Sentence examples for uncanny movement from inspiring English sources

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The picture glories in the sense of uncanny movement, of Venus gliding out of the distance, as pink flowers float down, their slow descent implying that around Venus the air itself has warmed and stilled – as Lucretius has it, "the sky is calmed".

We met up in a noisy London pub to discuss the uncanny movement of his animations, giant LED screens, and 19th century biologists.

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It is one of many unforgettable reworkings in this reprisal of the marvellous performance Rylance gave at the Globe 10 years ago, with a doll's white, impassive face, a creamy, high-pitched voice and uncanny gliding movement, as if he were an office chair.

"Really, truly, anyone who has ever observed a successful automaton, seen its uncanny lifelike movements, confronted its mechanical eyes, any human animal remembers that particular fear, that confusion about what is alive and what cannot be born," Catherine observes.

Certainly Wondolowski's movement and uncanny ability to find space in the six-yard box makes him a useful option to throw on late in games against tired defences.

And the wonders of the performance continue: the melancholic intimacy of the slow movement; the uncanny clarity of the crackling opening to the finale, which subsides so naturally to make way for the favorite theme of every Rachmaninoff lover, played with unmannered elegance.

OpenEndedGroup has a work-in-progress entitled 1237 Stabs at Blade Runner, which is generated by a precise analysis and uncanny simulation of the movement found in every shot of that famous science fiction film.

The current US ambassador, Michael McFaul, has complained that pro-government television crews have displayed an uncanny knowledge of his movements, suggesting they are able to monitor his phone calls and email correspondence.

The movie has three sets of talking pigeons, each group embodying a regional stereotype, and while I found the dese-dem-dose New York birds amusing, and their aspiring-screenwriter Los Angeles counterparts downright hilarious, it was the uncanny bobbing and twisting movements of the birds' heads and the shuffle of their little pigeon feet that raised the conceit from clever to sublime.

The time-lapsed nature of the footage gives his videos an unreal, uncanny sensation, the jerky movements creating an otherworldly feel.

There were maneuvers that seemed uncanny and almost balletic in movement and balance.

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