Sentence examples for something uncanny occurs from inspiring English sources

Freud concludes that a sensation of something uncanny occurs in civilized people when they are suddenly surprised by a home truth they have repressed — a primal fear or desire.

The saga recounts the experiences of several people charged with investigating a stretch of coastal land where something uncanny has occurred.

To enter this landscape, humans have to do something uncanny.

There was something uncanny about that shouting.

But something uncanny and unhomely persists.

There is something uncanny about how the segments are joined together.

That's because there really is something uncanny about the literary afterlife.

Is there something uncanny about the theatre experience itself?

From the very beginning there was something uncanny about the cancer cells on Henrietta Lacks's cervix.

"There's something uncanny, even brilliant," about Mr. Douglas's impersonation of Liberace, Mike Hale wrote in The New York Times.

There's something uncanny, even brilliant, about Michael Douglas's impersonation of Liberace in Steven Soderbergh's biographical film "Behind the Candelabra".