hypnotize

• To be sure, it is only incidentally set in Philadelphia, for Queenan's landscape is not so much the exterior world but the inner landscape of a sad, horrific, even terrifying, working-class Irish-American family that conforms to rude stereotype -- drunken, pugnacious, violent father; melancholic, detached, ineffectual mother -- but never fails to fascinate, even hypnotize, the reader.
• But that droning plainness could often hypnotize, carrying a song in ways other voices could not. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
• Explore the planet: Discover and interact with five huge environments using an arsenal of alien abilities to manipulate humans into submission-hypnotize, body-snatch, read minds, levitate, and more! —  Xboxic
• These communities are just as assaulted by Hollywood and Madison Avenue dreck (or a locally produced alternative) that hypnotize Americans, but homogenized culture hasn't been as damaging to the local newspapers. —  Howard Owens
• His sales pitch was delivered in an unwaveringly authoritative and tranquilizing intonation that may just have had the power to both lull raucous prison inmates into a deep sleep and hypnotize international leaders to do whatever we say. —  The Rebel Yell

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