To ears informed by the twenty-first century, it's the uncanny feeling of listening to three-and-a-half decades of experimental music history as delivered in a chillingly prescient sort of reverse premonition ...

To this was added, by later practitioners, a feeling for the ' sublime ' and uncanny, and an interest in ancient English poetic forms and folk poetry.

The uncanny valley is the region of negative emotional response towards robots that seem " almost human ".

Androids as an experimental apparatus: Why is there an uncanny valley and can we exploit it?

Viewing an " uncanny " robot elicits an innate fear of death and culturally-supported defenses for coping with death ’ s inevitability .... artially disassembled androids ... play on subconscious fears of reduction, replacement, and annihilation: ( 1 ) A mechanism with a human facade and a mechanical interior plays on our subconscious fear that we are all just soulless machines.

'" While some movie critics continue to argue that the film remains in the uncanny valley, Kevin Kelly postulates that " we have passed beyond the uncanny valley into the plains of hyperreality.

Androids as an experimental apparatus: Why is there an uncanny valley and can we exploit it?

His proof of the vast collective unconscious was his concept of synchronicity, that inexplicable, uncanny connectedness that we all share.

2, with writers Len Wein, who he called his favorite writer — " It was uncanny, how in tune we were ... incredible mesh " — as well as Roger Stern and Bill Mantlo ; the Defenders, with Wein and Steve Gerber ; Thor, with Walt Simonson and John Workman ; and various Spider-Man titles with Gerry Conway and J. M.

" There was not a trick or a piece of business we asked the dog to do that he wasn't able to do ; it was uncanny.

The abject can be uncanny in the sense that we can recognize aspects in it, despite its being " foreign ": a corpse, having fallen out of the symbolic order, creates abjection through its uncanniness-creates a cognitive dissonance.

Robert Alan Aurthur, who was present during the filming and interviewing of Truman later said, "... an image I can easily evoke ... in that brief time when we knew and worked with Harry Truman, is any moment when Merle Miller walked into a room or office where Harry Truman was waiting ... if Truman did not ignore the rest of us completely ... for Merle, always a smile, always an inside greeting that had to do with a couple of fellas from Missouri and Iowa ... both were from the Midwest ; both had strong mothers, weak eyes ... a boyhood and lifelong devotion to books and music, total dedication to the truth, and a sense of history which encompasses an uncanny ability to relate past events, great and small, not with 20-20 hindsight or fashionable revisionism, but purely in their own terms as they happened.

Using narrative, parable and exposition, Eiseley has the uncanny ability to make us feel that we are accompanying him on a journey into the very heart of the universe.

" Heron used that most rare and uncanny of gifts: the ability to invent an imagery that was unmistakenly his own, and yet which connects immediately with the natural world as we perceive it, and transforms our vision of it.

Based on his experience, he says " it is important to point out that the mathematical formulation of the physicist ’ s often crude experience leads in an uncanny number of cases to an amazingly accurate description of a large class of phenomena.

If the experience is well done, everyone leaves both scared out of their wits, believing that something uncanny did in fact happen as a result of the nocturnal rite, and most importantly, convinced of their own courage: they have successfully invoked and defied whatever haunts that place.

Not long after, his daughter Margeret ( Leon ), who bears an uncanny resemblance to the princess, starts to experience strange dreams.

" Schwarzkopf said that Trưởng was " the most brilliant tactical commander I'd ever known " and that " by visualizing the terrain and drawing on his experience fighting the enemy for fifteen years, Truong showed an uncanny ability to predict what they were going to do ".

Baker notes the uncanny way that both authors imply an ironic " justification by ownership " over the subject of sacrificing children — Tertullian while attacking pagan parents, and Swift while attacking the English mistreatment of the Irish poor.

Despite Douglas ' demure appearance — she stood at and weighed, and was always immaculately dressed in pearls, a floppy straw hat and gloves — she had an uncanny ability to get her point across.

* In microbiology, the shmoo's uncanny resemblance to budding yeast — combined with its near-limitless usefulness — has led to the character's adoption as a mascot of sorts for scientists studying yeast as a model organism for genetics and cell biology.

First published in 1881, the novel follows the lives of a prince and a beggar — both of them of adolescent age — who use their uncanny resemblance to each other as a premise to switch places temporarily ; the prince takes on a life of poverty and misery while the pauper enjoys the lavish luxuries of a royal life.

Will Jordan ( born July 27, 1927 ) is an American character actor who is best known for his resemblance to — and ability to do uncanny impressions of — television host and newspaper columnist Ed Sullivan.

However, after taking eight wickets for 63 runs in a match in the Sri Lankan Cricket Premier League, his bowling figures were mentioned in the Notes by the Editor in the Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack 2004 — not particularly because of the achievement, but because of the uncanny number of initials, which prompted the rhetorical question: " Is this an elaborate joke, along the lines of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch ?".

The shadowy photography by Robert de Grasse was done in stylish chiaroscuro shadings, giving the film an uncanny feel.

Luke ends up in the crystal cave himself-and Merlin, after yet another uncanny encounter with a shape-shifting werewolf ( which escapes, minus an ear and with severe burns ) and that appears to be backed by Mask.

Following the " merger " with Leyland, the new company's board bore an uncanny resemblance to the senior management team that had hitherto headed up the Leyland half of the partnership, so comments of the management team on the profitability of the former BMC elements need to be viewed with caution.

The uncanny valley may " be symptomatic of entities that elicit a model of a human other but do not measure up to it ".

A similar " uncanny valley " effect could, according to the ethical-futurist writer Jamais Cascio, show up when humans begin modifying themselves with transhuman enhancements ( cf.

Beyond statistics, Lott had an uncanny awareness of how a play was developing, which allowed him to break up passes and earn a reputation as one of the hardest and most efficient open-field tacklers in the history of the league.

An analysis by Fangraphs showed that Righetti has an uncanny knack for teaching pitchers to not give up homeruns.

Wataru also seems to possess an uncanny ability to show up exactly when a sister needs him most.

Jack grew up to become a lieutenant in the Los Angeles Police Department, where his professionalism and uncanny talent have helped him establish a nearly-legendary reputation.

Duncan ends up running into a high school thug named Wedge ( Lamont Johnson ), and gets in trouble, but also ends up discovering an uncanny ability to kick field goals, and joins the school's football team.

" The Globe and Mail also praised the direction: " Reynolds shows an uncanny confidence with the camera, a sureness which is backed up by a powerful visual sensitivity and an ear for language, especially the vernacular of Texas, where the film is set.

As a boy of two, Madan Mohan used to spend hours listening to gramophone records and cultivated the uncanny ability to recognize and pick up any record from a pile of hundreds.

Jack attempts to greet Charlie, but ends up terrifying him with his uncanny appearance.

A 2006 article stated that contemporary psychologic research often did not reflect substantial recent developments in psychometrics and " bears an uncanny resemblance to the psychometric state of the art as it existed in the 1950s.

However, in response to the uncanny similarity of the artwork with the September 11, 2001, attacks, the album release was held back until alternative cover art could be prepared.

Denny Borsboom ( 2006 ) argues that mainstream contemporary test analysis does not reflect substantial recent developments in the field and " bears an uncanny resemblance to the psychometric state of the art as it existed in the 1950s.

The term and credit " production designer ", sometimes used interchangeably with the term and credit " art director ", was coined specifically for Menzies to refer to his being the final word on the overall look of the production, and it was intended to describe his uncanny ability to translate Selznick's ideas to drawings and paintings from which he and his fellow directors worked.

State-of-the art designed wing-tip geometry and variable multi-plane flaps make the Falcon a supersonic strike fighter with uncanny speed and agility, that can outmanoeuvre any other known fighter plane.