" By the end of the following year he had taken up the ukelele and tea-chest bass and begun to participate in skiffle sessions with friends, and had started to play the piano ; meanwhile his stage presentation of numbers by both Presley and Chuck Berry — complete with gyrations in tribute to the original artists — to his local Wolf Cub group was described as " mesmerizing ... like someone from another planet.

On a visit to the Highlands, Edward overstays his leave and is arrested and charged with desertion but is rescued by the Highland chieftain Fergus MacIvor and his mesmerizing sister Flora, whose devotion to the Stuart cause, " as it exceeded her brother's in fanaticism, excelled it also in purity ".

The 2008 film, The Spirit, features Lorelei, a phantom siren who continually attempts to lure The Spirit into the afterlife with her mesmerizing song.

The film confirms reports that he made particularly mesmerizing use of eye contact and expression to communicate with an orchestra ; such later conductors as Fritz Reiner stated that this aspect of his technique had a strong influence on their own.

The beings often stared into his eyes, said Barney, with a terrifying, mesmerizing effect.

In 2000 Esther Williams ' life and career was portrayed in the Swedish book Esther Williams — Skenbiografin ( i. E ~ " Esther Williams — The Fake Biography ") by Jane Magnusson ; in which the author shares with readers her own fascination for art swimming as a genre and, here, in particular, Williams as — to the author — both a bewildering and mesmerizing front figure and icon in this field.

His greatest century was against the West Indies in 1957 when England followed on 288 runs behind at Edgbaston, he made 285 not out, the highest score by an England captain until Graham Gooch's 333 in 1990, adding 411 with Colin Cowdrey ( 154 )-still an England record for any wicket-and destroyed the mesmerizing hold the spinner Sonny Ramadhin had over English batsmen.

Charles Isherwood of the New York Times praised the show as " performed with galvanizing intensity by a terrific cast, ... a pulsating portrait of wasted youth that invokes all the standard genre conventions ... only to transcend them through the power of its music and the artistry of its execution ," and describing performance as having " mesmerizing vitality and piercing vocalism.

" Critic Robert Towers described McEwan's England in The New York Review of Books as a " flat, rubble-strewn wasteland, populated by freaks and monsters, most of them articulate enough to tell their own stories with mesmerizing narrative power and an unfaltering instinct for the perfect, sickening detail "; Towers called the collection " possibly the most brilliantly perverse and sinister batch of short stories to come out of England since Angus Wilson's The Wrong Set.

While also reviewed in terms such as unique and adventurous, a recent 2008 review in The Seattle Times described them with such diverse terms as unorthodox, unhinged, tribal, unpredictable, mesmerizing, loud, abrasive, dissonant and ultimately satisfying.

The follow-up single to " Bambino ", the exotic-sounding and mesmerizing " Gondolier ", was released in the Christmas on 1957, was also a great success, as were other early releases such as " Come Prima ( Tu Me Donnes )", " Ciao Ciao Bambina ", and a cover of The Drifters ’ " Save the Last Dance for Me ", " Garde-Moi la Dernière Danse ".

His grasp of tala was unprecedented for he understood the magic of singing in the 2nd & 3rd kala which had a mesmerizing effect on the audience that he performed.

America's first spacewalk happened during the Gemini 4 mission ; Kraft, at his console, found that he had to force himself to concentrate on his work, distracted by Ed White's " mesmerizing " descriptions of the Earth below.

Satya and Company, in particular, were cited by British director Danny Boyle as influences on his Academy Award-winning film Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ), for their " slick, often mesmerizing portrayals of the Mumbai underworld ", their display of " brutality and urban violence ", and their gritty realism.

Maxfield made a number of mesmerizing, though gritty, electronic minimalist pieces, a few of which have made it to commercial recording.

" A version of his mesmerizing hat made an appearance as well, as a trophy in the episode " A Bat Divided.

Unlike as depicted in some texts and movies, Kaurwaki was forcibly taken by Ashoka, who was struck by her mesmerizing beauty, and made her his wife.

His immense versatility in all the fields of music, his mesmerizing voice, his unique way of rendering the compositions helped him to carve out a niche in the Music era.

Once saved, the mariner must tell his story to whoever will listen and he is able to get the wedding guest to listen to his story by mesmerizing him.

She said that she " was shocked to see him loot people under the guise of spirituality " and said that he was mesmerizing people.

The mesmerizing effect prompted one critic to point out " the witch-like weirdness of the black kitten " and for many years, the painting solicited questions by the press.

" Kevin Thomas wrote in the Los Angeles Times that the film is " a mesmerizing parable of good and evil and a splendid example of Southern storytelling at its most poetic and imaginative.

* NME ( 10 / 21 / 00, p. 44 )-8 out of 10-" A space opera .... the most purely enjoyable hip-hop album of 2000 .... It's a crazed sci-fi journey to Planet B. S., that takes myriad detours around the galaxy .... utterly mesmerizing.

Berijam Lake: A calm serene lake surrounded by mesmerizing nature at a distance of around 20 km from kodaikanal. Boating is prohibited as the lake is a source of water for villages. Forest department permission is required and limited number of vehicles are allowed to enter forest area where the lake is situated. Entry is restricted into the Berijam Lake area to between 9. 30 a. m. and 3 p. m. Bison, deers, panthers and snakes are often spotted in this area. Fire tower, silent valley, medicine forest, lake view are other attractions around the lake.

In a word, she is mesmerizing.

One critic described the presidency as " propagandized leadership " which has a " mesmerizing power surrounding the office.

The play opened at the Los Angeles Theater Center in February 1989 to mixed reviews, although Waits ' performance was singled out by a number of critics, including John C. Mahoney, who described it as " mesmerizing.

The mesmerizing, cryptic original is a hard act to follow.

Empire magazine gave the film 4 / 5 stars, referring to it as " fascinating " and " cerebral " Jeffrey Lyons stated that the film was " mesmerizing " while Richard Corliss in Time Magazine referred to the film as " cinematic " Mick LaSalle of The San Francisco Chronicle wrote that " the picture never stops coming at you " Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three-and-a-half stars ( out of four ) and included the film among his Great Movies list.

" The contents of Robot Wisdom Weblog in its heyday have been recalled as a " mesmerizing sequence of arcana " and a " cornucopia of offbeat delights.

For example, the Healer class in Midgard is the primary crowd control class for the realm and responsible for mesmerizing ( or " mezzing ") groups of enemy players or monsters, while Druids can root and Clerics can stun.

His beauty is mesmerizing, often unintentionally wooing women and sometimes flustering men.

Jailed by the Jacobins in 1793, he was released in 1796 and returned to Britain where he believed Britain had been invaded by “ magnetic spies .” These spies included Prime Minister Pitt, who Matthews believed were responsible for mesmerizing the people into passive citizens into puppets.

A method of manipulating colors evolved that employed various tools including rakes, combs, and other apparatus, utilized in a series of movements, resulted in incredibly elaborate, intricate, and mesmerizing designs.

In his review in The Washington Post, Hal Hinson called the film " a mesmerizing poetic work composed in an eerie minor key.

When a teacher is suspected of killing a young male student, Fitz ' mesmerizing interrogation leads to a startling conclusion that the teacher, Mr. Quint, is gay and was trying to seduce the student.

The next night on Monday Nitro, he adopted a new gimmick that was somewhat reminiscent of " Superstar " Billy Graham, dyeing his hair and beard blond and increasing in muscle mass even further, damaging his agility.

After digestion, the Komodo dragon regurgitates a mass of horns, hair, and teeth known as the gastric pellet, which is covered in malodorous mucus.

Between 27 BC and 102 AD, in Imperial Rome, women wore their hair in complicated styles: a mass of curls on top, or in rows of waves, drawn back into ringlets or braids.

The Savior's head hangs on his breast and a mass of dark tangled hair conceals part of the face.

* Bow's mass of tangled red hair was one of her most famous features.

The team estimated that they had found 15, 000 unburned bodies, and " The largest mass graves ... contained unburned human remains ( parts and pieces of skulls with hair and skin attached ) and entire bodies preserved in wax-fat transformation.

For men, the removal of a full beard often requires the use of scissors or an electric ( or beard ) trimmer to reduce the mass of hair, simplifying the process.

Besides the teenage son of the Duc d ' Orléans, Louis Philippe, a future king of France, liberal aristocrats of the type of the duc d ' Aiguillon, the prince de Broglie, or the vicomte de Noailles, and the bourgeoisie who formed the mass of the members, the club contained such figures as " Père " Michel Gerard, a peasant proprietor from Tuel-en-Montgermont, in Brittany, whose rough common sense was admired as the oracle of popular wisdom, and whose countryman's waistcoat and plaited hair were later on to become the model for the Jacobin fashion.

It is sometimes called the " Undertaker Bird " due to its shape from behind: cloak-like wings and back, skinny white legs, and sometimes a large white mass of " hair.

They may also experience other " feminizing " effects such as gynecomastia ( development of larger than normal mammary glands in males ), reduced body hair, and loss of muscle mass.

The numerical values used in this equation were the average density of human hair ( 1. 3 grams per cubic centimeter ), a bending modulus ( A ) of 8 x 10 < sup >- 9 </ sup > Newton meter < sup > 2 </ sup >, a linear mass density of hair ( λ ) of 65 microgrammes per centimeter and the major diameter of the hair ( human hair is elliptical in cross section ) of 79 +/- 16 micrometers.

In some regions, the mixed mass of down and coarse hair is removed by hand with a coarse comb that pulls tufts of fiber from the animal as the comb is raked through the fleece.

And so somebody got a burnt cork and produced the moustache and a comb on the hair, and there they were assembled before me, all this mass of gold braid.

Increased Muscle mass, decrease of adipose tissue, faster hair and nail growth, strengthened immune system, increased circulatory system, and improved blood lipid levels, but long term mortality benefit has not yet been demonstrated.

Here he is depicted as a man with a totally burnt face and a great mass of hair.

A trichobezoar is a bezoar ( a mass found trapped in the gastrointestinal system ) formed from the ingestion of hair.

# Increased body mass and facial hair ( this is relatively easy to treat, and is often associated with PCOS, or polycystic ovary syndrome ).

Men lose facial, scrotal and trunk hair, as well as suffering decreased muscle mass and anemia.

The Clydesdale was used for crossbreeding in the 1950s and 1960s, which changed the conformation of the Shire and most notably changed the feathering on the lower legs from a mass of coarse hair into the silky feathering associated with modern Shires.

By the end of the decade, hair was often worn in a large mass with a bun at the top of the head, a style that would be predominant during the 1900s ( decade ).

Uncombed hair becomes irreversibly entangled, forming a matted, malodorous and encrusted or sticky moist mass.

The Polish plait is typically a ( sometimes large ) head of hair, made of a hard impenetrable mass of keratin fibers permanently cemented together with dried pus, blood, old lice egg-casings and dirt.