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The technique gave their illustrations an uncanny hand-drawn vibrancy.
His movements are slow and deliberate, and his voice has an uncanny steadiness to it.
At the age of eighty-four, he retains an unfaltering command of rhythm and an uncanny sensitivity to orchestral balances.
Farmers and herders have known for centuries that herds of cattle have an uncanny ability to all point in the same direction.
The daily spectacle was delirious, uncanny, the range of goods boundless and utterly random.
And presidential greatness, in the moment, requires a uncanny combination of powers.
The bicycle lamp sent a beam of strong white light deep into the uncanny foliage, heads clustered and hands worked.
The match between the symptoms experienced by the hospital staff and the symptoms of dimethyl sulfate exposure was uncanny.
Twenty years after the end of communism, going back to see the house is an uncanny expedition.
But he had an almost uncanny premonition of the dark period ahead.
Baron also discovered that certain six-letter combinations occur with uncanny frequency.
There, he observed an uncanny similarity in human response to the arrivals.
But in context, the resemblance to human laughter is uncanny.
We tried to express our perplexity-the uncanny sense that something was missing from this examination.

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