uncanniness

Yet, despite the uncanniness of the scene, she knew that The Shadow was a friend.

I'd long gotten over the uncanniness of them all looking and, superficially, acting the same.

In the pause one became aware of the uncanniness of the silence all about us.

Although one had expected it, there was a slight sense of uncanniness attending a weightless condition.

High deflections in a situation produce an aura of unlikeliness or uncanniness.

The villagers were conscious of an added uncanniness in his presence, and avoided him as much as they could.

Sprinkle with Surrealist uncanniness and other entrancing visual effects.

The unwonted silence of the warriors accentuated the uncanniness of the situation.

Its uncanniness added to the chills that tingled Clipper.

This attempt to interact...Her dream was realistic to the point of uncanniness.

"I see" his genius "arising, with equal uncanniness, however fugitive," he said.

As I inhaled the pungent tobacco that tentacle impressed me with a feeling of actual uncanniness.

He imagined the situation in detail and tried to analyse the physical sensations to be expected, in order to rid them of their uncanniness.

Everywhere I looked, the world oozed uncanniness.

Bree said, echoing my thoughts with an uncanniness that made me choke on my cocoa.

This is the uncanniness of human being, and this is why deinon does not mean simply power and violence.

Every word goes to map that foreign country we call the past, to define the uncanniness of people who are less like us than they at first appear.

With almost cinematic uncanniness, the G-man from Arizona got into the heads of America's mortal enemies.

They ran silently, not as hounds that give tongue in the hunt, and that si- lence added to their uncanniness.

Surrealists used photographs to evoke uncanniness, Dadaists cut and pasted photographs for the sake of nonsense.

Last week, editors could not help remarking at the uncanniness exhibited by certain designers who had references to Bonnie Cashin in their fall 2000 collections.

There's a hint of uncanniness in craziness: we see, or at least we think we see, to the bottom of personality.

The uncanniness of human beings is that they alone are capable of "catastrophe," in the sense of a reversal turning them away from their own essence.

The shaman's stare was unnerving, as much for its intensity as for its uncanniness, but Sam held his gaze fixed.

I began to sense that uncanniness which Haines had mentioned, that feeling of dread which made all Daalbergen shun the place.