Uncannily

Let's also not forget that Hammer Films were also treading a Victoriana influenced path through these post-colonial anxieties with a successful run of Mummy themed films as well as a filmed version of the Nigel Kneale play, 'The Creature', entitled uncannily enough The Abominable Snowman. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Naef seemed to me in looks, sound, manner and phrase uncannily like a mezzo Dorothea Röschmann, and what could be better than that? ❋ Unknown (2009)

He gave her suddenly a guilty-looking grin, an expression uncannily like Bredon’s, caught taking two biscuits at once from the tin. ❋ Sayers, Dorothy L. (2002)

But "uncannily" probably isn't the appropriate word, as the Graciosa and Tapia objections seem to fit a larger pattern documented by the Pew Hispanic Center's ❋ Unknown (2008)

In this week's opener, therefore, a strange case of multiple homicide at a bespoke tailors uncannily resembles one which took place at a linen drapers centuries earlier. ❋ Unknown (2012)

The Romans, of course, excelled at memorial portraits, sculpting heads uncannily like people we still encounter on present-day Italian streets and, in the further reaches of the Empire, painting those astonishing, liquid-eyed face-panels for Roman-era Egyptian mummies. ❋ Karen Wilkin (2012)

In a field largely dominated by French, Italians and Russians, he uncannily understood where American style was going after World War II and proceeded to capture its essence. ❋ Cherie Burns (2011)

O'Neill has orders to nuke the ship if necessary (and they get darn close) while Daniel tries everything he can think of to persuade Lotan (who looks and acts uncannily like Data) to stop. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So by modern standards Jane Austen's heroines are uncannily self-possessed and oddly detached from the need to be 'validated' or approved of by their suitors. ❋ Unknown (2012)

But, as she began to draw her subjects from within her growing family and immediate milieu some of her photographs are uncannily redolent of those of the great Victorians, Julia Margaret Cameron and Lady Hawarden. ❋ John W. Whitehead (2011)

As the titular magician (animated to uncannily resemble an aged Tati) prepares to take the stage, he has to wait for a Beatles-style rock combo to finish their set. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's the formal simplicity of Therrien's compositional restraint that is so uncannily effective. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Similar sentiments of anti-colonization are replicated - sometimes uncannily - in our time. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The resultant promo, screening incessantly on BBC3, sees Cotton strap herself in with a pink harness before "dropping" Antidote by Swedish House Mafia Vs Knife Party, which sounds uncannily like that club banger Angelos plays on Shooting Stars. ❋ Unknown (2012)

That music in the beginning of the Peacock trailer sounds uncannily similar to one of the main music themes in Dexter. freemachine ❋ Unknown (2010)