What's the difference between intriguing and mesmerizing?

Intriguing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intrigue

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is an intriguing moment: the new culture secretary, Sajid Javid, who was brought in to replace Maria Miller last month, is something of an unknown quantity.
  • (2) So I am, of course, intrigued about the city’s newest tourist attraction: a hangover bar, open at weekends, in which sufferers can come in and have a bit of a lie down in soothingly subdued lighting, while sipping vitamin-enriched smoothies.
  • (3) In this review, Warner Greene and colleagues discuss recent studies that have revealed an intriguing molecular interplay between two pathogenic human retroviruses, HIV-1 and HTLV-1, and certain cellular genes that normally control T-cell growth.
  • (4) Most intriguing of all is the potential for the mould to "expect" changes in its environment.
  • (5) The reports of rod-dominated psychophysical spectral sensitivity from the deprived eye of monocularly lid-sutured (MD) monkeys are intriguing but difficult to reconcile with the absence of any reported deprivation effects in retina.
  • (6) I was intrigued, and spent the next few weeks getting my teeth into the subject.
  • (7) Whether committed glial cells in situ can be induced to switch their lineage when normal CNS conditions are altered is an intriguing question that remains to be answered.
  • (8) The sustained regenerative responses are considered intriguing and may have relevance both for head-injured humans and for future studies of central nervous system regeneration.
  • (9) It also intrigues me that the reaction of some women when challenged on this question so uncannily echoes the defence of sexist men in the 60s and 70s: come off it, love, it's just a bit of harmless fun.
  • (10) The breathtaking response of the geosphere as the great ice sheets crumbled might be considered as providing little more than an intriguing insight into the prehistoric workings of our world, were it not for the fact that our planet is once again in the throes an extraordinary climatic transformation – this time brought about by human activities.
  • (11) Lastly, we can expect greater clarification about the importance of various 11q13 genes found coamplified in nearly 20% of primary breast cancers, and pursuit into the intriguing possibility that a cyclin-encoding gene represents the overexpressed locus of real interest in this amplicon.
  • (12) As a nod to the me-centred world we live in, the exhibition will also feature the responses to an altogether more contemporary Mass Observation directive from 2012, intriguingly entitled Photography and You , which was specially commissioned for the Photographers' Gallery show.
  • (13) I cannot see anything before October, or even the end of the year, because there remain some difficult topics to resolve.” Lozano is most intriguing on two things: the issue of justice, and what he sees as a potential impasse over economic policy and the role of multinational corporations, especially those wanting to extract Colombia’s significant riches in gold, emeralds, coal, hydrocarbons and minerals, or turn grassland into palm oil plantations.
  • (14) The repositioning of Ashley Young is particularly intriguing given that Sir Alex Ferguson uses him as a right-footed left-winger at Manchester United.
  • (15) That was the thing that intrigued us: rewarding obscure knowledge, while allowing people to also give obvious answers.
  • (16) Narcolepsy, with its specific symptomatology is an intriguing but often frightening disease.
  • (17) The production of the latter chemotaxin by mononuclear phagocytes is especially intriguing as these cells can mediate inflammatory cell migration by either directly generating IL-8, or by inducing its production from surrounding nonimmune cells.
  • (18) The journalist went on to make an intriguing and chilling comparison: "There was a guy who lived in a country in Europe back in the twenties and thirties and into the forties.
  • (19) This finding raises the intriguing possibility that protein-S might play a role in bone turnover and bone mass.
  • (20) "It may well have been entertaining or it may well not have been entertaining, but what I find the most intriguing point is that he went to work and thought it might be.

Mesmerizing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mesmerize

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mesmer, the controversial Austrian doctor, was known for his theory of animal magnetism.
  • (2) That was brilliant defending, but absolutely mesmeric play by City, especially by Silva and Nasri.
  • (3) The Medical History Society of New Jersey awarded the Stephen Wickes Prize in the History of Medicine to this original essay on Franz Anton Mesmer.
  • (4) Will Hughes, Tom Carroll and Forster-Caskey all displayed some mesmeric touches – Carroll’s 60-yard crossfield ball that sent Redmond in was exquisite – but the arrival of Tom Ince to play just off Kane with half an hour to go made a difference.
  • (5) At the other end of the rink, Jonathan Quick can be inhumanly mesmerizing when called upon by the Kings to save the day.
  • (6) This handful of live shows spawned a million Facebook likes-worth of hype – given that they were a rare combination of a rock band with the muscle of the American pitbull outside, but built around Brittany's mesmeric, soulful stage presence.
  • (7) The genesis of the amaurosis, the problem of a real therapeutical influence by Mesmer and, especially, the relationship between the music as a therapeutical medium and the musical personality of the patient are discussed in detail.
  • (8) And with all the mesmeric revelations at the royal courts, poor Tommy Sheridan sits in his living room , ringed by an electronic tag that forces him home before the moon rises.
  • (9) This brief note on the history of Bedford Square shows that this part of London was prominent in nineteenth century medicine and, in particular, was involved in the early practice of mesmerism in this country.
  • (10) Over a minimal, mesmeric loop, our anti-hero wakes up to find his girlfriend not in bed next to him.
  • (11) But his icy blue eyes were kind and mesmerizing, and the world was brighter when we were together.
  • (12) When Mesmer reinvented 'animal magnetism' in 1776 as a fashionable term for treatment by suggestion, he appropriated theoretical, technical and social methods from the established ways of the experiments on static electricity.
  • (13) There was a directness to their pressure and passing that hadn't been there for much of the season, while RSL were not allowed the space to get their usual mesmerizing passing game going.
  • (14) The musician and composer Maria Theresia Paradis (1759-1824) blind since her earliest childhood was treated in 1777 by the physician Dr. Franz-Anton Mesmer (1734-1815).
  • (15) Since Mesmer, there has been much confusion about the inter-relationship between an individual's degree of hypnotizability, the personality style of the individual and the importance of the therapeutic strategy.
  • (16) Gmelin had only recently become interested in mesmerism and tried this procedure with this patient.
  • (17) To others she is a mentally ill wannabe mesmerized by the idea of victimization.
  • (18) Built for the most part around the gentle tunes of singer Martin Courtney, and articulated by the complementary melodic lines of lead guitarist Matt Mondanile, Real Estate songs are almost architecturally detailed, their mesmeric repetitions evocative of streets whose layout is calm and unvarying, but within whose borders emotional stories are covertly played out.
  • (19) The continued presence of this phenomenon in Western psychotherapy from Mesmerism to psychoanalysis is shown.
  • (20) The homily mesmerized hundreds of thousands beyond the parkway, with Jumbotrons relaying the mass to pilgrims and passersby who gazed, rapt, in the hushed heart of a usually hectic city.