Sentences with phrase «uncanny powers»

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.»

«In the region of the heart of all contingent beings dwells the Lord, twirling them hither and thither by his uncanny power (like puppets] mounted on a machine» (XVIII.

Anyone who said that in America there are no second acts didn't account for the uncanny power of biopics.

This great Elizabethean masterpiece comes alive in a rich cinematic version that proves the past 400 years have done nothing to dim its uncanny power to mirror the human condition.

In films like «Shotgun Stories,» William Friedkin's «Bug,» Sam Mendes» «Revolutionary Road» and Werner Herzog's «My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done,» Shannon has attracted the best directors with his uncanny power.

It is the film's visual style, acting, and mood that evoke its uncanny power.

Shannon is an actor of uncanny power.

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.

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.