While spectralist music would hardly serve as the soundtrack to a yoga session, it does have the capacity to generate a state of eerie calm.
Six Flags in New Orleans, which has also been a filming destination for the likes of Killer Joe and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, was closed shortly before the hurricane hit and has been in a state of eerie disrepair since.
The facetious air quotes in the town motto might explain the appeal -- "Marathon, Texas: Where There's 'Nothing To Do.'" Jumpstarted in the late 1990s by J.P. Bryan, a multimillionaire set on reviving the gateway to the state's eerie national parks, the town owes much of its energy to Bryan's baby, the historic Gage Hotel.
Through their slogans, Benelux's lenders gave an eerie premonition of the massive state rescues to come.
— NATHANIEL POPPER Markets are in a state of almost eerie calm as investors await the Federal Reserve statement.
But ten years later, in the fall of 2008, when the worldwide economic crisis began affecting Russia, there was an eerie calm, as though the state of the national currency were an abstraction.
Independence Day, as observed here today in the unhappy summer capital of India's unhappiest state, was an eerie kind of national holiday, with almost everyone staying indoors, partly out of fear for their lives.
It is this extraordinary time that Stephen Frears' hugely enjoyable film revisits, aided by a cracking impersonation of the Queen by Helen Mirren who, though appreciably taller and younger than our head of state, achieves an eerie transformation with the aid of hairpiece, glasses, frumpier-than-thou couture and brilliant mimicry of the Queen's walk.
The 25th anniversary of the massacre at Tiananmen Square on June 4th passed with an eerie (if anticipated) silence from state-run media, as censors patrolled social channels.
"And a little child shall lead them… " The BBFC's classification information states that this eerie 1955 classic is rated 12A for "theme of threat to children", a wonderfully quaint phrase which deliciously undersells the brooding evil which pervades Charles Laughton's brilliant directorial venture – his first and only.
