0 making you give your attention completely so that you cannot think of anything else:
music with a repetitive, slightly mesmeric quality
In this case that context is defined by the backfire of the mesmeric procedures whose undesired results propel the second dramatic trajectory.
The sonorities are enchanting, nonetheless, the playing mesmeric.
If lovesickness is a disease, mesmeric treatment cannot cure it.
Reports of mesmeric phenomena had already contributed to a widespread awareness that testimony itself was insufficient to convince.
While the opening section is turbulent, the main span is quiet and mesmeric, seeming to stretch time as it approaches its nicely inevitable conclusion.
Julian, troubled with insomnia, enters into a mesmeric sleep in a specially constructed sepulchral underground room in the year 1887, a time of social turmoil and unrest.
Its mesmeric pedal point gave rise to luminescent overtone patterns, with a whirlwind of ornamental gestures leading to silences, sustained reflective individual pitches, tinged with plangent dissonance.
I doubt whether many people can exercise such mesmeric influence.