| He was unapproachable, sometimes rude, always sarcastic, but it was also clear that he was uncannily observant. |
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| The film does not purport to be a documentary, but its depiction of the events of January 30 1972 is uncannily accurate. |
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| With effort, she raised herself into a sitting position and realized that her head was uncannily heavy. |
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| The skies cracked as a shaft of lightning, unleashed with the power of electrical fury, uncannily sped towards his still form on the ground. |
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| Lucy's delirium uncannily resembles Anna O.'s vision of a death's head in Studies on Hysteria. |
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| Perversely, the massed violins, violas and cellos can sometimes sound uncannily like a lone synthesiser. |
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| All the more striking, then, are the resemblances between their early experiences, in many respects uncannily close. |
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| But the commuter train is half empty, the flow of traffic at rush hour is uncannily smooth. |
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| The horse's gait changed to a gallop, and the muffled rhythm of the hoof beats crescendoed until they were uncannily loud and hollow. |
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| The pattern of scoring had been uncannily close to that in the defeat that put England out of the last European Championship. |
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| Rather worryingly, one of the drivers I heard this afternoon sounded uncannily like a BBC continuity announcer I know. |
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| The artists lit them against black backdrops to create uncannily accurate portraits. |
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| The passage from St. Augustine uncannily prefigures the couplet of Hafiz which I quoted above. |
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| Kreativer Inspirierender Berater tends to be alert and often uncannily correct. |
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| Such sound shifts in comparative linguistics parallel, almost uncannily, the slow march of genetic mutations as offspring populations gradually separate from a parent stock. |
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| The days were getting longer, the blossom was on the trees and even in our back garden, the barren earth was being pierced by what look uncannily like daffs and tulips. |
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| With its wobbly sets, sensationalist plots, appalling acting, crude camerawork and dopey dialogue it was uncannily reminiscent of bad soaps in general. |
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| This spread of instantly accessible energy makes this big, heavy car uncannily wieldy. |
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| Proctor is also top-notch, and uncannily reminiscent of Will Ferrell. |
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| He has been uncannily successful at making Mitt Romney, not himself, the main subject of the campaign. |
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| He is also uncannily good at guessing what time it is without looking at a watch. |
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| His voice was deep and powerful, uncannily like Henry Kissinger's: not quacky, pleading Viennese but booming, arrogant German. |
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| Blake is blessed with one of the strongest arms in the league, which allows him to uncork uncannily accurate deep balls and stretch defenses vertically. |
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| He even proved uncannily accurate in anticipating the Florida launch site, Pacific Ocean splashdown, and recovery by U.S. naval forces of the Apollo missions. |
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| Donald also looked uncannily like a much younger version of his father, and it was hard not to imagine Charles sitting alongside his family. |
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| When I was a child, the Barcelona underground was Soviet-made and, uncannily, the Russian subway makes exactly the same noise. |
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| Fresh berry, faintly tart fruit skin, and nut oils inform an uncannily kinetic finish that makes one's mouth quiver. |
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| The paintings tied in uncannily with the music being played and were projected onto a screen via a video projector, for everyone to see. |
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| The structure of the universe seems uncannily suited to the development of life. |
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| In fact it is uncannily like the real thing in appearance, but the taste lacks the level of saltiness and fishiness you would find in the genuine article. |
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| What he writes about York corresponds uncannily with my memory of what actually happened and includes anecdotal material which I have not seen written down anywhere else. |
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| The shrimp balls consisted of finely chopped shrimp in a doughy batter, and the result was uncannily like a matzo ball, only smaller, firmer and shrimp-flavoured. |
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| Despite these differences, their exhibitions are uncannily complementary. |
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| Wigs, body doubles, and computer effects enable him to appear as several different characters in a given tableau, always looking uncannily like a boy on the edge of puberty. |
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| Both men's figures for the Earth's circumference were uncannily accurate, aided in each case by mutually compensating errors in measurement. |
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| As a protorap song, Dylan's rant ratchets uncannily with the track, the words frequently dissolving into the beat. |
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| Even before they enter the museum proper, visitors' journey into the past begins with a welcome from a Tyrannosaurus Rex and a Diplodocus, or rather, two uncannily realistic life-size models. |
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| She looks uncannily like Mark, with a crop of soft dark curls. |
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| This calls to mind the last time they had to win the final game of a top-flight season to stand any reasonable chance of avoiding relegation, back in 2009, when their visitors, uncannily, were Manchester United. |
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| If you leave those green oasis-often dotted with toned women in bikinis and uncannily defined men in short shorts-you will find a new gem: the Sunday street. |
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| Paul Greengrass's uncannily similar movie about those in peril on the sea turns the tension up to no more than six and a half. |
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| And he bore an uncannily resemblance to the spaghetti monster sketch. |
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| The Skin I Live In feels uncannily familiar, as if sutured together from a range of source material – Pygmalion, Frankenstein, Vertigo, the seminal 1960 surgical chiller Eyes Without a Face. |
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| The depiction of post-riot London uncannily anticipates Ground Zero. |
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| Through all those zigs and zags, Donzy has shifted its politics in the same perverse pattern as the nation, often producing percentages uncannily close to the national vote. |
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| Their mission statements are uncannily similar. |
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| Masters of knife-fighting and uncannily light on their feet, these menacing figures will employ any means to dispatch their victims, be it poisoned knives thrown from afar, or a dagger planted in the back. |
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| Coolidge's premonition proved to be uncannily accurate. |
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| It's an uncannily coherent landscape, a kind of hyperintellectual, hypersexual, digital-era Yoknapatawpha that moves back and forth across the Atlantic, across the Mexican border, across the former Soviet bloc. |
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| The psychological atmosphere that surrounds the viewing of hominid fossils is uncannily reminiscent of the veneration of relicts at a medieval shrine. |
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| Looking uncannily like a hovering spaceship, the Vulcan Tourism and Trek Station is staffed by the captain and crew of the Starship Enterprise, who are happy to join you in a photo shoot on the main bridge. |
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| The vocals sound uncannily similar to Space Oddity Bowie on strong opener The Upsetter, while Month Of Sundays also has the feel of that era. |
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| Both men's figures for the Earth's circumference were uncannily accurate, aided in part in each case by mutually compensating errors in measurement. |
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