The familiar settings capture people in uncanny situations, standing under a bridge naked when it's freezing out, or staring off into space at home in their underwear like slow-breathing statues.
The more uncanny the situation, the more sensibly it is described.
He could analyze a problem, company or situation with uncanny insight.
To some, the triumph offered an uncanny resemblance to the situation in 1995, when Mr. Chirac won the presidency and took over a powerful center-right parliamentary majority.
He could read a situation with uncanny sagacity; his editor for many years, Paul Webster, recalled him as "a rare combination of intellectual and foot-in-the-door hack.
Would it be a serious play or would it be a musical -- isn't it uncanny timing given the situation in Greece?
Glen Seator, a highly regarded sculptor who became known in the 1990's for work that replicated architectural situations with uncanny verisimilitude, died on Dec. 21 at his home in Brooklyn.
He had an uncanny way of manipulating situations and conversations to make me feel like the worst person in the world.
A whole series of portraits of celebrities bearing an uncanny resemblance to Winnie's situation were taken in the manner of surrealism, mostly in the late 1930s, by the British photographer Angus McBean.
Yet even with that caveat in mind, the present economic situation bears an uncanny resemblance to the 1992-93 recovery from the 1990-91 recession.
