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

They held me in a hypnotic vice that felt as if it were about to crush me.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry