eeriness

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strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear

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ghostliness

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But there was an eeriness about Saturday's paltry attendance for the Division Three and Four deciders.

GAA need to get real on empty HQ crowds

The bizarre fairground you encounter at the start hints at the eeriness ahead and before you can catch your breath the vacant faces and dead eyes of the city dwellers turn on you with evil intent.

Cinematic feast of gaming art; GAME OF THE WEEK BIOSHOCK INFINITE (XBOX 360)

It's not so much the eeriness of it all, although I did feel a little like Charlton Heston in The Omega Man (except for the killer zombies, obviously).

M6 Toll: Charging into unknown future; As the barriers on the M6 Toll road lifted to traffic for the first time yesterday, Transport Reporter Campbell Docherty took in the festivities and went for a spin on the new motorway

I just remember this amazing sense of eeriness -of a sadness that enveloped everyone, especially the teachers.

A TRAGEDY OF HISTORY; IT was 40 years ago this Saturday that American president John F. Kennedy was shot and killed. Merseyside celebs tell Peter Grant where they were when they heard the news ..

But yesterday, there was an eeriness about the house where the remnants of a seemingly ordinary family life lay scattered across the extensive gardens.

We didn't believe he had killed her but now we fear the worst; WANTED MAN: Heartache of family left behind as detectives continue hunt for runaway French doctor and the body of his missing wife

As a result, the eeriness of photographic manipulation is largely lost to us.

Jane Hammond: Galerie Lelong

The encore piled on the eeriness in the shape of Zuton Fever, as Harding's blurting saxophone levelled against McCabe's deliciously subversive clarion call, echoed back from the sweat-drenched crowd.

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She had made the first move' she opened a window for conversation, a window that disguised the eeriness of that day, the eeriness that began to cloud over everyone.

'The wind disturbs the rotting drift of leaves' a pigeon limps' The winner of the Athenaeum Writer in Residence competition as Michael Pink, 17, of Oldershaw School. The competition, supported by the Daily Post, Liverpool City Council and Radio Merseyside, asked for a vision of life in 50 years. This is his essay

High point: An almost David Lynch-esque eeriness to Lizzie's blonde alter ego.

FILM SPECIAL: KIDDING AROUND; ANNA DAY ROUNDS-UP THIS SUMMER'S FAMILY MOVIES THAT ARE COMPETING TO KEEP CHILDREN AMUSED OVER THE HOLIDAYS

His lighting matches the mood in its stark eeriness. But the stage looks like the lobby of one of the fancier boutique hotels more than anything else.

Don Juan

The video installation Twilight Avenger, 2008, shows a grassy clearing in a coniferous forest--an environment connoting the quiet eeriness of an empty stage set.

Kelly Richardson: Birch Libralato

Director Tobe Hooper brought the eeriness and fright attributes from his debut film Texas Chainsaw Massacre to the New England town of Jerusalem's Lot where the undead have begun to walk.

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It's a claustrophobic effect that adds to the eeriness of the film.

Forest

Despite its eeriness this was not the most menacing room displayed among La Maison Rouge's fifteen.

House style: Norman L. Kleeblatt on La Maison Rouge

Pedro del Rey results in a slightly eerie look, and a soundtrack of discordant noises and musical motifs is highly effective in sustaining that eeriness.

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