Sentences with phrase «draws in the trance»

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Or the extremes of the sacred fire dances performed in New Guinea, where in order to commune with their ancestors men enter a trance state wearing masks decorated with blood drawn agonisingly from their own tongues.

Other cultures, from the Aztecs and Mayans to the Native Americans used (and in some cases, still use) tools like drumming, chanting, and dance to induce the trance state and access the spirit worldLately, though, it's the practical applications that are drawing more and more fans.

Adrian is drawn to a woman who periodically loses all sense of herself and wanders through the countryside as if in a trance.

The game's visuals and audio draw you in and I was soon hooked in a trance like state, ploughing through the stages until I inevitably crashed into my own tail of ducklings and lost a chunk of my combo meter.

It's absorbing enough to draw you in and hold you in a trance, although I found myself constantly annoyed that I'd have to reengage with lengthy dialogue stints with characters I've already met when I screwed up.

Beginning with Aleister Crowley's trance portraiture and Austin Osman Spare's automatic drawing of the early 20th century, the exhibition traces over 100 years of occult art, including Leonora Carrington and Kurt Seligmann's surrealist explorations, Kenneth Anger and Ira Cohen's ritualistic experiments in film and photography, and the mystical probings of contemporary visionaries such as Francesco Clemente, Kiki Smith, Paul Laffoley, BREYER P - ORRIDGE, and Carol Bove.

Some of Condo's paintings and drawings, with their childlike loops and gurning, disfigured faces, look like he made them in a fit of violence or some hysterical trance, but the real surprise of two new shows at the Hayward Gallery and at Sprüth Magers in Mayfair is the care and the calmness that lies behind them.