Sentence examples for uncanny mix from inspiring English sources

Abramović tells us that "communism mixed with mysticism" was very much part of her DNA – an uncanny mix we can also see in the films of Andrei Tarkovsky, and in the theatre of the Polish director Tadeusz Kantor.

The result is an uncanny mix of new and old, authenticity and artifice.

It doesn't invalidate the idea of a live-action performance, such as Trevor Nunn memorably created in 2012, but it allows us to savour Beckett's uncanny mix of words, silence and orchestrated sound.

A pungent, minor-mode choral ensemble when poor Juan and his draft-age countrymen are sent off to war recalls Weill's music for the German theater, with its uncanny mix of modern opera and black cabaret.

Philippe Garrel is a filmmaker I have grown increasingly fond of over the last handful of years; his recent autumnal examinations of the tribulations between men and women are an uncanny mix of the hopefully romantic with tinges of hard-learned wisdom.

Mike McGuirk of Rhapsody described the album as "a real joy for anyone who has a taste for Gwen Stefani's yearning vocals and her band's uncanny ability to mix ska, teen pop and hip-hop".

The spookiness of Hoffmann's original short story is infused with Freud's theories on the uncanny, as Douglas mixes mundane scenes with the atmospheric suspense of film-noir thrillers.

Mickey, the protagonist of Sendak's second part of the trilogy, his 1970 book In The Night Kitchen, falls through the dark, through solid floors, down into the night kitchen where giant bakers, who all look exactly like Oliver Hardy - an uncanny monstrous touch - mix him into a bowl of batter before he escapes and moulds an airplane out of dough.