Sentence examples for for the uncanny from inspiring English sources

A knack for the uncanny is.

Two factors account for the uncanny quality of the 65th Street plan.

Isn't it time the director, who clearly has an eye for the uncanny, broadened his horizons?

That augurs well, but it still doesn't prepare you for the uncanny lure of "What We Do in the Shadows".

As for the uncanny resemblance between Polanski and Amalric, the French star quipped: "My mother's coming to see the film tonight.

In the reign of Harad IV there lived at court a maker of miniatures, who was celebrated for the uncanny perfection of his work.

Either way, the debate has not yet been won – although perhaps the most compelling evidence for the existence of the uncanny valley has just been published.

The processes of perceptual learning/differentiation and narrowing as well as the failure of normal expectations linked to the mother's face may underlie the foundation for the emergence of the uncanny valley between the face of the mother and the face of a stranger.

We watch expectantly as the artist searches for the appropriate form of the uncanny, waiting to see if our world becomes strange as a result of having this particular stranger, Jesus, introduced into it.

"My artistic approach to contemporary art is to create the ambivalent feeling of the uncanny ("Das Unheimlich," for Freud).

This paper concludes by introducing a set of design principles for bridging the uncanny valley.