Trancelike

The woman sighed in disappointment, her expression almost trancelike. ❋ Gena Showalter (2008)

Very few writers induce in their readers the kind of trancelike state, punctuated by frequent “wows,” that most of us associate with much-loved books from childhood. ❋ Unknown (2003)

He swayed as he chanted the words, putting himself into a deep trancelike state. ❋ Kelly Keaton (2011)

Chillingo, iPod & iPhone 69p, iPad £1.49 Although sorting animal faces into lines of three or more doesn't immediately sound like something you'd do for fun, Zookeeper's addictive qualities are such that protracted play induces a trancelike state in which the animals almost seem to sort themselves. ❋ Unknown (2011)

On rainy days the time passed slowly, trancelike I tongued the bedroom window and licked the condensation from the glass. ❋ James Claffey (2011)

Walking induces a trancelike state that allows the mind freedom and ease and encourages exploration of odd possibilities and improbable connections. ❋ Annie Proulx (2011)

My breathing has caught the right beat for endurance; familiar trancelike scenes glide by. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Saturated with color or chiaroscuro black and white, luminously grainy and non-linear, each film opens up a specific world in a dreamlike way, from the rhythms of Chinatown to the trancelike experience of a band touring and performing. ❋ Ann Hornaday (2011)

But the PEM has also unearthed some rarely displayed pieces, including (from the National Museum of Natural History) a painted hide shield cover from the Upper Missouri River (c. 1820) recording a Plains Indian's trancelike vision of grizzly bear claws and (possibly) a rain of bullets. ❋ Lee Rosenbaum (2012)

It seemed to me, in my trancelike state, that the moment in which the doorknob on the scary door began to rattle — the moment when something on the other side was on the cusp of emerging, with the mortals on this side watching in wide-eyed dread — would be a good place to end. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The score of Zarkana dips into trancelike drones, live drums, throat singing, organ solos, and one swampy-blues number when the clown goes to the purple bubble-wart toad planet, but you're not going to be rocking out to the soundtrack. ❋ Rita Houston (2011)

"I've my own burlap," she answered, staring into nothing, trancelike, fumbling toward the car. ❋ Nicolle Elizabeth (2011)

I'm not sure who urged me to listen to Horses - probably my roommate, Kate - but I do remember the first time I heard the trancelike song-poem, Birdland. ❋ Holly Cara Price (2011)

At some trancelike [distance] in [Gautam]’s mind, this view of [Mira] ❋ Igorku (2017)