When people are being put into a hypnotic state for the first time I often, after placing them in a very light hypnotic state, wake them and ask them to compare their wakening state to that when hypnotised.
七夕は漫画によく出てくるので、私もそこそこ知っています。
Tanabata comes up in manga a lot so I also know it fairly well.
The race developed into a free-for-all but Shinomiya lapped the group and in the final stage steadily piled on points with good timing to achieve victory.
今日の彼の演説はやたら大げさな言葉が多くて何を言っているのかよくわからなかった。
He used so much inflated language in his speech today I couldn't figure out what he was saying.
恵子が手際よく食器を重ねて、シンクへ運んでゆく。
Keiko deftly piles up the cutlery and takes them to the sink.