Sentences with phrase «uncanny feel for»

Ruff has an uncanny feel for the look of the ordinary — in people, places, and objects.

Even though the people of Bone Gap are suspicious of outsiders, they were quickly taken by the beautiful Polish girl with an uncanny feel for dirt and plants and livestock, but none so much as Finn's brother, Sean, who seems to lose a piece of himself when she disappears.

Synopsis: Amman Abbasi's remarkable debut feature is a lyrical slice of Southern life, with an uncanny feeling for the rhythms of rural existence.

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T. Berry Brazelton's great empathy for the universal concerns of parenthood, and honesty about the complex feelings it engenders, as well as his uncanny insight into the predictable leaps and regressions of early childhood, have comforted and supported families since its publication in 1992.

If he continues the procedure for about 20 or 30 seconds, something quite spooky will happen: you will have an uncanny feeling that you are actually being stroked on the fake hand.

Joe Kloc misses a possible explanation for the uncanny valley — the feeling of unease when seeing a robot with a strong human likeness (12 January, p 35).

Joe Kloc misses a possible explanation for the uncanny valley — the feeling of unease when seeing a robot with...

The only personal touch would seem to be Green's goofy sanctimoniousness and lyrical feel for derelict rural landscapes, although it's a bit uncanny that his first movie, the 2000 indie production George Washington, would have as its hero a silent, self - contained black kid with a justified sense of destiny, nicknamed for the first president of the United States and thus a corrective of sorts for Rufus Jones.

Blume's books for children and teenagers work so well because she had an uncanny ability to tap into what it felt like to be a young person, even in her 40s, and Gerwig can do that, too.

His talent for channeling his father is uncanny, and watching him drop diss track «No Vaseline» on his ex-running mates is liable to make viewers feel like they're actually in the room watching the controversial track being minted.

Uncanny believes there's still plenty of room in the genre for tales that make you feel.

This manifested itself in an uncanny knack for making his guests feel comfortable and secure.

While, over the last year, working toward this exhibition my dialogue with each artist has been autonomous and distinct, and my intention for the exhibition was as much to create a context to highlight each artist's independent vision, I have also come to confirm my intuitive feeling that Will and Pope.L have uncanny overlaps.

A reading of entries from an online support site for parents who feel an uncanny and unspeakable sense of a child being missing finds a woman describing a perception of ghostliness - an ineffable, simultaneous presence and absence of a child.

For the artist, the uncanny results suggested «the feeling of being not quite of this world.»