Example sentences for: hypnotically

How can you use “hypnotically” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Rejecting chords--the traditional foundation of improvisation--as an impediment to creativity, Sun Ra favored the more supple backdrop provided by a hypnotically sustained drone, or "space key."

  • Forward is heaving hypnotically to the gentle ocean swells as we glide beneath a canopy of brilliant points of starlight.

  • Up to 150 men in sarongs crouch in concentric circles around a flickering lamp and chant hypnotically while the story is acted out in the center of the circle.

  • Some love the "darkly sumptuous, hypnotically complex" plotting (Richard Schickel, Time ); others call the film "Masterpiece Theater for the MTV generation," riddled with glaring historical inaccuracies (Rod Dreher, the New York Post ). Two things draw praise from all: 1) The spectacular art direction; 2) Cate Blanchett's performance as a feminist Virgin Queen.

  • On the gorgeous title track of Nefertiti , for instance, he is the leading soloist; Davis and Shorter repeat the pensive theme hypnotically, without soloing, making this tune arguably one of the first statements of American minimalism.


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