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

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.

His mesmerizing mass of blond afro hair, coupled with his equally flamboyant and mesmeric technique on the ball, made him one of Colombia's most recognizable footballers, and arguably, one of the most recognizable footballers around the globe.

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.

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.

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.

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.

" 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.

* 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.

Club said that " Skarsgård a quietly mesmerizing performance ," and that " Schrader's movie isn't particularly scary, but it's more substantive than The Exorcist and its sequels, because it takes demon possession out of head-spinning literalism and considers evil as something more real and commonplace.

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 ".

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

" 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 ".

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.

During middle age, her husband dies, followed by all her children, resulting in a wave of great artistic creativity, the product of which is mesmerizing to the observing audience.

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.

The listener is transported into Milla's medieval faerie land of Russian folk influences and contemporary synth-pop via a series of eclectic yet seamless tracks like the mesmerizing " Charlie " and the dramatic " Don't Fade Away " ( produced by Richard Feldman and Rupert Hine, respectively.

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.

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.

Cipolla may well represent the mesmerizing power of authoritarian leaders in Europe at the time — he is autocratic, misuses power, and subjugates the masses in an attempt to counterbalance his inferiority complex by artificially boosting his self-confidence.

Jurgis Baltrušaitis, a close friend of Alexander Scriabin and whose poetry is characterized by mystical philosophy and mesmerizing sounds, was active in Lithuania.

) gun, a light pulse device that gives the illusion of invisibility by instantly mesmerizing its victims into losing all sense of time.

Her work has been described by reviewers in terms that range from " mesmerizing " to " frustrating ", but she is widely respected as an authority in the field and has presided over numerous IF contests.

In a word, she is mesmerizing.

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 mesmerizing, cryptic original is a hard act to follow.

" 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.

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

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

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

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

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.