How to Use hypnotism in a Sentence

hypnotism

noun

• Tommy Vee bring his hypnotism show to the Big E for just six days.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• The hypnotism was like a one-act play within the show itself, said Gadon.
  — Sonia Saraiya, HWD, 25 June 2018
• When Missy offers to cure Chris of his nicotine habit via hypnotism, he's weirded out but passes it off as an oddity.
  — Kendra James, Marie Claire, 3 Mar. 2017
• Séances were a fad; so were hypnotism, chiromancy and telepathy.
  — Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2016
• The combination of soft lighting, soothing music, and Mesmer’s enthralling movements around the room produced what is now recognized as a form of hypnotism.
  — National Geographic, 5 Mar. 2019
• Harron and Polley also built tension by contrasting the hypnotism against flashbacks and reveries that were filmed and lit in a completely different way.
  — Sonia Saraiya, HWD, 25 June 2018
• Not unlike today, people turned to quack cures for relief, including water therapy and mesmerism, which involved hypnotism and the use of magnets.
  — Ann Levin, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2021
• Proponents say hypnotism deserves more attention from mainstream medicine as it has been used to treat anxiety, chronic pain, post-traumatic stress disorder and more.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2022
• His version of Bram Stoker's villain speaks stiltedly, slinks across the screen with a hypnotic menace and then performs actual hypnotism on unwitting victims.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 28 Oct. 2021
• Throughout his life, Appleby developed a devotion to New Thought philosophy and embraced different practices such as hypnotism.
  — Nicole Norfleet, Star Tribune, 24 July 2021
• For various reasons, the mentioning of being hypnotized or being the subject of hypnotism is considered misleading and potentially outright misapplied.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2021
• The files revealed the experiments tested drugs (like LSD), sensory deprivation, hypnotism and electroshock on everyone from agency operatives to prostitutes, recovering drug addicts and prisoners—often without their consent.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 22 May 2017
• The files revealed the experiments tested drugs (like LSD), sensory deprivation, hypnotism and electroshock on everyone from agency operatives to prostitutes, recovering drug addicts and prisoners—often without their consent.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 22 May 2017
• The lecture mixed neurological theory and armchair anthropology, and ranged over subjects including premonitions, telepathy, hypnotism, hallucinations, and epileptic and migrainous aura.
  — Katherine Foxhall, Smithsonian, 6 Mar. 2018

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