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Jan Versweyveld's versatile set, suggesting a range of personal and professional spaces, is flanked by two screens of video projections that lead us slowly and mesmerically through eerily empty streetscapes of New York.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2023

Sometimes, though, this claustrophobic style breaks like a fever, yielding to flights of mesmerically expansive prose.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2020

His wife was at the end of her tether, his youngest daughter cried herself to sleep and his eldest teenage daughter, Victoria, was so ill all she could do was stare mesmerically at her smartphone.

From The Guardian • Aug. 10, 2011

Mr. Raskin’s collecting mania, he said, began with a fountain pen — an orange Parker Duofold looped mesmerically around the neck of one of his teachers, Elizabeth Bolduc.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2010

There is neither evidence nor foundation for a conjecture that she was ever pupil of teachers of medical science, or of jugglery, nor that she belonged to any mesmerically developing circle.

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Putnam, Allen