as it fell out of Dicken’s pen and onto the paper, is far scarier than most modern versions, and Volner’s interpretation expresses that eeriness perfectly.
John Guerin's percussion effects set the mood and Larry Nash's electric piano defines eeriness. And the song is perhaps one of the best illustrations of how Mitchell can paint a mood with her music and voice even when the lyrics are weak. "Woodstock" has been given a hard rock finish,...
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Burberry has built a brand that turns over a quarter of a billion pounds a year on the reliability and versatility of its check-lined trench coat, a hardy item that was first manufactured for the military by company founder Thomas Burberry back in 1879, but has been through countless iteratio...
The precautions put in place by the New Orleans Board of Health, in addition to the funereal pall that settled on the city so famed for its joyous abandon, created an eeriness that was later evoked by authors as a horrific backdrop for events in the Crescent City. In the francophone ...
While those earlier movies lounged atop well-worn haunted-mansion eeriness, this one rests on mythology, specifically the hair-raising sundel bolong: Legend has it that women who die mid-pregnancy will give birth through a hole in their back while inside their grave, then return to intimidate...
The latest pair to harness up the metaphorical huskies are Chin-Chang Ho and Karl MacDorman of the Indiana University School of Informatics. They think they can find their way by following a new compass direction—the quality of eeriness. The valley below The idea of the uncanny valley was ...
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of a chest of drawers” (Woolf 125-126). The narration does not stem from the consciousness of one of Woolf’s characters; instead, it represents the rather distant consciousness of a third person narrator. Woolf’s diction adds to the eeriness of the image; instead of the lighthou...
“Aquarius” — perfectly pitched between easy-listening and eeriness — took them to the next level. It was their first No. 1, and the apotheosis of the Dimension’s vocal abilities, running the gamut from crystalline to gutbucket. A marvel of production (two key changes rammed together, ...