How to Use mentalist in a Sentence
mentalist
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To ease a mark's mind is a mentalist's biggest magic trick.
—Dmitry Samarov, Chicago Reader, 16 May 2018
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Such extraction is, of course, the raison d’être of a mentalist’s art.
—Ben Brantley, New York Times, 16 May 2017
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Jason writes: My son and I went to see the famous mentalist the Amazing Kreskin.
—New York Times, 19 Aug. 2021
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West even had a mentalist there to charm the guests with a few tricks, and lattes and cookies with his own face on them (and an assortment of hairstyles to choose from).
—Emma Stefansky, Vanities, 10 June 2018
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Your synapses will be safe once again when the British mentalist Derren Brown hangs up his tailcoat and blindfold.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 15 June 2017
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Your synapses will be safe again when the British mentalist Derren Brown hangs up his tailcoat and blindfold.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 22 June 2017
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Major, who grew up in Woodbine, makes his living as a mentalist and mind reader.
—Mary Grace Keller, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 16 Aug. 2020
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In this remake of a 1947 film noir, Bradley Cooper plays a carnival worker who learned a mentalist's tricks and uses them to con rich folks, which works for a time.
—Jim Kiest, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Feb. 2022
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Rodney Reyes is a magician and mentalist who performs throughout the country.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 June 2022
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Derren Brown is a mentalist, illusionist, pop philosopher and debunker of scam-artists and mediums.
—John Anderson, WSJ, 21 June 2018
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The theme of memory is important in all of Silven’s work as a mentalist, says director Allie Butler.
—Karen Martin, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2020
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The tricks that mentalists perform, including mind-reading, don't really vary that much from performer to performer.
—Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Sep. 2019
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Stan then moves to the city and becomes a nightclub mentalist, encountering more deceptive people.
—Tim Gray, Variety, 27 Jan. 2022
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This might fit the bill: Chicago mentalist Sidney Friedman is online for the big night, pledging to read minds over Zoom in an interactive show of telepathy and premonition.
—Doug George, chicagotribune.com, 30 Dec. 2020
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Visit alanchamo.com for more information on the mentalist.
—Sergio Carmona, Jewish Journal, 10 Aug. 2017
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As a young professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Bem liked to close out each semester by performing as a mentalist.
—Daniel Engber, Slate Magazine, 17 May 2017
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Stan is eager to learn their secrets, which reside in a book of spoken cues that clue a mentalist into what objects audience members are holding, what is engraved on them or other details.
—Bill Goodykoontz, Detroit Free Press, 18 Dec. 2021
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Your options are: the magicians, who are masters of illusion; the mentalists, who spin a web of gripping mind games; or the scientists, who are creating cutting-edge technology.
—Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, WSJ, 12 June 2018
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Nightmare Alley, which was previously made into a film in 1947 with actor Tyrone Power, is the story of a carnival worker who becomes a con man mentalist.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 2 Aug. 2019
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For aspiring mentalists, Spidey says practice makes perfect.
—Lindsay Carlton, Fox News, 19 June 2018
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At Terranea Resort, another nearby club, there was another wedding reception, a live band and a mentalist performing for a crowd.
—chicagotribune.com, 21 July 2017
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Meanwhile, Brescia president and mentalist Massimo Cellino publicly set a €300m price tag for the midfielder.
—SI.com, 31 Oct. 2019
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Soon Bem was performing mentalist tricks on stage, like guessing correctly what somebody in the audience had eaten for dinner the previous night, based on tangible clues that had nothing to do with psychic skill.
—Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2012
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One of the world’s most famous mentalists and illusionists, his show combines magic with the psychology and the power of intuition to create the impression that nothing is impossible.
—Luann Gibbs, Cincinnati.com, 21 Jan. 2020
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Eckhart, a professional mentalist and psychic who hosts the Sykesville Ghost Tour, said this year’s tour welcomes new stories and other oddities, with plenty to keep guests entertained during this Halloween season.
—Megan Woodward, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 5 Oct. 2020
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The second group of 12 quarterfinalists – composed of singers, dancers, comedians, aerialists and a mentalist – hit the NBC talent competition stage on Tuesday for a shot to keep their million-dollar dream alive.
—Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2021
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This mansion in Hollywood serves as a clubhouse for magicians, with illusionists, mentalists, and more performing nightly to a crowd required to dress in vintage formal attire.
—Maxwell Williams, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Mar. 2018
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Del Toro’s version tells the story of Stanton Carlisle (Cooper), a drifter with a dark past who signs on with a traveling carnival only to eventually reinvent himself as a supper-club mentalist performing for upscale crowds.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2021
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Game developer Will Brierly is no stranger to performance, having spent his college years as a mentalist who connected intimately with audiences.
—BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2021
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This psychological thriller follows Stan, a mentalist who has graduated to a spiritualist, deceiving the rich and gullible audiences of a travelling fair.
—Emily Maskell, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2021
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