In part, that is because conversations with machines have a robotic, unsettling quality.
"Lost" relies a little too heavily on shaky-cam effects and bang-on-a-can music for its unsettling quality — and shots of people suddenly running through the trees in terror after realizing that some unseen danger is nigh do stop being exciting after you've seen them twenty times.
Arching, leaning, straining, swelling, breathing: the over-all effect of the Parthenon's architectural subtleties is to give the building a special and slightly unsettling quality of being somehow alive.
Having gestured at the languour of romantic fulfilment and the discomfort and pain of its opposite, baffling images and sequences will unfold with the unsettling quality of a horror film.
Still, viewing it away from the feverish intensity of the Croisette, it boasts an unsettling, nightmarish quality that gets under your skin.
Games focused on humans, like sports titles, fare better than ever, but the players still have an unsettling robotic quality.
This precision gives the writing its proundly unsettling quality.
The ominous vivacity of music from Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King" rumbling between scenes signals the play's unsettling quality.
Awesome Show in particular has, at times, that same unsettling quality, though shot through with manic cable TV technicolour, Python-esque animation and purposely amateur editing.
That's as maybe, but one of its more impressive and yet unsettling qualities is that the diatribe was delivered in an American accent.
His art was compared by some critics to that of the German Expressionists, both for its obsessive and unsettling qualities and for its linking of artistic revolution and social revolution.
