Sentences with phrase «almost hypnotic»

Honor really outdid itself with 15 layers of light - refracting glass that let the light play across the back of the device in an almost hypnotic way.

I would enter an almost hypnotic state using that diving gear in the Rhode Island summers that followed, marveling as I stalked sea robins amid kelp fronds fringing rocky shores or watched the castanet clap of blue - eyed scallops flicking through beds of sea grass.

Robert Goodnough may have favourably described Number 32 1950, the first black painting, as showing «open black rhythms... dance in disturbing degrees of intensity, ecstatically energising the powerful image in an almost hypnotic way», 1 but not everyone shared his good opinion.

Maintaining the consistency of the brushstrokes while varying the amount of paint and pressure applied, Lee keeps «expression to a minimum in order to achieve the maximum» (L. Ufan, Lee Ufan, Tokyo, 1993, p. 3) The almost hypnotic repetition of marks that comprise From Line is created by the artist pressing a brush loaded with blue paint suspended in viscous glue directly onto the surface of the canvas, then repeating the process until there is barely any pigment left on the filaments of the brush.

The images appear to be reversed to give a mirrored effect which, combined with the unexpected softness of the water coloured images, gives this animation an almost hypnotic effect.

The sound of the leather hitting the wood: hard and succinct, builds to an almost aggressive quality as it is picked up in surround sound, yet the repetition of this specific sound allows for an almost hypnotic or meditative experience.

Using The Who's operatic album, Quadrophenia, as a departure point, what results is an almost hypnotic optical experience that references the four - point structure of quadraphonic audio.

It's always been a game that lets you «get in the zone», but with VR head tracking, Rez Infinite becomes almost hypnotic.

The music is truly wonderful, and really was the most important part of creating a mesmerizing, almost hypnotic atmosphere.

Spielberg leans into the bleeding edge of CGI visuals with Ready Player One, creating an almost hypnotic treat for the senses and one that's steeped, not just in pop culture, but in games design and cinematography too.

It's rough around the edges, but when you play on a comfortable difficulty level that corresponds to your skill level, you really get into it and enter an almost hypnotic state where you ignore everything around you, including your friends and loved ones.

Hitler was mesmerizing and had an almost hypnotic hold on his people.

Almost hypnotic in its narrative drive, The March stunningly renders the countless lives swept up in the violence of a country at war with itself.

«The first step... is to get to know your professors,» he said, as jazzy, almost hypnotic music blared in the background.

The animation is crude, but almost hypnotic at times.

The movie's appeal extends to the manner of its construction; it's an almost hypnotic kind of hybrid animation in which hundreds of photographs of Hicks in various poses and at various stages in his life are grafted onto two - dimensional backgrounds.

I think I was drawn to this piece mostly due to the symmetrical nature of the pattern, there is something calming and almost hypnotic about patterns that repeat themselves to me.

During a reflexology session my clients report entering an altered, almost hypnotic state.

So it was a very intense period of work, almost hypnotic.

It's vital to row consistently and in sync with everyone else, and when you're doing it right, the result is almost hypnotic.

I loved the metronome - like quality of it as it was almost hypnotic for me.

This can be almost hypnotic.

It's almost hypnotic that they'll be able to work something out on the tax bill,» said Art Cashin, director of floor operations at UBS.

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Oh my — lavender in food is something to die for, it gives that hypnotic hint to almost everything it's added to.

If you do enough festivals you see a bunch of these films, and you even come to appreciate them for what they are; when they're well - made there's a hypnotic rhythm to the editing (especially the ambient background noise that almost always dominates the soundtrack), but they're never great films.

July 31, 2012 • It's not hyperbolic to suggest that Sigur Rós is one of the world's greatest live bands, creating a hypnotic, almost overwhelming experience.

Technically, the cinematography, in real nighttime conditions (about 75 % of the film is shot in darkness), is hypnotic (the only visual flaw of the film is a too obvious imposition of a rock face that is illuminated in a lightning strike as the doctor urinates), and cinematographer Gokhan Tiryaki gets major kudos, but, even more so is the almost nonexistent soundtrack, whose power is palpable, and shows how utterly superfluous most soundtracks are.

From this serenity and quiet, the film then becomes almost unbearably terrifying — but no less hypnotic — when the carefully laid plans of the teenagers start to derail: mistakes and emotions do not fit within their disaffected frame of mind, and each incongruous element cuts into the serenity of the cinematography with shocking violence.

The pungent aroma of spices almost had a hypnotic effect on the chef's preparing the food as they reminisced about times past, current, and future and culminated into a joyous meal we could all enjoy!

This abstract anatomy, evocative of tribal masks and almost sculptural in its execution, subsumes the viewer in a hypnotic fervor and induces a primal heightening of the senses.

If the works were purely abstract they would be about, perhaps, how to «draw with color» and after viewing the series of similar faces they do become almost abstracted; however, the lure of the face with its hypnotic, spiraling irises always persists, challenging our emotional responses:

Gregorio Magnani writes «Distinguished by their non-spectacular almost casual format, his readings have a hypnotic quality that engenders a momentary shift of focus within the gallery going experience.

Almost everyone knows Grant Wood's «American Gothic,» the hypnotic painting of a pitchfork - toting farmer and his daughter.

Through scale distortions and rhythmic repetitions of motifs, including tulips, solar panels, and mass products, Gursky explores the formal questions of abstraction with the almost musical approach, echoed in Hawtin's hypnotic soundscape.