The very regularity of the effort produced a kind of mesmeric effect which was unpleasant.

Though they had been barely pubescent at that time, the twins had not been proof against the strange mesmeric effect he had on women of all ages.

In his book Le magnétisme éclairé, he describes accounts of mesmeric effects in terms of belief and suggestibility.

We are to have a sitting this evening, and she is to try if she can produce any mesmeric effect upon me.

He becomes an entertainer, a manipulator whose victories we watch as if hypnotized, seeing both the tricks and the mesmeric effect that they have on the innocent.

The uneventfulness had a mesmeric effect on Roderick, so much so that he barely noticed the sudden rapid-fire exchange from the flag bridge's comm station.

Again, she was seized by conflicting impulses, the need to put distance between herself and this man countered by the mesmeric effect he had on her.

Mary Beth Patterson - as Ditto was born, in Arkansas in 1981 - had a mesmeric effect on her fellow students at school.

She was beautiful when young and she had a mesmeric effect on men of a certain age and class.

It does not rely on the mesmeric effect of the big unquestioned name to validate its every purchase.