Rushing along on the quicksilver surface of her stories are the casually invoked bright and shiny objects that help give them their uncanny air of the actual.
For anyone who lived through the 90s, the electronic dance music (EDM) explosion in America has an uncanny air of history-repeats about it.
She seems bland at first, but then you notice her fingernails are drawing blood where they touch her bare midriff, and she begins to exude the uncanny air of a spellbound sleeping beauty or a possibly dangerous wood nymph.
With its muted colors, matte surfaces and funky realism, the sculpture looks like the work of a zany hobbyist and has the uncanny air of a "Twilight Zone" episode.
While episodes aired before the film were praised for their "uncanny brilliance", those aired after the film have been called "kid-pandering attention-waster[s]", "tedious", "boring", "dreck", a "depressing plateau of mediocrity" and "laugh-skimpy".
While episodes aired before the film were praised for their "uncanny brilliance", ones aired after the film have been variously categorized as "kid-pandering attention-waster[s]", "tedious", "boring" and "dreck", a "depressing plateau of mediocrity", and "laugh-skimpy".
Alex McLeod is a Canadian 3D artist who uses digital tools to create hyper surreal landscapes, which will have an air of uncanny familiarity to anyone who's ever virtually set foot inside a video game.
Love for David Bowie was in the air, to an uncanny degree.
He stretched his neck, extended his nose straight into the air, and, with uncanny certainty, turned to look directly at us, apparently pinpointing our location by smell.
But all his movies, even the most apparently realistic, have about them an air of the uncanny, a touch of fairy tale unearthliness that sometimes extends to the very making of the film.
Recently, after rewatching the show, I was surprised to discover an uncanny coincidence: when the show aired, my mom was twenty-seven, single, and living in New York — just like I am today.
