Sentences with phrase «uncanny sense of»

You will be pleased to learn that Simon Chester, with his uncanny sense of timing, has provided Slaw with its 5000th comment.

Derevan's photos have an uncanny sense of timing.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

-- Pulitzer Prize citation «All of these elements — stylistic panache, technical daring, moral weight and an uncanny sense of the current moment — combine in Adam Johnson's The Orphan Master's Son, the single best work of fiction published in 2012....

- 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.»

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....

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.

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.

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.

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

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».

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.

Not exact matches

Interview One of bitcoin's main luminaries, Vinny Lingham has an opinion on the whole lot and an uncanny talent to sense marketplace actions, incomes him the moniker of Bitcoin Oracle.

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.

Yet she sensed the corrosive effects of individualism, and her uncanny intelligence and attention to the details of social surface enabled her to give us one of literature's sharpest portraits of this emerging reality.

Safranski summarizes Schleiermacher's «capacious» position with a rhetorical question («Was not Romantic poetry with its sense of the uncanny and the wondrous already directly religious?»).

Her intuition, her sense of the new terrain, was uncanny.

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.

Heather loves Rob's calm nature, sense of humor, uncanny math skills, and ability to fix almost anything — including a bad day.

Birds can sense Earth's magnetic field, and this uncanny ability may help them fly home from unfamiliar places or navigate migrations that span tens of thousands of kilometers.

The sense of viewer familiarity drops sharply into the uncanny valley once the artificial figure tries but fails to mimic a realistic human.

Whether she was picked for her uncanny fashion sense, or because of her Hollywood pedigree, we take a look at Rumer's youthful, yet glamorous style.

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.

Working with veteran cinematographer Henry Sharp (who had shot King Vidor's The Crowd in 1928), Lang imbues even the most benign of locations with a sense of unease, which gives the entire film a slightly uncanny quality.

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.

The earlier reference to Brian Griffin wasn't just facetious: Stark is so much like Brian (from a sense of superiority to a nearly identical voice) that seeing the actor in the flesh just feels kind of weird, like a reverse uncanny valley.

The steering feels lighter and freer than the V12 Vantage S, delivering greater clarity of feedback and a deeper sense of connection so that you can place the car with uncanny accuracy and utmost confidence.

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.

Sniffing Skills: Ever see those amazing search and rescue dogs, the drug and bomb detection dogs, and even cadaver dogs whose sense of smell is so uncanny and accurate that it would take dozens of people over the course of weeks to get the same job done?

«Gareth's mind - blowing sense of melody and uncanny expertise at reinforcing specific themes and emotions through his music helped shape the identity of ARK: Survival Evolved from the very beginning,» said Jesse Rapczak, Co-Founder and Co-Creative Director of Studio Wildcard.

The game does a great job conveying a sense of fear and tension through its audio design, and this is by far Uncanny Valley's strongest element.

The effect is eery: the uncanny reality of the Soviet regime enhanced by the mould growing on the furniture and the sense of being lost in an absurd system.»

Bangsted's images have a sense of the uncanny; something isn't quite right.

This allowed Artschwager's unique objects to explore our own material culture and conceptually play with a sense of the uncanny within our perception of objecthood.

Through a combination of sculpture and digital prints, his work is able to merge seemingly mundane objects with a sense of the unsayable and the uncanny.

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.