Davis never failed to draw irony from his uncanny ability to find the right things at the right time. |
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To hear his admirers tell it, he single-handedly rescued the network in the 1980s with his uncanny gift for finding quality shows. |
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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. |
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When we got to the cave mouth, I got this uncanny feeling like I'd been there before. |
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I've seen this person around quite a lot, and seeing them recently, and then the show, was just uncanny! |
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That this tropical drupe can somehow be made to taste like smoky bacon without the greasy mess is uncanny. |
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However, I have noticed an uncanny ability to give good luck to those who are gambling. |
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Humankind possesses this uncanny ability to survive in the face of adversity! |
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Yet his tongue-in-cheek whimsy has an uncanny knack of transporting you back to the event itself. |
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Paul had this uncanny ability of making me want to hit him and laugh at the same time. |
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Eriksson, charming, smooth and cerebral, has the uncanny ability to deflect most criticism. |
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Some people seem to have an uncanny ability to grow personally regardless of their apparent setting. |
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The series demonstrated once again that Ferguson has an uncanny knack for turning controversy into lucre. |
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Right now, if he has, I have an uncanny understanding of why he kisses the ground. |
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That impresses me but not as much as his uncanny expertise on the topic of game and quiz shows. |
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Google's success stems from its uncanny ability to sort useful web pages from dross. |
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I do rely on him because his technical expertise is superb and his ability to predict the future has been uncanny. |
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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. |
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She speaks with uncanny timing in the most doggone delicious accent, and sings with irresistible sorcery. |
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But there is a second condition necessary for the production of the uncanny in fiction, a condition less psychological than narratological. |
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The effectiveness of the female's spring camouflage is as uncanny as that of her white plumage in winter. |
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Her character's skill at disarming those around her is uncanny and belies her years. |
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His parents, amazed at their son's uncanny musical ability bought him a grand piano at age three. |
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Dyer's mystical demonism accounts for the ambivalent, exhilarating, and uncanny dimension of his architecture. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Like its conceptual cousin, the uncanny, it delimits the boundaries of certainties about identity and experience. |
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Closer scrutiny reveals their raw, uncanny ability to represent the complexity and fluidity of human identity. |
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It's another highlight, directing attention toward The Thermals' uncanny knack for conjuring downcast poptastic gems. |
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The real interest lies in Frank's uncanny use of contrasting instrumental colors to create a texture for the ear. |
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There is a tale about going for a walk with the wrong map, and finding uncanny concordances. |
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The boy possesses the uncanny ability to eat like an elephant and remain as skinny as a stick. |
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They had uncanny ability to know where each other was on the football ground at any time of the match. |
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For some uncanny reason, the moments at which you stumble are those when you are within reach of attaining some long-sought goal. |
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But long-running rumours are developing an uncanny knack of coming true at the moment. |
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The series has a reputation for an uncanny prescience when it comes to mirroring real-life events. |
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She smiled in satisfaction and walked with an uncanny felinity, calling out. |
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The uncanny valley also exists, I think, when it comes to viewing artistic renderings of a future paradise. |
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In all shapes, sizes and more than anything, in those indefinable vibrant shades, butterflies seem to carry an uncanny beauty about them. |
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Not a devastating puncher, the charismatic Baby Bull, more than makes up for it with uncanny speed of foot and hand. |
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Graham Greene has an uncanny knack for keeping his readers on the edge of their seats. |
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He had always had an uncanny knack for seeing things before they actually happened. |
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The combination of percussion and reeds, and the frenzied pace of some of the pieces, creates some uncanny parallels with Moroccan trance music. |
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Golden eye or yellowtail grunts, chubs or scads would move unhurriedly across, changing direction with uncanny synchronisation. |
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That said, some roboticists are striving to 'bridge the uncanny valley,' working on ever-more sophisticated humanoid faces. |
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There are no moments of physics-defying action or characters who reside in the uncanny valley. |
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Dance music, and especially house music, has an uncanny power to turn the most earnest honor student into a frenetic dance machine. |
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He is an incredibly able businessman who has an uncanny ability to tap into all possible sources of finance. |
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Well, the only thing is he is so extraordinarily responsive and sensitive to any move that I make that it's uncanny. |
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One of his more uncanny talents has been the ability to capture the zeitgeist before we even knew it was upon us. |
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He also had an uncanny feel for the weather and many times accurately predicted a day of storms, especially violent thunderstorms and tornadoes. |
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Jung's three definitions of synchronicity all involve an affective and psychic component, an uncanny sense of the meaningfulness of an event. |
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As a lightweight, he carried a pretty solid wallop to go along with his uncanny ring generalship. |
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His uncanny, unmistakable style crossed Cubist austerity with lush Surrealism. |
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Seven is not really a magic number, but does have an uncanny way of appearing in all sorts of odd situations. |
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Like both satire and the sentimental, the uncanny as a literary category has been the subject of significant theoretical work. |
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For example, first I would talk about synchronicity and uncanny coincidence and tell her little anecdotes about that from my life. |
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Jean was helping gun down the last of the troops, when through the fog, came the uncanny and belting sound of bagpipes. |
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With uncanny resemblance to his own political career, Napoleon ensured that the drift from left to right continued apace. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Yet despite the sinister ideological forces at work, an uncanny tenderness suffuses this poem. |
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The farmers have had to go through that same experience, it's uncanny how similar it is. |
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I'll miss your uncanny ability to find a new way to annoy the living bejeezus out of me every week. |
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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. |
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An uncanny silence descended on a school as pupils made a superhuman effort to clamp their lips tightly shut. |
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Sahni was most impressed with him regaling the passengers with an uncanny ability to hold them with improvised speeches. |
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However uncanny the resemblance is, this is not a slice of blueberry streusel cheesecake. |
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More mind writer than mind-reader, Barry boasts an uncanny ability to direct and misdirect the participants in his illusions. |
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He says their offstage relationship bears an uncanny similarity to their roles in the play. |
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And in the process instilled in us some uncanny, extremely unique, weird and peculiar inability and incapacity to fathom how this place works. |
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This holds such an uncanny familiarity, or unheimlich recognition, they could have been reading the Flea's diary. |
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However, the bird has uncanny precision when it comes to eating mixed birdseed. |
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Belinda is a handsome woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to John Cusack. |
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Killinaskully is essentially a showcase for Pat Shortt, a gifted clown with an uncanny flair for playing manic rural grotesques. |
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In the enlarged versions, one notices his eye for composition and design, as well as his uncanny ability to monumentalize his sitters. |
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His talent at piloting was uncanny and he had spent his time mooning about the docks, watching the skimmers. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Then, a long and limber girl with wide eyes and an uncanny resemblance to Rihanna grabs my hand and startles me by speaking. |
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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. |
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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. |
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She had an uncanny resemblance to someone I had seen before. |
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Archaeologists have an uncanny ability to ignore the discomforts and channel the time period and the people they're studying. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Her writing is marked by an utter lack of the extraneous, and bristles with a sense of the uncanny. |
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In an uncanny way, that describes the precise definition of the hipster, when the term first appeared in the American vocabulary. |
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Almost nothing has been touched since the fall of the USSR in 1991, providing an uncanny glimpse behind the iron curtain. |
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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. |
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You may have experienced that uncanny feeling of impending success. |
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And from the side, with the lips and ears elongated, the resemblance is uncanny. |
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It seems that games are beginning to reach the uncanny valley, because the dead eyes just made me feel uncomfortable. |
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With dexterous fingers, and uncanny two-facedness, he had secured my vote. |
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Burns' ability to describe managerial styles is uncanny to the modern eye. |
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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. |
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Today they read as uncanny reflections of our own unstable, uncertain age. |
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The similarity between the two smoky-voiced piano songstresses is uncanny. |
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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. |
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She did numerology and astrology and tarot with an uncanny instinct. |
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I have this uncanny ability to recognise some of the most obscure actors. |
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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. |
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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. |
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His rival's uncanny instinct outmatched his own methodical approach. |
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Everyone in Canada will now have the uncanny ability of the chameleon. |
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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. |
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There is something inherently uncanny about the medium of relief. |
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The Captain displays an uncanny ability to sweat and smoulder simultaneously, and boasts a command of German that goes above and beyond the conversational. |
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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. |
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Brooks continued his uncanny ability to convert third downs in the clutch. |
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He delights in tracing similarities of metaphor, suggestive accidents of fate, portentous parallels, uncanny coincidences, and unexpected connections. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Discipline and training replace education for all but the privileged as schools increasingly take on an uncanny resemblance to oversized police precincts. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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It's uncanny living in Beijing how it rains on the eve of major events. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The uncanny involves feelings of uncertainty, in particular regarding the reality of who one is and what is being experienced. |
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The other, dwarfed and prehensile, might in its uncanny silhouette have been an imp of darkness from the nether regions. |
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He had the uncanny ability to demolish his opponents with ease and make mincemeat out of them. |
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The uncanny three dimensional quality of the Great Hercules and Four disgracers are milestones of technical refinement. |
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Because the uncanny affects and haunts everything, it is in constant transformation and cannot be pinned down. |
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Issei Ogata's scarily endearing rendition of the emperor, his lips restively testing the air with carplike twitches, is beyond uncanny. |
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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. |
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Another had an uncanny ability to land paving jobs in Southern Nevada. |
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Now, in an uncanny case of life imitating art, actress Michelle Collins has fallen for a toyboy 22 years younger than herself. |
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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. |
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So in this case, the appearance is quite human like, but the familiarity is negative. This is the uncanny valley. |
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He has the uncanny ability of getting in and out of character within a split second. |
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Pre-teen Crispin lives on the streets with his dog Harley, who has an uncanny ability to guide Crispin out of danger. |
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Everything stirring, elusive, and uncanny about the form of photography itself, even before the superaddition of content. |
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Rusik held pride of place in the Stavropol region of Russia, blessed with the uncanny ability to sniff out hauls of endangered fish. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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In a contemporary art world where optimistic earnestness remains the kiss of death, this show's preternaturally cheerful tone felt positively uncanny. |
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