mesmerizing

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STUNNING - mesmerizing, audience intent, you could hear a pin drop - the screen held you hostage to every moment!

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  • All the time he was on camera he was mesmerizing, and scenes in which he did not appear crackled with tension, anticipating his entrance. —  EQMM, May 2005
  • The resulting dream states made Tristan's music mesmerizing, the practitioners said, even those who were not fond of the lost civilization's simplistic tootles; opium induced a deep absorption in the sensuous surface of musical sound, in the plainsong harmonies, vibrating between a drugged band and a drugged audience. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
  • The sight was mesmerizing, and I don't know how long it held my attention. —  Shirley Damsgaard - [Ophelia ; Abby Mystery 3] - The Trouble With Witches
  • Sony's gigantic room-within-a-room forest was mesmerizing, and the surrounding technology like that Sountina were no doubt of interest. —  World Bigest Gadgets News & Archives
  • Something about it and Kubrick's style is just mesmerizing, and what's most amazing is there are no absolute interpretations.
 

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