Sentence examples for uncanny effect from inspiring English sources

It's an uncanny effect.

The book shares that uncanny effect with the best fiction.

THE UNCANNY EFFECT OF a piece as seemingly simple as "Shallow Brown" is difficult to describe.

The uncanny effect was distracting at first, like an animated waxwork.

Here's more from Andrew: The Very Near Future has a disturbing, uncanny effect.

(1993), a silver Citroën meticulously reduced to two-thirds of its original width, to uncanny effect.

Kodama is a Japanese artist who, like Brighetti, uses ferrofluids for their uncanny effects.

By August 22nd, 1945 a Japanese wire service reported that "because of the uncanny effects which the atomic bomb produces on the human body, even those who received minor burns, and looked quite healthy at first, weakened after a few days for some unknown reason".

Of course, children can and do feature centrally in horror movies - they are especially good at generating uncanny effects, since they are familiar yet strange -- but they are often only inhabited by evil spirits (e.g. The Exorcist, The Possession) and therefore still essentially innocent; the evil comes from outside, and the child needs to be rescued or otherwise freed from it.

This is well known in psychology as the "uncanny valley" effect.

His compositions also had another uncanny illusionistic effect: the colored lines seemed like the edges of transparent, glasslike planes.