Examples of mentalist in a Sentence
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There, his deceit takes a new form as a phony mentalist, but his lies soon catch up to him in a stunningly dramatic conclusion.
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Eric Farwell, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2024
In every case, the word the woman thought of matched the one the mentalist had written down.
—Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2023
Among the various showbiz acts involving mental prowess, Mr. Lorayne was more like the practiced craftsman compared with the more elusive qualities of mentalists and others proclaiming mind-reading abilities.
—Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2023
Not in the ways that psychics claim to do it, by gaining access to the warm streams of consciousness that fill every individual’s experience, or in the ways that mentalists claim to do it, by pulling a thought out of your head at will.
—Oliver Whang, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2023
Next, each woman sat down with Zach one at a time as the mentalist gave them readings.
—Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2023
Based on William Lindsay Gresham's eponymous novel, Nightmare Alley follows a hapless carnival worker, played by Bradley Cooper, who builds a career beyond the sideshow by passing himself off as a mentalist to hustle others.
—Hannah Kerns, Peoplemag, 21 Feb. 2023
Another, from the mid-nineteen-twenties, shows him as a disembodied shaved head, spoofing the image of Jesus on the Veil of Veronica while suggesting the mentalist-magicians’ posters of the period.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
There was also a fiendishly complicated mind-reading act based on a memorized system of word clues relayed by the stooge to the sham mentalist.
—Edward Kosner, WSJ, 26 May 2021
Eric Farwell, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2024
In every case, the word the woman thought of matched the one the mentalist had written down.
—Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2023
Among the various showbiz acts involving mental prowess, Mr. Lorayne was more like the practiced craftsman compared with the more elusive qualities of mentalists and others proclaiming mind-reading abilities.
—Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2023
Not in the ways that psychics claim to do it, by gaining access to the warm streams of consciousness that fill every individual’s experience, or in the ways that mentalists claim to do it, by pulling a thought out of your head at will.
—Oliver Whang, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2023
Next, each woman sat down with Zach one at a time as the mentalist gave them readings.
—Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2023
Based on William Lindsay Gresham's eponymous novel, Nightmare Alley follows a hapless carnival worker, played by Bradley Cooper, who builds a career beyond the sideshow by passing himself off as a mentalist to hustle others.
—Hannah Kerns, Peoplemag, 21 Feb. 2023
Another, from the mid-nineteen-twenties, shows him as a disembodied shaved head, spoofing the image of Jesus on the Veil of Veronica while suggesting the mentalist-magicians’ posters of the period.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
There was also a fiendishly complicated mind-reading act based on a memorized system of word clues relayed by the stooge to the sham mentalist.
—Edward Kosner, WSJ, 26 May 2021
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mentalist
noun
men·tal·ist
ˈment-ᵊl-əst 
: an adherent or advocate of a mentalistic school of psychology or psychiatry
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