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
Curiously, he notes, people have such reverence for these hypnotic streams of light that they duck to avoid disturbing them rather than crossing in front of them.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 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
Montag heard the voices talking, talking, talking, giving, talking, weaving, reweaving their hypnotic web.
From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
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