Sentences with phrase «uncanny power of»

This is not an idiosyncratic condition, Watkins wants us to know, invoking (via James Baldwin) the malign, uncanny power of «the little white man deep inside of all of us.»

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Thus the two basic axes of interaction analysis are the resistance / warmth pole and the power / acquiescence pole.18 Gregory had an uncanny intuitive sense of how interactions work along these two axes, even though the empirical research on them came fourteen centuries later.

This theme is more than touched upon in A.I. Artificial Intelligence, which I also regard to have an almost uncanny level of predictive power.

But even if you aren't a collector, you'll want the 2017 Chevy SS for its uncanny blend of sophisticated styling, excellent driving manners and tire - smoking power.

What we liked: >> Evoque big - brother styling >> Uncanny, unrivalled blend of on and offroad ability >> V8's soundtrack and power Not so much: >> Base model is, well, basic >> Seven seats means no spare tyre >> Air suspension creaks and groans

By selective breeding, this dog can have great scenting power, be an open trailer with good voice, and retain the great uncanny ability of the Old Brindle Cur dog to tree all kinds of game.

They are bred from Cur dogs with a focus to have great scenting power, be an open trailer with good voice, and retain the uncanny ability to tree all kinds of game.

It's a bit of a shame really as the varied powers of the Uncanny boys and girls should, on paper, be pretty damn good for a game.

Armed with your mighty hookshot, your uncanny slow - motion powers and your trusty blasma pistol, plunder and fight your way through an infinite variety of randomly - assembled spaceships for treasure, loot and fame!

It's not just a costume swap, either; Uncanny X-Force Deadpool brings a whole different set of powers to Marvel Puzzle Quest from his earlier version.

In 2010 art historian Jean - Pierre Criqui wrote about Fritsch's depictions of animals: «The way the artist uses them, but also the situations in which she places them, gives them ambiguous powers at the intersection of several tendencies: humanity's ancestral fears and superstitions, as expressed, for example, in tales and legends; the intensities of totemic thought and of its images; and the uncanny and Freudian dream study.»

Along with an uncanny skill at his craft, he has a keen eye for a subject and a sure power of expression.

The result is an uncanny collision of manmade and natural views, and a Sublime reminder of the slow power of nature to erode, overwhelm and erase its own features (and civilisations» with it) over time.

But the real power of this show and the works that best reveal his uncanny ability to capture the most ephemeral and complex of natural phenomena resides with his seascapes.

Ruscha probes the visual and emotive power of words in Pews, a 1970 screenprint made with unorthodox materials such as chocolate syrup and red salmon roe, as well as in a new series, Rusty Signs, in which in the artist's words «neglected and forgotten signs from neglected and forgotten landscapes» are reproduced in uncanny detail that blurs the line between the fictitious and the real.

The uncanny union of body and furniture speaks to the social power of domestic spaces, the power to, quite literally, shape the people we become.

Then he cudgels you with the uncanny power and presence of his 1966 Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne, a painting that somehow reveals its subject's beauty by tearing her face to shreds and reassembling it like a drunk putting a broken ornament back together.

The Heart Is Not A Metaphor, a retrospective of work by Robert Gober at MoMA, and Suspension, the small but captivating survey of hanging sculpture made by Louise Bourgeois at the Cheim & Read Gallery, both derive their power in large part from the near century - old Surrealist project of culling and mediating the Uncanny.

These greenhouse interiors stir an uncanny sense of wonder, at once reiterating the fragility of life and the formidable power of nature.

The power and scale of its sound beggars belief considering how attractive and compact the system is, while the sense of height in the audio mix is uncanny.

Her powers of observation are uncanny and she can cut to the heart of a complex issue in moments.

Busting unemployment is easy if your cover letter has an uncanny power to penetrate not just into the three feet high stack of cover letters from other contenders, but into the hearts and minds of the employers.

The power of a cover letter for sales girl position is uncanny — this document says much about the person who has written it.