mesmerizer
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mesmerizers
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He gives Ford a boyish buoyancy and Griffith the chance to be a grownup mesmerizer.
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In Shaw's words, she is the born "decider, dominator, organizer, tactician and mesmerizer."
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Last Christmas, veteran mesmerizer Leslie Cheung gave a sold-out concert at Caesars Palace, where tickets went for $80 and $238.
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The Polish-born actor Klaus Kinski was a born mesmerizer with a rock star's gift for mischief.
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He conjectured that the actions of the mesmeric subject could be explained without a fluid by the suggestion of phantasms to him on the part of the mesmerizer.
From Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence by Charles Coppens
Perhaps the cruelest blow for would-be police mesmerizers came in 1982, when the California Supreme Court banned previously hypnotized witnesses from testifying.
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In this mysterious region of inquiry he joins hands with some questionable allies, such as the Spiritualists, the phrenologists and the mesmerizers.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 by Various
Such a look, mesmerizers say, penetrates to the person on whom it is directed, and certainly Raoul seemed as though struck by a magic wand.
From A Daughter of Eve by Honoré de Balzac
Then, seeing that the information failed to interest me, "What do you think of them—the mesmerizers?"
From A Little Union Scout by George Gibbs
Having already dealt with the mesmerizers and hypnotizers, we shall now look only at the classes of independent and generally less scientific investigators and experimenters.
From Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing by George Barton Cutten
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