Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "hypnotic"

Lexicographically close words:
hyphenation; hyphens; hypnagogic; hypnoidal; hypnosis; hypnotically; hypnotics; hypnotise; hypnotised; hypnotism
  1. I had Marco the mentalist hypnotize me and give me a rather special post-hypnotic command.

  2. Any post-hypnotic suggestion given under those circumstances takes permanently and deeply.

  3. I believe post-hypnotic commands have been given to subjects under sodium pentothol and carried out, even back in the dark ages of psychiatry several hundred years ago.

  4. He ordered me not to believe any subsequent post-hypnotic commands.

  5. It was once believed to be, because hypnotic technique was not strong enough.

  6. Conditioning simply means injecting Nebel's compound and then giving the post-hypnotic command to be unquestioningly loyal to the Supremists.

  7. The drug makes a person subject to post-hypnotic commands--that's why your Supremists are blindly, unthinkingly loyal.

  8. You may know that a certain part of the brain called Rossi's area is, to put it figuratively, the hypnotic center.

  9. Her consciousness had no presentiment that this impulse had been suggested to her in a hypnotic state.

  10. No completely sound mind has been led by the experiences of the new hypnotic science into a belief in the marvellous.

  11. Every book on suggestion gives illustrations of Charcot’s typical case: a hysterical female is sent into hypnotic sleep, and it is suggested to her that on awaking she is to stab one of the doctors present.

  12. A chemical which induces an instantaneous hypnotic trance in people.

  13. I have no intention of denying that the instrument is a hypnotic spray.

  14. This goop is designed for the specific purpose of knocking out hypnotic commands.

  15. Would Graylock and the Fleetmen obey hypnotic orders to the extent of helping out dependably in the salvage work?

  16. Dasinger said, "I'll keep the hypnotic and Quist's bag of dirty tricks until we land.

  17. Egavine said, "My effects were secretly inspected while we were at the Fleet station, Dasinger, and the Fleetmen have been taking drugs to immunize themselves against my hypnotic agents.

  18. I was told it's a hypnotic with an almost instantaneous effect both at skin contact and when inhaled.

  19. Mephisto as he held his glass to the light the better to concentrate its hypnotic gleam and sparkle upon the vacillating youth, "there is no headache in this; this is a man's medicine.

  20. Then," exclaimed Raikes, when he had concluded, "I have been the victim of hypnotic suggestion.

  21. But this negro is peculiarly sensitive to hypnotic influence.

  22. For two hours the doctor sat transfixed, listening and watching him sway the vast audience with hypnotic power.

  23. Furthermore, as Mr. Safford has pointed out, among the artifacts discovered at Machu Picchu was a "snuffing tube" intended for use with the narcotic snuff which was employed by the priests and necromancers to induce a hypnotic state.

  24. All writers unite in declaring that it induced a kind of intoxication or hypnotic state, accompanied by visions which were regarded by the natives as supernatural.

  25. Then I take it that your theory is that the subconscious self is sufficient to account for it all--that in this hypnotic sleep, if you care to call it so, you simply uttered what was in your heart, and identified yourself with .

  26. Why in the world should not this then be attributed to the same subconscious mind as that which, in the hypnotic sleep--or whatever it was--had given voice to the rest of his imaginations?

  27. The hypnotic subject just stares at that steadily.

  28. The formation of blisters full of serum from the application of plain stamp and other paper to various parts of the bodies of patients in the hypnotic state, is well attested and undoubtedly true.

  29. Hypnotic treatment was not tried, because the child was still too young and her attention wandered too much.

  30. Here are brief notes of a case in which hypnotic suggestion was employed with beneficial results.

  31. As far as children are concerned, it is masturbation, in especial, for the prevention of which hypnotic suggestion has been tried.

  32. It has even been suggested that dreams may exercise a similar influence to that of post-hypnotic suggestion; that is to say, that a dream may be the actual originating cause of sexual perversion.

  33. The boy proved to be extremely susceptible to hypnotism and to hypnotic suggestion, and it was remarkable how rapidly a complete change in his demeanour was effected.

  34. For cases of hypnotic trance induced in one person by the telepathic action of another person at a distance, see Myers, op.

  35. But there was another type that could easily be brought about in any deep trance--hypnotic rigidity.

  36. Working with this as a clue, Brion had developed a self-hypnotic technique that allowed him to tap these reservoirs of unknown strength.

  37. Breathing deeply, Brion softly spoke the auto-hypnotic phrases that triggered the process.

  38. He is content if he has brought us to the hypnotic point.

  39. On the other hand, the condition shows a certain dethronement of the will and attention which may ally it to the hypnotic state.

  40. That emotion, cunning past belief, in the service of the principle of life, had got him under its hypnotic fingers!

  41. One of those innumerable hypnotic suggestions of Nature drawing us to her purpose, or a trick of the mind, or some vagrant memory antedating the experiences of life.

  42. He had no right to wake without your suggestion, if he was still in the hypnotic state; and if he had already come out of the hypnotic state by a natural reaction, it is to be feared that the cure may not be permanent.

  43. A case of hypnotic suggestion to the committal of a crime in a convent occurred in Hungary not many years since, with a different object, namely, a daring robbery, but precisely as here described.

  44. That dark, mysterious presence that had come bodily, yet without a body, between her and the man she loved was neither a real woman, nor the creation of her own brain, nor a dream seen in hypnotic state.

  45. Instantly the certainty flashed upon him that Unorna possessed the power of imposing the hypnotic sleep and had exercised that gift upon him, unexpectedly and against his will.

  46. But if of the nerves, then what is the condition of the soul in the hypnotic state?

  47. It was all a curious and very interesting case of auto-hypnotic suggestion.

  48. Even with miserable, hysteric women they often had to try again and again before they could produce the hypnotic sleep for the first time.

  49. Like many men far wiser than herself, she believed in the mechanics of hypnotic science, in the touches, in the passes, in the fixed look, in the will to fascinate.

  50. The immediate results of hypnotic suggestion are not exactly the same in all cases, even in the first moments; its consequences may be widely different with different individuals.

  51. As he laid his hand on her arm to restrain her, she turned and caught a penetrating glance from Jacot's hypnotic eye.

  52. There was something about him which I can hardly express on paper, a sort of hypnotic fascination.

  53. Whether it was in the eyes themselves or in the way that she used them, there could be no mistake about the hypnotic power that their owner wielded.

  54. Hypnotic and so-called mesmeric phenomena were subjective in origin, and both were excited by direct or by indirect suggestion.

  55. As a rule, the waking life was remembered in hypnosis, and the hypnotic life forgotten in the waking state; this destroyed any claim of the primary memory to be the sole memory.

  56. Curative Value of Hypnotism The intelligent action of the secondary self may be illustrated by the execution of certain post-hypnotic acts.

  57. Although hypnotic work practically ceased in England at Braid's death, the torch he had lighted passed into France.

  58. Hypnotic phenomena might be induced without the subject having passed through any condition resembling sleep.

  59. I made a couch with furs, and Madam Mina, lying down, yield herself as usual, but more slow and more short time than ever, to the hypnotic sleep.

  60. Mina's morning and evening hypnotic answer is unvaried: lapping waves, rushing water, and creaking masts.

  61. He replied: "We have the best proof of that: your own evidence, when in the hypnotic trance this morning.

  62. This time she wake with not much trouble, and then I try to put her to hypnotic sleep.

  63. Mrs. Harker yielded to the hypnotic influence even less readily than this morning.

  64. Mrs. Harker's hypnotic report this morning was the same as usual, so it is possible that we may get news at any moment.

  65. When the usual time came round Mrs. Harker prepared herself for her hypnotic effort; and after a longer and more strenuous effort on the part of Van Helsing than has been usually necessary, she sank into the trance.

  66. The hypnotic stage was even longer in coming than before; and when it came the time remaining until full sunrise was so short that we began to despair.

  67. Van Helsing examines, he tells me, her teeth very carefully, whilst she is in the hypnotic condition, for he says that so long as they do not begin to sharpen there is no active danger of a change in her.

  68. At sunset she made the usual hypnotic report.

  69. Thus we shall have two more hypnotic messages from Mrs. Harker; either or both may possibly throw more light on what is happening.

  70. We must try to-night, at sunset, to make her speak more fully when in her hypnotic state.

  71. Knowing of the increasing difficulty of procuring the hypnotic trance, Van Helsing began his passes earlier than usual.

  72. That she is still journeying somewhere is apparent, for Mrs. Harker's hypnotic report at sunrise was still the same.

  73. The dream origin of Romantic Poetry gives it the advantage of putting the audience in a state of mind ready to accept it; in a word, it has a naturally hypnotic effect.

  74. The hypnotic state has one broad characteristic, and that is the working of the subliminal consciousness in directions unusual in ordinary life.

  75. All hypnotic methods," he read, "have one thing in common, and that is the diversion of attention from the insistency of external surroundings.

  76. Sometimes I think he controls her by some infernal hypnotic power; and then again, from some phrase of her own, I think she considers her mind diseased, and marriage with any one else impossible.

  77. In a certain good-humored way he had accepted his friend Tolman's theories of hypnotic control, but had never taken them into serious account till this moment.

  78. You hypnotic sharps have proved that it can also deaden nerves and heal skin diseases, if not bone fractures.

  79. And to be always under hypnotic influence is as destructive of individuality as it is fatal to achievement.

  80. This is common when a post-hypnotic suggestion is being carried out.

  81. In the form of extract or tincture it is a valuable remedy in the hands of a medical man, either as an anodyne, a hypnotic or a sedative.

  82. I experimented by bringing Tramp in front of its cage, but with the loss of sight the hypnotic power has apparently deserted it, and the cat paid no attention to it.

  83. Did you observe the wonderful hypnotic power which overcame the prowess of the serpent?

  84. I'll use my wonderful hypnotic power and you'll see the serpent crawl into the bag at my command, to be easily transported to this moral and elevating show for exhibition as an example of the power of mind over matter.

  85. It was almost as if the light on the white fingers in front of me was beginning to have some hypnotic effect.

  86. I must, therefore, take it that either he has been drugged or is under some hypnotic influence.

  87. I wondered if in the case of Mr. Trelawny and Mr. Corbeck, who had already been under the hypnotic influence of the Queen, the same dormance was manifesting itself.

  88. I cannot find evidence of any known drug, and his unconsciousness does not resemble any of the many cases of hypnotic sleep which I saw in the Charcot Hospital in Paris.

  89. Any attempt to describe impressions of the performance has to be preceded by a shaking of oneself free from that hypnotic influence which Wagner's art in its latest phase exercises.

  90. The dog passed into an hypnotic trance, broken by soft grumblings of pleasure.

  91. Nor was it long before he fell into a hypnotic doze.

  92. Even in the dark Jerry had sensed the hypnotic spell of unseen eyes.

  93. Like a dazed bird, held and stricken in the hypnotic gaze of a snake, Jerry took one stiff, unconscious forward step.

  94. Sidenote: Through infinite deeps of space Jerry Foster hurtles to the Moon--only to be trapped by a barbaric race and offered as a living sacrifice to Oong, their loathsome, hypnotic god.


  95. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hypnotic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.