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hypnotic

adjective as in spellbinding, sleep-inducing

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Bobby Krlic’s mournful score is alternately dreamy and eerie, the instrumental music abruptly cutting out in the middle of a hypnotic passage.

The hypnotic tune with a memorable “nah na na na nah” chorus earned them appearances on TV music variety programs like “American Bandstand.”

At the helm was Osbourne, who channeled the darker forces within this music with hypnotic wild-child abandon, as if he were possessed by the hellfire spirit.

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Bianchi alleged his confession and guilty pleas were coerced by “hypnotic manipulation” and that the facts of his confession did not match the physical evidence.

In their farewell album as Tennis, husband-and-wife folk rockers Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley succinctly pack 14 years of introspection and hypnotic melodies into one stunning record.

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