The visual experience combines hypnotic beauty with a sense of excruciating pain, making it difficult to watch.

She entered into the inner life of the frustrated wife for long stretches of time-suspending, hypnotic beauty.

The hypnotic beauty of Ms. Larsson's images never falters, and their ambiguities never resolve.

He recalled the hypnotic beauty of the beast that had exerted its pull over him.

Here, amid the author's dry wit and an undercurrent of self-loathing, Thomas's intense love affair with language is transmitted with hypnotic beauty.

Preying solely on men travelling alone during a full moon, she will present an image of hypnotic beauty, unspoken words and loving gestures before her victim.

But the reader waiting for set pieces on the hypnotic beauty of the land or its people will be disappointed.

The only softness to his face was his gloriously lush mouth that somehow gave him the hypnotic beauty of a fallen angel.

But he added, "If one lets the movement have its way, it generates a compelling, almost hypnotic beauty."

Social issues aside, the pairing helps us glean what gives so many of the designs their hypnotic beauty.