Sentences with phrase «hypnotic as»

It's as hypnotic as staring at a lava lamp.

This collection of images is as disturbing and hypnotic as any requiem should be — and it offers an exquisite moment of escape from a culture increasingly experienced as a lifetime of frenetic activity divorced from any chance for reflection.

Martin, whose work is currently on view at the Whitney's figural - painting show «Flatlands,» has become a buzzy emerging artist for these perplexing images, and now, at Bodega, he'll show more of them in a show titled «Eczema Song,» which, if its loopy press release is any proof, will be as weird and hypnotic as anything else he's done.

For more than half an hour, at ever slower speeds, the explosions continue for a work of art that is as hypnotic as it is devastating.

We find ourselves reluctantly reminded of Geometry Wars again, the trance beats and responsive sonic backing of Resogun compound the slick visual presence of the title, working together to deliver an experience that is as hypnotic as it is engaging.

Hailed as a «supreme storyteller» (Philadelphia Inquirer) for his «cunning, dismaying and beautifully conceived» fiction (New York Times), Akhil Sharma is possessed of a narrative voice «as hypnotic as those found in the pages of Dostoyevsky» (The Nation).

It Comes at Night: One of the best horror movies to come around in years, It Comes at Night boasts an increasingly engrossing feel that only grows more suspenseful and hypnotic as time progresses.

The assembling of disparate sounds, from effects to Foley to dialogue to ambience, is as immersive and hypnotic as the film's visuals.

Diary Of A Country Priest — Robert Bresson's agonizing portrait of the eponymous priest is as hypnotic as any of his films, though watching the poor guy can get to be awfully brutal.

And Del Toro is hypnotic as the scene - stealing Alejandro, whose true motivations and purpose are only gradually revealed and yet remains compelling throughout.

From a performance perspective, Michael Fassbender is hypnotic as the eponymous OG harbinger of regicide.

Speaking of, the cast of «I, Tonya» never flags: Paul Walter Hauser is hilariously hypnotic as Harding's «bodyguard» Shawn Eckardt, the slubby, heavy - lidded «mastermind» behind this idiocy, while Nicholson's expression is pure I - can't - believe - I - have - to - deal - with - these - folks - but - Tonya - is - worth - it.

Hypnotic as the film is on its own, it further proves that Coppola showed Roger something different, even when working in the recognizable (a paragraph on the film's heavily - used Chateau Marmont) and truthful (Roger's reflections on Coppola's honest portrayal of publicists).

Her simmering resentments, delusions of divinity, and grandiose schemes make her as deadly and hypnotic as the snakes she surrounds herself with.

Ceylan has an unerring gift for camera placement, and his slow, measured scenes can be as hypnotic as they are lovely — at times, too much so, with the characters constrained by his poetic perfection.

Sollers Point crackles as Keith tries in earnest to improve his life... Lombardi is magnetic and hypnotic as Keith.

Not exact matches

The $ 450,000 Phantom is on rent from the U.S. because its high frame rate means a 1 1/2 second shot can be slowed to a hypnotic pace and made to last as long as it takes to wait for a flight.

«Hitler was not insane or deranged, or suffering from drug - induced delusions,» he writes, «or laboring under the effects of some chronic disease such as syphilis, or acting in an unresolved hypnotic trance: on the contrary, he was sane according to any reasonable definition of the term, and fully responsible for his actions.»

In our generation there is danger and hope — danger that these noncognitive accouterments will lose their aesthetic harmony and hypnotic power when integrated with the basic prehensions of science, and be reverted into impotent and empty symbols, jarring, ugly, and without force in final satisfactions: hope that the power of Jesus as lure will reassert itself in an aesthetic context devoid of supernaturalism, a context such that (the language now picks up echoes of van Buren) the vision of Jesus, the free man, free from authority, free from fear, «free to give himself to others, whoever they were «1 — such that this vision in its earthly, human purity will lure our aims to a harmonious concrescence, integrating scientific insight and moral vision and producing a modern, intensely fulfilling human satisfaction.

For as humanists flock together en mass, their individual cunning becomes alikened to hypnotic suggestives from braggerville central!

Examining his subjects with reference to their hypnotic sensibility and to such automatisms as hypnagogic hallucinations, odd impulses, religious dreams about the time of their conversion, etc., he found these relatively much more frequent in the group of converts whose transformation had been «striking,» «striking» transformation being defined as a change which, though not necessarily instantaneous, seems to the subject of it to be distinctly different from a process of growth, however rapid.»

Such rapid abolition of ancient impulses and propensities reminds us so strongly of what has been observed as the result of hypnotic suggestion that it is difficult not to believe that subliminal influences play the decisive part in these abrupt changes of heart, just as they do in hypnotism.

Deep, Somnambulistic Hypnosis It was clear to me that I needed to know much more about hypnosis itself and how to help expectant women with personal issues and hypnotic depth problems, as well as find some excellent birth hypnosis scripts.

• Hypnobabies teaches medical hypno - anesthesia techniques as opposed to simple visualization and imagery and contains the same kinds of hypnotic scripts used by people who undergo surgery with hypnosis as their only anesthetic.

is a powerful hypnotic audio track guides that you deeply into hypnosis and directs you to relax the muscles all around your baby, to release any fears and concerns that may be holding you back from entering labor, and to let go of any control issues as well.

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

It has a hypnotic effect as well as a relaxing effect on the smooth muscle of the gastrointestinal tract.

The rainbow relaxation helps you relax but doesn't really give a lot of post hypnotic suggestions and doesn't really prepare you near as well as the Hypnobabies CDs.

The study focused on various classes of drugs used to treat pain (analgesics) and insomnia (hypnotics), as well as drugs to treat anxiety and depression.

The finding that hypnotics follow the same prescription trajectory as analgesics highlights the link between pain and sleep.

Inducing a coma - like state does require careful monitoring, breathing and temperature support as well as a delicate balance of «hypnotic agents, inhalational agents, opioids, muscle relaxants, sedatives and cardiovascular drugs,» Brown and his colleagues noted in their paper.

In the 1960s, Herbert Spiegel developed one of the first tests of hypnotizability, known as the Hypnotic Induction Profile.

As a surgeon who has used hypnotic techniques with patients, I heartily support psychiatrist David Spiegel's findings [«Hypnosis Works,» November].

«But hypnotic relaxation therapy has been shown to be the most effective drug - free option — as well as having few or no side effects.»

The authors weren't as supportive of using medications, such as hypnotics, sedatives, stimulants, and benzodiazepines, for sleep - wake disorders.

Progesterone would not act as a conventional hypnotic (i.e. it would not induce artificial sleepiness), but it would rather act as a «physiologic» regulator.»

Therefore, herbal and other natural sleep aids are gaining popularity, as herbs commonly used for their sedative - hypnotic effects do not have the drawbacks of conventional drugs.

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There's ultimately something oddly hypnotic about Mirage, as filmmaker Hajdu has infused the proceedings with a deliberate and visually sumptuous feel that's heightened by the mystery surrounding the central character's very existence (ie who is he?

It's clear immediately that Eyes Wide Shut is dripping with Kubrick's distinctive, singular sense of style, as the movie boasts an extremely lush visual sensibility that's immediately hypnotic and also, at the outset, compensates for the decidedly deliberate storytelling.

The power and hypnotic beauty of this famous running scene from «Creed» as directed by Ryan Coogler is immense.

The drama, as it were, tends to blur together — baby penguins dodge watchful birds of prey, the dad wanders for ages before finding food — but Jacquet has ample footage to ensure the material sustains a hypnotic quality.

The hypnotic and haunting Foxcatcher can prove its worth as one of the year's very best films.

Ultimately Kundun emerges as a movie that's hypnotic without being truly compelling, sensuously stunning but not illuminating.

Annihilation's compelling vibe grows and grows as it progresses, to be sure, while the incredibly bizarre yet completely hypnotic closing stretch ensures that the picture ends on a palpably memorable note, which undoubtedly confirms the whole thing's place as another better - than - average sci - fi effort from Garland.

What it does have is Samuel L. Jackson in a pinpoint performance as an unctuous old house slave who's more layered than he appears, and when Django, Schultz, and Candie are sitting around the parlor trying to outwit each other, the film achieves that QT hypnotic mood.

Icy, economical, and hypnotic in its polished clarity, L'Argent cleanly fits alongside Aki Kaurismäki's films as one of cinema's truest depictions of money and its troubling relationship with humanity.

This hypnotic urban poem on masculinity, violence and wisdom may be Jarmusch's most likeable picture — as funny and dark as anything Tarantino has ever filmed, but with a surreal, dreamlike quality and a soul full of integrity.

The film bodes comparisons to Stanley Kubrick's difficult swansong Eyes Wide Shut, both in its hypnotic tone, the enigmatic way it unravels, as well as Glazer's use of New York's Upper East Side for the story's background.