Sentence examples similar to exert a hypnotic effect from inspiring English sources

The barely perceptible Caribbean lilt in Miller's prose exerts a hypnotic effect that is one of the great pleasures of "Augustown," even if every so often he uses it to deliver a horror like the story of Ma Taffy's blinding.

Most of them exert a sedative effect in small doses and a hypnotic effect in larger doses.

Fifty years ago, though, such a woman had a hypnotic effect, even on a gay man like Williams.

Tiny fragments of melody played over and over create a hypnotic effect.

More than the shorts, what you notice are the legs, which create a hypnotic effect on the bare stage.

Silent runs around the stage cleanse the scenes, creating a hypnotic effect that ranges from emphatic to peaceful.

They had a hypnotic effect.

For young men of a certain temperament, the word orgy almost has a hypnotic effect.

Unfortunately, his taunting nonchalance betrayed him as he sought to exert a hypnotic mastery over the pain-riddled beast.

At the central nervous system level, anesthetics exert their hypnotic effects in part by interacting with neuronal circuits that participate in the control of sleep and wakefulness [8], [9], [10], [11].

This had an almost hypnotic effect during "Unconditional Love," a bossa nova by Ms. Allen with a swinging undertow.