tales by an American Master 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z Much of “Regrets” is really beautiful, with half-hidden rainbow colors, tonal subtleties and a mesmerizing diversity of line. Art Review: ‘Jasper Johns: Regrets,’ a New Series at MoMA 2014-03-21T16:46:57Z All day, I saw nothing but phones, phones, phones in the air, but when Roky played, the crowd was mesmerized. Burgerama draws the approval of a music festival-hating musician 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Gaultier was mesmerized by the show — the costumes, the choreography, the pyrotechnics, the scale. Jean Paul Gaultier’s Fantastical Imagination 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Animal Collective played a mesmerizing set, mingling live and electronic instruments, in which loops and overlapping vocal lines became euphoric incantations. Critic’s Notebook: Axl Rose and Kanye West, Heroes of Governors Ball 2013-06-10T21:53:47Z He can be mesmerizing on screen and has an Oscar to prove it. Adrien Brody Prepares 'Houdini' Mini-Series 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z As the granddaughter of the Baron and Baroness Alphonse and Clarice de Rothschild of the banking and collecting dynasty, Bettina Burr recalls being mesmerized by one of the couple’s storied paintings. Rothschild Family Treasures Find a Resting Place in Boston 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z “She’s really a memoirist — but it’s nonetheless a mesmerizing account of a young woman trying to decide what to do about her own premonition.” Essential Arts & Culture: The Getty's new trove, an Italian artist's due, ‘Angels in America’ returns 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z A mesmerized Julian, then 4, declared on the spot, “I want to fly like he does.” Ballet treasures from the Treasure State 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z As you watch the video, mesmerized, the room packed with spectators, half of them seemingly on a day pass from their high school, you notice a jarring difference from the runway shows of today. The “Isabella Blow: Fashion Galore!” Exhibition in London Highlights Alexander McQueen 2014-01-29T23:24:49Z I stood there, mesmerized, and my mother had to come find me. Lt. Joe Kenda of "Homicide Hunter": "I never pulled the trigger because I never had to 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z The river is banked on both sides by a dense, mesmerizing jungle that enthralled Twain. | Latin America Issue: Twain?s Nicaragua, 144 Years Later 2010-09-17T16:03:00Z So do Haring’s mesmerizing brush stokes in black house paint. Reconnecting With Keith Haring’s Grace House Mural (in 13 Pieces) 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z I watched families sitting there, their personal tablets blocking their view of one another, not saying a word, mesmerized by these flimsy entertainments. “Comment sections are brilliant and extremely relevant”: Christy Wampole on the awfulness of Facebook, the utility of “think pieces” and why you might be reading the Internet all wrong 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z A pressurized hush in a cavernous space: that was the sensory impression left by the xx toward the end of its mesmerizing performance at the Park Avenue Armory on Wednesday night. Music Review: The xx Play to Small Audiences in a Big New York Space 2014-03-20T11:33:13Z That Maier was so mesmerized by this person is mesmerizing in itself; that Maier hid this photographic gem for nearly 60 years is nothing short of perplexing. Never-Before-Seen Vivian Maier Photographs Go on View 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z She meditates every morning and collects crystals, influences that give her paintings a mesmerizing tranquillity that have caught the attention of collectors and curators. Where the Sky Meets the Sea: Jennifer Guidi Leans Into Beauty 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z We never cease to be mesmerized by the vessel in which music is contained, whether it’s the piano, the phonograph, the MP3, or the Cloud. The Anxious Ease of Apple Music 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z The immersive “Sea Islands Series” that resulted, combining photographs, words and objects, is mesmerizingly atmospheric, as are two bodies of work that emerged from her travels in Africa itself. Art Review: Carrie Mae Weems Charts the Black Experience in Photographs 2014-01-23T23:42:31Z “Everyone was so mesmerized,” recalled University of Maryland journalism professor Edward Alwood. The Newseum was a grand tribute to the power of journalism. Here’s how it failed. 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z His great-nephew Marshall Nelson now manages the nonprofit pantheon and shares backstories as visitors wander, mesmerized, around the cavernous main building. Pioneer Village in Nebraska, a blast from a highly inventive past He combines classical techniques with cartoonish elements, and creates mesmerizing patterns of birds in flight and mountains in perpetuity. 'The Conference of the Birds': reviving a 12th-century Persian epic 2011-11-16T22:53:03Z Lighted with a halo, Tines sang Eastman’s solo “Prelude to the Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc” with what may be even more otherworldliness and mesmerizing sanctity than the composer himself brought to his performances. The resurrection of Julius Eastman: gay, black and brilliant 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Tanne could be speaking for any number of Americans who, regardless of partisan predisposition, have been impressed, even mesmerized, by the sheer iconography of the Obama presidency. Has there been an ‘Obama effect’ in Hollywood? 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z It’s a mesmerizing moment — scientifically proven to release brain chemicals similar to the ones involved in addiction. Once a Bowling Alley Snack, Mozzarella Sticks Are Having a Resurgence 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z The middle movement was mesmerizing, with pointillist-like strands of mingling piano lines against bittersweet orchestra harmonies. Are Bruckner Symphonies Now the Proving Ground for Conductors? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Faces and bodies smeared in mud, they are a mesmerizing, surreal spectacle — one of the smallest, a Dennis Hopper-esque runt, wears what looks like a skinned bobcat for a hat. Review: Viggo Mortensen Captivates in ‘Captain Fantastic’ 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z I’ll never forget the congregation’s sea of white dresses and formal hats and the beautiful sound of the Samoan language, especially mesmerizing when they sang a translated version of “This Little Light of Mine.” Frugal Traveler Blog: 5 Gems That Weren’t on My Itinerary 2013-04-10T14:39:19Z The first few times the technique is intriguing, almost mesmerizing, but before long the thrill is gone. 'A Dame to Kill For' is a sinful waste of a sequel 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z They're the ones who mesmerize heroes and audiences alike through charm, guile or sheer force of personality and almost succeed in luring them to the dark side. 'Whiplash': J.K. Simmons, Damien Chazelle talk student-teacher dynamic 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z The color was one of the things that mesmerized me as a kid, when I stumbled across Gold Key's "The Phantom,"which ran from 1962 to 1966. Comics: 'The Phantom' is all over the place 2012-01-17T14:55:11Z “I last saw her when she was giving a speech last year and she was mesmerizing,” he told The Guardian on Saturday. Ruth Rendell, Novelist Who Thrilled and Educated, Dies at 85 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z I’ve heard Parry twice in live one-man shows and he is absolutely, utterly mesmerizing. Review | Stories that are strange, fantastical — and utterly engrossing 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z Over and over, she would set them up and knock them down, mesmerized with each click of the classic black-and-white dominoes. ‘Queen’ of dominoes has more than 1 billion views 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z We were seated at the counter, but soon she was standing by a kitchen viewing window, mesmerized by the cooks pulling, twisting and slapping dough into skinny chewy noodles. When we fled Saigon, my mother brought a recipe notebook. It inspires my career every day. 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z As their movements painted swirly, mesmerizing patterns against a gray March canvas, I wondered who was leading the pack, and how they knew where to go. For a Seattle writer, trips to the Olympic Peninsula made time to reconnect with outdoors, others 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z I had never been to the theater and to say I was mesmerized would be an understatement. ‘The Whole Audience Was Vibrating’: Your Memorable Performances 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z I was fortunate to see this mesmerizing play of contrasts when Childs brought “Dance” to the University of Maryland’s Clarice Smith Center in 2011. Glenstone’s connections to dance, now and on the horizon 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Watching him dye the wool was mesmerizing, especially with indigo. Colorful crafts, memorable encounters around Oaxaca in Mexico 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Watch, mesmerized, as a stream of honey forms miniature towers atop one’s granola and then instantly topples. The New York Times should eat its words: breakfast is for champions 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z It’s an emotional scene that captures what made “The Americans” such a poignant and mesmerizing show. The 10 best TV episodes of 2018, from ‘Atlanta’ to ‘This Is Us’ 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z There was a long gray couch by the windows — my preferred perch for admiring the mesmerizing view — as well as a handsome wooden desk, a low table and a maroon leather armchair. Hotel Review: The Andaz Tokyo Toranomon Hills in Tokyo 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z They also use that happily trashy space to perform their own terribly mesmerizing, expertly assembled garage-rock. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Oct. 31-Nov. 6 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z It features the least mesmerizing cult leader in screen history. ‘The Idol’ Is Ending Sunday. Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing. 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z Both men were mesmerizing writers, though with different styles — Churchill was a master of rhetoric; Orwell a superb essayist. What do George Orwell and Winston Churchill have in common? A new book has the answer 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z But they rarely change quite as suddenly as in “The Christians,” Lucas Hnath’s softly mesmerizing drama about a schism that arises in an evangelical megachurch. Review: In ‘The Christians,’ a Schism Over Fire and Brimstone 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z We wove along mesmerizing blue-green waterways past a pastiche of green-hued foliage and coastlines lined with pines, Casa Maria trees and mangroves. An Eco-Tour of Guatemala’s Rio Dulce Region 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z In moments they are hovering over the city in a spectacle that is both mesmerizing and terrifying. Cape Town inspires art in all forms 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z He and his hearty crew nearly sail into a crop of jagged rocks when they are mesmerized by the entrancing voice of a mermaid. 'Once Upon a Time': Ursula's daddy issues and 'Unfortunate Souls' 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Set in contemporary Seoul, “The Plotters” delivers a vivid portrait of a mesmerizing central character, a stoic orphan named Reseng who becomes an assassin for hire. The best thrillers and mysteries of 2019 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Showing a person's worst side mesmerizes us and promotes engagement. The best new "Black Mirror" episode is a Netflix self-own that plays out our current AI nightmare 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z “At Berkeley,” filmed at the University of California, Berkeley during the fall 2010 semester, unfolds over a full four hours, and I won’t pretend that every minute of it is mesmerizing. ‘At Berkeley’: You can learn a lot in four hours 2013-12-05T20:21:51Z How High the Moon' on the radio and being mesmerized. Jeff Beck's mission to 'blow people away' 2011-03-31T15:37:05Z In the daytime, I’m mesmerized by the way the sun catches the curl of the waves, and at night the ocean lapping against the ship lulls me to sleep. A longtime cruise reviewer answers the question: What will it take for you to cruise again? 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z Bingham didn’t agree, and was mesmerized by the idea of lost cities waiting to be found. The Hidden Route to Machu Picchu 2011-06-24T19:06:22Z A cluster of characters gaze into the same mesmerizing sky. In Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Horror-Tinged New Novel, a Mesmerizing Star Appears in the Sky 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z With Philadelphia, he recorded an album of excerpts from Wagner, whose music he conducts with a mesmerizing mix of spacious naturalness and building tension, and twice brought that orchestra to Carnegie Hall. One of the World’s Great Maestros Is Suddenly a Free Agent 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z She was the first Black woman to get a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, gaining fans for her mesmerizing canvases, patterned all over with gemlike bits of color. At Museums and Auctions, Paintings, Posters and a Magician’s Treasures 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z But to linger on Kirchner’s lurid biography would be unfair to the mesmerizing technical genius of his style, amply on display in this exhibition. 18 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z But gradually the on-screen drama takes over; the savannah is not only mesmerizingly beautiful, it is also the juice’s destination. Art in Review: MIKA ROTTENBERG AND JON KESSLER: ?Seven? 2011-11-10T22:55:17Z The busy, 3-D animation relies a bit too much on madcap flight sequences and vast, vaulted spaces, but the character design has real warmth, and the animation is frequently witty and sometimes mesmerizing. Movie Review: In ‘Rise of the Guardians,’ Childhood Naïveté Wins 2012-11-20T22:29:12Z Mild tempos attend anthemic choruses devoid of tension, prompting mesmerized fans to sway and raise their arms. Review: In ‘Hillsong — Let Hope Rise,’ a Strumming Ministry Packs in Crowds 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z This is soap opera, to be sure, but of a very high order, and I was completely mesmerized -- particularly by the scene with Carson and the Dowager Countess. Catching up with 'Downton Abbey' 2013-02-04T18:37:06Z But a great recital, like the one captured on this mesmerizing disc by the immensely talented pianist Gilles Vonsattel, is more than the sum of its parts. Classical Playlist: 'Poetry in Music' and Gilles Vonsattel 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z He was mesmerized by the way she moved the wood around in the fire, so that the fish never overcooked or fell apart. Review | Swahili Village brings a taste of African fine dining to D.C. 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Never was this more clear than in the last scene of "Blood and Fire," which attained an eerie, mesmerizing, almost mythological power. "Game of Thrones" takes wing 2011-06-20T12:21:00Z “I also want it to be glittery. I want to be mesmerizing to look at.” Karen O Goes Solo with ‘Crush Songs’ 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z “Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man” is a mesmerizing bummer; reading it is like letting the needle down on a Nick Drake album. Books of The Times: ?Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man?: a Memoir by Bill Clegg 2010-06-15T23:13:00Z And so I D.I.Y. vicariously through the strong, supple hands of Facebook.com, mesmerized by the screen, destroying my own cuticles. The Hidden Language of Hands Videos 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z The title points to the intricate flocking patterns of starlings, yet while Mr. Whitley’s choreography morphs analogously, it fails to mesmerize. Review: BalletBoyz Get Ready to Rumble 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z She mesmerizes, drawing you into the horrors of Gwangju; questioning humanity, implicating everyone. Han Kang's 'Human Acts' is a fractured fictional reckoning with the Gwangju massacre 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Like his mesmerizing “After the Rain,” it offers two figures moving through an abstract landscape. Review: Ballet Is Spectacle in ‘Like Water for Chocolate’ 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z "Rituel," which divides the orchestra into eight groups, was played by ensembles surrounding a large black box theater, part of the KKL complex, to mesmerizing effect. At the Lucerne Festival, even hip-hop skateboarders love Pierre Boulez 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z When she moved her arms, it was as though windmills had been conjured to mesmerize us. Marian Seldes: Her life and career were a master class 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z It is mesmerizing, and one could lose a day here. Perspective | Bill Viola’s videos show what art can do and expose what the Barnes Collection lacks 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z The digital effects are as mesmerizing as ever, making Future sound as if he were in agony and celebrating all at once. Critic’s Notebook: Future, Young Scooter, Trinidad James and Atlanta Rap 2013-02-02T01:50:26Z The hive of worker bees buzzing on the video backdrop, swelling and separating in mesmerizing movement, signaled the designer’s inspiration. Fashion Review: A Game of Checkers 2012-10-04T07:21:21Z At once regal and shy, she is mesmerizing and immensely likable. Art Review: Rineke Dijkstra Videos at Marian Goodman Gallery 2010-08-12T21:53:00Z The book is mesmerizing in a different way from its pen-and-ink source: because it feels three-dimensional while you’re reading it, the book almost becomes your home. Time, Remixed 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z The trade magazine Variety described the film as "surgically precise, grimly funny and entirely mesmerizing," adding that the director and its leading stars were at the top of their game. 'Gone Girl' ensures NY Film Festival dazzles from the start 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z In the human-puppet dynamic on the show, they were the grownups, basically, and the puppets—little noisy maniacs made of yarn and felt, these birds and monsters who mesmerized and amused us—were the kids. Here’s to Bob, Luis, Gordon, and the “Sesame Street” Grownups 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Sweat, Blood and Philosophy to the Rhythms of the Sweet Science Published: October 21, 2010 Pugilists and philosophers of all kinds converge in Frederick Wiseman’s mesmerizing documentary “Boxing Gym.” | 'Boxing Gym': Sweat, Blood and Philosophy to the Rhythms of the Sweet Science 2010-10-21T23:08:00Z He’s all hot glares and gravelly snarls, and that may be enough to mesmerize viewers for a time. Mucky intent makes “Taboo” a questionable proposition 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z And then there was the sparkly turquoise jumpsuit worn by Erin Andrews for her Viennese waltz, which was just as mesmerizing — in a different way. Season 10 of 'Dancing With the Stars' spins to a close 2010-05-21T22:23:00Z Jonathan Porretta, as always, was mesmerizing, but ultimately "Place a Chill" didn't seem worth all the effort expended on its behalf. Alexei Ratmansky's ballet 'Concerto DSCH' is a joy 2011-03-21T23:33:15Z White dots also pop from the orderly yet gently eccentric “Share,” a typically mesmerizing composition by Simon Gouverneur, one of two artists of color in the show. In the galleries: Showcasing an artist’s exploration and influence 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z But his singing is burnished, cagey and mesmerizing. Alt-Verdi: ?Otello,? Differently 2010-12-24T14:54:24Z A large Qing dynasty vase in the form of a flattened sphere known as a “pilgrim flask” has a mesmerizing mandala on either side. Art Review: When Enamel Wares Adorned China?s Imperial Courts 2011-02-17T21:29:31Z For at least five minutes we all watched, mesmerized, as my husband tickled the biggest of the three. Next Stop: Indonesia’s Karimunjawa Is a Watery Wonderland 2012-05-25T19:27:33Z In spite of so much tantalizing talk amid mesmerizing rows of sweet-smelling hams, no amuse-bouche was offered, and we left with empty stomachs. 2010-01-14T03:45:00Z Alameddine, who now has about twenty-five thousand Twitter followers, has become a kind of online cult celebrity on account of these strange and mesmerizing threads. The Novelist Whose Twitter Feed Is a Work of Art 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Screeners were not available for this preview, but “Roadkill” looks messy and mesmerizing. Perspective | Expecting little, our TV critic found 25 shows worth watching this fall. (Yes, really!) 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z Boss feels comfortable at epic scale–the speeches are mesmerizing, the actual small-bore conversation often stilted. Starz?s Politics Drama Boss: Powerful But Messy, Just Like Its Subject 2011-10-21T12:23:02Z “Sharp Objects,” a mesmerizing eight-episode series beginning Sunday on HBO, is not the gothic crime thriller you might first suspect — at least not mainly. Review: ‘Sharp Objects’ Cuts Slow but Deep 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z In the work’s most mesmerizing moment, he appears as a puppet, a modern-day Pinocchio in gold paillettes, his rigid joints slowly warming into human motion. Framing a difficult past with sequins and hip-hop Cutaways to nature’s splendor abound: Mists enfold the mountain; Mr. Casanova mesmerizingly holds one cross-fade from these clouds. Review: ‘The Creation of Meaning’ Views an Economically Torn Italy in Echoes of Earlier Days 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z As a child, she once visited him at the AEC building in Germantown, Md., and was mesmerized by the quiet busyness of the office. D.C. is a city of grand monuments and federal buildings. These photos capture the often unseen poetic details. 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z Observing a year in the life of the brothers Aarne and Lasse Aatsinki, reindeer herders in Finnish Lapland, this challenging and mesmerizing documentary captures horror and joy with the same gorgeous dispassion. Movie Review: In ‘Aatsinki,’ Two Reindeer Herders Ride the Seasons 2014-01-24T00:32:37Z The eye is later replaced by a slowly rotating circular panel; when a thin stream of blood leaks onto it, it becomes a mesmerizing exercise in slow-motion spin art. Review: Opera Lovers, Make a Pilgrimage to Munich for ‘Tannhäuser’ 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z On evidence of its appearance at the Valley Performing Arts Center in Northridge on Friday night, the London Philharmonic Orchestra appears to be thriving, thanks mainly to its mesmerizing music director, Vladimir Jurowski. London Philharmonic Orchestra's Jurowski a hypnotic force 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z This muted work is mesmerizing and enigmatic: It suggests a muralist paean to working-class life on the sea but lacks the expected energy of celebration. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z Often captured with feverish lighting and in oddly mesmerizing pastels, the film traces months of writing, workshops and rehearsals. 'Louder Than a Bomb': the power of a youth poetry slam 2011-05-05T23:55:05Z Played by a mesmerizing Teyana Taylor, Inez holds you rapt throughout this sweeping New York story of love and survival, motherhood and gentrification. ‘A Thousand and One’ Review: A New York Love Story 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z The Lucinda Childs Dance Company recently wrapped up a two-week season at the Joyce Theater, surveying several decades of its founder’s mesmerizing minimalism. The Works of Lucinda Childs, Online and Absorbing 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Though you’re ostensibly doing nothing, or seemingly mesmerized by a patch of grout, this is when the mental magic begins. Quarantine is perfect for discovering the beauty and power of boredom 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z The realism of cinema converges mesmerizingly with the representational schema of the stage. Review | This gutsy new ‘West Side Story’ is unlike any you’ve seen — and it’s exhilarating 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z A teacher who whispered instructions while turning the pages of a textbook left her mesmerized. A whisper, then tingles, then 87 million YouTube views: Meet the star of ASMR 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z The opening sequence is a mesmerizing sequence of events. The wildest, most poignant, or unforgettable movie scenes of 2019 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z “I’m Your Man” is a mesmerizing labor of love. Books of The Times: ‘I’m Your Man,’ Leonard Cohen Biography by Sylvie Simmons 2012-09-13T22:17:26Z This point of view saturates “The Cursed Child,” which seems to occur in a land of hypnotically luminous darkness that should mesmerize adults as effectively as children. Review: ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Casts a Spell Onstage 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z The difficult past is always present in Van Etten’s music, a mesmerizing catalog that somehow combines the venom of P J Harvey with a choir loft full of Emmylou Harrises singing harmony. The Rough Harmonies of Sharon Van Etten 2012-02-05T04:55:45Z I admit that at first I found the whole thing mesmerizing. My Dead 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z “Cara is so mesmerizing a character that I was helpless before every twist and turn of plot, riveted by her pain, love and secrets,” Amal El-Mohtar writes, reviewing it in her latest Otherworldly column. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z What is it about cross-section illustrations — the kind where you can see everything going on inside a house, upstairs and down, all at once — that makes them so mesmerizing? Enticing Books for Every Kid This Holiday Season 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z The 35-year survey of the work of Lukas Duwenhögger at Artists Space provides a full, mesmerizing view of a German artist, now 60 and based in Istanbul, who is barely known in this country. Your Last Chance to See One of New York’s Great Gallery Spaces 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z My favorite act was a lovely lone modern dancer who whirled on steps beside the canal, teasing carp with her bare feet and mesmerizing the passing gondola-drivers. Can a sleepy Chinese town become a cultural mecca? 2013-06-08T23:00:00Z She and two female dancers mesmerized during “I Get So Lonely.” Greg Kot review: Janet Jackson breaks out hits 2011-03-08T14:58:12Z During a solitary, cold-weather restoration, Mr. Adams grew mesmerized by the dust swirling in the light as he gutted the place to its bones. Their Family Movie Nights Can Get a Little Bloody 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z The “Nightscape” exhibition, launching that night and running through October, features nine kaleidoscopic light-and-sound installations that will transform the Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, public garden into a mesmerizing botanical wonderland. Catch a Psychedelic Light Show at Longwood Gardens 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Big, honest, mesmerizing, painful and impossible to put down. Beth Macy’s 'Factory Man,' Michael Lewis’s 'Flash Boys' and More 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z “To this day, when I see a soufflé rising, I’m mesmerized. I’m just like a kid again.” Eric Ripert Looks Back on a Youth Both Tender and Tough 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z But if a play relies on a couple for about three-quarters of its dialogue, then they had best mesmerize. Fringe Festival in Review 2010-08-18T21:22:00Z But there’s no question that she’s mesmerizing and by the tragic end, when her family tries to tame her, it’s clear that she is meant to become a kind of urban myth. | 'Bintou': Adenike Thomas: Rebel Girl Clashes With Her Clan 2010-07-05T21:18:00Z Before long you do not want it to stop, especially as played in this mesmerizing performance. Music Review: I?m Playing With the Orchestra. Leave a Message After the Beep. 2011-02-23T23:22:28Z The volcano comes into view after a sharp bend in the path, and it is one of the most mesmerizing theme park centerpieces I have ever seen. Taking the Plunge at the New Volcano Bay Water Park in Orlando 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z "The Tribe" is marked not just by wordlessness — the ambient sound makes it not truly silent — but by Slaboshpytskiy's mesmerizing long takes. 'The Tribe' an unusual, powerful look at criminality 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z He’s the great villain, but he’s mesmerizing because he has these wonderful speeches — he’s an orator — and he tries to change the meaning of words: “make a heav’n of hell, and a hell of heav’n.” From Selina to Stalin: The man behind ‘Veep’ talks satire and cynicism 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z And I’m mesmerized, as Costco knows well, by the sense of possibility implied by what they call “treasures”: the unpredictable, often luxurious big-ticket deep-discount items that range from electronics to jewelry to caskets. TV Tonight: The Costco Craze 2012-04-26T15:59:04Z But they’re not clutching controllers or mesmerized by a glaring screen. The wonderful world of Warhammer workshops 2013-04-07T19:00:00Z At the club, he showcased both traditions in one of this year’s most mesmerizing concerts. Girma Yifrashewa’s blend of European piano and Ethiopian music 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z It’s all the more mesmerizing in the digitized films of him teaching class, as flickering lights render him ghostly, otherworldly. Balanchine, the Teacher: ‘I Pushed Everybody’ 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Those mesmerizing eyes that luxurious dark hair and flawless skin - they were all there, even back then. Taylor was an outsized presence in a petite frame 2011-03-23T22:55:09Z I arrived only hours after Fidel Castro’s death and partook in his mesmerizing funeral, surrounded by a million grieving Cubans. A recipe for Cuba's national dish, ropa vieja, or rags, from the new book "Cuban Flavor" 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Other fans, however, were mesmerized by the Hollywood star. Brad Pitt mystifies as first male face of Chanel No.5 2012-10-15T21:33:39Z If you could look at the interviews, hours of Toni talking, they are mesmerizing. Toni Morrison doc filmmaker on her banned books: "People are afraid ... of powerful black women" 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z The first of the film’s two primary parts centers on startling, even mesmerizing sea-level views of the blast. Bruce Conner, parsing the nuclear age 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z His sofa cushions became a crash mat for practicing somersaults and the gymnastics that make diving mesmerizing to watch. Tom Daley Is All-Around Gold 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z New Yorker magazine's David Denby called the movie, "a bleak but mesmerizing piece of filmmaking" and said it was "Mara's shot at stardom." Critics stamp their approval on "Dragon Tattoo" 2011-12-13T20:11:42Z It’s this emphasis on the human and humane implications of Gödel’s life and work that gives this book its mesmerizing pull. A New Biography of Kurt Gödel, Whose Brilliant Life Intersected With the Upheavals of the 20th Century 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z As a schoolgirl, she found herself almost mesmerized by the portrait, eventually clipping a reproduction from a magazine and pinning it to her bedroom wall. Review | First published in 1924, ‘Still She Wished for Company’ makes for a delicious, if bittersweet, Valentine’s Day treat 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Mann has long been mesmerized by Tokyo and Japan, but this was his first opportunity to work there. ‘Tokyo Vice’ Revisits a Faded Underworld 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Then he took off, with the idea of somehow mirroring the artists and adventurers from his mother's Bohemian side of the family, most of whom he only knew from mesmerizing tales. Robert Taylor: arresting as TV lawman 'Longmire' 2013-05-23T14:08:08Z Set in 1930s Hollywood, “The Last Tycoon” wants to be Amazon’s version of “Mad Men,” a meticulous period drama that influences pop culture and mesmerizes Emmy voters. Amazon Tackles Hollywood’s F. Scott Fitzgerald Obsession 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z And in a mesmerizing performance Mr. Beale emphasizes the peasant within the tyrant. Arts & Leisure: ?Richard II,? ?Madness of King George? and ?Collaborators? in London 2012-02-12T06:00:50Z The dance was mesmerizing and managed to simultaneously call to mind the opening sequence to a James Bond movie and a Boris and Natasha cartoon. Dancing with the Stars Watch: Who’s Going To The Finals 2013-05-15T09:45:58Z The effect is mesmerizing, nestled deep within the uncanny valley. How PinkyDoll Mesmerized the Internet 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z Both books were mesmerizing, seeming to fall in my hands from an alternative sky. How Susan Sontag Influenced Patti Smith’s Reading Life 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z The Times once described one of her matches as “mesmerizing, like any passing calamity.” The Particular Drama of Simona Halep 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Her access, however, results in fascinating, even mesmerizing scenes and situations. Review: ‘Daughters of Destiny’ on Netflix Explores Caste Struggles in India 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z James Coupe’s mesmerizing videos endlessly show people eating, exercising and praying and are based on surveillance technologies, including facial-recognition software and computer algorithms that draw from social media. Review: ‘Out of Sight’ offers a good look at Pacific Northwest art scene 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z Jr. RTR and Charan make a mesmerizing team, dancing in sync side by side, as legions of ladies and lads in formal wear struggle to keep up with them. ‘Naatu Naatu’ From ‘RRR’ Is a Worldwide Hit, but It Draws on Very Local Traditions 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Soon I had a front-row seat at the Coffey County Fair, watching 4-H members ages 7 to 18 march steer and heifers around a ring to the mesmerizing slur of an auctioneer’s call. Frugal Traveler: In Kansas, Museums, Fried Chicken and, Yes, ‘Oz’ 2013-08-07T18:58:00Z The steady headlamps of his prose stun and mesmerize you, as if you were a lumbering mammal caught in the middle of a highway. Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle: Book Three’ 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z With her sharply planed, mesmerizing face, Ms. Lopez was born for close-ups — though more beautiful, sumptuous ones than are found here. Movie Review 'The Back-Up Plan': Jennifer Lopez and Alex O?Loughlin in Rom-Com 2010-04-22T21:53:00Z Written as a self-proclaimed “fairy tale” in a punchy, inviting style, Mr. LaValle’s haunting tale weaves a mesmerizing web around fatherhood, racism, horrific anxieties and even “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Books to Breeze Through This Summer 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Seen in this detail, the ugliness of the behavior of the fans — not 5 or 10 of them, but thousands — is both sickening and mesmerizing. | 'Catching Hell': ?Catching Hell? From Alex Gibney - Review 2011-09-30T22:52:57Z He took film-noirish photos of Capote, including at the Willow Street house’s mesmerizing staircase and around the streets of Brooklyn Heights. Spare Times for Nov. 6-12 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z With each word he spoke, I was more mesmerized. What He Hadn’t Told Me 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z Readers of Mr. Grossman’s mesmerizing trilogy might experience the same kind of withdrawal upon finishing “The Magician’s Land.” Book Review: ‘Magician’s Land’ Ends Lev Grossman’s Trilogy 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Reid, interviewed on the phone after doing two matinees on a recent Wednesday, said that as a child, she would watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on television and be mesmerized by the Rockettes. NW dancer gets a kick from being a Rockette 2011-12-14T23:25:04Z This novel is atmospheric and thrilling, with high stakes and mesmerizing magic. 6 Great Y.A. Fantasy Novels 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z Consistently mesmerizing in their extravagant colors and surprising contrasts of shape and background, they deserve to be better known. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z BioShock took players beneath the Atlantic to the underwater Art Deco dystopia known as Rapture in a fearless, mesmerizing depiction of Randian philosophy run amok. Video Game Review | BioShock 2: Making Another Dive Into Evils of the Deep 2010-03-06T00:00:00Z The album's title track is aptly named with a mesmerizing blend of funky bass line, electric guitar, strings and layered vocals. Review: Miguel propels R&B on 'Kaleidoscope Dream' 2012-10-01T16:00:13Z Her head bent forward in concentration, Dahl struck the keys, loosing a mesmerizing cascade of notes. To Go Big, Sloppy Jane Went Underground 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z The capital of Western Australia, where some 1.8 of the state’s two million residents live, left this New Yorker mesmerized: Could a city really be so easy, breezy, green and pristine — so positively livable? Next Stop : Catching Perth’s Wave in Western Australia 2014-02-27T20:21:56Z "I'm mesmerized by his talent, by the range of his competencies." Centenary to show more to Mervyn Peake than Gormenghast 2010-09-16T16:15:00Z “If you are familiar with his mesmerizing work, nothing more need be said,” he writes, “if you’re not, this feast of dance illustrates why others are.” Essential Arts & Culture: Pacino as Tennessee Williams, Diego Rivera at LACMA, suspended Iranian art, 'Mr. Gaga' 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z The half-hour “Juarez,” on Monday night, is a bracing, at times mesmerizing introduction to the “Witness” series, a project of the filmmaker Michael Mann and the documentarian David Frankham, who directed three of the films. Television Review: ‘Witness,’ HBO Documentary Series on War Photographers 2012-11-05T19:27:21Z Maggie is on a different journey, and while the detours and destination of her path are vague, she makes for a mesmerizing traveling companion — or, more rightly, guide. Movie Review: ?Sound of My Voice? Directed by Zal Batmanglij 2012-04-26T23:25:49Z But we also get a mesmerizing glimpse at who might just take over this careening mess of a business: Pete Campbell. "Mad Men" recap: Cure for the common job 2010-08-30T12:59:00Z “This Was the End,” an experimental meditation on Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” at the supercool Long Island City arts space The Chocolate Factory Theater through March 8, begins both mesmerizingly and gratingly. | A Digital Deconstruction of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” 2014-02-24T21:04:36Z Strange and mesmerizing, Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master" is the story of two men. 'The Master' is a strange and mesmerizing tale of two men 2012-09-20T20:46:07Z So the reader who knows little of Mr. Brown’s story may not instantly grasp why that story is so mesmerizing. Books of The Times: ?The One,? James Brown Biography by R J Smith 2012-03-08T00:53:14Z People stood up from dinner, and one after another sidled over to the installation; several dozen grown men and women, mesmerized, he recalled. How Balloons Blew Up 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z There were mesmerizing episodes, with skittish rhythmic bursts that echoed from drum to mallet instruments, and a feisty section that sounded like a battle of drum rolls. Music Review: ?Nine Rivers? at Miller Theater - Review 2011-09-18T22:20:23Z The Chillers' feverish, rave vibe is instantly mesmerizing. Review: 'In the Solitude of Cotton Fields' veers into unfamiliar, unsettling territory 2011-01-14T20:43:08Z A structure that houses works of art ought to be an artistic feat unto itself, one that both mesmerizes viewers and creates a space for tranquil reflection. Four Spectacular Museums Built This Summer 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z This mesmerizing story is told by the father himself, the first of three linked novellas in Eshkol Nevo’s “Three Floors Up.” Three Floors, Three Different Israeli Stories 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z I first smelled this on a woman on the subway in Manhattan in 2011 and was completely mesmerized. My perfume safari – searching for scents outside fancy international cities 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z His elliptical style mesmerized readers for decades — and remains so highly contagious that students still fall prey to its impassive tone and declarative simplicity. Perspective | On Hemingway and the ideal of masculinity 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z As a speaker, Johnson is mesmerizing—impassioned, articulate, straightforward, unafraid to swear. A Jazz Funeral for the American Presidency 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z |
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