Just how he works is so mesmerizing to me.

He mesmerized an avid audience at Detroit Opera with John Cage’s “Europeras 3 & 4.”

She was mesmerized by the smooth-talking Sonny, who raffishly claimed to be a descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Little is explained but much can be guessed about Rogowski’s character, whom the great German actor can’t help but make into a mesmerizing figure of storybook fragility.

A way to look at emergent behavior — the coordinated and mesmerizing flight of a flock of birds, for instance.