Human bones, hairless dogs and orange flower petals look uncannily (but not too uncannily) real.
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Great bubbles are often uncannily accurate premonitions of the future.
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PFOA's peculiar chemical structure made it uncannily resistant to degradation.
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Sawyers is uncannily good as Obama while avoiding plain mimicry.
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The impossibility of flight from this place is uncannily underscored.
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Mr. Johnson's America, past or present, is uncannily resonant today.
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Everybody wondered: How had Google Translate become so uncannily artful?
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In Belfer's hands, fictitious characters blend uncannily with historical ones.
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The story of PFAS has begun to sound uncannily similar.
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The mind leaps from poetry to poverty and consequence uncannily.
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It's the opportunity to explore the familiar through the uncannily similar.
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The number of similarities between our two childhoods are uncannily similar.
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And his voicing of the strands of counterpoint was uncannily clear.
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In his playing Rubinstein uncannily balances improvisatory freedom with calm authority.
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Beck seems uncannily logical about the risks his young company is taking.
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It's also found a planet that uncannily mirrors many of Earth's characteristics.
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Like many modern politicians, if not Mr Trump, he is uncannily disciplined.
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An uncannily similar situation may be playing out today, Faulds told me.
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The finished product looks uncannily like the real Andre the Giant. Seriously.
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Indeed, the early 1990s uncannily foreshadowed the debates we are having today.
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Uncannily, those themes also cross over into Give Me Everything You Have.
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You've sort of uncannily predicted the current news several times this season.
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Their texture was spongy and they appeared uncannily — and unnaturally — puck-shaped.
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But when those people are Colin Gee and Angie Smalis, it's uncannily absorbing.
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Small and almost uncannily youthful, Ms. Sud could, at 50, pass for 30.
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President Trump, Mr. Mnuchin and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross are uncannily unpleasant.
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Wade's uncannily sharp impersonation wins him some nights onstage during the "Bad" tour.
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Then Donald J. Trump won, and the story lines have been uncannily prescient.
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He got pretty delusional sometimes, but he was uncannily correct most of the time.
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What was originally written as science fiction has become uncannily similar to science fact.
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It's uncannily accurate and you get 600 minutes of recording time free each month.
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Its eye sockets look uncannily like the cartoon Xs that indicate death in cartoons.
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The cloudy atmosphere and gusty winds creates patterns that appear uncannily like brush strokes.
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Ms. Osipova's extraordinary high, weightless jumps and almost uncannily floating arms were thrillingly beautiful.
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His skin, uncannily smooth, does not look like that of a 21985-year-old.
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"Mayerling" shows an uncannily profound sense of the morbid heart of 19th-century Romanticism.
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For everyone else, it's an uncannily appropriate song to close out an entertaining episode.
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The beets look a little wrinkled, like prunes, and have an uncannily focused flavor.
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He beheld the uncannily familiar features of his idol, his champion, his personal deity.
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But even today's rudimentary quantum processors are uncannily matched to the needs of machine learning.
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And like Stéphanie Kilgast's delectable, miniature food sculptures, Lim's extremely small ceramics are uncannily crafted.
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AI-assisted technology now allows for the grafting to take on an uncannily real quality.
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Everywhere in this book we confront realities too dismal for lyric transformation, nevertheless uncannily transformed.
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Either way, he drew riveting performances from his inspired orchestra, lushly rich yet uncannily transparent.
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Elliott's voice is so ringing and defiant, and at the same time so uncannily courteous.
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We know it sounds strange, but the bread and babies bear an uncannily adorable resemblance.
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On the left, Steve is visiting with his son, who, at 14, uncannily resembles him.
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The texture of their meatless shawarma, shish taouk, and chicken wings is uncannily meat-like.
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And like Stéphanie Kilgast's delectable, miniature food sculptures, Lim's extremely small ceramics are uncannily crafted.
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Her work can be formally complex, politically powerful and uncannily funny — sometimes all at once.
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The uncannily contemporary aspect of Gustav Klimt's painting is that it was always in flux.
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It has become a devastating symbol, and an uncannily pointed one, for the whales' plight.
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Ian Cheng's "Emissaries" video trilogy at MoMA PS250 is both ambitiously innovative and uncannily familiar.
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The resulting images betray none of the labor of their creation; they are uncannily smooth.
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Japanese roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro builds beautiful, realistic, uncannily convincing replica humans, most of them female.
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The uncannily calm and sunny facility contrasts sharply with the dirty village down the hill.
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The Roll's keywording is uncannily good The Roll's keywording is uncannily good "The Roll is there to replace your phone's camera roll," said Florian Meissner, EyeEm's CEO, as he showed me the technology in action on his own phone containing tens of thousands of photographs.
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So how do we explain why the rest of the tweet is so uncannily on target?
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They evoke an aesthetic that is simultaneously cosmic, ancient, and as uncannily new as artificial intelligence.
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The sky is streaked pink and orange, the sun hovering uncannily west just above the horizon.
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It felt uncannily as if I would find him swimming in his moat when I arrived.
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With his stick-out ears and gentle shock of hair, Mr. Blaemire looks uncannily like Larson.
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The painting is uncannily corporeal, a coincidence of duality and oneness, denoting both flesh and spirit.
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Simlish, by contrast, is strung together with round, funny noises; emotional garbles; an uncannily human sound.
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A harbinger of musical postmodernism, it uncannily captured the capacious spirit of its era and dedicatee.
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The public defense Giuliani has offered is uncannily similar to those offered by Craig and Rafiekian.
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All right, except for the Eurosceptic bit, but the rest of the characteristics are uncannily similar.
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That account of the call uncannily matches the memo about it released by the White House.
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Those who witnessed Bryan and Eckford's reunion at first hand described it as authentic, uncannily beautiful.
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Turns out this owner and dog doppelgänger phenomenon goes far beyond Rice and his uncannily canine companion.
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The media gantry at the stadium is an improvised platform that looks uncannily like old orange crates.
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Actor and graphic designer Glen Pannell looks uncannily like Mike Pence, but don't let that fool you.
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Faint gray dots on the crab's vermillion shell make it seem like a mask uncannily scuttling by.
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In the I, Tonya teaser, Robbie uncannily mimics her voice, summarizing Harding's plight with the public eye.
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And for its first act, "Our Mother's Brief Affair" provides an uncannily perceptive portrait of colliding reminiscences.
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It's a few extremely repeatable seconds of uncannily anthropomorphic glee, and dear god, did I need that.
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But by sheer coincidence, a groundswell of anticipation was building around an uncannily similar type of game.
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The universe of Black Mirror is uncannily like our own, but just different enough to unsettle us.
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During it, we see a photo of Raymond, Perry's late brother, who looks uncannily similar to Ziggy.
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In the I, Tonya teaser, Robbie uncannily mimics her voice, summarizing Harding's plight with the public eye.
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He knocked, expecting his mother, only to hear a voice—Brunelleschi's—that sounded uncannily like his own.
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Also like many people, I have an indelible memory of an uncannily beautiful September morning in 2001.
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The experience of reading the essay is uncannily like being on a less-than-successful blind date.
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The second concept is the "water bears" of Preston's title, tardigrades, multicellular critters that look uncannily ursine.
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The stone buildings are uncannily similar to those used by modern cheese producers in the Alps today.
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"There&aposs not actually much left to the imagination when the resulting look is so uncannily disturbing."
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The Australian rough knob-tailed gecko, helmet-headed and pebble-skinned, uncannily resembles an alien humanoid baby.
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Even the couple of images of interior settings are uncannily quiet for their glaring and ostentatious appearances.
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But these aren't just those malicious Russian bots posing as the uncannily angry and active boy next door.
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He told lawmakers last week that the gilt market had been "uncannily quiet" in response to Brexit headlines.
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It's really an AI-generated voice that sounds uncannily like the comedian and podcaster, Jersey accent and all.
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Ivanka's uncannily Chinese beauty is intriguing on its own, but it isn't the most miraculous thing about her.
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The resulting portrait was uncannily reminiscent of Van Gogh's "Sorrowing Old Man (At Eternity's Gate)," painted in 1890.
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The system is uncannily similar to the one in "Nosedive", the first episode in Black Mirror's third season.
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"The Angel of History," Carolyn Forché This ambitious, uncannily beautiful book moves me more deeply with every reading.
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As a sergeant from his platoon puts it, Beau "had a knack for killing" that seemed uncannily natural.
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If you're truly weirded out by meat, it's possible you don't actually want an uncannily accurate bleeding imitation.
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Training the network on classical piano, for example, yielded some uncannily cohesive chord progressions in the researchers' testing.
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The pages are turned in uncannily timed unison, a vast human billboard of seamlessly changing words and images.
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And then, in the intervening 20 years, the game's world has arched uncannily closer to our very own.
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Wells), are at the deathbed of their 23-year-old daughter, Julie (the uncannily graceful Ms. Van Patten).
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Theron uncannily channels Megyn Kelly, nailing (for the most part) her appearance and the timbre of her voice.
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Almost mute, uncannily gentle, and patient as she had rarely been in the fullness of her life, Mrs.
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Epicurus's scientific speculations—on atomism and natural selection—sound uncannily modern but rested on brilliant inference, not experiment.
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But Mr. Chan turned them over and showed that their movements, made of German silver, were uncannily similar.
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People might expect the "uncannily accurate" estimates that Sasha Issenberg, a VoteCastr partner, promised in a September article.
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It happened to include a map of Hamburg that looked uncannily like the architecture of the human brain.
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The only common ground is "Not Trump," the intersection of the two circles evoking, uncannily, a black hole.
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As the timeline has stretched out, Bannon's work has grown towards that uncannily consuming bliss from a different angle.
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Ji's ghosts ask us to contemplate the complex, often surreal reality of a displaced world that looks uncannily familiar.
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As Walter continues, Hayes sits on the dais with his hands folded in front of him, silent, uncannily still.
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Her stunned reaction to being told her marriage certificate is no longer valid is heart-wrenching and uncannily familiar.
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"I'm uncomfortable with that fame," he says, sounding uncannily like Brian trying to drive away the crowds of disciples.
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Or how about NEC's Medias W foldable phone that looks uncannily like the phone that inspired the Axon M?
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Dogs, as anyone who's ever shared a home with one knows, are often uncannily adept at reading human emotions.
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Yet recruiting enough centre-left types to take on Mr Corbyn's uncannily pyramidical movement looks like a long shot.
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Its minute observations about how Generation Z lives, down to the smallest emoji or Instagram comment, are uncannily accurate.
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Paleontologists use fossils to peer into the past, but on rare occasions, fossils seem to uncannily return that gaze.
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She was large and soft, with thick yellow hair to mid-arm, trailing other children who looked uncannily familiar.
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It is an uncannily similar response to the perverse yet predictable reaction from tobacco companies when advertising was curtailed.
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" The movements of its hulking, silent villain are accompanied by a piano theme that uncannily echoes that of "Halloween.
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And her knee-jerk tendency to categorize and make broad generalizations seems uncannily similar to the environment she's criticizing.
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Mr. Gordon's recent compositions include hyperkinetic works for acoustic instruments (bassoons, planks of wood) that uncannily evoke electronic music.
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The consensus among our group of tasters was the berry/coffee version tasted uncannily like a cherry Tootsie Pop.
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The sheets are angled relative to each other in a way that uncannily recalls classic Cubist or Constructivist composition.
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That's because the shop looks uncannily like a home — complete with comfy couches, art and carefully selected home goods.
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Even if you hit the brakes late, or misread the entry to a corner, it proved uncannily tolerant and forgiving.
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It finally aired last night, two days after West's 41st birthday, and it makes for an uncannily quotidian viewing experience.
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Meanwhile, the donor—like some Dorian Gray of transplantation—remains uncannily healthy, with no sign of melanoma in his body.
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The same could be said for Emily Dickinson's body of work, uncannily heavy with the quicksilver actions of her mind.
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But you don't have to be paranoid to have your curiosity and imagination stirred by this exhibition's uncannily evocative materials.
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But, in making their selections for this summer, the region's major players uncannily reflected our moment of deep political unease.
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Mr. Trifonov is the thinking-person's idea of a virtuoso — a serious-minded, modest-seeming musician with uncannily formidable technique.
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The bond markets sent an early warning signal of a possible recession that has been uncannily accurate in the past.
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A few months ago, Cara sang an uncannily perfect impression of Eilish's song on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon.
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In 1955, his "Goldberg" recording, played with breathless tempos and an uncannily articulate, clipped touch, won him an international following.
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New technology is enabling people to produce uncannily realistic fake images and videos, including literally putting words in someone's mouth.
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The movie is called Cherry 2000, and its vision of 20173 is uncannily prescient for a film released three decades ago.
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But a string of uncannily similar unsolved murders that occurred in California in the '70s and '90s finally has a perpetrator.
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In plié, Reuter shimmied her shoulders and rolled her eyes in a way that recalled a god, yet was uncannily human.
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Synths can sound uncannily clean and "big" because they aren't mediated by the acoustic properties of the room they're recorded in.
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Of course, it's still only my second day of the "no alarm clock" routine, but I feel uncannily fresh and awake.
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And yet, for a candidate whose campaign is tied to the deliberations of voters here, he is uncannily, almost incongruously, relaxed.
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" "They're just afraid of texting me back because my last text was so uncannily great they feel like they can't compete.
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It would be easy to dismiss the challenge, except that Mr Hayek's career path is uncannily similar to his American rival's.
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Humans may have evolved to have faces that look uncannily similar to asses, according to new research on chimpanzee butt-recognition.
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Cervantes subverts the genre, uncannily referencing its baroque aesthetic, while mixing in contemporary influences, such as Mexican folkloric figurines of prostitutes.
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Gump moved through the world uncannily connecting with the cultural moment: teaching Elvis how to pelvis, phoning in Watergate, inventing jogging.
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The MateBook X Pro has a gorgeous, 3,000x2,000 pixel LTPS touchscreen with uncannily thin bezels on all sides, including the bottom.
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Re-reading Huntington, the characteristics he describes across other periods of creedal passion are uncannily resonant with the politics of today.
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On the horizon behind this uncannily Earthlike mesa, the distant rim of Gale Crater appears ghostly behind a haze of dust.
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Bonus cute points: It uncannily resembles Adorabilis, the cutest darn cephalopod ever found, or the "ghost octopus" NOAA discovered in March.
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The very first entry of "The Twilight Zone" uncannily foreshadowed the Apollo 215 moon landing, whose 21960th anniversary is next month.
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Often sounding uncannily like Lady Gaga, Leah Siegel sings with earthy rock authority as a subway singer-songwriter turned arena sensation.
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It doesn't so much feel surreal as uncannily ancient, like a faded fresco or a fragment of poetry come to life.
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That was uncannily close to the way the season turned out: There were 17 named storms, 10 of which became hurricanes.
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Or the uncannily cute robotic amblings of the lander's companion, the Yutu-2 rover, named for the moon goddess's white rabbit.
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Their locale is Harlem, New York, and in this Casteel's work feels uncannily linked to the space outside of the museum.
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One user even photoshopped the truck with the fairing on top, and the result (below) looks uncannily similar to Tesla's teaser image.
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Once you plug in headphones and clip into the pedals, the experience feels uncannily like the real thing, except without the commute.
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The Americans is debuting its fifth season under uncannily timely political circumstances — the likes of which no showrunner would ever wish for.
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The replica is uncannily accurate "You really gotta nail the show, which is hard to do in a temporary experience," said Murdy.
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FOR all the talk of change in season two of "The Crown"—and there is lots of it—everything feels uncannily familiar.
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The focus and wording of the reviews are so aligned that the YouTuber highlights multiple time codes where the two uncannily overlap.
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Although he worked as both a psychiatrist and a neurologist, his feats of almost uncannily correct diagnosis were in the latter field.
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The photo of Evans uncannily evokes the liminal point between these two scenes: the awkward stance of the police suggests imminent collapse.
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That includes Ms. Hearn and Mr. de Land, who succumbed in uncannily quick succession to cancer: she in 282, he in 230.
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That's because over time, marine plastic can absorb aquatic odors making them smell uncannily like food to some fish and bird species.
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"The profiles of the all the attackers are uncannily similar," said Peter Neumann, a professor of security studies at Kings College London.
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Ripcoil, an Oculus Touch launch title, is similar to Sparc — but with the addition of a gliding mechanic that feels almost uncannily real.
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While each candidate seems unable to prevent their own deficiencies from defining their campaigns, they've been uncannily good at exploiting their rival's flaws.
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The ghoul enthusiasm and scattered webs of wires and equipment look uncannily like the slew of ghost hunting television currently broadcasted ad nauseum.
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In this photo, it's hard to even see a bit of Johnny in Lily-Rose's face because she so uncannily resembles her mom.
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The book had been out of print for some time and, for the most part, the author is uncannily absent from the Internet.
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JACK QUARTET This essential, uncannily assured new-music ensemble is making a personnel change, trading out two of its members for new players.
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As Jonathan, Nick Blaemire gives an uncannily Larson-like performance, but the piece mostly feels like a security deposit on "Rent" (250:59).
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Although it accurately captures the trend of slowing growth, the official figures are uncannily stable when compared with those of most other countries.
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As Jonathan, Nick Blaemire gives an uncannily Larson-like performance, but the piece mostly feels like a security deposit on "Rent" (2:2530).
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As Jonathan, Nick Blaemire gives an uncannily Larson-like performance, but the piece mostly feels like a security deposit on "Rent" (22:200).
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As Jonathan, Nick Blaemire gives an uncannily Larson-like performance, but the piece mostly feels like a security deposit on "Rent" (21:230).
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Hanson), have invited Paul's best buddy, Michel (Tony Gardner, uncannily resembling a younger Colin Firth), and his wife, Laurence (Alexandra Gilbreath, effortlessly chic).
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And Ms. Mounsey's uncannily inert presence suggests a battle between body and soul that has ended in the coiled stasis of a draw.
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And it's uncannily fitting that it's the same sound I made when Apocalypse, the third film in the rebooted X-Men franchise, ended.
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As Jonathan, Nick Blaemire gives an uncannily Larson-like performance, but the piece mostly feels like a security deposit on "Rent" (200:219753).
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She began renting space at dance studios in Manhattan and Los Angeles, where one teacher has a voice that sounds uncannily like hers.
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In particular, the Cruz poster uncannily evokes Glenn Grohe's 1942 poster "He's Watching You" showing a German soldier peering at America with devious intent.
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"The Alley of Fireflies," as a story, is structured uncannily like a game of Tetris, its incompletion leaving lots of unresolved pieces strewn throughout.
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Ruffalo, in his round-shouldered, restrained performance, seemed to have uncannily captured Bilott's trout-lipped solitude, a standoffishness that made him seem permanently braced.
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Flying around, we take in the sights, the surroundings uncannily close and detailed, so that boulders only a few feet across can be discerned.
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And so, at the end of an evening of brilliant and often uncannily delicate music-making, Ms. Mutter played two Previn works as encores.
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From at-home workouts and soothing virtual farming simulators to Catherine's honestly uncannily good drawings of our staff pets, here's what's working for us.
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Indeed, five decades of household income data reveal a yawning and uncannily consistent income gap between black and white Americans across the economic spectrum.
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Boris looked uncannily like Boris Badenov, the bad guy in "Rocky and His Friends" and "The Bullwinkle Show," popular cartoons of the early 1960s.
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Resonant environments like vast, synthetic prairie lands blanket $uccessor, as do icy surfaces and shimmering, metallic timbres; it's a meditative, cinematic and uncannily beautiful record.
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A tiny video camera with a gimbalCost$3503LikeFantastic image stabilization and neat shooting modesNo likeStruggles slightly in low lightThe touchscreen screen is also uncannily small.
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Google Assistant made an uncannily realistic-sounding phone call to a real human to book a haircut during an onstage demo at Google I/O.
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Sometimes it's big things, like the uncannily familiar architecture, or the structure of the puzzles, which feature a similar blend of platforming and sliding boxes.
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The terse and incendiary message Linton sent to Breitbart News staffers as Steve Bannon are uncannily similar to some of the Breitbart chairman's real emails.
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Photo: Huichan Zhao/Organic Robotics Lab, Cornell UniversityRemarkable advancements in artificial intelligence have made it seem like uncannily human androids are just around the corner.
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We don't like to talk about destiny when discussing birth charts, but there's something about Gaga's that speaks uncannily to her career and artistic vision.
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That's just manners!) He allows her to make yet another kind, loving, and almost uncannily genuine speech (does she even know what show she's on
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The way that park guests stumble around looking for interesting treasure hunts or bandit-killing parties reminds me uncannily of my own experience with larping.
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Jaeger is the most repressed person onstage; his first significant move, uncannily timed to the music, is when he puts a hand to his glasses.
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At the same time, their hypnotic cadence sounds uncannily like some of the novel's more banal descriptions of life as a zombie under late capitalism.
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Uncannily similar to the Grant presidency, white supremacist groups have returned to the forefront and our country's deepest socioeconomic issues have divided us by region.
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And Rakowitz shows us how a war monument in Baghdad called the Hands of Victory uncannily resembles the poster design for The Empire Strikes Back.
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Felix pops up a lot in this show, most uncannily in a giant inflatable version scrunched into a gallery, his chin smushed into his belly.
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They'd grown in lock step, uncannily synced to one another: They'd gotten their periods on the same day, made identical mistakes on their math tests.
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His black jacket splotched by white dust from the decomposing wall, Mr. Hertzberg said that for "The Rose Elf," the catacomb felt uncannily like home.
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From at-home workouts and soothing virtual farming simulators to Catherine's honestly uncannily good drawings of our staff pets, here's what's working for us. 5.
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They must supervise three trainees: Summer (Alexandra Daddario), Ronnie (Jon Bass) and Matt (Zac Efron, looking uncannily like a young, ripped and shrunken Mr. Hasselhoff).
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But Contagion reminds us that the structure of the internet allows bad information to spread in a way that uncannily mimics a very contagious virus.
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Drawings and "On a Clear Day" (1974), a remarkable suite of silk-screened grids and lines in inks that uncannily mimic graphite, provide rhythmic relief.
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Such statistics are uncannily close to those in our own time, which may explain the resurgence of (or, at least, renewed interest in) the con.
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An uncannily bendy-bodied figure, he is so springy and supple that you're not surprised when one of his arms suddenly stretches across the stage.
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The humor of this trifling anecdote is uncannily pitched to 3- to 33-year-olds, and Gomi's witty one-dimensional illustrations drolly complement his storytelling.
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Their first team-up "Starboy" was a statement of intent—a vision of the Billboard chart's past reflected a little too uncannily in retrofuturist chromatics.
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By now, you probably are aware of the plot highlights: A family on vacation find themselves under siege by four people who look uncannily like them.
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The company's uncannily accurate ad targeting has only raised more suspicions about how much information Facebook is gathering and with whom it might be sharing it.
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Mosseri was asked about what happens on the back end when an ad for something just discussed in private uncannily shows up in an Instagram feed.
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Total: $50 My friend, who is a lawyer but moonlights as an uncannily talented photographer, came to the park and took some super-cute family photos.
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Spreads have at least widened a bit lately, but yields for any company believed to have government backing, whether public or private, are still uncannily low.
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Their minimal movement—a feather astray here, a wing akimbo there—makes them look uncannily like Gainsborough's feathery society beauties, who are equally silent, equally sure.
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Azly Yozof, 29, was attending a wedding in Selangor, Malaysia, when his friend, Amir Zulfadhli Zulkifly, noticed there was another guest attending who looked uncannily familiar.
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The works are and look like Sturtevants, in the way that a Sturtevant looks uncannily like, but not quite the same as, works by other artists.
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Envisioning an uncannily serene apocalypse, "In My Room" studies a man who finds liberation in isolation, the absence of others freeing him from expectation and obligation.
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So very much of what happens in this production's ephemeral pools of light feels uncannily like life itself, unaccommodating and bewildering, utterly familiar and gloriously inexplicable.
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Van Agtmael captions most of the photos with a paragraph or so of reportage, and his captions are no less resonant than his uncannily crisp, dreamlike photos.
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He can barely read or write and had never been on a plane, but was able to draw complex maps with an uncannily precise bird's-eye perspective.
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Since the financial crisis, the correlation between oil prices and jet orders has been "uncannily strong," despite the negative impact of oil on airline profits, Hatcher said.
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The results veer between uncannily accurate and enjoyable nonsense (tilted heavily towards the latter), but still manage to encapsulate both the promise and limitations of neural networks.
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It then emits a sound, one that sounds uncannily like a mosquito flying close to your ear, and the vibration pushes water out the horizontal speaker holes.
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To complement the presentation, the hairstylist Paul Hanlon extended his look from last season with hair that seemed permed and then straightened to an uncannily stiff effect.
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In "Rage and Time," Sloterdijk writes that the discontents of capitalism leave societies susceptible to "rage entrepreneurs"—a phrase that uncannily foreshadows the advent of Donald Trump.
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The impulse to hide, to hold myself apart from my colleagues, from my fellow-writers, from my students, from the circle of life has remained uncannily strong.
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The figures' buttery flesh and midaction positioning make these genre scenes uncannily lifelike, and Valentin's religious pictures, too, relinquish sacred precision for the realities of the flesh.
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In contrast to the vanishing security of a breadwinning wage and the elusive promise of a post-racial America, guns appear as uncannily concrete, dependable, and durable.
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Exceptional, too, was Mr. Cornejo, the American Ballet Theater principal, an artist so uncannily versatile as to merit the word "genius" more than any other dancer today.
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Lasting less than a minute, Handel's music quivers with nighttime restfulness, uncannily hinting at the romantic deceptions and false accusations that are about to roil the opera.
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Then you realise that, hold on, the question is actually so strange that it becomes an uncannily accurate example of why exactly EDM never took hold here.
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Each "sculpture" uncannily resembles a different fruit or vegetable, most of them quotidian: lettuce, an eggplant, a single brown mushroom, an ear of corn, broccoli, and a pear.
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Vox's Aaron Rupar broke down the details in an explainer: [The first whistleblower's] account of the call uncannily matches the memo about it released by the White House.
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Since the dictatorships of Generals Franco and Pinochet, politics in the two countries has run along uncannily parallel tracks, with Chile lagging Spain by ten to 15 years.
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He is replaced by a local man famous in the area for his uncannily accurate impression of Rob Brydon's utterly brilliant "small man trapped in a box" voice.
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Her smart, satirical fiction is old-fashioned in that it serves as a vehicle for investigating political and social questions, but it's also almost uncannily of its moment.
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Roughly 470 light years from Earth, in the constellation Taurus, there is a star system that looks uncannily similar to a younger version of our own solar neighborhood.
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The creature is often described as both secretive and shockingly loud, with a rumbling, back-of-the-throat mating call that is uncannily close to the human snore.
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But above all, it is the words and the men speaking them that allow us to know uncannily and exactly where we are and who we're dealing with.
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But the shift from a self-contained island to the mainland city recalls "King Kong," and the new "Jurassic Park" film, "Fallen Kingdom," follows an uncannily similar arc.
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Erika Grimaldi, soprano, and Daniela Barcellona, mezzo-soprano, were strong and impressive individually but almost more so together, their voices matching uncannily in unisons, octaves and close harmony.
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As the owner of Cutie Pie Productions, Charles makes "Reborn Dolls," uncannily realistic artificial infants crafted from vinyl, glass, doe suede, and up to 80 layers of paint.
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With 21,22 years of practice at Dota 43 under its belt, the system looked unstoppable — deftly navigating strategic decisions and racing to press its advantages with uncannily good judgment.
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These pictures almost look like they date to the author's time, uncannily reminiscent as they are of Placide Verdot's images of Sand's garden in the years before her death.
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It's an entertaining sketch (Pine makes for a convincing bro, and SNL's tagline for Hulu — "See Netflix, we have one, too" — is hilarious), but it's uncannily true to life.
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Erdrich began writing Future Home in 22016, making her view of the world seem uncannily prescient in a similar way, but the novel could also present a path forward.
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Before our eyes, Guillot's instincts seem to be transformed from an aesthetic outlier's to those of an old-school formalist, while Gold's beguilingly retinal maneuvers yield uncannily somatic results.
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It's a contrast of depth and fragility that uncannily resembles the human condition itself, and stands as a wicked testament to the range of emotion that Stréliski can grasp.
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The National Hurricane Center's storm track forecasts for Harvey were uncannily accurate, predicting both the storm's initial landfall north of Corpus Christi and its virtual standstill above southeastern Texas.
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A story this fascinating can bear a lot of documentary-style retellings — not least because Holmes's famously, uncannily, and apparently fake deep voice is so unnerving to actually hear.
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While the specifics clearly differ, the antipathy of the Trump administration to the EPA uncannily mirrors the attitudes that nearly brought the agency to its knees during Reagan administration.
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In this respect, Miracle Mile is uncannily accurate insofar as it makes America the country that incites nuclear war, rather than positioning our country as the defenders of peace.
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His hands and feet are operated, in minutest detail, by a small, dancerly army in black suits, and his face moves via uncannily precise—and, I'll admit, touching—animatronics.
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As in the case of Manhattan's gated Gramercy Park, renters at Via will have private access to a space that rather uncannily wields the charm of a public space.
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While his red zone numbers aren't exceptional, he is uncannily good at getting his team out of trouble by passing from the dangerous position of his own red zone.
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Though the novel is meant to depict a contemporary society that Bradbury could not have predicted, there are elements of its narrative that are uncannily similar to our world.
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When he checked the status of his nematodes, however, the tranquil blue-green surface of the agar, uncannily like human skin in its soft firmness, was not so tranquil.
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Words aren't strictly necessary when you're picking up each other's signals clearly, but with the moon, sun and Mercury in cerebral Aquarius, any conversation will be stimulating and uncannily insightful.
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Athame has come slinking down from the hills of Appalachia to bestow an uncannily strong debut recording upon those who crave a Luciferian touch in their doom-influenced black metal.
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The whole bit is uncannily similar to Kanye West's video for Wolves, in which an army of models walk in and out of frame wearing Balmain from head to toe.
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The statue in question, titled Ewaipanoma (Rihanna), stands over a story high and captures a headless, bikini-clad RiRi mid-sunglass removal with her face uncannily printed across her chest.
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Last year at CES, I was taken aback by Bellus3D, a company with an uncannily accurate 3D face scanner that took incredibly unnerving selfies, but it was just a prototype.
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For the project, Malkovich collaborated with photographer Sandro Miller, who directed a 20-minute series of vignettes, titled Psychogenic Fugue, that meticulously and uncannily recreates scenes from David Lynch's oeuvre.
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But we know that you don't have to actually have experienced that initial thing firsthand to feel a that sense of familiarity when something uncannily reminds you of it later.
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His approach, at least on his debut full length 9, is to drag the pop singers kicking and screaming into his world, offering an uncannily warped version of pop radio.
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After Wally attempts to contact Batman (in a scene uncannily similar to one in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice), something comes through the Speed Force and into the Batcave.
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In this case, "going undercover" meant dressing like they'd raided Kenny Rogers' closet and Fallon sporting a wig that made him look uncannily like Cyrus' country star papa, Billy Ray.
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The scary, exhilarating brightness of raw adolescence emanates from every scene of this uncannily assured first play by Sarah DeLappe, and at times your instinct is to shade your eyes.
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At times, the topicality reached through the screen — among the real-world events the show uncannily, if inadvertently, anticipated were embarrassing corporate hacks (Ashley Madison) and, more tragically, televised death.
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The facial hair works along with the soundtrack, the cars and the clothes to conjure a 1980 that viewers who were around back then may find uncannily, even painfully realistic.
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The 26-year-old has not always handled the expectations placed on his shoulders after he won the Wimbledon junior title in 2008 with a game style uncannily like Federer's.
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In 2018, the American photographer Barbara Ess, known for uncannily poignant images created with a pin-hole camera, came down with a case of bronchitis that lasted over a month.
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A highlight of last season's New York Philharmonic programming was the local premiere of Anna Thorvaldsdottir's uncannily tactile "Aeriality," part of the composer's appointment as the orchestra's Kravis Emerging Composer.
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The make-believe CD cases that pop up alongside the final credits look uncannily like real album covers, and other artifacts of the pre-iPod musical universe are equally right.
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The Oscar winner, 44, uncannily embodies Kelly during her final years at Fox News, when she and dozens of other women alleged sexual harassment against then-longtime CEO Roger Ailes.
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Browsing online in 2016, Ms. Li came across a group of women whose complaints sounded uncannily like hers: divorced and distraught after former husbands had left them buried under debt.
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Cohen's predictions have been uncannily accurate for several of the winters during the past decade, particularly when it comes to calling for cold and snowy winters along the East Coast.
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The Bonnefanten has recently acquired his "Boy Lights Fire," from 2010, an image of a bald boy in white underwear with uncannily long arms, striking a match against a matchbook.
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Photos of the work showed a fleet of mini airplanes piercing a Tuskegee Airman's body, the jets uncannily similar to the one that destroyed Richards's own body in the disaster.
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Mr Barton uncannily replicates BoJo's behavioural tics—the hair-ruffling, the bumbling gait, the posh speaking-voice and the ums and ahs—but he is given little else to work with.
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Cara's waxwork counterpart is uncannily lifelike Artists spent six months creating the waxworks, and it took four weeks alone to create Delevingne's trademark eyebrows with each hair inserted individually by hand.
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Hibbert and Sanders, as child and teenage Chiron, are both uncannily good at playing a character who's been made too afraid by the world to even speak, most of the time.
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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's first-season blend of tragedy and farce turned out to be an uncannily apt representation of the experience of being an American in the age of the meme.
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Ronaldo did just that, and, uncannily, two players in the defensive wall — Naldo and Josuha Guilavogui — parted just as the ball reached them, leaving a hole that deceived their own goalkeeper.
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Augustus John's 1919 oil painting of T.E. Lawrence — whom Peter O'Toole so uncannily evoked — is placed next to John's companion portrait of Emir Feisal, which was painted during the same year.
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After a date with Melanie the token virgin (perhaps inspired by The Bachelor's Becca?), the couple heads to the Dream Suite, which sounds uncannily similar to the actual show's Fantasy Suite.
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The same gestures and vantage points and compositions are repeated, and the images come out so uncannily similar that it's as though everyone were subject to the same set of instructions.
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The evening ended with an inspired performance of Einojuhani Rautavaara's Symphony No. 3, a work from 1960 that uncannily manages to use serial technique in a way that sounds like Bruckner.
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In all of them, above all the enduing masterpiece "Grand Duo" (1993), Mr. Morris has proved an uncannily perfect dance companion to Mr. Harrison, especially in terms of large-spirited imagination.
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But with the particular stripe proportions and layout, uniform-style garments, and prominent chest patches, there's not actually much left to the imagination when the resulting look is so uncannily disturbing.
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The debate over Harry and Meghan's push for greater independence from royal life is uncannily like the Brexit debate, with young liberals favoring the couple and older conservatives backing the queen.
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Outsiders like to think that the cello, the most uncannily human-sounding of instruments (it approximates a vocal range from low male to high female), would provide limitless companionship and consolation.
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It was Demons 2—the New Wave sequel to a heavy-metal original, an uncannily apt pick given its soundtrack, with tracks by European bands Accept and Saxon, was pure Joe Anthony.
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Trained social workers taking a break from their careers to help the Salvation Army's disaster recovery program, they were both also uncannily perceptive, like honeybees sensing a foreign bee in the hive.
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Trish's portrayer Rachael Taylor has an explanation for this uncannily on-the-mark depiction of what #MeToo and the Time's Up initiative is trying to end: the magic of creator Melissa Rosenberg.
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Two years ago, on a whim, she wrote "Wildest Dreams," a 12,000-word piece of fan fiction depicting (with some uncannily accurate details) the budding relationship of Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston.
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The scary, exhilarating brightness of raw adolescence emanates from every scene of "The Wolves," the uncannily assured first play by Sarah DeLappe, and at times your instinct is to shade your eyes.
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Shiota's exhibition is both precise and elusive, specific and elliptical, and as such is uncannily well suited to remind us of the in-between state of migration and its reliance on hope.
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In an uncannily prescient move, Mr. Smith, now 22008, had put down a refundable deposit at Cedar Crest more than a decade ago, just in case they ever wanted to move there.
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" Some of the novel's passages seem uncannily relevant to the current divide over immigration in America — with mention of "people who spoke languages no one understood, who came from everywhere and nowhere.
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The works in the first gallery present the raw bones of his talent in small, delicate images of forests, farms and ruins: namely, his uncannily fine line and sensitivity to contrasting textures.
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It also offers an uncannily well-timed reflection of our current societal fractures — a kind of origin story for the culture wars that still have us asking: Which side are you on?
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But for Moonee (who is played by an uncannily poised and resourceful young actress named Brooklynn Prince), the Magic Castle and its surroundings are a land of endless enchantment and nonstop adventure.
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The double helixes intrude upon the landscape like stairways from another dimension — bracing, alienating, and uncannily apropos — with blacksmith pincers, the tools of the trade, clamped at intervals along the metal spirals.
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Tylor Fisher is probably the best name taken in this uncannily throwback-y round in 21990, just by dint of its extremely Aspirational Floridian spin on a fairly common American first name.
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Ms. Pantastico excelled in the concerto's outer movements, where the upward sweep of a leg or the downward tap of a toe showed her uncannily at one with Michael Jinsoo Lim's solo violin.
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The Times found that Facebook has given device makers like Apple, Amazon, BlackBerry, Microsoft, and Samsung extensive access to user data through partnerships that appear uncannily similar to its past third-party policies.
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Those who stood together during the referendum campaign last summer have fragmented into five groups which, to Brexiteers, look uncannily and unfairly (because they are not progressing) like the five stages of grief.
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Behind the curtain was a picture of Tottenham's star lineup, including current Premier League top goalscorer Harry Kane with a pained expression on his face and an uncannily familiar phone in his hand.
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He is smaller and his hair is grayer, but they both have the narrow nose and push-broom mustache, and their voices—the thin timbre, the accent, even the monotone—are uncannily similar.
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Whether it's the Oreo-inspired face cream, the cupcake-shaped lip balm, or the face masks that uncannily resemble freshly pressed juices, this collection's got it — and each one is so, so good.
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But even though the fictionalized version of the city is in complete disarray, more dangerous (and somehow dirtier) than the real thing, it still feels like New York — uncannily so for some residents.
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Interestingly, a graph of stock prices in September and October 1987 looks uncannily like the market of September and October 1929, except that the sudden October plunge occurred over two days in 1929.
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After getting it wrong in high-prized contests such as the Brexit vote and the Trump election, polls got it right — and uncannily so — in predicting the outcome of the French vote Sunday.
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But the thought — or something similar to it — crossed my mind while watching "April and the Extraordinary World," a beautiful, inventive and uncannily satisfying new example of animated sci-fi from, yes, France.
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The duck's unique biology makes it a generous reservoir for a vast number of viruses, while pigs are uncannily efficient at mixing different viruses together into new strains and passing them to humans.
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"But with the particular stripe proportions and layout, uniform-style garments, and prominent chest patches, there's not actually much left to the imagination when the resulting look is so uncannily disturbing," it added.
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Jeff Sessions In a February Saturday Night Live cold open, McKinnon held her own next to Melissa McCarthy's flawless Sean Spicer impersonation with an uncannily faithful take on Alabama-born Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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Robotics experts agree that while sex robotics has a lot of potential, sex robots are only in their embryonic stages—still far from the uncannily human-like robots we see in sci-fi movies.
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The formulations vary, but most brands won't offer you something that smells uncannily like rotten eggs, so don't fret — your roommates won't call 311 out of concern there's a gas leak in the bathroom.
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The last song is run through with images of snow falling: The music becomes a gentle flurry of descending diaphanous lines for both the singer and the orchestra, all tangled up yet uncannily audible.
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Mosseri told King Tuesday on "CBS This Morning" it's straight-up dumb luck when an ad for something a user had just discussed in a private conversation uncannily shows up on their Instagram feed.
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Image: Screengrab via Google Arts and CultureIf you've seen a lot of people suddenly sharing uncannily similar artistic doppelgängers of themselves recently, Google's facial recognition abilities and massive database of art are to blame.
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Women have uncannily similar and all too often harrowing and even devastating stories about things that have happened to them at work because men do very similar things to women; leaning in doesn't help.
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The burger uses a patty made by a California-based start-up, Impossible Foods, which is one of several scientifically engineered products made to make plant-based ingredients taste uncannily like juicy ground beef.
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With its abandoned strollers and vanished children, Ward's "Amazing Grace" seems uncannily prescient in a time when it is official government policy to separate children from their parents at the US. border with Mexico.
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Uncannily familiar yet profoundly otherworldly, the tableaus of photographer Ventiko feel like works straight out of an art history book—if said book was less Eurocentric and heteronormative, and a lot more socially-conscious.
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While there are a few American species that enjoy the daylight hours, most are nocturnal and spend their days behind thick greenery or uncannily blending into the bark of the trees they nestle against.
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New Yorkers are sure to notice and appreciate many landmarks, some uncannily recreated, but a dreary, snowy, plague-ridden New York is a tough place to spend dozens of hours in, let alone hundreds.
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She's a complicated figure, but in this first hour, Wendy's hyper-aggression so uncannily resembles her boss's that she's like Axe's surrogate at home, too, squashing Rhoades's ineffectual suggestion that she look for work elsewhere.
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Smith has preserved her uncannily precise eye for the subtle distinctions of class and race that preoccupy her characters, and for the way those distinctions shift across communities; that skill is on full display here.
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Luckily, I am doing this assignment with the New York Times photographer James Hill, who has covered riots, revolutions and wars and who also has an uncannily intuitive understanding of Rio's convoluted shuttle bus system.
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According to The Daily Mail, Azly Yozof, 29, was attending the wedding of a childhood friend in Selangor, Malaysia when his friend, Amir Zulfadhli Zulkifly, noticed there was another guest attending who looked uncannily familiar.
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Uncannily, the McCarthyite mob attorney Roy Cohn (whom Donald Trump seems to idolize for his willingness to bully and tell brazen lies) appears throughout Studio 54, representing Schrager and Rubell in their tax evasion case.
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It occupies a 19th-century walnut table and recalls a Greek kylix, but it flops, uncannily, to one side, its body made not of rigid and impermeable pottery, but of softly coiled machine-braided rope.
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When it was published, one of my mother's boyfriends from that period, a Wall Street Journal editor, contacted me and said how uncannily I had captured his own sense of that house at that time.
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The seemingly irreconcilable distance between the couple, for example, is often accentuated by making characters stand uncannily far apart from one another, or distorting camera angles to make spaces seem much larger than they actually are.
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It wasn't made by a human, but by the Google Assistant, which did an uncannily good job of asking the right questions, pausing in the right places, and even throwing in the odd "mmhmm" for realism.
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Bellus33D, the company behind the uncannily accurate, slightly creepy 3D selfie camera, is making the jump to the iPhone with a new app that will let you take its oddly realistic scans without any extra hardware.
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The result with 'Not Mayo' is a mayonnaise with a taste and texture uncannily like the standard version, only made from ingredients that include basil, peas, potatoes, and canola oil instead of eggs and vegetable oil.
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Uncannily similar, indeed (it also includes the 'Hey Cortana' feature that was killed off from inside Cortana for Android.) But, while Siri works best with Apple apps and services, the Cortana integration promises to be deeper.
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He was uncannily focused but not as moody as he has seemed in the past; he was mature and confident but also – just like his mom and sisters – a bit of a weeper during medal ceremonies.
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This auto-tagging starts with dates and places and then extends to people—Google's AI is uncannily good at spotting who's who in your images, even as they grow older over time (hello, fellow old people).
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It's also a portrait of a troubled America in the late 1960s and early '70s — an America reeling from unemployment and lost dreams, and seething with anger, and uncannily familiar, in many ways, to America today.
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Readers first realize that the magical world is a strange and terrifying place partway through Quentin's freshman year at Brakebills, when our nominal hero inadvertently conjures a horrific, uncannily semi-human being known as The Beast.
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After parodying their mannerisms and mumbo-jumbo, she told a story of a session with another seer whom she assumed to be a crank, but whose vision of her happily partnered romantic future proved uncannily accurate.
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The company needs to accept the loss of growth hacking trade secrets and become much more transparent about how it makes so uncannily accurate recommendations of who to friend request — as Gizmodo's Kashmir Hill has documented.
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In fact, the essay's full title was "The 'Me' Decade and Third Great Awakening," a historically grounded, uncannily prescient explanation of how beliefs in the paranormal and extraterrestrial visitors and extreme Christianity were together transforming America.
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Opioids, on the other hand, are uncannily good at interacting with the nerves responsible for pain conduction, but their effects only last for a few hours at most and come with all sorts of unwanted side effects.
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They looked uncannily similar to those tissue-box covers that my Chinese grandma used to make from her glass coffee table that I ate fried rice cakes off of when I went to visit her in Shanghai.
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Between its exploration of the merging of humanity and technology, the intentional distortion of reality, and Orwellian surveillance, in 280 years there's every chance Anon will be yet another Niccol film renowned for its uncannily accurate prognostications.
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No matter the context, no matter the topic under discussion, Sanders is uncannily good at changing the conversation to his preferred topics: inequality, the political power of banks, and the corrosive effect of corporate money on politics.
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About 100 guests joined us on the VICE rooftop last night to feast on not only the beefless burger, but several other dishes that highlighted the magically meaty, umami qualities of Impossible Foods' uncannily meat-like creation.
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"Emmett Floating at Camp," an unpublished image from 1991 of her child floating in a great gray nowhere, turns out to be uncannily prescient and devastatingly sad, for Emmett ultimately became schizophrenic and committed suicide in 2016.
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Freestyling, unless it is immaculately funny and uncannily anchored in the specifics of the moment—if it includes, say, a description of something somebody's wearing, the better to prove genuine spontaneity—tends to curdle quickly into kitsch.
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In his prescient 2012 book, "Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent," Luce uncannily anticipated the politics of resentment and the bitter fights over immigration that would fuel "Brexit" and last year's American election.
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The two men, who uncannily look and dress alike, had just returned from a five-month stint making more leather armor on location in Australia for Wonder Woman's sister movie, "Aquaman," scheduled for release in December 2018.
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The bowed, almond-shaped kamancheh looks a bit like a violin, but is held upright on the player's knee and produces a sandier, more veiled sound that can be uncannily like a female voice, husky with grief.
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Mr. Bean, hilarious in "The Thanksgiving Play" just a few months ago, uncannily reproduces Mr. Trillin's familiar speaking voice and manner, with the sly quality of a man who knows he has a good line in reserve.
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One example from 2015, "Century Vase III: American Refugees," seems uncannily apt for this year's vile election season: it features barbed wire, flags, a portrait of Frederick Douglass, and the word "CAUTION" scrawled across the Washington portrait.
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To say that fans were unhappy with the design of Sonic in the first trailer is a bit of an understatement, with complaints about the character's differences from the original games and uncannily realistic proportions, among other things.
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No longer content to merely make the most uncannily realistic 12-inch action figures on the planet, Hong Kong-based toymaker Hot Toys has announced they'll be turning their talents to a new scale of figure: life-sized.
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That's the question people have been asking of Makeup Revolution, a London-based beauty brand that markets almost exclusively in low-priced products that look uncannily like those you'd find from high-end brands, down to the packaging.
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Lee, who read the script on a cold dark day in London in 2017, is perfectly cast as Lauren's charmingly awkward fiancé, a world away from his uncannily on-point run as Queen's Brian May in Bohemian Rhapsody.
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There's a quality of the gothic at work: the elements of the novel—sudden violence, black spectres, an interminable past—are reminiscent of Melville's great story "Benito Cereno," in which Catholic mystery and African presence come together uncannily.
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Put aside the dubious victories of his early days in New York and Atlantic City, where he proved uncannily good at saving his own financial skin at the expense anyone who worked for him or partnered with him.
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Profile Meg Wolitzer's new novel, "The Female Persuasion," seems uncannily timely, a prescient marriage of subject and moment that addresses a great question of the day: how feminism passes down, or not, from one generation to the next.
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BEHIND THE FLAT'S massive black door now lies a dramatic world created by the polymathic East London-based designer Faye Toogood, whose studio Atalla heard about from a design-minded friend, and whose aesthetic overlaps with his, uncannily.
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If you're already into tongue, don't forget to peel it while it's still warm, when the outer sheath — which feels uncannily like a brittle old dishwashing glove lost under the sink cabinet — will tear off in satisfying sheets.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Researchers in Singapore have built an underwater robot that looks and swims like a manta ray, using only single motors and flexible fins to propel it through water in a manner uncannily like its biological cousin.
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Mr. Stephens, a British playwright best known for his Tony-winning adaptation of Mark Haddon's novel "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," is an uncannily subtle dramatist who never wears his depths on the surface.
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Just the sight of it left me with a distinct and chilling sensation that arose repeatedly while I was researching the quake, attempting to track down those whose experiences had been so uncannily preserved in the documents I'd gathered.
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The rock shrimp — so called as their shells are rock-hard, unlike the brown, pink and tiger varieties, whose shells more closely resemble flimsy plastic — have sweet meats and a texture that resembles uncannily the tail meat of lobsters.
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While Stevens is meant to be theorizing about Gaskell's Italian sabbatical in one of several ways suggested by her increasingly frustrated academic supervisor, what actually captures her imagination is the way Gaskell's fugitive love affair uncannily echoes her own.
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Cooper's introduction included a clip of Aleksandr Kogan -- the Russian-American researcher who created the app that allowed Cambridge Analytica to access Facebook users' private data without their consent -- that managed to underscore Kogan and Zuckerberg's uncannily similar appearance.
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Now the old European style of acting has happily come into American independent filmmaking: lots of stillness and quiet, these moments of privacy, solitude and thinking, from actors who, to us, are strangers — and often uncannily seasoned young people.
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You will not be the first person to blanch slightly when you lift it up in your arms to wash it in the kitchen sink or the bathtub and notice how uncannily it reminds you of your neighbor's beagle.
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Without introducing any notable scenes, Mr Favreau roves around the uncannily convincing savannah at such a leisurely pace that he adds a half hour to the running time, turning a brisk 88-minute cartoon into a dawdling 118-minute movie.
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The atmosphere she's created within the museum space — using dim, diluted UV light installed behind the room's glass ceiling panels — is one strangely like a Berlin techno club, if it were stripped of the noise and bodies and made uncannily clean.
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Things like the subtle falloff of light streaming through a window or the reflections on a weapon have an uncannily realistic effect that clearly wouldn't have been possible to render in real time just a few years ago, never mind 1997.
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It's not altogether surprising that Fitbit's upcoming smartwatch would have an uncannily similar aesthetic to an earlier product, given that Fitbit is known for a more utilitarian design across all of its trackers, with occasional (and sometimes awkward) forays into fashion.
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Such is the through-the-looking-glass world of Leni Zumas's harrowing Red Clocks — a novel so uncannily close to our own surreal political dystopia you might just find yourself reaching to call your Congressperson with the turn of every page.
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"When you roll up to the party with your new look and it turns out you just single white femaled your friend you haven't seen in a year," she wrote next to a snap of the two sporting uncannily similar color.
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"Material" is part of a series of recent works by Mr. Gordon — among them "Timber," played on six planks of wood called simantras, and "Rushes," for seven bassoons — that use acoustic instruments in a way that sounds uncannily like electronic music.
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How ironic it would be if Trump, the tycoon who uncannily connected with America's battered middle class voters, could ultimately bring the benefits of American-style capitalism to Russian workers through the osmosis that could take place under a real alliance.
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Jones, whose right arm cradles a copy of the Bible in a pose that uncannily prefigures that of the Statue of Liberty, is a contemporaneous rebuke to the racist hypocrisies that tainted the Enlightenment principles infusing the creation of the Constitution.
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" Nominees for the theater award include Evan Ruggiero and Elena Wang, the two stars of the Off Broadway musical "Bastard Jones," and Grace Van Patten, whom Ben Brantley of The Times called "uncannily graceful" in Hamish Linklater's play "The Whirligig.
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At first glance, it's hard to know what to make of Solomon's "Got to Go." The book unfolds as a series of black-and-white portraits of people who are either uncannily forthright or in some way distressed, or both.
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At a remove of more than four decades, she maps the divisions splintering America today, and uncannily anticipates some of the dynamics that led to the election of Donald J. Trump and caught so many political and media insiders unawares.
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In my outlook column last year, Damien Courvalin, head of energy research for Goldman Sachs's Global Investment Research commodities team, was uncannily accurate in forecasting that oil prices would recover in 2017 and stabilize at $55 to $60 per barrel.
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The crash strips the survivors of most of the tools that would have allowed them to easily survive on the world, and they have to start from scratch, figuring out how to deal with native plant life that seems aggressive and uncannily intelligent.
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First announced at Google I/O earlier this year, Duplex uses an incredibly, almost uncannily natural-sounding human voice, complete with with "umms" and "ahhs," to intelligently handle real-world tasks for you that Google Assistant otherwise couldn't manage through the internet.
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Wild at Heart's use of comedy and ridiculous situations to tell a serious story is uncannily similar to the way that The New Colossus uses unbelievably violent gameplay and silly poop jokes to tell a serious story about racism, fascism, and American history.
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VENICE, Italy (Reuters) - With his ginger beard, straw hat and a sad, wounded expression, Willem Dafoe looks uncannily like a Vincent Van Gogh self-portrait, as he plays the artist in a biopic that premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Monday.
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The work had the benefit of a deliciously decadent story, based on Georges Rodenbach's Symbolist novel " Bruges-la-Morte ": a widower is wandering through the Flemish city, obsessively mourning his wife, when he meets a dancer who uncannily resembles the dead woman.
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Yet their Dionysian act of worship feels uncannily close to the political ecstasy that concluded "The Childhood of a Leader," and, again, we sense a crack—some kind of buried flaw that runs below a prosperous society and drives its inhabitants to extremes.
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Its extreme brevity (a mere 138 pages) suggests an ambition to join the company of those swift, spare thrillers that deploy a diagrammatic precision and economy of detail to uncannily powerful effect (Josephine Hart's "Damage" and Tim Krabbé's "The Vanishing" come to mind).
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The measured elegance of Gurnah's prose renders his protagonist in a manner almost uncannily real, in part because the author does not elide the young man's transience, but instead makes its slow impact on his life a genuine focus of the story.
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Petropavlovsk uncannily resembles a small, overlooked city in the American West, with its old-timers praising the way things used to be, its restless youth dreaming of metropolitan glamour and escape, and the neighboring Indian reservation an object of disdain and official neglect.
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Familiar emotions are uncannily modulated, sentimentality is injected into something sinister — these, too, are common devices in experimental dance music (as well as vaporwave); they aim to depict the breakdown of conventional structures of feeling and hence access previously unattainable raw emotion.
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There are also descriptive details that seem uncannily similar in both books, including an October wedding between two characters with a 3-month-old baby and a request for a copy of Woman Home's Companion because of a baby with a teething issue.
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For anyone who can recall the sound of a dial-up modem, PEN15 has many details — the gel pens, the note-passing, that strange school-wide roleplay to raise awareness about drunk driving, an infatuation with the Spice Girls — that will feel uncannily familiar.
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There's a new selfie game in town and it wants to turn your 23D visage into uncannily accurate 3D — then splice that axiomatic piece of you into animated cartoon suits that rock out, strut their disco stuff, skateboard, look coy, relaxed or laugh maniacally.
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Kasztelan's works are more figurative-narrative (albeit psychedelically so), often leveraging the pop culture cache of her materials as a symbolic language, while Barlow uncannily provokes an emotional reaction in the viewer through her formal arrangements of informal materials and texture-on-texture-on-texture.
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Back in April, Mark Zuckerberg was asked to respond to the mother of all conspiracy theories when he appeared before a Senate committee: Does Facebook use microphones in our computers and smartphones to listen to our conversations and then serve up uncannily relevant advertisements?
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A night after delivering his Afghanistan plan in mostly sober, if not particularly illuminating language, President Donald Trump entertained his core supporters in Phoenix with a medley of the fiery, at times petulant and uncannily digressive rhetoric he rode to the White House last year.
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When Buchinger was a child, his parents "concealed him as much as possible," but around the age of 20 he — or someone uncannily like him — began to show up as a fairground attraction performing "artistic acts with his stumps" in Leipzig, Strasbourg and Basel.
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Everyone that watched basketball over the past couple of decades agrees that Tim Duncan is a sublimely, uncannily, uniquely great basketball player; many of them, including the person typing these words, think he has a claim on being the best ever to play his position.
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" Among the moves in question are an enthusiastic arm-swinging motion that looks just like the Floss, above, created by a teenager called Backpack Kid, and a snappy number called Fresh that's uncannily like the Carlton Dance from "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
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Despite the sharp alarms being sounded over deepfakes — uncannily realistic AI-generated videos showing real people doing and saying fictional things —security experts believe that the videos ultimately don't offer propagandists much advantage compared to the simpler forms of disinformation they are likely to use.
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The clone looks uncannily like the star pianist Yuja Wang and, after some fiddling with its control panel, plays like her, too, but on the Lang Lang setting, "it" delivers a few bars of Chopin deliciously heavy on rubato and ceiling-gazing demonstrations of ecstasy.
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Uncannily, Zuma's almost superhuman tenacity had been foretold in his middle name, Gedleyihlekisa, a shortened form of the Zulu sentence "ngeke ngithule umuntu engigedla engihlekisa" ("I won't keep quiet when someone deceives me with a beautiful smile while he is doing damage to me").
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"Sontag" is an episodic journey of a life and a body of critical work that uncannily intersect with historical events of the 20th century, from the Vietnam War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the emergence of AIDS and the siege of Sarajevo.
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"At a remove of more than four decades," Ms. Kakutani writes, Ms. Didion "maps the divisions splintering America today, and uncannily anticipates some of the dynamics that led to the election of Donald J. Trump and caught so many political and media insiders unawares."
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"Sontag" is an episodic journey of a life and a body of critical work that uncannily intersect with historical events of the 20th century, from the Vietnam War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the emergence of AIDS and the siege of Sarajevo.
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Eugene McCarthy's anti-Communist crusades of the 1950s, illustrated all too vividly in the persecution of Dalton Trumbo (uncannily evoked by Bryan Cranston), a Hollywood screenwriter with far-left ties, who must find inventive ways for he and his colleagues to survive when their industry blacklists them.
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Her brand of humor lands at the intersection of raunchy and uncannily insightful; her cracks at topics like parenting, gender, class, and dating involve jokes about babies defecating on parents' chests, and why women shouldn't ever have to give another blow job after they've given birth.
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Building a new culture and identity, after saying a more declarative goodbye to the Tom Thibodeau Administration with their dismissal of Rose and Joakim Noah—they are, uncannily, both now New York Knicks—will not be easy in a locker room awash in these brilliant, abrasive ciphers.
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The 41-year-old retired baseball star and newly minted Fox Sports analyst shared another Carballosa photo that shows him cuddling with his lady love, who happens to be wearing a green palm-print robe that looks uncannily like her iconic Versace gown from the 2000 Grammys.
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Senate Democrats used the Wednesday confirmation hearing of Andrew Wheeler, the acting administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to push him on the agency's negligence on climate change, its rollback of regulations designed to protect Americans' health, and his uncannily close ties to the fossil fuel industry.
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LOS ANGELES — In their 1938 radio adaptation of H.G. Wells's "The War of the Worlds," Orson Welles and his Mercury Theater troupe proved that simulated news — in that case, an uncannily realistic account of an alien invasion — could make for pulse-quickening, even panic-inducing entertainment.
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Accompanying a piano refrain uncannily reminiscent of Jewel's "Foolish Games", the cursive opening titles set against the sight of a secluded country estate suggest a tongue planted firmly in cheek (though it is planted upon a great range of orifices over the course of the film).
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The show looks as though it's aimed at building out the world we first saw in The Bourne Identity, following a group of sleeper agents as they discover they're uncannily good at getting in and out of fights but are conditioned to not remember their training.
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So you spent the summer dating a litany of grad school students whose names start with the letter J. The bartender at the uncannily expensive dive bar on your corner has publicly acknowledged the fact that you seem to go on a lot of first dates.
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There are seven tableaus featuring uncannily realistic life-cast figures, like "A Brawl in Harvard Yard," which shows George Washington breaking up a fight between troops from New England and Virginia in the early days of the war, an incident later documented in a pension application.
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In his novel Hermaphrodito, whose title evokes a gendered state once considered the irreconcilable combination of opposites, Savinio's use of multilingual texts undermines any attempt by a single-language translation to preserve the spirit of the work — uncannily foreshadowing current debates about cultural identity, appropriation, and assimilation.
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Luckily for those of us obsessed with the uncannily accurate nature of ads on Facebook platforms, a group of academic researchers decided to do a deep dive into how Facebook custom audiences work to find out how users' phone numbers and email addresses get sucked into the advertising ecosystem.
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"The Long Room" is uncannily reminiscent of "Jill," by Philip Larkin, about a provincial boy who goes up to Oxford with high hopes, only to be overwhelmed by loneliness and longing, a sense that life is something that goes on elsewhere, in sparkling rooms he glimpses from the street.
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The honeyed warmth of Maeve Höglund's soprano (the noble Arminda) gained impressive bloom in the course of the evening, and the mezzo-soprano Kristin Gornstein, pacing the lawn as Ramiro, whom Arminda rejects, spun lines of an uncannily silky legato that transcended the tricky acoustics of the open space.
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He appears in the video as a Wonka-esque master of ceremonies, coyly toying with the characters in his own personal circus; it's a cynical nod to the industry's deepening depersonalization and corporatization, a bird's-eye view in which it seemed Petty peered uncannily into the future of the music business.
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She describes the collision of the ephemeral with the technological in the Victorian era, noting that "early photography was almost uncannily predisposed to the creation of ghostly images": if the light was affected during the long exposure period, or someone entered the frame briefly, it would result in a phantom image.
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This is why Donald Trump's mistake was profound: In the few seconds that it took for him to dismiss this mother and her inconveniently fussy baby from his presence, the real estate magnate uncannily channeled and reinforced (among other things) an old-school workplace culture too familiar to any woman watching.
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What's special about this bright-blue solution, in addition to the fact that it smells uncannily like beef jerky, is that it seeks to bust the myth that retinoids are always drying, instead working to reduce redness, calm irritation, and leave skin soothed — and not even a little bit blue.
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The descent of Austria from electoral politics to authoritarianism and Anschluss uncannily parallels the Roman Republic's slide into civil war and tyranny, fates that hinged on the assassination of a dictator: Julius Caesar by a conspiracy of Senators and, almost 2000 years later, Engelbert Dollfuss by a conspiracy of Austrian Nazis.
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Sometimes, Americans and Soviets are more alike than different: In earlier seasons especially, the Great Leader art on the walls of D.C.'s Soviet embassy—all the Lenins and the Brezhnevs—is uncannily matched by the proliferation, in both number and size, of portraits of Reagan in American government buildings.
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A springtime starter of white asparagus, for instance: The plump spears were topped with crunchy shards of candied almond and accompanied by a fruity hibiscus cream, but the cream was tart and the asparagus — slowly cooked and slightly smoky from a burnt-hay butter — uncannily savory, creating a satisfying balance.
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The confusion between desiring people and desiring what they can do for you; the overarching anxiety about, simply, possessing; the difficulty, when confronted with the language of love and caring, of distinguishing whether it's real or feigned — it's all here, uncannily beautiful, in a form that sounds as old as time.
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But for many of us, there are certain shows that go well beyond being an addictive watch; they're the shows that almost feel like part of us, the ones that uncannily tap into the most granular details of our lives or give us a new perspective on the world we live in.
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I especially love the climactic phrase when Ms. Price, after leaping to a glorious high B flat, takes a quick breath then sings a plush A flat (a sighing "Ah") that slips smoothly down to a sustained, uncannily steady G — those two notes prolonged on a single breath for almost 15 seconds.
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In "Assembled Identity," a high-tech sci-fi drama at Here, the genetics registry is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the sisters (Mariana Newhard and Lipica Shah) have a lot of company — women from all over the world, each with long, dark hair, all looking uncannily like them.
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Punctuated by a twitchy, uncannily on-point turn from Tim Blake Nelson as a crucial witness named Ralph Myers, "Just Mercy" is transformed from a mere billboard declaring that racism is bad to an intimate, immediate and deeply moving portrait of the trauma and psychic toll imposed on its victims and practitioners.
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Unlike vexing bait-and-switch concepts like a cauliflower steak or pork-free mushroom bacon, this vegan take on cacio e pepe is shockingly similar to the original, delivering a result that is so uncannily similar, in both mouthfeel and flavor, that the people you feed might not realize it lacks dairy.
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Topping the list for most read fiction is Margaret Atwood's uncannily prescient dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale, followed by Stephen King's tale of killer clowns It. Both novels had breakout adaptations this year after Hulu transformed Handmaids into an Emmy-winning television series and Andrés Muschietti brought It back to the big screen in September.
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And by featuring artists alphabetically rather than chronologically, otherwise unrelated works can communicate with each other in elegant, sometimes moving ways, as when Jordan Casteel's 2017 oil portrait of a seated man in Harlem, "Q," faces Elizabeth Catlett's 1993 sculpture of a seated woman, "Woman Fixing Her Hair," their posture, eyes, and gaze uncannily alike.
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On Black's mark, the firing line erupted, and the shooting range alighted with what seemed like a million tracer streaks moving uncannily fast over the land, glancing off the far hillside and careening high into the sky, where they floated delicately for a moment before disappearing like dying fireflies among the first stars of night.
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Ron is played by John David Washington, who can sound uncannily like his father, Denzel, the star of Mr. Lee's "Malcolm X." Ron infiltrates the Klan with the help of a colleague, Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver), who pals around with Klan members in person in scenes that are by turns surreal, absurd and hair-raising.
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Now, as Mr. Trump faces his own mushrooming legal troubles, he has taken to using a vocabulary that sounds uncannily like that of Mr. Gotti and his fellow mobsters in the waning days of organized crime, when ambitious prosecutors like Rudolph W. Giuliani tried to turn witnesses against their bosses to win racketeering convictions.
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Not because it looks like anyplace you've been — but because it resembles, uncannily, someplace you might have seen: the realm of "Princess Mononoke," the animated masterpiece that is largely set in a forest thick with ancient trees and ancient gods, where the struggle between nature and man — and for Japan's very soul — is waged.
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For years Mr. Conrad was a beloved figure in the Boston musical community, whose parties at his home in Charlestown often included a performance by Flurry Knox, a beagle, who, with Mr. Conrad at the piano, would bark out what sounded uncannily like the opening phrases of Verdi's showpiece tenor aria "Di quella pira."
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Our own fanciful imagining of the first 100 days of a Trump presidency, published a year ago in The World If, our annual collection of scenarios, proved in parts to be uncannily close to what actually transpired, especially its speculation that Russian hacking of Hillary Clinton's e-mails might have helped to swing the 2016 election.
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The game really relies on these characters to fill out the feelings and emotions of orcs outside of the encounters you have with them in combat; Shadow of War is uncannily committed to showing that the orcs and trolls are thinking, feeling, real people (which is what really drives the grossness of the Nemesis System home).
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Certain works reference the country's current political situation, sometimes in crass ways, such as with Jeffery Vallance's Trump Pareidolia (2019), a two-channel video of slabs of meat and other substances that uncannily resemble Donald Trump — Vallance, an invited artist, sourced his imagery from the archives of a Facebook group established in 2016 to record Trump simulacra.
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The press's newest title, New York City Transit Authority: Objects, vividly exemplifies Reed and Smyth's finely tuned approach, but in order to understand how and why it does, it helps to know a bit about how they somewhat unexpectedly became publishers, a story that often seems to be the stuff of happenstance and uncannily good timing.
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The transexual nature of the image, which Freud treats entirely casually — Dawson is set far back in the room, while the writer Francis Wyndham dominates the foreground, relaxing on a leather love seat with a book of Gustave Flaubert's letters, as Pluto, again asleep, curls at his feet — uncannily plumbs the heart of one of today's fiercest cultural debates.
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While there are few who would deny that Brickstand's output up until now represents quite some achievement as a body of work, especially not after having seen the meticulous, uncannily accurate and aesthetically satisfying stadium models that Chris makes, it would be reasonable to wonder aloud why exactly someone would embark upon such a demanding enterprise.
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While a woke Bieber is a happy Bieber, it looks like this may not last for long, because singer-songwriter Casey Dienel announced yesterday that she was about to drop a fat lawsuit on the heads of him, Skrillex and everybody else involved in creating his 2015 hit "Sorry," because she alleges it's uncannily similar to her 2014 track "Ring the Bell".
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It is uncannily well timed to our current political situation and the outcry over the culture of normalized sexual violence, perfectly calibrated for letting people know what it's like to walk through society as a woman now — worrying about who might be following you, being careful not to drink something that might have been tainted by someone trying to take advantage.
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Twenty-six years ago this month, Donald J. Trump sat down with Glenn Plaskin, a celebrity columnist, and, over a glass of chilled Coke, offered a grievance-filled economic agenda, a searing denunciation of weak-kneed American leadership and a keen understanding of his appeal to blue-collar Americans that uncannily resembled the White House campaign he is waging today — without Twitter, which didn't yet exist.
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Whether discussing the world's first crossword book (published by Simon & Schuster, in 1924, which started their company), or reminiscing about the creative influence of his mother (Wilma, who wrote children's stories and articles about horses), or showing off a century-old magazine full of Sam Loyd puzzles (his "childhood hero"), Mr. Shortz, who is 64, exudes an infectious, boyish enthusiasm that registers as uncannily genuine.
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The words of America's founders are also uncannily prescient: Washington's Farewell Address, for instance, warns of the dangers of demagoguery, extreme partisanship and the loss of shared ideals, while "The Federalist Papers" (authored by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay) provides an impassioned and fiercely rational defense of the Constitution and the essential role that the separation of powers plays in protecting our liberty.
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"I'm 39, about to turn 40, and people like me who came of age in America in the '80s and '90s, we got used to a fairly predictable world," said Nate Silver, the founder of the data-news site FiveThirtyEight, whose uncannily accurate forecast of the 2012 presidential election while at The New York Times set off wide interest in data-based journalistic predictions.
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In one graphic, the lower half of a man's face with its mouth bound shut (an icon widely used by the prisoner's movement) is projected in such a way as to uncannily anthropomorphize the facade of the building itself; in another, a silhouetted outline of Palestine appears bisected by the shape of a contracted stomach, thus transforming the territory into a kind of collective national body.
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There never was a similar trial for Richard Strauss regarding the genesis of his "Elektra," one of the great operas of the 20th century, even though significant elements of it — including the opening, the end and the musical motif representing Orest, one of its key characters — are uncannily close to corresponding parts of an opera written a few years earlier by a composer who had sent his score to Strauss.
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One was the crisis of 2008, after which a lot of ordinary Americans turned their attention to the financial-services industry and discovered something that looked, on the surface, uncannily like a classic bilking: There was a lot of hard-to-follow shifting about of who owned what and who owed what to whom, and in the end a lot of people found that their retirement savings had vanished.
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That phenomenon is meant to extend to the experience of "DAU" now: The two Paris theaters are supposed to be immersive worlds in which screening rooms — Mr. Khrzhanovsky edited more than 700 hours of footage into 13 films — are only one element of an environment meant to evoke the Institute at every turn, with period-appropriate cuisine served and dressed-up wax figures placed, uncannily, among the crowds of visitors.
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Then comes chicken, perhaps deep-fried with a lacy crust or in a red sauce heaped with sali (matchstick potatoes that snap), or lamb in a creamy white sauce of coconut and cashews; and pulao with dal and kebabs, uncannily close to dhansak — but not quite: Dhansak, while delicious, is considered inauspicious for a wedding, since it is customarily served on the fourth day after a loved one dies, to announce that mourning is over.
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Uncannily, the French artist ORLAN, in 19813-75, did a similar photo grid, "Occasional Striptease with Trousseau Sheets," consisting of 18 self-portraits, at first costumed like Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Saint Teresa, madonna-like, suckling a swaddled bundle of fabric, but by the fifteenth shot she's not dressed at all, à la Botticelli's Venus, with the final image simply the pile of sheets on the floor, as if she had ascended into heaven or melted into the earth.
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To put fiction in a realm where it can and should be appreciated only via a sophisticated toolkit of literary hermeneutics seems to me to ignore some of its most basic pleasures, one of which is recognition or, in certain cases, relatability: No, we shouldn't expect to relate to every character, to every story, but I would venture that many readers' favorite moments in fiction seem to eerily, uncannily capture a sensation, an emotion, an experience they have lived.
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The deep house you're hearing there, or down the gym, or in a trainer shop in an out of town shopping mall, the pulled-pork-deep-house that dominates a certain kind of festival, attended by a certain kind of person, is a strangely airy, uncannily soulless construction, an assemblage of springy basslines and tropically-twisted pads, usually topped off with refrains that linger in the memory about as long as a piece of Wrigleys does on the tastebuds.
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The tension between abstraction and illusion can be felt throughout the works in this show, starting with the earliest canvas, "Untitled" (1971), a series of overlapping and interlocking brushstrokes that create a twisting, wiry design uncannily resembling the kind of open-frame, three-dimensional objects he would construct later on, and ending with the last, "Thinking About It" (1980), in which an irregular grid climbing up the right half of the canvas seems struck by raking light from a fiery sunset.
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