Sentences with phrase «uncanny sense»

By these means, he creates a dazzling and uncanny sense of architectural space that comments on the world of advertising and consumer culture as well as the history of perspective and spectacle.

Or, indeed, the quite uncanny sense of isolation from the outside world you get in the flagship Roller.

This ability is due to the canine's uncanny sense of smell.

She brought in a small team of people with strong ties to the Los Angeles food community who seemed to have an uncanny sense what Los Angeles diners wanted in their restaurants.

Not only could he do things better than anyone else; he had an uncanny sense of anticipation and was always at the right place at the right time.

The most frequent visitors are the «trustee», described as dependable and a «guardian of timehonoured institutions», and the «journalist», who sees life as an exciting drama with an «uncanny sense of the motivations of others».

There's no denying the skill and flair with which director Paul Greengrass has restaged this unhappy event, creating an uncanny sense of immediacy and allowing us to be a fly on the wall at a seminal»70s tragedy.

She gets help from an inexperienced botanist with an uncanny sense of smell.

Perfume views its main character, Jean - Baptiste Grenouille (Ben Whishaw)-- a poor, orphaned pariah with an uncanny sense of smell who becomes both an expert parfumeur and a serial killer — with scientific fascination.

Told with an uncanny sense of humor and a lot of heart, «I Love You Phillip Morris» is an oddball tale of what can happen when the legal system, a daredevil spirit and undying love collide.

Brolin does good work here, showing us how experience and intuition give Marsh an uncanny sense of their volatility, the way they can (sometimes) be contained and managed.

Helmer Chad Hartigan's second feature (after «Luke and Brie Are on a First Date») is Americana of a very immediate sort, a tale of redemption that may leave its viewers with an uncanny sense of peace.

Already, with his first feature, Saturo displays an uncanny sense for finding just the right place for his camera, and a knack for bringing out the unexpected in every scene, as he follows a lonely high - school student's mysterious, quixotic search for the identity of a homeless man who's apparently been killed by young street thugs.

Alfonso Cuaron (Y tu mamá también) had directed last year's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban with an unusual, uncanny sense of darkness, weather and just a hint of madness.

MILFORD, Ohio — Scott Mueller seemed to have an uncanny sense about what his students should study to prepare for upcoming state skills tests.

The first is racing a Peugeot 908 in torrential rain at Le Mans and having the uncanny sense that - thanks to the 3D glasses and screen - I could reach out and touch the raindrops falling on the track.

This gives you an uncanny sense of total control.

The wonderful music, the spinning lights, all O'Neil's friends there (for more have arrived; he seems to know everyone); she has the uncanny sense of stepping into his life, and all the promise it contains....

- The Independent (UK) «A taut, nervy, confident thriller for the surveillance age from a writer with an uncanny sense of the anxieties and fears that define the modern condition.»

Faithful, playful, docile, protective of their family members, and good with children, Collies have an uncanny sense of direction.

What they say is true: Bloodhounds have an uncanny sense of smell.

They seem to have an uncanny sense of what prey might be able to fight back.

With his uncanny sense for predicting animal behaviour, he led us on the thrilling game drives that brought us up close and personal to the «Big 5.»

This add an uncanny sense of realism, and just like a real cellphone, it texts, takes pictures, has a GPS, and a contacts database.

Its multifaceted surface creates an uncanny sense of limitlessness through the viewer's fractured reflections on its surface.

This reinforces an uncanny sense that we share a space with her subjects; it also establishes an equivalence between viewer and subject.

In coupling real with illusory space, the work evokes the uncanny sense of inhabiting two places at once, without being fully present in either.

With a pair of glasses left on a desk in one of the rooms, there's an uncanny sense of trespassing — that the apartment's inhabitant might return to their private space at any moment.

Taking in Sara MacCulloch's landscapes can evoke an uncanny sense of familiarity.

The crisp colors give his prints an uncanny sense of reality.

With an uncanny sense of composition, timing, and point of view, Griffiths photographed coal miners in Wales, the Beatles in Liverpool, and anti-war protests on the streets of London.

But no matter the medium, the pieces in Indira Cesarine's «Only You» exhibition share an uncanny sense of being stripped down of everything inconsequential, leaving nothing to remain but emotion in its rawest form.

But an uncanny sense of witnessing — of confronting a moment poised on the verge of drama — and of loss pervade these works, of which only several dozen exist today.

But the illusion is only temporary, upon closer look these intimately scaled prints show characters that are confined or restrained within ambiguous and absurd environments on stages that produce an uncanny sense of empathy from their viewers.

The Harwood's Agnes Martin Gallery, which she helped design, might be considered her purest house of all: a house distilled down to its essential elements, a safe haven that also retains an uncanny sense of the presence of the Other.

The space transcends the control of our senses and perceptions, thus conjuring an uncanny sense of fear or dread.

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.

In the present work there is an uncanny sense of dream - like dislocation where the coloured planes slide together in a transitory puzzle.

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

The disparate spaces he imagines in his paintings, drawings, sculptures, and films are unified by an uncanny sense of dislocation and an often unsettling beauty.

Derevan's photos have an uncanny sense of timing.

The Waltham, Massachusetts - based company creates «machines that walk with an uncanny sense of balance and even — cheetahlike — run faster than the fastest humans.»