Hypnotic

hypnotic

Hypnotic Illusions

That's kind of hypnotic.

But so hypnotic

If you say one more word to me about Jeff's hypnotic influence on me...

The Arabic has an incantatory, almost hypnotic, quality that begs to be heard rather than read, felt more than analyzed.

Now jellyfish are strangely hypnotic and beautiful, and you'll see lots of gorgeous ones at the aquarium on Friday, but they sting like hell, and jellyfish sushi and sashimi is just not going to fill you up.

Similarly, the terms astronomical science and hypnotic science mostly died out as the twentieth century progressed, perhaps because belief in the occult waned in respectable society. Yes, horoscopes still persist in popular newspapers, but they are there only for the severely scientifically challenged, or for entertainment the idea that the stars determine our fate has lost all intellectual currency.

It seems essential to remind ourselves that the annual session of the General Assembly has become the sole occasion for virtually all mankind, collectively, to appraise the human condition. Additionally, drawn as we are by the hypnotic spell of the approaching millennium, the need to assess our past successes, achievements and failures and to develop priorities and strategies for the future has assumed a sense of urgency.

And this was really a kind of very important part of this building, and here is a point where architecture this is like technology free architecture is only a framing device, it only edits the harbor view, the industrial harbor just through its walls, its floors and its ceiling, to only expose the water itself, the texture of water, much like a hypnotic effect created by electronic snow or a lava lamp or something like that.