She was mesmerized.

I was mesmerized.

She mesmerized the audience.

Our Lord seems mesmerized.

Maybe I shouldn't tell you this, but I am truly mesmerized by your beauty.

FLORENCE The nineteenth century was mesmerized by the cyclical behavior of business. The French economist Clement Juglar became famous for establishing that business cycles ran for around nine or ten years.

Roughly a third, mesmerized by the meretricious appeal of the Efficient Market Hypothesis, argued that governments were the original sinners. Their ill conceived interventions notably the US backed mortgage underwriters Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as well as the Community Reinvestment Act distorted market incentives.

BERLIN While Europe remains preoccupied with its own slow motion crisis, and other global powers continue to be mesmerized by the bizarre spectacle of European officials myriad efforts to rescue the euro (and thus the global financial system), clouds of war are massing over Iran once more.

And you know, his son was mesmerized, because he would dunk it in the water, he would take it out and it was bone dry. A few weeks later, he said that his son was playing with a lock of his mother's hair, and he noticed that there were some drops of water on the hair.

By the same token, development would be at best hindered and at worst reversed in a world riven by violent conflict or mesmerized by the fear of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, or one in which human rights were trampled, the rule of law was disregarded and citizens' views and needs were ignored by unresponsive and unrepresentative Governments.

TOKYO President Hu Jintao s visit to Washington is coming at an increasingly tense moment in Sino American relations. Indeed, mesmerized by China s vast military buildup, a new constellation of strategic partnerships among its neighbors, and America s revitalized commitment to Asian security, many shrewd observers suggest that 2010 saw the first sparks of a new Cold War in Asia. But is Cold War II really inevitable?

The systematic study of persuasion began during World War II, when the US Army recognized that fighting a nation mesmerized by Hitler would require bolstering troop motivation and rallying popular support for the war. They sought help from Yale University psychologist Carl Hovland and his associates, who produced what has become a well known model of persuasion, comprising three groups of variables related to the communicator, the audience, and the message.