How to Use mesmerism in a Sentence

mesmerism

noun
  • My ritual for self-mesmerism has grown more elaborate over the years.
    New York Times, 2021-05-26
  • Here’s how Ye used mesmerism to get up at 5 a.m. every morning, get more sleep, and get more done.
    NBC News, 2019-11-04
  • There has been almost a national mesmerism, or fixation.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2020-10-28
  • Not unlike today, people turned to quack cures for relief, including water therapy and mesmerism, which involved hypnotism and the use of magnets.
    Ann Levin, USA TODAY, 2021-01-18
  • Another new, if poorly understood, psychological concept—mesmerism—informs another of his most haunting works.
    Colin Dickey, The New Republic, 2021-07-21
  • In the years leading up to the French Revolution, mesmerism started to take on a significantly political dimension.
    National Geographic, 2019-03-05
  • This project, followed by work on similar lists, familiarized the young writer with alchemical treatises, Hermetic philosophy, Rosicrucian thought, and the major studies of mesmerism and witchcraft.
    Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books, 2020-05-28

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