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hypnotize as in:  hypnotized to try to remember

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  • The police want to hypnotize me to see if it will help me remember what she looked like.
    hypnotize = put into a trance-like state of focused concentration
  • Her therapist hypnotized her.
    hypnotized = put into a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
  • The drive to BYU was hypnotic; by the time I arrived, my memories of the previous day had blurred and faded.   (source)
    hypnotic = related to a trance-like state
  • I'd fallen into a slow, hypnotic rhythm, swing, swing; kick, kick; swing, swing; kick, kick, when my left ice ax slammed into a slab of diorite a few inches beneath the rime.   (source)
    hypnotic = trance-like state of focused concentration
  • I think he hypnotized her, because Beth Ann sat down slowly.   (source)
    hypnotized = put into a trance-like state of heightened suggestibility
  • He'll hypnotize you.   (source)
  • With one phrase he had turned happy picknickers into a sulky, tense, murmuring crowd, being slowly hypnotized by gavel taps lessening in intensity until the only sound in the courtroom was a dim pink-pink-pink: the judge might have been rapping the bench with a pencil.   (source)
    hypnotized = put into a trance-like state of focused concentration
  • "Well," he said at last in his friendly, knowing voice, "what are you going to do, hypnotize me?"   (source)
    hypnotize = to put someone into a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
  • Lucas watched, almost hypnotized, as the plane careened through the sky.   (source)
    hypnotized = in a trance-like state
  • Montag heard the voices talking, talking, talking, giving, talking, weaving, reweaving their hypnotic web.   (source)
    hypnotic = so fascinating that awareness of other things is lost
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  • ABIGAIL, now staring full front as though hypnotized, and mimicking the exact tone of Mary Warren's cry: She sees nothin'!   (source)
    hypnotized = a trance-like state of focused concentration
  • "All we gotta do is hypnotize Mr. Krupp," said George.   (source)
    hypnotize = put into a state of wanting to do what told
  • walked the hypnotized wolf-man through the theater   (source)
    hypnotized = in a trance-like state of heightened suggestibility
  • Hypnotism or something?   (source)
    hypnotism = the act of putting someone into a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
  • They sank back into their seats, and stared at specks of dust climbing and circling in a weak shaft of winter sunlight. Henry was quiet, barely moving. Alfred concentrated on the little cold spot ....
    "Are you guys hypnotized?" Spoon burst into the apartment...   (source)
    hypnotized = put into a trance-like state of focused concentration  (a state of hypnosis)
  • But some of you ain't got any minds to hypnotize so I'll sketch it out.   (source)
    hypnotize = to put someone into a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
  • "If you can learn hypnotism," she suggested, "you might use it as anesthesia."   (source)
    hypnotism = a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
  • I could try hypnosis.†   (source)
  • The scientist of today is either a mixture of psychologist and inquisitor, studying with real ordinary minuteness the meaning of facial expressions, gestures, and tones of voice, and testing the truth-producing effects of drugs, shock therapy, hypnosis, and physical torture; or he is chemist, physicist, or biologist concerned only with such branches of his special subject as are relevant to the taking of life.   (source)
  • "I want you to hypnotize me!" she said.   (source)
    hypnotize = put into a trance-like state of focused concentration
  • She had no idea where he'd heard of hypnosis.†   (source)
  • So gentle and rhythmic was the motion of Andrey's hands that one was at constant risk of falling under hypnosis.†   (source)
  • Swimming instruction, which in time became swimming practice, was gruelling, but there was the deep pleasure of doing a stroke with increasing ease and speed, over and over, till hypnosis practically, the water turning from molten lead to liquid light.†   (source)
  • Mr. Benedict has tried hypnosis and other treatments on me, all without luck.†   (source)
  • It was hypnotism, she realized, because after a while she sort of felt that way, too.†   (source)
  • Doesn't hypnosis make you say stuff you don't want to say?†   (source)
  • Hypnosis?†   (source)
  • It was a kind of self-hypnosis.†   (source)
  • Hypnosis!†   (source)
  • Real psychic phenomena or group hypnosis?†   (source)
  • While you are under hypnosis I tell you that when I begin to drum my fingers on the table you will get up and open the window.†   (source)
  • "She would like me to attempt a session of Neuro-hypnosis, with Miss Marks," says Dr. DuPont blandly.†   (source)
  • I'd probably get highway hypnosis, watching the snot run down all those little snotroads from their noses to their lips.†   (source)
  • Sort of like hypnosis?†   (source)
  • A researcher at the world-renowned Institute has used hypnosis to induce hundreds of people to recall their previous-life experiences as pyramid-builders, exchange students and extraterrestrials.†   (source)
  • It has a Christian summer camp whose founder, David Noebel, outlined the dangers of rock 'n' roll in his pamphlet Communism, Hypnotism, and the Beatles.†   (source)
  • Hypnosis tends to unlock hidden memories.†   (source)
  • Einherjar blinked and stirred as if coming out of mass hypnosis.†   (source)
  • But Macon came out of his few days of sexual hypnosis in a rage and later when he discovered her pregnancy, tried to get her to abort.†   (source)
  • Ira drank—I think—for the same reason Danny Thomas sought hypnosis; for the same reason my father wept at night and kept a knife in his drawer.†   (source)
  • It's not hypnosis.†   (source)
  • He seems again to be falling into a state of semi-hypnosis; his eyes scan the sky but it is in a kind of daze.†   (source)
  • Hypnosis can be rather unreliable.†   (source)
  • Mass hypnosis.†   (source)
  • Hypnosis.†   (source)
  • You know, they only ditched the truth detection test and hypnosis because they can't be sure what I'll remember.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was a kind of hypnotism, but the instant she looked at me, I knew I had no choice.†   (source)
  • David had not remembered the man, but under Panov's hypnosis he had said the name —improbably it was Cactus — and Mo had brought the photographer to Virginia to help jar a part of Webb's memory.†   (source)
  • He had only to fall into the pleasant hypnosis of travel; to watch the long ranks of trees as they passed; to view the mountains when they first rose over the fields; to observe the great round moon and its attendant bright stars shining through the streetcar's glassy walls; to match the whirring of the engines with the mad chorus of the cicadas; to be comfortable, and old, and content with small things.†   (source)
  • But if his experience had been only a hallucination, induced with chemicals or hypnosis, then it had no significance, and giving himself to the waking dream once again could not bring back those who were irretrievably lost.†   (source)
  • I felt that I should bring her out of the hypnosis.†   (source)
  • So they had gone at their subjects with metronomes, serpents, Brechtian vignettes at midnight, surgical removal of certain glands, magic-lantern hallucinations, new drugs, threats recited over hidden loudspeakers, hypnotism, clocks that ran backward, and faces.†   (source)
  • Tape's too isolated, and hypnosis is a trick.†   (source)
  • To achieve this would involve stimulation of all the senses, and perhaps hypnosis as well, but many beheved it to be practical.†   (source)
  • They had been puny in the early days, struggling to discipline their mutant powers with drugs, hypnosis, meditation, neurosurgery-forging them into Attributes-and across the ages, those powers had grown.†   (source)
  • "Hypnosis," he said.†   (source)
  • He had a way of talking, gesturing and bouncing along— hypnotism by words and movement—that fascinated my group even though, at first, they nudged each other with their elbows and flashed each other amused glances.†   (source)
  • The hypnotic eyes gazed into his own.   (source)
    hypnotic = trance-inducing
  • Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise.   (source)
    hypnosis = a trance-like state of heightened suggestibility
  • That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed.   (source)
  • He saw himself standing there in the dim lamplight, with the smell of bugs and cheap scent in his nostrils, and in his heart a feeling of defeat and resentment which even at that moment was mixed up with the thought of Katharine's white body, frozen forever by the hypnotic power of the Party.   (source)
    hypnotic = trance-inducing
  • I woke Madam Mina, and again tried to hypnotize her, but alas! unavailing till too late.   (source)
    hypnotize = put into a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
  • When I wake I try to hypnotize her, but alas! though she shut her eyes obedient, she may not sleep.   (source)
  • At sunset I try to hypnotize her, but alas! with no effect.   (source)
  • He must hypnotize me before the dawn, and then I shall be able to speak.   (source)
    hypnotize = to put someone into a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
  • Instinctively, with the dawn coming, I turned to Madam Mina, intending to hypnotize her.   (source)
    hypnotize = put into a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
  • And it has become a habit for Van Helsing to hypnotize her at such times.   (source)
  • I tried to hypnotize through her sleep, but she made no response, none at all, and the day broke.   (source)
    hypnotize = put someone into a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
  • I thought that it was another occasion for hypnotism, and without question went for the Professor.   (source)
    hypnotism = putting someone into a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
  • Thus we shall have two more hypnotic messages from Mrs. Harker!   (source)
    hypnotic = while in a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
  • Mina's morning and evening hypnotic answer is unvaried.   (source)
    hypnotic = under the influence of a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
  • This time she wake with not much trouble, and then I try to put her to hypnotic sleep.   (source)
    hypnotic = trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
  • At sunset she made the usual hypnotic report.   (source)
    hypnotic = related to a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
  • When I saw the signs of the dawn I got ready for the hypnotism.   (source)
    hypnotism = the act of putting someone into a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
  • Mrs. Harker yielded to the hypnotic influence even less readily than this morning.   (source)
    hypnotic = trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
  • We must try tonight at sunset to make her speak more fully when in her hypnotic state.   (source)
    hypnotic = under the influence of a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
  • Besides, I may be of service, since you can hypnotize me and so learn that which even I myself do not know.   (source)
    hypnotize = put into a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
  • The Professor tells me that this morning at dawn he could hardly hypnotize me at all, and that all I could say was, "dark and quiet."   (source)
  • If it be that she can, by our hypnotic trance, tell what the Count see and hear, is it not more true that he who have hypnotize her first, and who have drink of her very blood and make her drink of his, should if he will, compel her mind to disclose to him that which she know?   (source)
    hypnotize = trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
  • That she is still journeying somewhere is apparent, for Mrs. Harker's hypnotic report at sunrise was still the same.   (source)
    hypnotic = related to a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
  • Knowing of the increasing difficulty of procuring the hypnotic trance, Van Helsing began his passes earlier than usual.   (source)
    hypnotic = trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
  • He replied, "We have the best proof of that, your own evidence, when in the hypnotic trance this morning."   (source)
    hypnotic = related to a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
  • Then tell me, for I am a student of the brain, how you accept hypnotism and reject the thought reading.   (source)
    hypnotism = a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
  • I made a couch with furs, and Madam Mina, lying down, yield herself as usual, but more slow and more short time than ever, to the hypnotic sleep.   (source)
    hypnotic = trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
  • Mrs. Harker's hypnotic report this morning was the same as usual, so it is possible that we may get news at any moment.   (source)
    hypnotic = related to a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
  • At sunset time he hypnotized me, and he says I answered as usual, "darkness, lapping water and creaking wood."   (source)
    hypnotized = put into a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
  • The hypnotic stage was even longer in coming than before, and when it came the time remaining until full sunrise was so short that we began to despair.   (source)
    hypnotic = trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
  • Here, Madam Mina's hypnotic power will surely help, and we shall find our way, all dark and unknown otherwise, after the first sunrise when we are near that fateful place.   (source)
  • At dawn Van Helsing hypnotized me.   (source)
    hypnotized = put into a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
  • If it be that she can, by our hypnotic trance, tell what the Count see and hear, is it not more true that he who have hypnotize her first, and who have drink of her very blood and make her drink of his, should if he will, compel her mind to disclose to him that which she know?   (source)
    hypnotic = related to a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
  • Van Helsing examines, he tells me, her teeth very carefully, whilst she is in the hypnotic condition, for he says that so long as they do not begin to sharpen there is no active danger of a change in her.   (source)
    hypnotic = under the influence of a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
  • When the usual time came round Mrs. Harker prepared herself for her hypnotic effort, and after a longer and more serious effort on the part of Van Helsing than has been usually necessary, she sank into the trance.   (source)
    hypnotic = related to a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
  • Nor in hypnotism….   (source)
    hypnotism = a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
  • You have to bear in mind that subjects under hypnosis are very suggestible.†   (source)
  • I want to tell him about the dream, but I can't think of a way to describe it without showing my hand, so instead I ask him about recovering memories, about hypnosis.†   (source)
  • "Well," he says, spreading his fingers out in front of him on the desk, "there are therapists who believe that hypnosis can be used to recover repressed memories, but it's very controversial.†   (source)
  • A few hours of (admittedly hardly exhaustive) Internet research this afternoon confirmed what I suspected: hypnosis is not generally useful in retrieving hours lost to blackout because, as my previous reading suggested, we do not make memories during blackout.†   (source)
  • If she had known to ask him if he was interested in hypnosis, he would have told her.†   (source)
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hypnotize as in:  hypnotized by her performance

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  • She dazzles, hypnotizes, and defrauds.
    hypnotizes = fascinates so much that awareness of other surrounding or common sense is lost
  • Mom said the slot players were hypnotized.   (source)
    hypnotized = in a trance-like state where everything else is forgotten
  • He sat on a stone, and allowed himself to become hypnotized by the horizon.   (source)
    hypnotized = put into a trance-like state
  • Aspen pulled me on top of him, and I brushed his scraggly hair with my fingers, hypnotized by the feel.   (source)
    hypnotized = in a trance-like state where everything else is forgotten
  • Her eyes got this strange faraway look, like she'd been hypnotized.   (source)
    hypnotized = so focused or fascinated that awareness of other surrounding things is lost
  • Joey kept pulling at his hand but it looked like Byron was hypnotized and he wouldn't move.   (source)
  • And the longer I stood there, the more I became like-sorta hypnotized by the slick whistlin' of the cars as they rushed beneath us.   (source)
    hypnotized = fascinated so much that awareness of other surrounding things was lost
  • Looking towards the west, I stare in awe at the hypnotic power of the waves.   (source)
    hypnotic = fascinating to the point of becoming unaware of other things
  • The waves were hypnotic; a thousand years ago they had looked the same, sounded the same.   (source)
    hypnotic = so fascinating that much that awareness of other things was lost
  • But he knew his mouth had only moved to say hello, and then when she seemed hypnotized by the salamander on his arm and the phoenix-disc on his chest, he spoke again.   (source)
    hypnotized = so focused or fascinated that awareness of other surrounding things is lost
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  • Snakes can hypnotize their prey.   (source)
    hypnotize = fascinate so much that awareness of other things is lost
  • They sit and stare and stare and sit
    Until they're hypnotized by it,   (source)
    hypnotized = fascinated so much they lose awareness of other things around them
  • So he delay, and delay, and delay, till the mere beauty and the fascination of the wanton Undead have hypnotize him.   (source)
    hypnotize = fascinated so much that awareness of other things is lost
  • Joey looked like she was hypnotized.   (source)
    hypnotized = so focused or fascinated that awareness of other surrounding things is lost
  • I started to say something to Dad but he looked pretty happy and before I could open my mouth the record hypnotized me back to sleep.   (source)
    hypnotized = put into a trance-like state
  • He was hypnotized all over again!   (source)
    hypnotized = so focused or fascinated that awareness of other surrounding things is lost
  • It was the way I spoke rather than what I said that hypnotized her.   (source)
    hypnotized = fascinated
  • I talked on and on, spewing out of myself every doubt and fear that bubbled to the surface. She was my sounding board and she sat there hypnotized.   (source)
  • She toyed with her knife making circular depressions in a pat of butter and the movement hypnotized me.   (source)
    hypnotized = drew attention so much that awareness of other surrounding things was lost
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  • They were hypnotized.†   (source)
  • She felt hypnotized by the squalor but Marta and her mother didn't seem the least bit embarrassed.†   (source)
  • Her name was Nancy, and in a hypnotic monotone, she informed me that, due to my exemplary test scores and impressive employment record, I had been "awarded" the position of OASIS Technical Support Representative II.†   (source)
  • Before he had left the dwelling, he had laid his hands firmly on Gabe's back and transmitted to him the most soothing memory he could: a slow-swinging hammock under palm trees on an island someplace, at evening, with a rhythmic sound of languid water lapping hypnotically against a beach nearby.†   (source)
  • Anyway, they hypnotize you — they ruin your willpower.†   (source)
  • And then she'd let him try to hypnotize her, but she didn't get sleepy, sleepy.†   (source)
  • It's intended to hypnotize God.†   (source)
  • The falling snowflakes were hypnotic.†   (source)
  • Their boards barely a hand's breadth above the housetops, the patterns of shingles passed underneath hypnotically.†   (source)
  • We sat there in peaceful silence, watching its hypnotic descent.†   (source)
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  • He ran his thumb down the flat of the blade, as if he were hypnotized by its beauty.†   (source)
  • Seeing the vast, open sky in front of and below him had put him into some kind of hypnotized stupor.†   (source)
  • Hypnotically, he moved to the bedroom where his father lay on the bed in a drunken stupor.†   (source)
  • But I was weak, very weak, and I had no hope of driving them away from me without a wand.... But then I saw Peter in that picture...I realized he was at Hogwarts with Harry...perfectly positioned to act, if one hint reached his ears that the Dark Side was gathering strength again.... Pettigrew was shaking his head, mouthing noiselessly, but staring all the while at Black as though hypnotized.†   (source)
  • Or—he remembered something he'd read in a nature book—maybe he was like the prey of a snake that hypnotized its victims before it ate them.†   (source)
  • I hypnotize myself so that, in my own mind at least, I am not here.†   (source)
  • Grimacing on the ground, he heard Edwin beating the pieces of driftwood in a hypnotic rhythm.†   (source)
  • It called her speech "mesmerizing, hypnotic, mysteriously touching."†   (source)
  • A door opens, or a window, and Marie-Laure can hear the hypnotic voice of the sea.†   (source)
  • My father stared at it, hypnotized.†   (source)
  • I walked right up to the man like I was hypnotized.†   (source)
  • Once on the TV this dude hypnotized a lobster.†   (source)
  • Mae was hypnotized by it, its slashing form, its fins like blades, its milky skin and wool-grey eyes.†   (source)
  • But Sid seemed stuck, hypnotized.†   (source)
  • Standing on tiptoe, Violet opened the enormous door of the Reptile Room and for a moment, the orphans stared into the room as if hypnotized, entranced by the odd blue light which the sunrise made as it shone through the glass ceiling and walls.†   (source)
  • Perhaps my cousins were all relieved to hear that Owen was "getting over a cold" because they thought this might partially explain the hypnotic awfulness of Owen's voice; I could have told them that Owen's voice was uninfluenced by his having a cold—and his "getting over a cold" was news to me—but I was so relieved to see my cousins behaving respectfully that I had no desire to undermine Owen's effect on them.†   (source)
  • Being hypnotized, um, does sound sort of sketch.†   (source)
  • It's hypnotic, dizzying.†   (source)
  • Lucas, usually all smiles and jokes, falls into a strange, half-hypnotized state.†   (source)
  • His hypnotizing blue eyes study my face for several quiet seconds and I can't help but stare at his equally hypnotizing mouth while he speaks.†   (source)
  • Josh turned his head and looked at her with those hypnotic eyes.†   (source)
  • His innocence was hypnotic as I followed him around the house; I wiped the drool from his mouth and stayed one step behind him so he wouldn't get hurt.†   (source)
  • His voice is so low and hypnotic it reminds me of a song.†   (source)
  • He must have been hypnotized by her ample breasts swinging from side to side.†   (source)
  • Sometimes he would get seized with oddly distracted moods and stare into the sky as if hypnotized until someone asked him what he was doing.†   (source)
  • Hypnotized myself a bit, you know, trying to remember number of steps?†   (source)
  • The woman did not look up from the dough as she spoke but continued to beat it with a steady, hypnotic rhythm.†   (source)
  • I wasn't sure how I was doing it, but I was hypnotizing her!†   (source)
  • The sound was hypnotic.†   (source)
  • His golden eyes scorched from under his lashes, hypnotic and deadly.†   (source)
  • He had no idea how long be had been here, standing hypnotized before the bland gray locked door.†   (source)
  • Hypnotized by the image of the fallen president, Keene imagined a scene with herself at the center of it.†   (source)
  • His voice was deep and rough, almost hypnotic.†   (source)
  • My guess is that it's just a hypnotic trank.†   (source)
  • You are reluctant to admit to yourself that you did something under my hypnotic orders.†   (source)
  • I was almost hypnotized by the wonder of it all.†   (source)
  • The customer stomps toward the double doors, drawn in by hypnotic organ strains.†   (source)
  • The water bloomed with exotic, fractal-like patterns, mesmerizing and hypnotic.†   (source)
  • It was moody, creepy—almost hypnotic.†   (source)
  • Adah Price S UNRISE TANTALIZE, evil eyes hypnotize: that is the morning, Congo pink.†   (source)
  • Owens later said of Holmes: "He induced me to make these statements by promising me my back wages and by his hypnotizing ways, and I candidly believe that he had a certain amount of influence over me.†   (source)
  • He was so hypnotized by that starlet he simply reached over and grabbed a piece and stuck it in his mouth without looking.†   (source)
  • I found even the yellow of his teeth appealing to me; and I became almost hypnotized by the quivering of his lip.†   (source)
  • Supermarkets were especially bad, because of the long, hypnotic checkerboard aisles.†   (source)
  • Watching the churning water was hypnotic.†   (source)
  • It was strangely calming, and almost hypnotizing to watch.†   (source)
  • Leto found himself almost hypnotized by a muscle on the left side of Yueh's jaw.†   (source)
  • The burning incense was sweet and suffocating; the glowing candle was hypnotizing.†   (source)
  • It was a combination of red wine and Our Fathers, which plunged the patient into a hypnotic trance.†   (source)
  • As part of our new act, I have hypnotized him!†   (source)
  • Crowds came to be hypnotized by the voice, the party anthems, the torchlight parades.†   (source)
  • She did not move, merely stared at the tip of her cigarette as though she were hypnotized by it.†   (source)
  • The kindling in the iron grate caught fire immediately, and he sat for a time on the hearth, cross-legged, adding logs and watching the flames leap, blue-edged and hypnotic.†   (source)
  • Finally, they huddled together and stared as if hypnotized into the large orange blaze they ignited from the live coals carried from the first campsite.†   (source)
  • I watched his face, gentled by dreams, until sun winks off the polished fuselage hypnotized me, not quite asleep not quite conscious not quite in this dimension.†   (source)
  • It was hypnotizing, somehow.†   (source)
  • He looks at me with chocolate brown eyes that are so intense I swear they could hypnotize someone.†   (source)
  • I'm hypnotized by his lips, his throat, as he swallows.†   (source)
  • The frenzied pattern, the faces hypnotized by routine ...I wanted to go out in the bus with the team, but I couldn't.†   (source)
  • Hopefully, the troll would be totally hypnotized by his new Delta Force: Black Hawk Down video game (um ....ew).†   (source)
  • Tomas lived under the hypnotic spell cast by the excruciating beauty of Tereza's dreams.†   (source)
  • I couldn't sleep that night, and Larry flicked on the hotel television to a yoga channel, where a smooth, handsome yogi struck pretzel poses on a hypnotic Hawaiian beach.†   (source)
  • Some said they looked hypnotized by fear.†   (source)
  • I thought his words in Sadhese were hypnotic.†   (source)
  • The sights and sounds were hypnotic.†   (source)
  • But it was hypnotic.†   (source)
  • "You...chew...her...pork for her...," her father repeated, as if hypnotized.†   (source)
  • The resulting music was not merely beautiful, but strangely hypnotic.†   (source)
  • I no longer felt dazed, tired, half hypnotized, but alert and wary, ready to defend myself.†   (source)
  • Colonel Cathcart was drawn hypnotically toward the window with a massive, dull stare of moody introspection.†   (source)
  • They hypnotized me and that cut out the flashbacks and I couldn't remember the dreams.†   (source)
  • She was still rocking, the motion almost hypnotic, although clearly not to Thisbe, who continued to cry at full volume.†   (source)
  • Or did you hypnotize them into believing they were getting something they weren't?†   (source)
  • I don't think he hypnotized me, but he just talked quietly and had me relax all my muscles and nerves and stuff.†   (source)
  • My eyes are fixed on those hands as if they're hypnotizing me.†   (source)
  • That, and the heat, and the hypnotic liquid murmuring of the river, and the movement of water against me.†   (source)
  • She stood motionless, both repelled and hypnotized by the sight.†   (source)
  • It was like hypnotizing a cat.†   (source)
  • This creature was completely hypnotized.†   (source)
  • So basically you're going to try to hypnotize me, and then you're going to hook me up to these machines of yours and make me fall asleep while you toy with my mind using electrical stimuli.†   (source)
  • " ' "You mean the teacher is hypnotizing the kids into believing the law of gravity?"†   (source)
  • It was like they were hypnotized.†   (source)
  • You sort of hypnotized me.†   (source)
  • I didn't think stubborn people could be hypnotized.†   (source)
  • She knew that she went on speaking, because those around her looked as if they were listening, though she could not hear a sound, she went on speaking as if carrying out a hypnotic order given to herself some endless time ago, knowing only that the completion of that order was a form of defiance against him, neither knowing nor hearing her own words.†   (source)
  • As he thought back on this moment, he wasn't sure if she was hypnotizing him or casting some kind of spell because, oddly, his fear slipped away.†   (source)
  • Staring at the rotating red, white and blue stripes of the barbershop's "Marvy" pole, its motion momentarily hypnotized him.†   (source)
  • Hypnotized by fear, like a mouse in front of a snake.†   (source)
  • "Right," The Goober said, nodding his head, eager, his attention fastened on the thought of the screwdriver, almost as if he were hypnotized, and Archie was carried on marvelous waves of power and glory, leading The Goober toward the ultimate destination, feeding him the information little by little, the best part of the lousy job.†   (source)
  • The young apprentice felt himself being drawn into the hypnotic dance of the brazier's fire.†   (source)
  • I've had the injections, of course, and hypnotic preparation, and it stands to reason that I can't really be afraid.†   (source)
  • The music is hypnotic.†   (source)
  • I try to tell myself that I've been fooled, I've been deceived, I've been hypnotized, I've been ..."Davie?" says Mam.†   (source)
  • It hypnotizes them, one and all, and they come back ready to endure another season of darkness.†   (source)
  • Sebastian was speaking to Amatis in a low, hypnotic voice.†   (source)
  • The masks had hypnotized me; the masks and the rings that proved that all the members of The Ten were my classmates.†   (source)
  • That night I pitched the tent between two thickets and was lulled to sleep by a hypnotic, icy stream.†   (source)
  • He placed his hand lightly on Safia's and stared into her hypnotic eyes.†   (source)
  • The straightness of the way, the swish of traffic, the unbroken speed are hypnotic, and while the miles peel off an imperceptible exhaustion sets in.†   (source)
  • The ducks seemed hypnotized by curiosity.†   (source)
  • He could not hypnotize the Indians during the process as had his predecessor.†   (source)
  • I rode as a hypnotic, with my set gaze on the landscape that vibrated past at twenty-five miles an hour.†   (source)
  • Hypnotic.†   (source)
  • Never become hypnotized by the beauty of numbers.†   (source)
  • The hundreds of reflected points of light formed a fascinating and hypnotic pattern, and he felt himself becoming slightly dizzy.†   (source)
  • He couldn't hypnotize the Admiral at all.†   (source)
  • The drumming, at dose range, was deafening and hypnotic, the rhythms complicated, syncopated, insidious.†   (source)
  • Like a man in a hypnotic trance, he moves not by his own power but by the force of a thing outside himself, his badge.†   (source)
  • Like those hypnotized people in pictures, with their heads resting on one chair and their feet resting on another, making bridges.†   (source)
  • They all watched, hypnotized.†   (source)
  • It makes them, for instance, a good deal easier to hypnotize.†   (source)
  • People stared, hypnotized by the sight of the cobra.†   (source)
  • He watched, hypnotized, as it fell toward him.†   (source)
  • He hypnotized me with his mystical vampire powers.†   (source)
  • So much had been lost, but there was a stillness to the city that was almost hypnotic.†   (source)
  • Edward's soft voice was compelling, almost hypnotic.†   (source)
  • Mal'akh wondered if any of his hypnotized viewers had any idea where this prayer really came from.†   (source)
  • At the same time I sway towards him, like one hypnotized.†   (source)
  • Bella stared down into the flames, hypnotized.†   (source)
  • She held the knife up, and her eyes fastened hypnotically on the glittering hook of its blade.†   (source)
  • It was as if that first spoonful of soup had awakened his gut from a hypnotic trance.†   (source)
  • I'm mesmerized by her ability to hypnotize an entire audience with such powerfully portrayed words.†   (source)
  • Don't go, Victoria," he murmured in that same hypnotic tone as before.†   (source)
  • A man who lived in England in the nineteen twenties was hypnotized.†   (source)
  • Langdon felt hypnotized by the camerlegno's presence.†   (source)
  • Then he said, Grace, have you ever been hypnotized?†   (source)
  • In fact, viewed from the roof like this, it was almost hypnotic.†   (source)
  • I allowed myself to become hypnotized by the sight of soldiers executing their duties.†   (source)
  • In one of the windows I could see a lit candle, its flame flickering hypnotically.†   (source)
  • He stared at the black bore in the center of the nozzle, nearly hypnotized.†   (source)
  • They were hypnotic, even through her shades.†   (source)
  • She looked out over the crick like the big eggy moon had her hypnotized.†   (source)
  • Edgar half slept, more hypnotized even by the afternoon sun than they.†   (source)
  • A person can also be hypnotized into 'feeling' things like warmth and cold, a caress or a punch.†   (source)
  • The music was infectious, the lights almost hypnotic.†   (source)
  • The balance wheel rocked hypnotically back and forth.†   (source)
  • The camerlegno's certitude was hypnotic.†   (source)
  • Well, what did the book say about how to stop yourself from being hypnotized?†   (source)
  • He could practically be in a hypnotic trance while he wrote.†   (source)
  • When Dr. Jordan comes back, I am to be hypnotized.†   (source)
  • I would never let myself be hypnotized, it is so immodest!†   (source)
  • His liquid gold eyes turned hypnotic as they held mine.†   (source)
  • A Chinese merchant who lived during the Ling Dynasty was hypnotized.†   (source)
  • What if Klaus had remained hypnotized forever?†   (source)
  • "The accident," she said finally, "happened because Klaus was hypnotized."†   (source)
  • You've been hypnotized again; I know it.†   (source)
  • Klaus was hypnotized by Dr. Orwell, who is in cahoots with Count Olaf.†   (source)
  • There was an ancient Egyptian king who was hypnotized.†   (source)
  • Violet was still trembling from how Klaus had looked while hypnotized.†   (source)
  • Yet another part of the dread came from the fact that Klaus had been hypnotized once more.†   (source)
  • "...It's as if I were hypnotized," Klaus finished.†   (source)
  • And he's being hypnotized again, right now, isn't he?†   (source)
  • In time, the tow rope to the boat captured her attention like a hypnotic decoy.†   (source)
  • They writhed back and forth in a hypnotic pattern, looking for an opening.†   (source)
  • I'd had some unofficial therapy sessions with Kate McTiernan and I had hypnotized her once.†   (source)
  • She seemed almost in another world, a hypnotized person speaking out of a trance.†   (source)
  • His eyes were a dozen colors, shifting like a kaleidoscope, with hypnotic effect.†   (source)
  • And the creature stops moving, merely swaying where it stands, seemingly hypnotized.†   (source)
  • All eyes were on Trina, as if she had some magical, hypnotic power.†   (source)
  • The flowing strands of rock seemed to move under the hypnotic light.†   (source)
  • The waves rolled in a steady rhythm, the sound hypnotic.†   (source)
  • Marie watched, literally hypnotized by the change outside.†   (source)
  • A squirt bottle swung from his belt, the blue liquid inside sloshing hypnotically.†   (source)
  • They said the devils hypnotized, beckoned, would eventually draw the one who looked into the fires.†   (source)
  • An hour later, Miss Boon sat up and hissed, disrupting the hypnotic squeak of the oarlocks.†   (source)
  • His expression was void, unreadable ....hypnotized.†   (source)
  • Instead, she found herself staring into a pair of wide hypnotic eyes of hazel and copper.†   (source)
  • The crowd yelled and I laughed in response as though hypnotized.†   (source)
  • Music could be heard from within, hypnotic, tantalizing chords of a belyael.†   (source)
  • It is barren and mournful, but it does have a strange, hypnotic beauty.†   (source)
  • Mr. Taylor had hypnotized himself into the eerie world of horrors.†   (source)
  • Instead he sat, crossing his legs, and stared at the program without moving, as if hypnotized.†   (source)
  • "I'm the best you've ever had," he says hypnotically, like he's using Jedi mind tricks on me.†   (source)
  • You see, the myth rides with him, that's the hypnotic factor.†   (source)
  • But the conductor and the regular train travelers sure weren't hypnotized.†   (source)
  • I rub a bare foot across the hypnotic swirls of the thick Tribal rug on the floor.†   (source)
  • The waves of air high above the clouds were more hypnotic than waves in the sea.†   (source)
  • They continued for hours, and their voices took on a hypnotic tone.†   (source)
  • The movement is hypnotic and we are under its spell.†   (source)
  • An hypnotic voice said FIVE emphatically.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it was the effect of my desperation, combined with the hypnotic lure of the surroundings.†   (source)
  • Their roar stupefied and hypnotized him.†   (source)
  • Oh, if you like, Star hypnotized us, then used psi powers to teleport us eight and a half miles.†   (source)
  • He succeeded in partially hypnotizing Randy, with poor results, including grogginess and a headache.†   (source)
  • For some seconds neither of us moved but continued to stare hypnotically into one another's eyes.†   (source)
  • She was staring straight ahead, as if hypnotized by the headlights' beam, and her lips were moving.†   (source)
  • He then hypnotized or attempted hypnosis on everyone in River Road.†   (source)
  • That left her nothing to do but watch in amazement and horror as Arachne worked, her eight legs moving with hypnotic speed, slowly unraveling the silk strands around the statue.†   (source)
  • People up and down the sidewalk were stopped in their tracks, hypnotized by the sight of a jet ripping across the sky.†   (source)
  • Like Barry, he seemed hypnotized.†   (source)
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