Sentence examples for uncanny one from inspiring English sources

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A weekend in which we thought through the events of our past life quite so conscientiously would be a strange and uncanny one indeed.

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Suffice it to say, Hinrich – steady and heady, but by no means a a lane-charging blur – can't be relied upon to regularly duplicate Rose's uncanny one-on-five heroics.

One wishes it seemed more bizarre or eerie or uncanny that one person would have encountered two different acts of gun violence.

It is uncanny how one brass instrument can seem to cancel, say, 12 cellos.

"Because it's in a city, it seems uncanny," said one.

(It is uncanny how one can predict good or bad intonation in a performance simply by hearing an orchestra tune to its preconcert A).

He is hinting at that uncanny sensation one can have as a child when something vividly alive and unfathomable, which defies description, is very much "happening".

It is an uncanny coincidence, one that I hope the new culture of "religious tourism", spearheaded by none other than the nation's president in his own person, may even come to recognise as a message from unseen forces.

Samsung hasn't quite figured out where it wants to play in the uncanny valley on this one.

While episodes aired before the film were praised for their "uncanny brilliance", ones aired after the film have been variously categorized as "kid-pandering attention-waster[s]", "tedious", "boring" and "dreck", a "depressing plateau of mediocrity", and "laugh-skimpy".

A slightly earlier series, presented together on one wall, depicts uncanny configurations of branches, stones or knotted ribbons as if they were isolated and suspended in free space.

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