As performance, it's hypnotic: Sissy, lost in a melancholy dream, savors every note of every phrase.
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However it works, a hypnotic suggestion in the mind can have measurable effects in the body.
The atmosphere is fun, friendly and relaxed, with a mix of locals, expats and tourists dancing to the hypnotic rhythms.
Most of the film is filled with flowing imagery: closeups of bodies, hazy natural splendors, the hypnotic passing show.
The breadth of his friendships is testament to Lawrence's compulsive, almost hypnotic allure.
The result is a hypnotic, thumping ode to love and death, performed with an air of ennui Gainsbourg would likely have appreciated.
Indeed, as an investigation of Central European alcoholic despair in temporary accommodation in Tasmanian rain forests it has a considerable, hypnotic power.
She first attracted mainstream attention in 1981, when "O Superman, " a hypnotic 11-minute work, crept to the No. 2 spot on the U.K. pop charts.
The presumptive Democratic nominee benefits from what is for most Hispanics, with the exception of Cuban-Americans, a near-hypnotic loyalty to the Democratic brand.
His beautifully hypnotic music exudes heartfelt emotion, with lush instrumentation to match: Floating weightlessly, it recalls the work of Tindersticks or Red House Painters.
In the process he seems to have learnt to harness his energies in a way that would later prove endlessly mystical and hypnotic to others.
She said Polanski plied her with alcohol and quaaludes, a sedative hypnotic drug, during a photo shoot at the Hollywood Hills home of actor Jack Nicholson.
From midnight until well past sunrise, the crowd of 400 danced shoulder to shoulder, hip to hip, to music with a beat so driving it became hypnotic.
Though he often deals in labyrinthine patterns and hypnotic repetition, his new album feels more like a collection of individual songs meant to be heard in succession.
Yet the film lacks the hypnotic strangeness of the original, and the dramatized Dengler, however heroic his survival, feels like a watery imitation of the real thing.
Most Malians practise a popular form of Sufi Islam, often described as an open and intellectual interpretation of the religion - it involves mysticism, chanting and hypnotic prayers.
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Holding tight to his characters with long takes and closeups, capturing them only at the breaking points in their lives, Garrel balances a hypnotic romanticism with the frightening lurch of unsteady emotions.
The four patents-in-suit claim chemical compounds used to fight insomnia, methods for improving sleep by administering the compounds, and methods of inducing tranquilizing or hypnotic effects from the compounds, according to court documents.
The cardinals begin this process Tuesday afternoon by filing into the frescoed Sistine Chapel singing the Litany of Saints, a hypnotic chant imploring the intercession of saints to help them choose a pope.
This is followed at 4:30 p.m. with a procession into the Sistine Chapel, with the cardinals intoning the Litany of Saints, the hypnotic Gregorian chant imploring the saints to help guide their voting.
"Starting Over" sounds as if it were made by cavemen or perhaps a group of slow-witted 7-year-olds with access to their parents' Vandals albums but it possesses a weirdly hypnotic allure.
But the FORM 1 isn't just razzle-dazzle, underneath that outer shell is that self-developed technique for bringing stereolithography to the masses, and seeing it in action is as hypnotic as it is innovative.
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Viewers can recline inside a re-creation to watch a hypnotic collage of overlapping films and slide projections play on the dome's interior, as though their bodies are being swept away on a sea of images.
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Then, when the cat-calls continued, the extraordinary reality finally dawned on me: that the hypnotic spell which Sachin has cast over Indian cricket fans since first representing his country as a cherubic-faced 16-year-old had suddenly been broken.
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In a hypnotic sequence, shot in a cornfield as if through a yellow haze, the lovers embark on a miniature ballet of courtship, building a palpable erotic tension through an exchange of shy glances and the most chaste of touches.
He shut his eyes but, instead of praying for inward strength now, he found he was just looking at the strange reddish dark and the little flashes and floaters in there that got almost hypnotic when you really looked at them.
In this six-minute number, Murphy takes the chintzy synthesizer sounds used by new-wave vets like Gary Numan and Yaz and crafts a head-nodding groove, which is made more majestic with the addition of chiming bell tones and an insistent, hypnotic beat.
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