Sentences with phrase «achieves uncanny»

Set still and partially out of view, the participant's body achieves uncanny abstraction, presence, and suspense.

As a result, they figure out what must be done in order to achieve uncanny monetary improvements.

PORTLAND, OREGON — The tiny anemone shrimp (Ancylomenes pedersoni) has nearly perfected the art of invisibility: Despite having the organs, blood, and other body fluids that make most of us opaque, they have achieved an uncanny, superherolike translucence (above).

«First Reformed,» with its evident debt to Dreyer and Bresson (most obviously «Diary of a Country Priest»), might seem to follow in this vein, but it works through its influences to achieve an uncanny directness.

Not exact matches

But it is doubtful whether Africa's oldest nation will be as successful in achieving them without Meles Zenawi and his outstanding intelligence, shrewd political skills and uncanny ability to navigate different worlds without much difficulty.

But reaching the other side of the uncanny valley — achieving such realism that people react to robots as they do to humans — would have significant benefits, says Campbell.

This could be exactly the sort of thing David Cage and co have tried to achieve with their interactive storytelling games, but it doesn't look like we're quite out of the uncanny valley just yet.

In perhaps the show's most inventive twist on medium, Sasha Pierce essentially disguises thinly extruded paint as thread, weaving it into a geometric tapestry so as to simulate textile with an eerie verisimilitude as uncanny as that achieved by Wayne.

Alejandro Almanza Pereda's still lifes are governed by a singular, uncanny logic — they exceed human vanity to achieve a buoyant life for objects.

«Maurice Strong has demonstrated an uncanny ability to manipulate people, institutions, governments, and events to achieve the outcome he desires.»