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eerie and silence
When I had finished, the silence seemed even gloomier and even more eerie than before.
Isolated individuals seem lost in industrial wastelands, full of high rise construction, concrete street-scapes and an eerie feeling of harmony and equilibrium – where silence and stillness create a deathly ambience.
This is followed by the eerie silence of the battlefield after action, broken by a lone trumpet playing the Last Post.
" There was an eerie silence ," Mirkin said.
After the image, there's an eerie silence as the words " Only You Can Silence Yourself " appear, followed by a voice whispering " Register to vote now.
As it reached its target and dived, the sound of the propulsion unit spluttering and cutting out, followed by an eerie hush before impact, was quite terrifying, though the silence was also a warning to seek shelter ( later V-1s were corrected to have the originally-intended power dive ).
His call for help degenerates into screams of terror, followed by an eerie silence.

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" Similarly, Louie Kemp, in his article for Jewish Journal, wrote: " You might remember him as Don Vito Corleone, Stanley Kowalski or the eerie Col. Walter E. Kurtz in " Apocalypse Now ," but I remember Marlon Brando as a mensch and a personal friend of the Jewish people when they needed it most.
The eerie musical piece during the tense scene in the film where Ben finds the rifle in the closet inside the farmhouse as the radio reports of mayhem play in the background can be heard in longer and more complete form during the opening credits and the beginning of The Devil's Messenger ( 1961 ) starring Lon Chaney Jr. Another piece, accompanying Barbra's flight from the cemetery zombie, was taken from the score for The Hideous Sun Demon ( 1959 ).
However, in an eerie repeat of the 2005 playoffs, the Spurs bounced back to sweep the next four, as the Nuggets were eliminated in the first round in five games for the fourth straight year.
Traditional names for A. millefolium include arrowroot, bad man's plaything, bloodwort, carpenter's weed, death flower, devil's nettle, eerie, field hops, gearwe, hundred leaved grass, knight's milefoil, knyghten, milefolium, milfoil, millefoil, noble yarrow, nosebleed, old man's mustard, old man's pepper, sanguinary, seven year's love, snake's grass, soldier, soldier's woundwort, stanchweed, thousand seal, woundwort, yarroway, yerw.
Along with the similarity in their names, McCarey and Cary Grant shared an eerie physical resemblance, making mimicking McCarey's intonations and expressions even easier for Grant.
The school, with its eerie overturned wheelchairs and neo-classical hospital, remains a magnet for adventurous locals, the police, and amateur photographers.
The text certainly indicates that very least the husband might have “ sought refuge in death ” also “ ot only does W1 threaten both her own life and that of W2, but W1 describes herself as ‘ Dying for dark ,’ and W2 affirms, ‘ I felt like death .’ As so often with Beckett, the loose clichés assume an eerie literality .”
Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, also liked it, writing, " Slowly, through a process of guarded discourse, which director John Sturges has built up by patient, methodical pacing of his almost completely male cast, an eerie light begins to glimmer ... Quite as interesting as the drama, which smacks of being contrived, are the types of masculine creatures paraded in this film.
The final began with eerie resemblances to same fixture earlier in the tournament when England bowled out Pakistan for a paltry 74, as Derek Pringle dismissed both Pakistani openers at 24.
...( 1 ) it is famous for the myriad hominid fossils and stone tools discovered there, ( 2 ) I've been there, ( 3 ) its long hollow sound is eerie and ominous, and ( 4 ) it is a good metaphor for the ' Stone Age way of life '.
The show was known for its eerie theme song composed by Michael Boyd and Gary Remal Malkin, as well as Stack's unmistakable voice and presence, which became synonymous with the show.
" Astronomers in Bochum, West Germany, had observed a bright glow on the lunar surface — the same sort of eerie luminescence that has intrigued moon watchers for centuries.
Under very tight budgetary constraints, Shimizu's films garnered much acclaim from both critics and genre fans for their effective use of limited locations and eerie atmosphere to generate chills.
One evening Eastwood and Siegel had been watching the San Francisco 49ers in the Kezar Stadium in the last game of the season and thought the eerie Greek amphitheater-like setting would be an excellent location for shooting one of the scenes where Callahan encounters the psychopathic killer Scorpio.
For example, due to the eerie sound produced, bullroarers were sometimes used in late-ninteenth-and early-twentieth-century America in the southern United States for playing elaborate practical jokes on superstitious country dwellers.
Each storyteller would begin their story by saying " Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this story ..." at which point he or she would toss a handful of " midnight dust " ( in actuality, a non-dairy creamer ) from a leather pouch into a campfire to heighten the flames and produce an eerie white smoke.
Carolinum bombs, contrary to A-bombs, continue to detonate for years with an eerie purple glow.
Their loud eerie wailing calls carry for long distances.
At the height of his success, some of the children with Stauf's dolls came down with a incurable virus ; meanwhile, Stauf, guided by another vision, built an eerie mansion on the edge of town, and after its construction, was not seen for some time.
David Langford described Theis in SFX as " a malaprop genius, a McGonagall of prose with an eerie gift for choosing the wrong word and then misapplying it.
Tsutomu's eerie corporeal similarity to the Manbou lead singer Ken Nakagawa from " Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai ” has caused several fangirls mistaking him for the musician and fanatically accosting him for an autograph, being given a love letter, or being chased around all over the place.
In Joseph Schwantner's ... and the mountains rising nowhere the composer calls for the instrument to be bowed with a double bass bow, producing an eerie, sustained glass harmonica-like effect.

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Lawyer Philip Galt ( Carleton G. Young ), due to a college football injury, lost his voice and can only speak in an eerie whisper.
This is the only one of Shostakovich's six concertos to end quietly ; it is concluded with an eerie exchange of the cello and woodblock, and draws to a low close.
Joe Donnoly, who knew Engblom, was impressed by Ledger's attention to detail, saying, " He's almost eerie in how precisely he nailed not only the mannerisms, cadence and physical presence of Skip ... but also how he raises Skip's spirit, which is the heart and soul and most what's really great in a not-altogether-great film.

eerie and radio
On the night of May 16, Sakai, Nishizawa and Ota were listening to a broadcast of an Australian radio program, when Nishizawa recognized the eerie " Danse Macabre " of Camille Saint-Saëns.

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His music shows a sensuality coupled with an eerie quality that suggest somehow a blood-kinship with Dappertutto in Offenbach's Hoffman.
As the two cars roared by, there was a high-pitched eerie, nerve-shattering sound.
He created a more elaborate scarecrow costume, with eerie luminous paint.
Mipps escaped in the confusion of Syn's death and disappeared from England, but it is said that a little man very much like him is living out his days in a Buddhist Monastery somewhere in the Malay Peninsula, delighting the monks with recounting the adventures of Doctor Syn and the eerie stories of the Romney Marsh and the mysterious Scarecrow and his night riders.
The elf makes many appearances in ballads of English and Scottish origin, as well as folk tales, many involving trips to Elphame or Elfland ( the Álfheim of Norse mythology ), a mystical realm which is sometimes an eerie and unpleasant place.
* Psychological horror – Relies on characters ' fears, guilt, beliefs, eerie sound effects, relevant music, emotional instability and at times, the supernatural and ghosts, to build tension and further the plot.
It creates an eerie and frightening atmosphere.
In Australia, the art journal the art life has recently detected the presence of a " New Irrealism " among the painters of that country, which is described as being an " approach to painting that is decidedly low key, deploying its effects without histrionic showmanship, while creating an eerie other world of ghostly images and abstract washes.
The painting demonstrates an eerie beauty as the graceful figures kneel in adoration around the infant Christ in a wild landscape of tumbling rock and whirling water.
The God Pan played music on his pipes that has always been described as eerie and many people have been said to be intimidated by his irregular tunes.
This has led to its association with a very eerie sound.
* April 21 – Residents of Dover, Massachusetts report sightings of an eerie monster.
Soon afterward they released the album Phaedra, an eerie soundscape that unexpectedly reached # 15 in the United Kingdom album charts and became one of Virgin's first bona-fide hits.
During the 19th and 20th centuries, Ferrara hosted and inspired a number of important painters who grew fond of its eerie atmosphere: among them Giovanni Boldini, Filippo de Pisis and Giorgio de Chirico.
This was done to create an eerie, other-worldly feeling, and the director has prohibited dubbing into other languages, however on the Special Features section of the DVD the makers claim that Esperanto was used because of perceived greater international sales.
" Jean Oppenheimer of New Times ( LA ) praised the film, saying, " Like gathering storm clouds, Donnie Darko creates an atmosphere of eerie calm and mounting menace – stands as one of the most exceptional movies of 2001.
" McCarey is largely credited with concocting this persona, and the two men even shared an eerie physical resemblance along with a similarity in their names.
The ka-tet leaves the city via the Kansas Turnpike, and as they camp one night next to an eerie dimensional hole which Roland calls a " thinny ," the gunslinger tells his apprentices of his past, and his first encounter with a thinny.
Local lore has it that Lovecraft's girlfriend attended the school and was exposed to the diverse community in an eerie location.

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