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Not ours, Shemsen thought as he sculled backward , easing his way slowly out of the uncanny school. We are bait, not even meat.

The boy watched him with big blue eyes, that had an uncanny cold fire in them, and he said never a word.

I feel like tearing out the hair on my own head. It would be what they describe as the uncanny semblance between owners and their pets.

No matter how much we like honey, or how much we have read about the uncanny sense of direction which bees possess.

As well as being a player of uncanny perception, Cantona was something of a philosopher king.

As robots have begun to catch up with their masters, researchers have started to ask whether the uncanny valley actually exists.

or how much we have read about the uncanny sense of direction which bees possess.

Hybels had an uncanny way of stripping things down to basics and getting me to discuss things I normally would not talk about.

Psionic items grant abilities to a character that she could never otherwise have or complement her existing capabilities in uncanny ways.

I find it uncanny that they seem to have an atmosphere just like a planet.

Cramer, as brilliant as he was, with his photographic memory and uncanny ability to retain information, suffered from a similar disorder.

Neighbour Lyn Thomas, 25, said: "I don't know why it would be designed in such a way. It is uncanny. "

Walter has the uncanny ability to know when the boss is going to call a meeting.

I made them nod knowingly, I made them laugh, and for a few moments I felt an uncanny connection with them.

In my imagination, they seemed to have an uncanny ability to know what I was thinking, and were eager to punish me for any malfeasance.

It was uncanny, like meeting a person in the street whom you feel you know but cannot place.

his face cut and polish as uncanny workmanship is so incredible, but brought him many years of plastic surgery is also painful sigh.

His isolation, so uncanny before, is now endowed with meaning and purpose, and thus robbed of its terrors.

Kids have an uncanny ability to appear to be listening to you while actually paying no attention at all.

This uncanny PK effect is as close to real magic as you will ever get.

Works of her, especially among the novel, often shroud a kind of uneasy uncanny atmosphere.

Uncanny. Why would they build such a model of a terrain?

She had an uncanny ability to read the character of a person.

With a central bulge set inside a disc-like ridge, they bear an uncanny resemblance to your stereotypical flying saucers.

Just a fall into green bottle of inside, in the bottle sent out uncanny red light.

In face of uncanny craftsmanship of the nature, we have no right to say that "I am of great significance" .

The physical resemblances are uncanny, right down to the bulbous eyes of one woman being mirrored in her piscine meal.

Along with his strength, he had an uncanny ability to spot and exploit any weakness in an opponent.

They must be written, as those kept only in your mind have an uncanny way of remaining figments of your imagination.

' Psychologists call this hindsight bias -- the uncanny feeling that 'I knew it all along.

There was an uncanny silence before WE heard the strange voice.

One of the richest men in Estonia, he has an uncanny sense of timing.

"Gambiered Guangdong gauze" : an uncanny history of "persevering until the clouds are opened and the sun comes out" .

Over the years, the child grows up and develops an uncanny ear for music and a remarkable talent for playing the piano.

NET projects has shown me that certain mistakes have an uncanny predisposition to keep pitfalls occurring.

He had an irrepressible bonhomie, a networking sense and an uncanny memory for names and faces.

As I've mentioned before, my daughter has an uncanny knack for asking questions that my wife and I are completely unready to answer.

In this confused place arbitrary nature of the uncanny workmanship carved sway the Earth, and all kinds of things here enrichment.

Mapping the uncanny valley, to avoid its perils, would be of great benefit to film-makers.

wang has constantly proven that statement right , showing an uncanny ability to induce grounder after grounder when he ' s on.

Will we not always dart out from under dirty dishes with uncanny speed?

Perhaps he's adept at reading subtle clues in his environment or he possesses an uncanny "sixth sense" when it comes to avoiding trouble.

Those who really know her recognize that she is a sharp observer of human nature with "an uncanny talent of being always right" .

If the last few years taught us anything, it's that the unthinkable has an uncanny knack of happening.

A civil war was brewing, one the dead man lying before him had kept in check with an uncanny ability to predict his enemy's thoughts.

A brilliant strategist with uncanny fashion instincts, he is also unable to delegate, say Fast Retailing executives.

Because we care about the characters, the movie is uncanny in its ability to rope us in and get us involved.

The uncanny ability to find an open parking space in a desirable location of a busy parking lot.

At 9th level, he gains a second augmentation and is granted the effects of the improved uncanny dodge ability.

His ability to get guests to open up, help them feel at ease, and say things they've never said before is uncanny.

Only parrots he was scared of. They had this uncanny desire to peck him completely to death.

Lupo has the uncanny ability to fire a seemingly infinite amount of ammo for a set period of time, laying waste to all before her.

Yet certain programs exert an uncanny power over their fans, encouraging them to immerse themselves within a fictional world.

The cat may not have nine lives. But its uncanny abilities to sail through the air is almost certainly responsible for the myth.

Ray Dalio has an uncanny ability to anticipate economic trends. Critics say that he runs a cult. Photograph by Platon.

His draftsmanship and technique display an uncanny mechanical reproduction that generates an uncanny reality.

China over the past few years has demonstrated an uncanny ability to make huge swings in resource allocation both financial and human.

Mr Jobs had an uncanny knack of winnowing out the wheat from the mountains of chaff.

Your sense of timing can be uncanny.

Beyond just sounding like one, this invention bears an uncanny resemblance to the walkable vehicle from the Flintstones.

From the Tower of Babel to Kuala Lumpur's Petronas Tower, an uncanny historical correlation exists between building height and hubris.

"The queer stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes seemed to peer out at you" (John Galsworthy).

Over the years, free market ideology has displayed an uncanny ability to resurrect itself.

She caught the public's attention when she was in grade 8 school, when they noticed her uncanny resemblance to Miss World Aishwarya Rai.

By recognizing our uncanny strangeness we shall neither suffer from it nor enjoy it from the outside.

Stephen Wiltshire, an autistic artist, has the uncanny ability to draw detailed cityscapes entirely from memory, UK media reported.

The five-year-old common goldfish has recently developed an uncanny resemblance to the evil German dictator.

The uncanny character is peace loving and therefore he deserves a gadget that does make him all the more special.

The address of a heap of disorder constitutes very uncanny map.

Jordan's scoring acumen was uncanny and, again, there is really no comparison between the equally athletic Kobe Bryant.

One cannot overlook his uncanny ability to navigate the many political intrigues and maneuverings.

Hal's got that uncanny ability to see into the future.

He's an honest leader, a talented computer scientist, and has an uncanny passion for entrepreneurship.

He seemed to have an instinct about the cards. It was uncanny .

A robotic fish has sailed across an aquatic uncanny valley by tricking real fish into following it upstream.

that experience in particular was playing a crucial role in generating the uncanny-valley effect.

Original, wild, wonderful, it is uncanny workmanship of nature created a magnificent atmosphere of Heilongjiang.

She has an uncanny sense of what others feel.

Wiener, who worked with servo mechanisms during World War II, was struck by their uncanny ability to aid steering of all types.

When it comes to today's beauty, Laura Geller has an uncanny knack for knowing what works and what wows.

It was your uncanny likeness to my sister that made me stare at you.

It breaks the ice, and its uncanny accuracy never fails to impress.

Many commercially available computer programs can be set to mimic the styles of top grandmasters to an extent that is almost uncanny.

He displayed an ability to remember things that he had seen or heard with uncanny accuracy.

The space trapped inside the Gravastar's shell is similarly uncanny conceptually.

As you can see, the resemblance is uncanny .

The sublime may be frightening, but it is not uncanny.

As today's Ms. Price moves, the Ms. Price of tomorrow mimics her movements with uncanny precision.

He could not help thinking how uncanny the man's squint eyes looked under its straight outstanding visor.

Luckily, lithe as he may be, he has an uncanny ability to play through injury.

The New Year concert was so beautiful that i must express my gratitude for this uncanny musical experience!

But, work properly but be no, the square suddenly wants to think with beam according to Tong do 1 rightness, really too uncanny.

The uncanny tufa formations take on a golden appearance at sunset.

The data can predict with uncanny accuracy where people are likely to be at any given time in the future .

not to mention the uncanny ability to collect things.

Their uncanny ordeals are detailed in a study published online February 23 in PLoS ONE.

Life has an uncanny way of responding to your need.

How similar our experiences have been, Gail's and mine! It is uncanny. . .

We talked about Jobs' uncanny ability to build something beautiful and useful that lasted.

including an uncanny knack of escaping the most qualified personnel.

To sense or intuit a person's thoughts or motives in an almost uncanny way.

This place profoundly wears unclearly uncanny, have what let public flare absolute being Zhang.

An original novel in which the 15th and 20th centuries meet with uncanny results, due to the invocation of Pan.

They had an uncanny resemblance.

The idea of the uncanny valley was originally proposed by Masahiro Mori, a Japanese roboticist, in 1970.

Use your wit, uncanny memory and Cancer charm and you will not end up alone this week.

They're both exactly the same size and shape to an uncanny degree.

I had an uncanny feeling of being watched.

Kevin Martin, Sacramento: Martin has an uncanny ability to score and get to the line.

The scene and circumstances were so very uncanny.

Makes one exertion to fist, try apt massage the felling namely this is uncanny apt be different from thoroughly ground.

His powers of observation were uncanny.

I can't believe this, thought Kugelmass, staring at the doctor's ravishing wife. This is uncanny. I'm here. It's her.

The Twittersphere is an odd and uncanny place.

Seven years on, the parallels are uncanny.

His performance was uncanny.

The neck of "little girl" wrecks from it and distorts into uncanny shape and falls off to fall in the pool of blood later on.

It's uncanny how Bob always knows when it's gonna rain.

His greatest gift was his uncanny ability to predict the future.

This uncanny list of "social proof" makes one wonder what goes on in our head.

"It's uncanny , " Pete said, after it was over and they had caught their speech.

She impressed me as so uncanny and fateful.

Remember that the three wise kings were strangersIn search of one remote, uncanny dream.

It is about his uncanny ability to reproduce his likeness, time and time again.

Web sites have appeared in China bearing an intentionally uncanny resemblance to Google sites.

In search of one remote, uncanny dream.

It is uncanny how the fixtures have worked out, similar to last year - although this time the tables have turned somewhat.

Both times the chart was uncanny.

In the process, we are moving from the merely good to the uncanny.

He told us many uncanny stories.

Only two of them, however, are needed to explain the uncanny valley. These are humanness and eeriness.

His skill in both feet was uncanny.

And then there is its uncanny self-organisation.

You have a way of words and an uncanny ability to motivate others.

A friend of mine has an uncanny psychological discernment.

For some resons, I have an uncanny sence that something bad will happen tonight.

Their uncanny resemblance is because they are doing a similar job.

A preview reveals trains with an uncanny resemblance to the latest Shinkansen bullet trains being introduced in Japan.

Nor do you have to become a chef because you have an uncanny gift with spices.

And if you are at all sensitive to the supernatural, you're likely to have an unusual, perhaps an uncanny experience there

stumps. . . had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures- John Galsworthy;

An uncanny sense of commonness

gasps oh , yes , that ' s him . an uncanny resemblance

This effect, called "the uncanny valley" because of the dip in acceptance between clearly inhuman and clearly human forms

an uncanny ability to foresee the future

Add on my uncanny ego