(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.
Stunning
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stun
(a.) Overpowering consciousness; overpowering the senses; especially, overpowering the sense of hearing; confounding with noise.
(a.) Striking or overpowering with astonishment, especially on account of excellence; as, stunning poetry.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dispute is rooted in the recent erosion of many of the freedoms Egyptians won when they rose up against Mubarak in a stunning, 18-day uprising.
(2) The brightly lit ice palaces themselves are stunning, inside and out, and the sporting facilities have been rightly praised by almost all the athletes.
(3) Impulses sufficiently large to stun adult sheep, with a non-penetrating impact head, were produced from an adapted Hantover pneumatic cattle stunner.
(4) Nevertheless between 18% and 20% appear to have done so – a stunning result for the far right.
(5) And as for this job, well, not that I have a choice but … fuck it, I quit.” A stunned colleague then told viewers: “All right we apologise for that … we’ll, we’ll be right back.” The station later apologised to viewers on Twitter: KTVA 11 News (@ktva) Viewers, we sincerely apologize for the inappropriate language used by a KTVA reporter on the air tonight.
(6) In the ECMO patient, cardiac stun syndrome and electromechanical dissociation can be confused with low circuit volume, pneumothorax, or cardiac tamponade.
(7) Alternatively, a loss of collagen tethers or decline in matrix tensile strength can be responsible for regional or global transformations in myocardial architecture and function seen in the reperfused ("stunned") myocardium and in dilated (idiopathic) cardiopathy.
(8) The speed of the advance and strength of the weaponry used has stunned the autonomous enclave.
(9) Considerable evidence indicates that calcium antagonists administered prior to coronary occlusion attenuate postischemic stunning in the canine model: verapamil, diltiazem, and amlodipine have been shown to restore contractile function to 50-100% of baseline values during the initial hours following relief of ischemia.
(10) In models of prolonged ischemia (2 hours) followed by reperfusion, we have not observed a beneficial effect of scavengers on stunned myocardium.
(11) The present study tested the hypothesis that a reduction in calcium flux across the sarcolemma or the sarcoplasmic reticulum at the onset of reperfusion could attenuate subsequent mechanical "stunning" (postischemic myocardial dysfunction).
(12) Thus myocardial "stunning" is a nonuniform phenomenon with maximal severity in the subendocardium.
(13) The Tasmanian writer said he was “stunned” to be in the running for the prestigious UK-based literary prize, which for the first time has been opened to authors of any nationality.
(14) The draft released last Monday had been hailed by some church observers and gay rights groups as “a stunning change” in how the Catholic hierarchy talked about gay people.
(15) In fact, I'm stunned at how good the place that I am in is.
(16) Myocardial "Stunning" is characterized by a reversible post-ischemic contractile dysfunction despite full restoration of blood flow.
(17) There's a stunning atmosphere in Wembley tonight, one even the Sheffield Wednesday band can't bugger up.
(18) It was similar between dog and rabbit hearts (about 40%) and was not significantly affected by enhanced contractility with calcium, epinephrine, or cardiac cooling, or by depressed contractility with propranolol, decreased coronary perfusion pressure, or stunned myocardium.
(19) RBS starts charging financial customers to park their cash Read more The disposal of W&G is proving troublesome and expensive for RBS, which stunned the City last month by admitting it was abandoning its attempt to float the business on the stock market.
(20) He tells an amusing story of how exhilarated, if stunned, he was by completing three skeleton runs at Lillehammer.