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.
(A high point is his quiet, uncanny performance in Kelly Reichardt's 2006 film, Old Joy). Ohio River Boat Song, and much of what came directly after, was an impenetrable sort of historical study conducted by researchers with no clear accreditation.
If there is such a person as a "baby whisperer," it is the pediatrician Dr. Harvey Karp, whose uncanny ability to quiet crying babies became the best-selling book "The Happiest Baby on the Block".
There are also examples of quiet courage, and uncanny farsightedness.
In recreating the atmosphere at the Maze prison in Northern Ireland, where Irish Republican Army militants waged a series of protests against the British authorities in 1981, Steve McQueen, a Turner Prize-winning visual artist and first-time filmmaker, finds an almost uncanny balance of violence and quiet.
Paterson said that "while there was so much to admire in the work of everyone on the shortlist, in the end it was Richard Meier's quiet strangeness, the uncanny precision of his ear, and the tenderness and clarity of his address that made us want to read his poems again and again; and each time we returned to them we found there was more to discover, more to be moved by".
Uncanny reasoning takes the form of quiet observations where you'll pick out clues or evidence from characters or locations, while the detective's penchant for disguises offers a wardrobe of outfits required for certain cases.
Uncanny how reality presses against that precious quiet place of dreaming.
Ms. Liu is an actress of extraordinary subtlety whose quiet, bemused reactions to her interlocutors have an uncanny eloquence.
