Sentence examples for uncanny atmosphere from inspiring English sources

The isolation that defines Bergman is part of what animates the uncanny atmosphere in his work and activates his unconscious.

Ghosts, set to an edgy score by CF Kip Winger, and eerily lit by Mary Louise Geiger, has the uncanny atmosphere of a Paul Delvaux painting.

I wanted to create an uncanny atmosphere in which the past and the near future co-exist in the present of every sunny day.

It's a book that is, after all, subtitled Ghost Stories; more particularly, its pages summon up a persistently uncanny atmosphere that is impossible to pin down, remaining purposefully, lingeringly opaque.

Every darkened corridor, dimly lit by flickering strip lights, every gothic chamber, dressed with stuffed animals and ancient libraries, every metallic laboratory, crammed with bizarre scientific equipment, is drenched in uncanny atmosphere.

9 30 p.m. 9. BLAST FROM THE PAST For drinks and music in an uncanny atmosphere of the German Democratic Republic, head to Ost-pol (Königsbrücker Strasse 47; ost-pol.de), where the year is 1968, the color scheme is yellow and orange, and the beers listed above an ancient Robotron computer all come from former Communist bloc countries.

Banville is not an easy writer, although Shroud certainly demonstrates his ability to generate extreme tension and utterly uncanny atmospheres; it also situates him firmly within a great European tradition.

You don't need to be aware of them to feel the uncanny, haunting atmosphere.

Forgoing digital effects, or any presence of the supernatural, "The Red Riding Trilogy" nevertheless achieves a terrific sense of the uncanny, an atmosphere so spooked and suggestive that it becomes oddly attractive, like an enchanted forest in a children's story.

Most of these small works are constructed with shapes cut from, and applied to, papers that have been so densely covered with varied layers of nuanced, ethereal watercolor that the surface can seem like skin in some instances or like an uncanny, luminous atmosphere in others.

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (Picador) was the bookmakers' favourite in the run-up to the prize, and although it divided critics, I thought the wretched protagonist, Jude St Francis, and his self-inflicted agonies beautifully rendered, the novel's uncanny allegorical atmosphere unlike anything I've read before.