Sentence examples for more uncanny than from inspiring English sources

It looked more uncanny than innocent.

"I found the original more uncanny than scary, and that's what we tried to emphasise more than any kind of shock tactics," says Strickland. "It's ambiguous whether it's a scientific anomaly the play is investigating or something supernatural".

Her contention that in the twentieth century human freaks came to seem more uncanny than machines may not entirely persuade, but the exotic particulars especially those pertaining to a group of circus midgets called the Doll Family more than make up for this inconsistency.

The results indicate that even fully and expertly animated characters are rated as more uncanny than humans and that, in virtual characters, a lack of facial expression in the upper parts of the face during speech exaggerates the uncanny by inhibiting effective communication of the perceived emotion, significantly so for fear, sadness, disgust, and surprise but not for anger and happiness.

A man elbowed me: "Funny, right?" It's a humorous way to reveal that sad truth: to men, there's nothing more uncanny than the female body, which might explain why they've tried to distill it into coded terminology for centuries.

Even more uncanny are the tissues.

But that sounds even more uncanny.

The more uncanny the situation, the more sensibly it is described.

A more uncanny symbol of the loneliness of death can scarcely be imagined.

They know very well that behind the veil of modesty power is felt to be all the more uncanny".

The parallels with the current escalation of the war in Afghanistan are more than uncanny; they speak of deeply rooted patterns.