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But within a day of Jean-Luc Taron's murder, the case took a bizarre turn, and before the week was out Paris had been half-hypnotized with horror.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was in last week's revival, heavy, slavish, magnificent as he sang his one song, half-hypnotized by it.

From Time Magazine Archive

These slight sounds might furnish valuable cues to a person with acute hearing, or to a half-hypnotized person whose normal hearing was sharpened.

From Time Magazine Archive

Next he was half-hypnotized by the voluble man's stream of rapid talk.

From Mixed Faces by Norton, Roy

Fay’s handlers dragged him forward, still resisting but more feebly now, as if half-hypnotized or at least cowed.

From The Creature from Cleveland Depths by Leiber, Fritz