Sentence examples for uncanny happens 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.

It was just to make something beautiful and uncanny happen".

The kids are so obsessed with making their fantastic fiction that they don't see the uncanny things happening around them: dogs and people disappearing, and objects flying through the air.

It's uncanny how it happens between the ages of 29 and 33.

This is disturbing and uncanny, unless you happen to be a vampire or a ghost.

Eventually he consults a school psychologist, Candace Weld, who happens to bear an uncanny resemblance to his ex-girlfriend.

Children do endure in space and time, but they're always changing, and no camera is sensitive enough to record the uncanny speed at which this transformation happens.

The "uncanny valley" is a characteristic dip in emotional response that happens when we encounter an entity that is almost, but not quite, human.

As it happens, I was reading Science this week and there is a brief article that the uncanny valley effect may exist among lower primates and not just people.

As it happens, when Struth took his Düsseldorf pictures, he had not yet seen the Bechers' photographs — another example of the Zeitgeist's uncanny ways.

This effect, called "the uncanny valley" because of the dip in acceptance between clearly inhuman and clearly human forms, is well known, particularly to animators, but why it happens is a mystery.