Sentence examples for less uncanny from inspiring English sources

Rendered by later artists in ways more self-consciously surreal — or, sometimes, deliberately "poetic," not to say pathetic — the scenes from Alice become less uncanny.

Though clearly written well before the current conflict became reality, the parallels in these recollections - directives that come from Bush and Cheney, the peace marchers proclaiming no war for oil - are no less uncanny for being familiar.

As well as being a potential way to create the next tween stars, it's hoped they can use it to create animatronic models at their theme parks so they look more human, less uncanny valley.

But as someone who studied Mr. Mandela over the course of three years while he replaced an apartheid regime with a genuine democracy, I found Mr. Freeman's performance in the film "Invictus," directed by Clint Eastwood, uncanny — less an impersonation than an incarnation.

But on reflection, Ellen's opening monologue quip about how either Slave would win best picture or the voters are racist smacks less of edginess than of uncanny prediction.

Our results show that participants were experiencing lesser uncanny effects and less negative affect in cooperation with a simpler text chatbot than with the more complex, animated avatar chatbot.

"There is a very striking uncanny effect for faces" but less for nonmoving bodies, said Nancy Etcoff, an assistant clinical professor at Harvard Medical School.

The singers, Romy Croft and Oliver Sims, were slightly less interactive, though Sims still uses one uncanny stage move, dragging the toe of his shoe behind him as he pivots, as if trawling a river for a lost item.

It's less clear whether a reputation for silly and/or uncanny valley neural network effects will translate into lots of paying customers for rather more subtle selfie alterations.

He is uncanny on free kicks, so a less mobile Ronaldo does not mean a useless Ronaldo.

They are less about narrative and more about the power of the uncanny image — the symbol that reverberates but refuses to spill its secrets.