What is "mesmerising"

Usage examples of "mesmerising".

He was mesmerising her, Rue thought disjointedly He was trying to weaken her, to read her mind, to overwhelm her with his maleness in the same way that Julian had once done.

A woman of fragile beauty, with mesmerising violet eyes and a strict moral code, Fidelity has at her beck and call several talented admirers including a scientist, Appleby, and a lawyer, Sir Frank Wrawton.

No one, anywhere, was moving now, and in the great stillness my mind slowed to the rhythm of alpha waves, and three-dimensional reality began losing its definition, drawn into the shadows by the vast stillness here, by the heady fumes of the incense, the mesmerising glimmer of a hundred candle-flames and, above all, the presence of death.

I remember being told ages ago that on the American prairies, which of old had been swept by great tempests, the tempests gradually subsided when man went to reside there: so, if this be true, it would seem that the mere presence of man had a certain subduing or mesmerising effect on the innate turbulence of Nature, and his absence today may have taken off the curb.