Jones recalled being mesmerized as King told the middle-class congregation about the role and responsibility to “help our less fortunate brothers and sisters who are struggling for their freedom in the South.”

I have always been mesmerized by his work.

Wood was 7 when a pianist mesmerized him.

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.