hypnotic
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Hoover co-wrote the screenplay alongside Lauren Levine, which is why the film bears the same strangely hypnotic, if confusing, pull as her novels.
From Salon • Mar. 19, 2026
Back and forth, neither of us missing, the ball blurring between us in that hypnotic rhythm that makes everything else disappear.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026
The host handed me a blindfold and Bose noise-canceling headphones, playing the hypnotic sounds of a space drum with birds chirping in the distance.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026
Labubu hauls, Temu hauls, endless TikToks of nails clicking ASMR-style up and down a color-coded Stanley tumbler—it was a little hypnotic, a little horrifying.
From Salon • Jan. 11, 2026
Cramp was perfectly still, and his eyes gleamed with a weird hypnotic glow.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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