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And Roboticist Masahiro Mori used the term uncanny valley to describe the disconcerting reaction people had to robots as they became more human-like in their appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Kotaku] Reference
In fact, in so far as the uncanny is also a signifier to which a real world referent can be attached we might be even more dubious. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
In our lit-crit terminology, this unsettling aspect of the "uncanny" is the implicity of a boulomaic modality of "should not have happened". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
The thing was not quite what we call uncanny; the people were so honest, both of them, that the morbid character of like situations was wanting. From Wordnik.com. [Questionable Shapes] Reference
I remembered his threat, and felt sure that all the long years of rivalry were about to culminate in uncanny battle. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow and the Flash] Reference
In magic lantern shows of the 1790s, the uncanny is realised: "dark rooms, where spectres from the dead they rise" (Castle 141). From Wordnik.com. [Reading Machines] Reference
It's called the uncanny valley and it goes back as far as Freud. From Wordnik.com. [Seeds of Growth - ideas to help small business grow] Reference
I think that could be called the uncanny valley of choreography. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Before CGI] Reference
This point, or ebb, is called the uncanny valley - see the chart below. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
For it must be remembered we were living in what Moncrieff called uncanny times. From Wordnik.com. [Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure] Reference
He speaks of a concept called the uncanny valley that many technology designers know. From Wordnik.com. [Your Call Is (Not That) Important to Us] Reference
The modern uncanny, that is to say, the Gothic, turns on the perception of the human in the mechanical, and the mechanical in the human. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction: Gothic Romance as Visual Technology] Reference
I want to know just what kind of uncanny guides await us. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
He added that Ramaphosa's instincts had been "uncanny" because. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Erikson's essay on The Golden Rule grabbed me in a kind of uncanny way. From Wordnik.com. [Carol Smaldino: The Ethics of Insight] Reference
There is, however, something very "uncanny" to the Saxon eye about Farmhill. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
Things looked "uncanny;" but time did not pause, and the story was forgotten. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
They all seemed to move with a kind of uncanny grace that I almost never Saw in humalls. From Wordnik.com. [Dreamfall]
But his sensitivity seemed to give him a kind of uncanny clairvoyance, and he was a mesmerizing writer. From Wordnik.com. [TRANSITION] Reference
I'll go out on a limb here and speculate that the "uncanny" is probably our original default setting for fear. From Wordnik.com. [Supernatural Superserious] Reference
The Frenchman's foresight is "uncanny," marvels Harvey Mansfield in an effusive forthcoming meditation — even disconcerting. From Wordnik.com. [The Visitor] Reference
LARSON: But what was really kind of uncanny about the whole thing was that Daniel Burnham was sailing -- sailing toward Europe. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America] Reference
I'd add depictions of this kind of uncanny historicity music in other media film, novels, tv, games, and alternate musical history. From Wordnik.com. [Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Music [1]] Reference
In the old days, that had been of no great moment; it was understood that an occasional fisher girl or boy would have an "uncanny" spouse. From Wordnik.com. [The Serpent's Shadow]
The men -- some of them -- say she's got a kind of uncanny fascination. From Wordnik.com. [The Conflict] Reference
It was not exactly an 'uncanny' expression, yet it suggested a world quite other than this. From Wordnik.com. [Aylwin] Reference
His presence, we are told, was regarded by German statesmen and magnates as "uncanny," and Count. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
An amateur photographer has captured what appears to be an "uncanny" glowing disc hovering in the sky. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News Breaking News and Current News from the UK and World Telegraph] Reference
Joe Schreiber - I always enjoyed the idea of the "uncanny" as both familiar and unfamiliar mixed together. From Wordnik.com. [Bookspotcentral] Reference
Freud's subject was the "uncanny," a term coined 13 years earlier by a little-known German doctor named Ernst Jentsch. From Wordnik.com. [SEEDMAGAZINE.COM] Reference
I believe he is still there, as clever and 'uncanny' as ever; at least so Mrs. Wylie said, the last time she came to see us. From Wordnik.com. [Peterkin] Reference
He had a kind of uncanny feeling that she was a sort of changeling; that she could do extraordinary, defiant, and marvelous things. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls] Reference
'uncanny' -- as uncanny as our little friend, "-- here indicating me by. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance] Reference
'uncanny' after she had given assistance in cases where police had no leads. From Wordnik.com. [A Place of Execution]
'uncanny' coincidence of my having so unexpectedly divined the subject of her studies. From Wordnik.com. [Sylvie and Bruno] Reference
Ambience: Sakenohana incorporates an uncanny mix of low-key minimalism and architectural high jinks. From Wordnik.com. [Hot Spot: Sake No Hana, London] Reference
Kelly's lawyers have maintained all along that it is not the singer in the video, despite the uncanny resemblance. From Wordnik.com. [Innocent Until ... When?] Reference
On the one hand, Erdogan has the vision and uncanny domestic political skills to push through dramatic, even revolutionary change. From Wordnik.com. [A GOOD EUROPEAN?] Reference
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