I was mesmerized.

She was mesmerized.

The very elements of hate and power about Hitler... that mesmerized Germany mesmerized the world.

FLORENCE The nineteenth century was mesmerized by the cyclical behavior of business.

I witnessed something amazing, which is that the audience, the global audience, was mesmerized by this apparent magic.

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.

Today the world was mesmerized by videos of Syrian protests many though would never happen, especially after an earlier call for protest on 5 February failed to bring anyone to the streets.

During the championships it was normal to see the people here mesmerized in front of television sets, and ready with their flags and car honks to go down and celebrate in the streets after every victory.

In June, speaking at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, Medvedev mesmerized his audience by simultaneously sounding avant garde and hackneyed he attacked corruption, vowed that Russia is not building state capitalism, and promised legal and federal reforms.

First with Shevarnadze, and now with Saakashvili, popular disillusionment reflects not rejection of democracy, but frustration with its continuing absence. Saakashvili is evidently mesmerized by the US, and the West in general, but what is the point if there is no independent and democratic political process in Georgia today?

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.

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?