In fact, the handful of new songs they play today indicate a band not so much on their toes as perfectly relaxed with where they are, although when Will says that "it's nice to go back to using actual instruments and not rely on screechy synthetic sounds", a feeling of despondency and aimlessness washes over me.
The interior is a cheap-feeling synthetic, however — it'll work, but you won't feel like royalty using it.
David Hemmings is Antonioni's frenetic British photographer in a picture, Bosley Crowther wrote in The Times, with "something real to say about the matter of personal involvement and emotional commitment in a jazzed-up, media-hooked-in world so cluttered with synthetic stimulations that natural feelings are overwhelmed".
"Synthetic medication shuts down feelings and emotions, whereas plant-based psilocybin reconnects parts of the brain that have not been communicating, thus helping to heal you".
The production, like all the holiday-themed shows clogging New York theaters, has some funny moments, a couple of decent musical numbers and a lot of generic-feeling songs and synthetic sentiment.
In fact, you could argue that there's no shame in feeling sexually aroused by synthetic plastics.
It is hypothesized that this uncanny feeling occurs because the realistic synthetic characters elicit the concept of 'human' but fail to satisfy it.
Grauerholz's introduction and notes are a fine mixture of fact and feeling, and make "Last Words" a synthetic whole.
Set in the New York of today and of 1882, the show brings to mind not so much a quaint period music box as a synthetic latter-day reproduction, the kind that plays "Feelings" as if it were "After the Ball".
Redmayne's performance also shows how the famous electronic voice box liberated him – and how that synthetic voice, with its sing-song robotic tone, enigmatically conceals what he is really thinking and feeling.
This conflict-induced uncanny valley between mutually exclusive categories (human and synthetic agent) raises a new question: could an uncanny feeling be elicited by other mutually exclusive categories, such as familiarity and novelty?
