Sentences with phrase «often uncanny»

The makers get some major points for finding someone with a very similar voice to the department Mark Hamill as Joker though, it's often uncanny.

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The ambitious and imaginative structure of Hawkinson's sculpture offers an uncanny visual metaphor for Melville's epic tale, which is often considered the ultimate American novel.

Even if some of his comments now strike us as problematic and often embarrassingly patriarchal, he continues to have an uncanny way of relating to «the Other,» often surprising us with new insights.

Massey Knakal Realty Services chairman Robert Knakal noted in a 2011 op - ed that Spinola has an «uncanny ability to shepherd industry leaders, with often pronounced egos and disparate perspectives, to emerge with a unified voice.»

The traditional wedding cake topper often resembles a bride and groom, but what if the tiny figurines adorning the cake bore an uncanny resemblance to the actual newlyweds?

Zuk's third book, Sex on Six Legs: Lessons on Life, Love & Language From the Insect World, published in July, is a sweeping compendium of bizarre insects — overprotective earwig parents, sperm - scooping dragonflies, risk - averse wasps — whose complex behavior often bears an uncanny resemblance to our own.

The word charisma refers to a rare trait found in certain human personalities usually including extreme charm and a «magnetic» quality of personality or appearance along with innate and powerfully sophisticated personal communicability and persuasiveness; in short, charisma is often used to describe a seemingly uncanny ability to charm or influence people.

Even the most sophisticated computer - generated actors still seem slightly unsettling — often attributed to the «uncanny valley» phenomenon, in which unfamiliar imperfections in an otherwise super-realistic caricature unnerve the viewer.

Well, they often call me Jagat Button... as in Benjamin Button because my real life experience of de-aging is starting to get uncanny as my chronology continues to tick off the years.

A baby born on a stationary planetary day, retrograde or direct, is often seen to display an uncanny ability in one or more of the areas ruled by that planet.

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Her uncanny intuition, dogged determination, and gift for persuasion have helped her convert allies, thwart plots, and take out terrorists, often using controversial methods that are uniquely her own.

«The narrative of Linklater's flawed film, despite its flashy rotoscoping style, is overshadowed by the director's uncanny ability to write dialogue that breathes with so much life that it often transcends the images on the screen and almost leads the viewer to believe he can reach out and touch the words coming out of the characters» mouths.»

In films such as «Inside Llewyn Davis» and «A Most Violent Year,» Oscar Isaac, the man with two first names, has shown an uncanny knack for playing quietly intense, often unlikable characters that nonetheless have an undeniable magnetism.

They often have an uncanny ability to sense feelings, intentions and motivations.

Unfortunately in life, your past mistakes often have the uncanny tendency to haunt you, long after you made them.

Since there is no record left of the transactions, the debtors can often be left at the mercies of relentless junk debt collections agents who cant testify with uncanny assurances that you still owe the debt, and they can do it often.

If you watched My Cat From Hell, you've seen Jackson Galaxy demonstrate his almost uncanny ability to connect with troubled cats and their often equally, if not more, troubled humans, again and again.

The truth is, nobody knows for sure where this small spaniel with the waterproof coat and keen nose came from, but by 1870, the American Brown Water Spaniel, as he was often called, was established in the Midwest as a versatile hunter that could find, flush, and retrieve birds with uncanny ability.

These long - bodied dogs are often referred to as «wiener dogs» due to their uncanny resemblance to everyone's favorite game day snack.

Goldendoodles are outgoing, social dogs and often have an uncanny ability to communicate with their people.

Regardless of their size, cats racing down the hall (often in mad pursuit of something that only they can see) have the uncanny ability to sound like a herd of rampaging elephants.

Quite often a Rhodesian Ridgeback will manifest what may be termed a sixth sense, a sort of uncanny inner discernment relative to people and places.

It's been rather uncanny over the years, to note how often the space left by absent resident orcas is filled by transient orcas, who somehow manage to show up and save a thin whale watching day.

And you'll find that the staff has an uncanny ability to accommodate your needs, often before you even realize you have them.

The portraits on the wall take the player down the uncanny valley, unnerving and often depicting a certain Victorian exigency.

One problem with random levels has been that often the levels are broken or are not challenging, but the generator within this game is uncanny in knowing what to place and where to make something feel both impossible and completely doable with just the right move made by the player.

Freud's early painting reflects his love of drawing in its meticulously observed, claustrophobic detail and unswerving realism, often overlain with an uncanny atmosphere.

Rubin led the way with his uncanny ability to make often esoteric subject matter accessible and meaningful to those willing to show up for his frequent and popular talks.

Whereas in photography, as in the ongoing series Making Do and Getting By, Wentworth documents the everyday, paying attention to objects, occasional and involuntary geometries as well as uncanny situations that often go unnoticed.

Over the course of his thirty - year career, Williams (b. 1956) has crafted photographs that engage — often through uncanny mimicry — the conventions of photojournalism, picture archives, and commercial imagery, as well as their sociopolitical contexts and implications.

«The piece had an uncanny presence of being,» artist Jeff Wall remembers about the sculpture, «It's not something you see often.

When thinking about your work, the «cabinet of curiosities» and the «uncanny» often come to mind.

Populated by strange or uncanny figures — often children in masks and costumes — her works are odes to the off - kilter.

Primarily focused on female portraiture, Button's treatment of the subject often incorporates multiple angles at once, suggesting an uncanny paradox of femininity.

His work is often about literature, music or selected works from art history, including Mozart's Requiem, Bach's Cello Suites, Philip Glass» Contrary Motion, the Quran, Sigmund Freud's The Uncanny, William Turner or Caravaggio.

Although different in their approach to style and themes they explore, the selected artists share their interest in the surreal, magical, and often slightly menacing and uncanny themes.

Yet are also — often indefinably — uncanny.

If you follow Pruitt on Instagram, then you're often privy to the artist's uncanny pairings of artists and their celebrity look - alikes — from John Baldessari matched with Papa Smurf to Emmanuel Perrotin and his doppelganger Serge Gainsbourg.

Surrealists, whose artwork was often outlandish, perplexing, and uncanny, mingled with American artists who had matured during a time of cultural isolation and economic suffering in the United States.

His layering and juxtaposition of disparate images and objects combined with a distortion of scale often lend his exhibitions the character of an uncanny illusion.

The artist's ability to convey subtle and uncanny effects through the presentation of seemingly simple objects has often led critics to compare his work to that of Surrealist - inspired artists such as Joseph Cornell.

In true California style, Matt Rogers» paintings engage both landscape and Pop art, often creating an uncanny synergy between the two.

The result is an uncanny object, a face reminiscent of ones often seen behind the glass of museum vitrines, yet utterly new.

Similarly, Frances Goodman has explored the desires, compulsions, insecurities, and obsessions hidden in our use of language, saying that «After working with a number of media I eventually found that words and language had the uncanny ability to unnerve and get under people's skins, in a way that visual images and modes could not... sometimes [words] are simple and clear, and yet they are often full of innuendoes and subtexts».

But here this structure is often reversed, with pale, transparent colors sitting on top of solid dark ones, and aura - like washes creating an uncanny sense of depth through the layering of luminosity.

Cole is known for his inventive transformations of found materials into uncanny sculptures that depict everything from domestic objects and animals to African artifacts and ante-bellum imagery, often rendered with humor and / or political references.

Though he likes to describe himself as an anachronism, Hannah's poignant, often elegiac and uncanny work has been, for decades, an important herald of successive waves of figurative painters.

Rosenblit's works lean toward the uncanny and maintenance of care, often incorporating text while the process focuses on an improvisational approach to choreographic thought, locating ways of being together amidst impossible spaces.

Oppermann's systematic and rule - based process is matched by her impulsive and intuitive approach, resulting in uncanny, often unsettling decisions that set up compelling tensions within the work.