Sentence examples for there something uncanny from inspiring English sources

When the wind stirs/ And storms, waves splash toward the sky,/ As dark as the air, as black as the rain/ That the heavens weep.' Raffel is certainly vivid, but compare Heaney: ' At night there, something uncanny happens:/ the water burns.

Is there something uncanny about the theatre experience itself?

I wasn't alone in thinking that there was something uncanny about the performance: we saw Abbado there, conducting brilliantly, but another force had taken hold.

There was something uncanny about that shouting.

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

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.

Yet there was something uncanny and rather elegant about the timing of the events.

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

There is something uncanny about such assertions; they are much more difficult to justify.

Indeed, there is something uncanny about the way Lego can mirror our real cities.