I guess you'd call it psychogeography (emphasis on the word "psycho"), though this doesn't begin to capture its intense interest, its uncanny spookiness, the way it ensnares you, turning your stomach, messing with your head.
"I was always interested in the uncanny, looking to find a sense of beauty and wonder in everyday life," says Crewdson.
They have an uncanny ability to gauge the interests of people, of human nature.
Lindqvist passes over Oskar's family background — which is to say, his psychology — just as rapidly, as if afraid that too much explication would undermine his interest in depicting the uncanny, which interests Oskar as well.
Lindqvist passes over Oskar's family background which is to say, his psychology—just as rapidly, as if afraid that too much explication would undermine his interest in depicting the uncanny, which interests Oskar as well.
Wieseltier said that so far, his connection with the new boss had been "a little uncanny," and added, "He has no interest in blogging, which, I have to say, sounded like Mozart to me".
In retrospect, her interest in deformed feet seems uncanny.
With his uncanny ability to persuade and to ignite interest in his ideas, he challenged and stimulated everyone around him through his keen scientific vision and unparalleled intellectual depth and rigor.
He made important contributions to the study of gothic and the uncanny, and caught a rising tide of academic interest in popular culture and the movies.
What we witness as Silent Partners unfolds in the dawn of a historical interest in the realm of the uncanny.
