Sentence examples for uncanny place from inspiring English sources

Some say this story dates back to Seicho Matsumoto's 1960 novel, Black Sea of Trees, but superstitions about this uncanny place seem to predate it.

In spite of the strip of blue sky above, Ludchurch is a dank uncanny place of slippery rock with little vegetation but liverworts and ferns and sparse tufts of aira grass, and we were glad to emerge from it on to the moors where the sun was shining and red grouse were calling.

A "swamp," Mr. Bradley wrote later, "suggests mysterious and uncanny places, half lights, and weird creatures in noiseless activities, bent upon the fulfillment of their varied destinies.

Jackson is fascinated by the uncanny places where like and unlike things meet: words and various media, like skin, page and screen; bodies and body parts; real girls and fake ones; philosophy and fiction.

"It takes a certain kind of person to do something like this," Ms. Dahlie, 28, said, pointing out Mr. Casabian's uncanny ability to "fall asleep in weird places" and his admirable houseguest etiquette.

My friend Sam has several of the best stories I've ever heard, garnered over the years by virtue of his outgoing nature and an uncanny right-place-at-the-right-timiness.

Mr. Roth has an uncanny ability to place his protagonists in the cross hairs of history to see what they will make of their fates.

Furst's uncanny gift for place and period lift his city, and its dubious cast of characters, well above the espionage norm.

To make sure Will isn't struggling with the psychological strain of his task, which involves an uncanny gift to place himself in the mind of a murderer, the FBI assigns him a psychiatrist, Dr Lecter.

The Uncanny Valley takes place 24 years after the finale of Perturbator's previous album, Dangerous Days.

Zombies and humanoid robots all live in the "uncanny valley," a place where we experience a dramatic dip in our comfort levels.