uncanny betydelse and definition

Exempel på uncanny

• One can accept a certain amount of coloratura, but as soon as it becomes excessive, the device is marked and its uncanny significance emerges.

• Only by listening closely do we hear the synthetic chorus as voices and, when we do, the background takes on an uncanny animation.

• He strikes a chord with modern readers, who often marvel at his uncanny ability to speak directly to them.

• It is the presence of the familiar within the monstrous, the misplaced quality of this floating signifier of anxiety, that makes it so uncanny.

• Soaring double-bass harmonics produced an uncanny, ghostly effect.

• Thus sound/voice without an entity/body (sound/voice without a home) is a primal source of the uncanny.

• Offstage is, then, the locus of the uncanny.

• Her uncanny knowledge about her father's death provides her with a new power and agency.