Sentence examples for an uncanny scene from inspiring English sources

The conventional interpretation is to see the organ-grinder as a personification of death, leading the traveller to his grave, but here the song conjured up an uncanny scene of Schubert and Beckett meeting face to face, in the place where beauty and bleakness converge.

In a 2008 campaign to promote mass transit in New York City, white garbage bags were tied to street grates; when subway trains passed underneath, the bags inflated so as to create an uncanny scene of a mother bear and her cub walking down the street.

What he is saying is that he learned his consummate literary technique — how to wield metaphor and make simile sing, how to sew his songs with rhyme and spin a whole uncanny scene from a perfectly worded image — from the great vernacular tradition of American songwriting, a vast library stored not on shelves but in minds and chord-picking fingers.

She is assisted in her quest by Denny, a local girl who seems a little like a contrivance to advance the plot, although there is a genuinely uncanny scene where Yukiko forces Denny to engage in a form of Ouija, Kokkuri-San.

In those days, Technicolor never permitted the use of devices to cloud the film, and the lab was going to junk this uncanny scene until Powell intervened.

We are overwhelmed with anecdotes and uncanny scenes of habitat destruction.

Mr. Sternfeld came upon these uncanny scenes as he roamed the country with his 8-by-10 view camera.

Even though the story and the characters are in some ways familiar, Decker approaches them with a fierce and provocative sense of moment-to-moment discovery that makes the film bracing and exciting — not least in her free play with such subjective elements as dream sequences, one of which, set to music by Morton Feldman, is one of the most ecstatically uncanny scenes in the recent cinema.

A woman born and bred in the Northeast writes: Ever since Jimmy Carter's entry upon the national scene, I have been struggling with an uncanny sense of disorientation.

He also had an uncanny sense of quantity.

The key industries are the same, the fashions and the slang overlap, and the dining scene, to an uncanny degree, seems to follow the same script: all boom, no bust.