Beyond the ordinary

Usage examples of uncanny.

The cadaver is shown from the waist up, so I cannot say whether Barbet dressed him Jesus-style in swaddling undergarments, but I can say that he bears an uncanny resemblance to the monologuist Spalding Gray.

He effectively excluded them beche wished to be taught by us, not volunteers- and as Dan had told me those many months ago, Stuart had an uncanny knack for getting to a person.

The side street was gloomy, deserted except for Beery Hosner and the man with the uncanny hand.

Elizabeth and Blanche walked to the garden with him but hardly tried to mask their conviction that he was only finding an excuse when he asked if they had been disturbed by any uncanny presence, while the air spirit was offended by the idea it had been lax in its attention.

Well past dawn, with the cookfire lit, and Fionn Areth beside him, he broached the sensitive discussion concerning the uncanny difficulties ahead.

With an instinct for the regrettable that was almost uncanny, he invented chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs.

The uncanny defamiliarization effected by the Court takes place immediately, with the directedness of Freudian condensation and poetic metonymy, with the suddenness of the Freudian joke.

Then the face of Spirit came on: Forta, emulating her with uncanny precision.

It was the most uncanny thoroughfare conceivable--a sheer, sharp crack in the blue ice cliffs extending from where the sunlight shone in a dazzling golden band five hundred feet overhead to where bottom was touched in blue obscurity of the ice-foot.

It was uncanny, ghostlike, and even though Phil had never seen a corpse, he knew instinctively that this was the death pallor.

This Bali Hai had been built by Canadians, who seemed always to have an uncanny sense of which Florida beach was going to become popular next, but it was run by a pessimistic married couple from Maine who had spent one winter too many among the snowdrifts of that igloo.

But Omar, Harad, Beth and the uncanny black feline, Familiar, had rounded up the men responsible for trying to injure Beth and to steal her research.

But the Hinny surveyed him with such uncanny certainty that he could not protest further.

To him Lum betrayed an uncanny eye in discovering coal signs and tracing them to their hidden beds, and wide and valuable knowledge of the same.

Professor Mosk had not been particularly pleasant, but the instant Amuro had changed his attitude to one of deference, he had become so friendly that it was uncanny.