Sentence examples for uncanny mood from inspiring English sources

It also at times has the quiet, uncanny mood of a horror movie, albeit one whose monsters are invisible, living inside the souls they menace.

The entry conjures a dreamy, uncanny mood – after passing through a diaphanous curtain, you see dresses from between 1805 and 1855 looming spectrally in separate glass cases.

With its uncanny mood and inquisitive tone, its behavioral idiosyncrasies and its geographical grandeur, "Pow Wow" suggests the profound divisions that deform and derange present-day life.

Film historian Richard Peterson notes that "German cinema became famous for stories of psychological horror and for uncanny moods generated through lighting, set design and camera angles".

What feels initially like a device to enhance the uncanny, suffocating mood solidifies as you sense an actual presence in the book: "But Maddie was with me.

With uncanny foresight, the mood for next summer's clothes turned out to be one that is overwhelmingly appealing right now: rustic, pretty, sweetly innocent.

Blair has annoyed his party before and got away with it because of his clever, almost uncanny ability to judge the mood of the nation.

Iemma said Wran had a "towering intellect", an uncanny ability to pick the mood of the electorate, and was in touch with ordinary people, from the bush to the city.