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Sentence Examples Luckily, a number of practical and technological advances are allowing developers to span the Uncanny Valley in video games. It's something that robotics types call the Uncanny Valley, when a robot crosses over from seeming machinelike but hasn't yet achieved true human qualities. The closer we get to realism, the deeper the Uncanny Valley maws. His uncanny, unmistakable style crossed Cubist austerity with lush Surrealism. The combination of percussion and reeds, and the frenzied pace of some of the pieces, creates some uncanny parallels with Moroccan trance music. Dance music, and especially house music, has an uncanny power to turn the most earnest honor student into a frenetic dance machine. One of his more uncanny talents has been the ability to capture the zeitgeist before we even knew it was upon us. He also had an uncanny feel for the weather and many times accurately predicted a day of storms, especially violent thunderstorms and tornadoes. As a lightweight, he carried a pretty solid wallop to go along with his uncanny ring generalship. Seven is not really a magic number, but does have an uncanny way of appearing in all sorts of odd situations. Like both satire and the sentimental, the uncanny as a literary category has been the subject of significant theoretical work. Jean was helping gun down the last of the troops, when through the fog, came the uncanny and belting sound of bagpipes. With uncanny resemblance to his own political career, Napoleon ensured that the drift from left to right continued apace. A mixture of reef sharks and bulls, they have an uncanny ability to appear behind you or materialise from behind a coral head only feet away. The farmers have had to go through that same experience, it's uncanny how similar it is. The chance meeting is even more uncanny because Barbara had been searching for John on the internet last week to try to locate him in America. Well, the only thing is he is so extraordinarily responsive and sensitive to any move that I make that it's uncanny. I'll miss your uncanny ability to find a new way to annoy the living bejeezus out of me every week. More mind writer than mind-reader, Barry boasts an uncanny ability to direct and misdirect the participants in his illusions. However, the bird has uncanny precision when it comes to eating mixed birdseed. Show More Sentences Killinaskully is essentially a showcase for Pat Shortt, a gifted clown with an uncanny flair for playing manic rural grotesques. In the enlarged versions, one notices his eye for composition and design, as well as his uncanny ability to monumentalize his sitters. His talent at piloting was uncanny and he had spent his time mooning about the docks, watching the skimmers. Belinda is a handsome woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to John Cusack. To hear his admirers tell it, he single-handedly rescued the network in the 1980s with his uncanny gift for finding quality shows. Her skin had an uncanny translucence relieved by large dark blotches where nurses had tried to find a vein and she had bled under the surface. When we got to the cave mouth, I got this uncanny feeling like I'd been there before. I've seen this person around quite a lot, and seeing them recently, and then the show, was just uncanny! However, I have noticed an uncanny ability to give good luck to those who are gambling. Humankind possesses this uncanny ability to survive in the face of adversity! Yet his tongue-in-cheek whimsy has an uncanny knack of transporting you back to the event itself. Paul had this uncanny ability of making me want to hit him and laugh at the same time. Eriksson, charming, smooth and cerebral, has the uncanny ability to deflect most criticism. Some people seem to have an uncanny ability to grow personally regardless of their apparent setting. The series demonstrated once again that Ferguson has an uncanny knack for turning controversy into lucre. Right now, if he has, I have an uncanny understanding of why he kisses the ground. That impresses me but not as much as his uncanny expertise on the topic of game and quiz shows. Google's success stems from its uncanny ability to sort useful web pages from dross. Davis never failed to draw irony from his uncanny ability to find the right things at the right time. I do rely on him because his technical expertise is superb and his ability to predict the future has been uncanny. Show More Sentences They had uncanny ability to know where each other was on the football ground at any time of the match. But long-running rumours are developing an uncanny knack of coming true at the moment. The uncanny valley also exists, I think, when it comes to viewing artistic renderings of a future paradise. That said, some roboticists are striving to 'bridge the uncanny valley,' working on ever-more sophisticated humanoid faces. There are no moments of physics-defying action or characters who reside in the uncanny valley. Except for the fact that his hair was a solid black, the thin, slight boy of about fifteen or sixteen bore an uncanny resemblance to Kunihiko. But there is a second condition necessary for the production of the uncanny in fiction, a condition less psychological than narratological. In an uncanny coincidence, on the night of its premiere Ferguson scored the only goal of the game in Everton's win over Manchester United. By introducing a half-life to the split-second glance, Matt is opening up an uncanny world of absence as well as a new protocol for presence. The effectiveness of the female's spring camouflage is as uncanny as that of her white plumage in winter. He says their offstage relationship bears an uncanny similarity to their roles in the play. However uncanny the resemblance is, this is not a slice of blueberry streusel cheesecake. An uncanny silence descended on a school as pupils made a superhuman effort to clamp their lips tightly shut. Yet despite the sinister ideological forces at work, an uncanny tenderness suffuses this poem. Golden eye or yellowtail grunts, chubs or scads would move unhurriedly across, changing direction with uncanny synchronisation. He is an incredibly able businessman who has an uncanny ability to tap into all possible sources of finance. Jung's three definitions of synchronicity all involve an affective and psychic component, an uncanny sense of the meaningfulness of an event. For example, first I would talk about synchronicity and uncanny coincidence and tell her little anecdotes about that from my life. They had an uncanny ability to slit a tent at night in just the right spot to clifty a rifle, ammunition, or other vital equipment. Sahni was most impressed with him regaling the passengers with an uncanny ability to hold them with improvised speeches. Show More Sentences And in the process instilled in us some uncanny, extremely unique, weird and peculiar inability and incapacity to fathom how this place works. In all shapes, sizes and more than anything, in those indefinable vibrant shades, butterflies seem to carry an uncanny beauty about them. She smiled in satisfaction and walked with an uncanny felinity, calling out. There is a tale about going for a walk with the wrong map, and finding uncanny concordances. The real interest lies in Frank's uncanny use of contrasting instrumental colors to create a texture for the ear. It's another highlight, directing attention toward The Thermals' uncanny knack for conjuring downcast poptastic gems. Closer scrutiny reveals their raw, uncanny ability to represent the complexity and fluidity of human identity. Like its conceptual cousin, the uncanny, it delimits the boundaries of certainties about identity and experience. Dyer's mystical demonism accounts for the ambivalent, exhilarating, and uncanny dimension of his architecture. His parents, amazed at their son's uncanny musical ability bought him a grand piano at age three. Her character's skill at disarming those around her is uncanny and belies her years. She speaks with uncanny timing in the most doggone delicious accent, and sings with irresistible sorcery. That this tropical drupe can somehow be made to taste like smoky bacon without the greasy mess is uncanny. This holds such an uncanny familiarity, or unheimlich recognition, they could have been reading the Flea's diary. The boy possesses the uncanny ability to eat like an elephant and remain as skinny as a stick. For some uncanny reason, the moments at which you stumble are those when you are within reach of attaining some long-sought goal. The series has a reputation for an uncanny prescience when it comes to mirroring real-life events. Not a devastating puncher, the charismatic Baby Bull, more than makes up for it with uncanny speed of foot and hand. Graham Greene has an uncanny knack for keeping his readers on the edge of their seats. He had always had an uncanny knack for seeing things before they actually happened. Show More Sentences The Captain displays an uncanny ability to sweat and smoulder simultaneously, and boasts a command of German that goes above and beyond the conversational. It's uncanny living in Beijing how it rains on the eve of major events. Almost nothing has been touched since the fall of the USSR in 1991, providing an uncanny glimpse behind the iron curtain. The originality, the indefatigability, the uncanny sense of self-promotion, the converting of art into sensibility, put him, it seems to me, into the most rarefied circle. There is a certain uncanny fascination about haunted houses, but it is one of which it may emphatically be said that distance lends enchantment to the view. Nothing unnerves me so much as Jude Bailey's uncanny ability to deliver stories ranging from oil-barons-laying-waste-to-Alaska to kittens-up-trees without so much as blinking. You may have experienced that uncanny feeling of impending success. When a tiny girl bearing an uncanny resemblance to Cindy Lou-Who whispered that she liked dolls and told us her name was Becca Larson, I announced that it was time for a game. I opened the door and the two of them were either side of a stocky young top-heavy woman who bore an uncanny, slightly skewed resemblance to Samantha. Then, a long and limber girl with wide eyes and an uncanny resemblance to Rihanna grabs my hand and startles me by speaking. Today they read as uncanny reflections of our own unstable, uncertain age. And from the side, with the lips and ears elongated, the resemblance is uncanny. It seems that games are beginning to reach the uncanny valley, because the dead eyes just made me feel uncomfortable. The similarity between the two smoky-voiced piano songstresses is uncanny. With his flowing mane and soul patch, his requisite unorthodox childhood and his uncanny feel for the ice, he seemed destined for stardom long before Salt Lake City. For women the uncanny death-in-life feeling of the living doll performers has some unconscious resonance with fear of men's love when it becomes a murderous form of oppression and control. There is something inherently uncanny about the medium of relief. With dexterous fingers, and uncanny two-facedness, he had secured my vote. She did numerology and astrology and tarot with an uncanny instinct. The sly, literate prose filtered through wavering vocals still dwells in corners of life either too big or too small to express with such uncanny eloquence. Show More Sentences I have this uncanny ability to recognise some of the most obscure actors. It was his wit, his staying power and his uncanny ability to surf the waves of changing musical taste and always land on the right side of the curve that made him so special. Freud allows that a living doll may produce an uncanny affect but insists that there is nothing particularly unsettling about a living doll per se. Burns' ability to describe managerial styles is uncanny to the modern eye. We are guided on this dive by Morne, a veteran of the lake who seems to have an uncanny knowledge of where all the best caverns and hollows are located. Archaeologists have an uncanny ability to ignore the discomforts and channel the time period and the people they're studying. He briefly tried his hand at furniture design and excels at contriving quirky contraptions and uncanny objects, some of which find their way into elaborate environments. He has the uncanny ability to master the American accent which, along with his smile and look, helped set him apart from the other actors reading for the part. Scotland have an uncanny knack of finding heartbreaking ways of exiting tournaments, of getting the nation's hopes up before kicking them in the teeth. His rival's uncanny instinct outmatched his own methodical approach. Everyone in Canada will now have the uncanny ability of the chameleon. Brooks continued his uncanny ability to convert third downs in the clutch. The man has an uncanny grasp of the public mood and once again he seized it, reminding us all how right we were to re-elect him as Prime Minister at the last general election. Terence Morgan's Drake, endowed from the start with an uncanny self-confidence, struck exactly the right balance between poker-faced laconism and Errol Flynn-like exuberance. Over the years he developed an encyclopedic knowledge of this literature and an uncanny knack for introducing the right book to the right reader at the right time. Working high up a mast on the end of a yardarm isolated in the expanse of the southern ocean, it was an uncanny experience to eyeball one of these creatures. Attestations of his uncanny powers as well as arguments that question them are found in a report of a narrative related by a man named Bartley Coen. There was an uncanny lack of sound for an attack until about fifty yards in front of the gate when the warriors took up a battle cry that sounded like a dull roar. In an uncanny way, he could manage to portray the deeply spiritual side of the symphonist with the craggy, almost brusque facet of the countryman. Her writing is marked by an utter lack of the extraneous, and bristles with a sense of the uncanny. Show More Sentences He delights in tracing similarities of metaphor, suggestive accidents of fate, portentous parallels, uncanny coincidences, and unexpected connections. She had an uncanny resemblance to someone I had seen before. I took a few courses on statistics and understand how these things can happen, though they seemed to happen with such frequency that it seemed uncanny. Hass is relentless in her challenge to authority, but her real uniqueness lies in her ability to literally cross from one side to the next with an uncanny ease. In an uncanny way, that describes the precise definition of the hipster, when the term first appeared in the American vocabulary. Longer, gentler cooking brings out a low, earthy sweetness in chard, collards, or kale, an uncanny flavor that plays well with other things grown close to the ground. Discipline and training replace education for all but the privileged as schools increasingly take on an uncanny resemblance to oversized police precincts. Another had an uncanny ability to land paving jobs in Southern Nevada. Pre-teen Crispin lives on the streets with his dog Harley, who has an uncanny ability to guide Crispin out of danger. The answer, I think, is that wife-capture is tinged with an uncanny primal eroticism that survives most attempts to deny, ironize, or mock it. Issei Ogata's scarily endearing rendition of the emperor, his lips restively testing the air with carplike twitches, is beyond uncanny. For those who don't know Sub Focus, he is an English drum and bass producer who has the uncanny knack of turning out hit tune after hit tune. The uncanny three dimensional quality of the Great Hercules and Four disgracers are milestones of technical refinement. Now, in an uncanny case of life imitating art, actress Michelle Collins has fallen for a toyboy 22 years younger than herself. He had the uncanny ability to demolish his opponents with ease and make mincemeat out of them. The other, dwarfed and prehensile, might in its uncanny silhouette have been an imp of darkness from the nether regions. He has the uncanny ability of getting in and out of character within a split second. Because the uncanny affects and haunts everything, it is in constant transformation and cannot be pinned down. The uncanny involves feelings of uncertainty, in particular regarding the reality of who one is and what is being experienced. So in this case, the appearance is quite human like, but the familiarity is negative. This is the uncanny valley. Show More Sentences My informant seemed to look upon the swift as an uncanny bird, and called it by a name I had never heard before, devil-screecher. Everything stirring, elusive, and uncanny about the form of photography itself, even before the superaddition of content. Rusik held pride of place in the Stavropol region of Russia, blessed with the uncanny ability to sniff out hauls of endangered fish. To this was added, by later practitioners, a feeling for the 'sublime' and uncanny, and an interest in ancient English poetic forms and folk poetry. A rare instance of this line of inquiry comes from Henrot herself, who has an uncanny eye for the ways in which virtual space rejiggers anthropological taxonomies. Actually, it's Dean Zeligman, whose backswept brown hair and curling sideburns give him an uncanny resemblance to the boy from the backwoods of Tupelo, Miss. The nights were now cold, gemmed with a multitude of bright stars, uncanny with the querulous wail of coyotes and the occasional deep voices of wolves. As is well known, Freud introduced the concept of the uncanny into psychoanalysis in 1919 and used The Sandman as a prime illustration for his definition. In a contemporary art world where optimistic earnestness remains the kiss of death, this show's preternaturally cheerful tone felt positively uncanny. Sheeran's pop instinct is uncanny and with the songs honed to perfection through many hours on stage, the album was recorded as naturally, easily and unfussily as it sounds. Examples from Classical Literature The most uncanny thing about the kirk was the precentor's box beneath the pulpit. He was studying the ground plan of the absorber, when an uncanny sense of being watched made him look over his shoulder. Peering at you from the top of a dark pine tree with its staring yellow eye, the grackle is certainly uncanny. The linotype and monotype machines, uncanny in their operations, have also come into common practice. Finally, in folk-lore the snail is an uncanny or demoniac being, because it has horns. Scotland is the home of weird, uncanny creatures, who take lovely shapes for the bedevilment of poor weak souls. It seemed an uncanny, horseless carriage, built to carry four people and making a good deal of fuss about it. Not only were his eyes averted from mine, but they were glassed to an uncanny degree. This jettisoning of his property with his own hand seemed uncanny to Soames. The people about me are like some uncanny, half-human beings. The uncanny creatures flew in and out among the trees and tents, now swooping low near the Indians or the travelers. They fell away from him as from something uncanny, and went into privacy to discuss him. He had never caught even a glimpse of the boy and had heard a dozen exaggerated stories about his uncanny looks and ways and his insane tempers. With their uncanny marksmanship they raked the on-coming fleet with volley after volley. For my part, grim and uncanny as he looked, I was glad to see him. This knowledge, with the dream, was to him an uncanny thing. They have peopled all that region with gnomes, and dwarfs, and all sorts of mysterious and uncanny creatures. But at the window there was pause enough, filled only by the uncanny wheezing of the man I could not see. He approached the sleeper upon padded feet which gave forth no sound, and with an uncanny woodcraft that rustled not a leaf or a grass blade. Santos looked of uncanny stature in the low yellow light, from my pillow close to the earth. Show More Sentences That they were repulsive and uncanny she could not forget, but if they meant her no harm she could, at least, overlook their repulsiveness. Never in all my life have I seen such wondrous swordsmanship and such uncanny agility as that ancient bag of bones displayed. This was uncanny, but it was not so terrible as the faceless form. No sign of life appeared about the cave, yet Momaya experienced that uncanny sensation as of unseen eyes regarding her malevolently. Whether awake or asleep, the bird has an uncanny, half-human look. Tendering a coin through the trap door the fare slipped out and away, leaving an effect of uncanny, eccentric ghastliness upon the driver's mind. His clothing was in disorder, his hair fell across his forehead in a derangement which was at once uncanny and picturesque. To big-time comics collectors, it's the young Landman who is the real superhero, with an uncanny precognition to preserve his finds. Where raff is uncanny and fiendish, Paine is cheerful and elfin. It seemed a little uncanny to me, and I listened to her breathlessly. What does that inexplicable, that uncanny turn of countenance mean? From the lips of the ape-man came a weird, uncanny sound, and in answer to it there leaped from the blackness of the hut's farthermost corner a bolt of fur-clad death. Everywhere, these black-robed, soft-sandaled, tallow-visaged specters appeared, flitted about and disappeared, noiseless as the creatures of a troubled dream, and as uncanny. The strange and uncanny noises of the jungle night filled her with the most dreadful forebodings, and when a cold, drizzling rain set in upon them her cup of misery was full. Find more words! 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