Sentence examples for hypnotic gaze from inspiring English sources

In 1925, a blowup print of Man Ray's famous photograph of the future Mrs. Salvador Dali filled the whole of the sky with her hypnotic gaze.

Under the spell of his hypnotic gaze, I numbly reached into my plastic bag and threw him a couple of peanuts.

He stared at one of them with a hypnotic gaze, repeating the words "You shall not grow!" He claimed he inhibited the growth of the hypnotized culture enough to give statistically significant results.

The motif of the evil eye, the hypnotic gaze, persisted through dozens of treatments and even into the silent film era ("Trapped by the Mormons").

Historian Anton Kaes points to it as an example of "the new verisimilitude [that] rendered silent cinema's former emphasis on the hypnotic gaze and the symbolism of light and shadow, as well as its preference for allegorical characters, anachronistic".

Moreover, there is something about staring at a live color shot of the uncharacteristically low swells at the Pipeline on Oahu's North Shore (a result of La Nina, the page's "local knowledge" section explains) or a view of the three-to-five-foot surf at Guaruja, Brazil, from Midtown Manhattan that is at least as hypnotic as gazing into a lava lamp.

Both actor and director in the spectacle of modern life, he asserts control by virtue of the piercing and hypnotic power of his gaze.

Prosecution witnesses, including Joan Bacarella of Manalapan, N.J., spoke of the hypnotic quality of his gaze and manner.

His gaze is almost hypnotic, hooking you with a long and searching look.

Hypnotic age regression, like hypnotic hypermnesia, is illusory.

Houllebecq's surrealist gaze sees this with hypnotic clarity.