And do they specifically hire staff who are unnervingly smiley?
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As mechanical contraptions go, it's impressively fast and unnervingly precise.
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In person, she is tall, twinkling and almost unnervingly disarming.
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But as acceptances rolled in, her dad was unnervingly tepid.
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The unnervingly thick baby blue carpet goes halfway up the walls.
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Preston whose charisma begins and ends with his unnervingly symmetrical features.
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It was five weeks before an unnervingly high-stakes Election Day.
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Yet, in reality, kids are (almost unnervingly) pragmatic about their ambitions.
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None of these are guaranteed, mind you, but they're all unnervingly plausible.
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He noted the peppy acceleration that's simultaneously (and for some, unnervingly) quiet.
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In this context, Middleton's sculpture is unnervingly evocative of a torture instrument.
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Y.-Vegas-Miami orbit of youngish celebrity, the movie is unnervingly authentic.
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After all, its spaces are so lush, so fascinating, so unnervingly empty.
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Climbing aboard a battle-ready ship for the evening felt unnervingly appropriate.
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None of these are very likely, mind you, but they're all unnervingly plausible.
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A face that looks unnervingly similar to that of the "Little Women" star.
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An unnervingly cheerful white thug urges people to choose a prestocked evidence bag.
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The bottom line here is that our president appears to be unnervingly loony.
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The unnervingly wholesome, majority-female draw makes the model horse hobby unique among subcultures.
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Plots and attacks on massive public events are becoming unnervingly common across the world.
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Unnervingly, the Wii U turns itself on to advertise Nintendo games available for purchase.
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This short story is technically science fiction, but it feels unnervingly close to reality.
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Meanwhile, the left-hand barrel graph shows atmospheric CO2 concentrations climbing unnervingly and steadily higher.
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This is the unnervingly plausible set-up for Joanne Ramos's impressive debut novel, "The Farm".
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In the background of the call, there's an almost unnervingly idyllic chorus of birds chirping.
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And, given the heightened rhetoric on the issue of immigration, the exhibit is unnervingly relevant.
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By the end, Mr. Zandi predicted, the American economy would be "unnervingly close" to recession.
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There's something unnervingly wholesome about Olmsted, the new garden-to-table eatery in Prospect Heights.
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"Pack My Bag," by Henry Green, written in idiosyncratic prose that is unnervingly close to perfection.
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The post-lunch lull, normally peppered by a quick catch-up with colleagues, become unnervingly unpleasant.
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An unnervingly transparent net is all that stands between you and the churning waters far below.
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They, however, may be undaunted, even unnervingly fascinated, by the bottomless mystery of inert forever-ness.
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Some professionals find it unnervingly difficult not to be a banker, doctor, lawyer or engineer anymore.
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The strange mix results in a cacophony of sound that is unnervingly challenging yet completely engaging.
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Nearing 40, unaware that her marriage is almost over, she is buoyant, likable and unnervingly straightforward.
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She has been unnervingly reluctant to guarantee the status of the 3m EU citizens already in Britain.
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"This made it unnervingly easy to find more and implies a possible weakness in the algorithm," Which?
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" Then, making the critical unnervingly more personal, he adds, "That's what scares me about what I do.
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Opposite Buck is Harrison Ford, countering the dog's unnervingly expressive eyes with a disturbingly emotionless voice-over.
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The room was unnervingly cold, even with the sweatshirt I was wearing, and that was precisely the point.
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Computer models show there's already enough junk in orbit to push us unnervingly close to the Kessler Syndrome.
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Static fades in and out; sometimes the show feels unnervingly like a concert by the noise artist Merzbow.
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The White House tweeting a "first snow of the year!" picture on an unseasonably, unnervingly warm winter's day.
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Tall, handsome and unnervingly self-confident, Mr. Tharoor, 62, is a regular on the Delhi dinner party circuit.
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I knew I'd get to spend seven hours with these women, their flop husbands, and their unnervingly precocious kids.
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And then there are the clots: Unnervingly solid chunks the size of apple slices just fall out of me.
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This unnervingly fleshy Lego man is a project from Frank Ippolito and Norman Chan, of Adam Savage's Tested website.
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But no advertiser has ever done it quite so unnervingly as this short video from the Dutch Studio Smack.
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Don't worry: You don't need to go the unnervingly-patriotic-eagle-splashed-across-your-entire-torso route like Biebs.
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The images are filmed in black and white, the camera still and the general mood unnervingly indifferent, or distracted.
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Prices begin at $12,000 for merely one try at a "live birth," in the unnervingly pragmatic parlance of doctors.
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The result: An unnervingly algorithmic score in the final of 1.70 goals for Brazil to just 1.41 for Germany.
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In my experience of living in a city under siege, gunfire has a way of sounding unnervingly like gunfire.
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I was unnervingly reminded of the days after 9/11, when cars were prohibited from making their way downtown.
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Mr. Coronell, for example, fled his country after receiving unnervingly detailed death threats against his 6-year-old daughter.
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The two women look unnervingly alike and, in fact, are mistaken for the other at a point in the film.
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There is something unnervingly intimate about their hidden faces: They are as emphatic as cartoons and as mysterious as ghosts.
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Certain characters recur, including Ms. Goldin's boyfriend, identified only as Brian, who seems always to be unnervingly brooding and glowering.
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They are all essentially ambient electronic musicians whose sometimes unnervingly hazy work just happens to be based around rap drums.
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The woman, festively attired and unnervingly forthcoming, invited me to take a seat as she flipped through her card deck.
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Enter Adam: externally indistinguishable from any other living man, housing a "brain" that develops into something unnervingly close to consciousness.
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As Cline makes clear, this sort of friendship can hew unnervingly close to the experience of being in a cult.
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Tween girl accessory hawker Claire's was still blindingly colorful and unnervingly peppy, much like the buy-three-get-three jewelry inside.
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His music, which has always been unnervingly emotional, full of shifting, ambient textures, doesn't require language to convey joy or pain.
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Then, love it or hate it, Messiaen's unnervingly gorgeous "Turangalila-Symphonie" takes up an entire program, led by Esa-Pekka Salonen.
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The drama was sometimes rambling and sometimes indulgent, but its exploration of the methods and means of resistance felt unnervingly timely.
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It is those fantasies blown up, unnervingly, to adult scale that the visitor encounters in the first three rooms of Monikahouse.
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They all smelled like sandalwood, and their suits were an unnervingly uniform shade of blue, every thread a perfect rgb(23,0,255).
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Her preferred composition for a lemon bar, she said, is 1 to 1.7 — not quite the golden ratio, but unnervingly close.
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She said she saw families as well as unaccompanied children inside, and some seemed frightened while others wore unnervingly blank expressions.
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This unnervingly prescient Swedish dramatist, who lived from 63 to 1912, portrayed relationships propelled by an ambivalence that scorched and withered.
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While he's thrilled to share his music with the masses, some of his classics are unnervingly relevant in the tumultuous political climate.
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In one of the first rooms viewers are introduced to Diane Arbus's unnervingly direct portraiture of muscle men, nudists and circus performers.
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Carrie Buck's story is poignant and galvanizing, and certain aspects are unnervingly congruent with the relationship between the government and women today.
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Thanks to sky-high interest rates, credit card debt is especially difficult to pay off — but still unnervingly easy to rack up.
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He had often said that he did not wish to live forever—indeed, unnervingly, that he wasn't really sure he was alive.
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Many Democrats remain deeply scarred by Mr. Trump's victory, memories that have been unnervingly revived by the recent spike in conservative enthusiasm.
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Even if you haven't glimpsed these things with your own eyes, you possibly visited an unnervingly crowded grocery store or food mart.
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And Jeffry Denman is unnervingly intense as Michael, the clean-cut tyrant who becomes Luke's self-appointed mentor, father and (possibly) lover.
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She is the frontwoman and main creative force in Something She, a fictional but unnervingly real-seeming '90s all-female power trio.
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The Office filter is unnervingly good at scrambling all nearby sound, turning office conversations into a wall of diffuse noise that doesn't distract.
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The ecosystem of behaviors and attitudes on display is so unnervingly sharp that some of us may well find ourselves wincing in recognition.
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For this you may be thankful on busy nights when those wood slats go from attractive design elements to unnervingly effective sounding boards.
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As for the Keith Richards of McDonald's hamburgers, the company said that artificial preservatives had nothing to do with its unnervingly long lifespan.
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The actual text of the bill is mind-boggling in its level of vagueness and surprisingly punitive considering its unnervingly broad scope of coverage.
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Nor does he mention al-Qaeda's unnervingly successful, large-scale attack in 2011 on Mehran, a military base in Karachi, which Shahzad was investigating.
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The dozens of short or shortish videos in this excellent early-career survey manage to be unnervingly funny, pathetically gross and politically razor-sharp.
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The dozens of short or shortish videos in this excellent early-career survey manage to be unnervingly funny, pathetically gross and politically razor sharp.
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This story of virtual workplace harassment is unnervingly timely, but it also captures an ugliness that's been percolating in digital culture for a while.
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The two greatest strengths of Ferguson's technical game are his loopy but unnervingly accurate straight punches, and his snap down and front headlock game.
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His racism and hypocrisy, and his unwillingness to learn, listen or grow, are unnervingly disturbing to me, since he is the current front-runner.
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For a combat game, it is unnervingly realistic, making its constant violence harder to dismiss than it would be in a sci-fi scenario.
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The Virtual Rabbit will run buyers $199, while the unnervingly named Virtual Blowbot Stroker and Virtual Blowbot Turbo Stroker retail for $208 and $330, respectively.
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Lexie has fled her home and a stepfather whose sexual obsession with her is the subject of one of the collection's most unnervingly raw pieces.
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Though we are watching what often appear to be unnervingly even-keeled characters, sometimes we'll glimpse a painful flashback, or hear a person's true thoughts.
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Neutering appears to be no impediment in "Cats," where an unnervingly erect tail can instead convey themes that fall far outside the film's PG rating.
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Chris JacksonCreditCreditShaniqwa Jarvis for The New York Times On an unnervingly balmy November day, the scene at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn was restless and expectant.
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Then of course there are the people who are unnervingly excellent at math, who can seem alien to those who stopped doing crude calculations after puberty.
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You know all about the four-man rotation experiment and the unnervingly long list of hurlers who proved unable to catch their breath at Coors' altitude.
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The final question, the one "Sharp Objects" leaves unnervingly open, is whether Camille can truly be a good person with Adora's blood running through her veins.
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DC Young Fly is unnervingly antic; he's built like one of those inflated tube men that flap outside of car dealerships, and moves like one, too.
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He's painted recreations of their wall art, traced the intricate timelines of recurring characters, and mapped out an unnervingly accurate estimate of their studio floor plan.
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Google had spent the better part of 2016 reworking its translation tool to be powered by AI—and in doing so, it had created something unnervingly powerful.
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In two unnervingly realistic photomontages — Lucien Pelen's "Chaise n° 5" (2005) and Yves Klein's "Leap into the Void" (1960) — the artists appear unalarmed by their impending crash.
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Edmonton, Alberta (CNN)Michel Chamberland took a look outside his home in Fort McMurray and saw that the flames and smoke were unnervingly close and rapidly approaching.
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Indian Wells' "Racquet" just out via Boiler Room and Legowelt's unnervingly incredible Bowie remix kick us off, alongside a tense Abdullah Rashim rework of Daniel Avery's "Clear".
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Participants are outfitted with unnervingly realistic camouflage vests and toy guns as they compete amid an imagined dystopian city to ensure the destruction of their opposing team.
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As she paints the walls, deciding between earthy grays and mustard yellows—both unnervingly bleak—she starts to sense that the house itself is a living entity.
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Set in funeral parlors, it's an unnervingly upbeat look at the work of professional funeral directors, the artists who give an appearance of life to the dead.
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The president's consistently anti-immigrant, anti-black, anti-[insert marginalized group here] rhetoric had crystallized into something real, and the future was suddenly even more unnervingly unpredictable.
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At this performance, it took time for the dancers to find their single heartbeat, but it was unnervingly beautiful when they did in the final "Hosanna" section.
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Fort Worth, Texas (CNN)Here in a well-trimmed neighborhood of Tarrant County, the mass shootings of the past few months feel unnervingly close for Amanda Crump.
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We first see her in Victorian regalia, perched like a marble-cast hero on a monument, as she sweeps the audience with eyes that feel unnervingly omniscient.
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Whilst album number two, Next Thing, has seen the band continue to grow in following, Kline's writing remains deftly relatable, unnervingly honest and practically impossible not to like.
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In her new novel, "The Sunlight Pilgrims," she is committed to disrupting our ease by setting her story of impending cataclysm at a moment unnervingly near at hand.
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"Stepping Stone" is an unnervingly honest letter to his D-12 groupmates, about whom he feels a tremendous amount of guilt (and, apparently, more than a little contempt).
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But the heart of this book is a portrait of a woman surviving and flourishing after abuse, and in that, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall feels unnervingly modern.
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A self-proclaimed Trotskyist, he believes Bernie Sanders and the Democratic Socialists of America—the growing party focused on the "left wing of the possible"—are unnervingly compromised.
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"Fur real guys this was my cake," she tweeted, posting a picture of the cake, which was decorated with red and white roses, and three unnervingly realistic cats.
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The trailer, featuring very famous people with cat fur and unnervingly placed tails singing songs from the 1981 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, broke the internet and people's brains.
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American audiences will recognize Steven Yeun (of "The Walking Dead" and last year's "Sorry to Bother You") as the third major character: a rich, unnervingly mysterious young man.
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"Rotted" is unnervingly close to rotten (not a thing we want for these li'l guys!), whereas "spinged" has the danger of being pronounced with the soft g of sponged.
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When the car reaches its destination, the trunk pops open, and Digit unfolds itself in a manner unnervingly similar to the droid army in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.
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Over the past decade, stories of auto plant closures have become unnervingly common, but often they're reduced to statistics about unemployment and the number of jobs leaving a city.
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Bognanno spent time on set during filming and said she was taken aback by how unnervingly accurate the faux-backstage was, with its grim concrete walls and copious booze.
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The number of anti-climate appointees running federal public lands and environmental policy has become, like a great many alarming situations, unnervingly pedestrian three years into the Trump presidency.
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The French are also looking for it, and even more unnervingly, there's a phantom-like ship hounding the Fate, crewed by figures in all-black uniforms and dark spectacles.
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"The resulting product is huge in scope, with 23 tracks clocking in at an hour and 10 minutes, but is unnervingly hushed in execution," said John Garrett in PopMatters.
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A photographer and I met him near dusk at an empty ferry landing and off we went, an eight-hour chug down a pitch-black and unnervingly quiet Mississippi.
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"There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes/Jesus Christ died for nothin', I suppose…" As Mr. Prine remembers it, the audience remained silent; unnervingly so.
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Kihrin recounts his recent history, beginning with a slave auction where he was put up for sale, while Talon, unnervingly, describes Kihrin's childhood as a thief and apprentice musician.
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Pro players who took on the bot found that it flipped unnervingly between tame and hyperaggressive tactics, all the while relentlessly notching up wins as it calculated paths to victory.
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In contrast to the first room's barely perceptible piano music, the second room has an almost unnervingly cheerful soundtrack, filled with animal sounds, police whistles, lion roars, and whipping sounds.
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The precise impact of phones on economic growth is notoriously difficult to measure (although that does not stop trade bodies and consultants from issuing gushing reports filled with unnervingly exact numbers).
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For as media-friendly as he was, Trump has been equally hostile to the "unfair" and "dishonest" press — increasingly so, and to a point where it's reaching an unnervingly fevered pitch.
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On yet another ("An Auto-Ethnographic Study: The Bronx," 2008), Alicia Grullón engages Bronx pedestrians in discussions about gentrification while wearing a newspaper papier-maché mask unnervingly redolent of Hannibal Lecter.
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When I was in my very early 20s, an older man in a position of professional authority over my writing described his feelings in words unnervingly similar to those Nadzam heard.
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Led into the world leaders section, the unnervingly-lifelike Mr Modi stands outside 10 Downing Street beside Barack Obama and Angela Merkel; David Cameron and Francois Hollande look on from the background.
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Most knitters reach for their needles when they're in need of a calming fix, but fiber artist Tracy Widdess isn't satisfied unless she's knitting the most unnervingly intricate and disturbingly detailed projects possible.
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The next room offers six works by Robert Gober, including unnervingly creepy confections like "Untitled" (2104) and a child's Mary Jane shoe made of beeswax with human hair growing from its inner sole.
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There is truly so much to praise in Patchett's writing — her unnervingly self-aware voice that brings Danny to life as our storyteller, the dry bursts of humor that she works into dialogue.
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So we get a discussion of Geoffrey Scott's 1925 classic "The Portrait of Zélide," in which the unnervingly modern 18th-century writer and composer takes a back seat to Scott's exhumation of her.
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It's unnervingly believable that in contemporary America, a popular, football-playing prom king would be able to spread those rumors without hurting his own reputation just as easily as a Tudor king did.
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In the course of this fast-moving, tightly packed, at times unnervingly entertaining documentary (directed by Alison Klayman), he wears a number of metaphorical hats, some of which are knocked off his head.
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A salvager named Amy Ferrier shows up on an abandoned space station run by an inattentive corporation, piecing together what disaster has befallen its crew, with the help of an unnervingly philosophical AI called Odin.
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And the culprit behind the attack on Kingsman is very quickly revealed to be the Golden Circle, an international drug cartel led by the unnervingly cheerful Poppy (Julianne Moore, having the time of her life).
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The system is so carefully controlled, in fact, that engineers even fine-tune the fire to make it just hot enough to feel unnervingly intense, but not so hot that it would make tourists uncomfortable.
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Faced with roadblocks in every direction, and loath to become another Carter, it is unnervingly plausible to imagine him turning to the military levers of power over which he exerts singular control, and unleashing hell.
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Horror games are a natural fit for VR because it can be unnervingly claustrophobic at the best of times; they also tend to be slower-paced, so the problem of physical exertion isn't as acute.
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Seattle rap mystics Shabazz Palaces are probably the best at the whole "music you listen to on drugs" thing, primarily because their songs are so unnervingly hypnotic that drugs aren't needed in the first place.
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In it he proposes that we are not far from a time (he suggests roughly the year 2050) when humans will desire robots as friends, sexual partners, even spouses—a premise he seems unnervingly OK with.
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Centered around a visual of a zombified, jumprope-wielding young girl, the rest of the screen fills up with unnervingly hallucinatory imagery, reminding us that there's often something distinctly unnerving behind AC's hypnotic, sugar-sweet songwriting.
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It is unnervingly akin to the emotion evoked by the trio of J.M.W. Turner paintings Mr Gursky has captured in another photograph (cleverly hung in the same room of the exhibition, to allow for cross-referencing).
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Urban welcomes young people on its teams — at one point I met with a trio from the social media team who were unnervingly poised and barely out of college — and listens to them, encouraging brutal honesty.
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The Girls delves deeply into the potent and all-consuming intimacy of a teen girl friendship, into how it shimmers with shades of resentment and eroticism, and how unnervingly it can come to resemble a cult.
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These services pull from public records and other online sources to build profiles of you that, when compiled in one place, can be used for all kinds of ill effects, from unnervingly targeted marketing to doxxing.
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The nearly 21972 short videos in "Vito Acconci: Where We Are Now (Who Are We Anyway?), 21980," the excellent early-career survey at MoMA PS230, manage to be unnervingly funny, pathetically gross and politically razor-sharp.
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Shannon) and Lucas (Joel Edgerton) are grim-faced, heavily armed and unnervingly competent, their victim, a boy named Alton (Jaeden Lieberher), doesn't seem afraid of them, and indeed acts more like an accomplice than like prey.
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Pierce, Allen, and Garnett, three generational type players, all innovators in their fields, unnervingly complementary, a walking scoring machine, spacing machine and defense machine who spent their entire careers toiling on not-quite-good-enough squads.
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"Road Head," meanwhile, glides unnervingly on its backbeat; the pealing guitar figure, moving back and forth with a hypnotist's deliberation, provides a fulcrum on which to position fluttery keyboard arpeggios and Zauner's own intermittent, ethereal exclamations.
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We got back from excursions to find the trappings of romance spirited away from our room and replaced by other, more platonic gifts: jewelry, scarves and once, unnervingly, a pair of dolls, nestled between the pillows.
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The seats at the Newhouse are set in a tight semicircle around the stage, an arrangement well suited to Joe's unnervingly direct appeal, which is rambunctious and fun in one instance, vilely bigoted in the next.
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A faded Areva logo is etched onto Arlit's entry arch, marking the last police checkpoint before a city of right-angle intersections, unnervingly broad and unpaved avenues, mud-block neighborhoods, and military police on languid, endless patrols.
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In less than a week the high-kicking, unnervingly enthusiastic and a pastel-wearing kids from the first episode of U.K. kids show Emu's Pink Windmill have become infamous for their hyper dancing and interesting fashion sense.
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Just this week, House Democrats crept unnervingly closer to obtaining personal financial information about Trump and his family from an accounting firm and two banks after federal judges quashed the President's bid to block subpoenas for the documents.
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In the video above, he dresses up as both Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden for some Super Tuesday speech parodies — and while his Biden accent perhaps needs a little fine-tuning, his Sanders' impersonation really is unnervingly good.
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It's at this point that Gore begins exploring one of the central themes of Vidal's life — the intersection of sex, power, and consent — and in doing so, unwittingly and unnervingly echoes the particular allegations of sexual misconduct against Spacey.
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"Whether or not the video is real, it's exceedingly creepy—the man's demeanor can best be described as unnervingly excited, and he happily discusses the fact that although the woman "hates cameras," he's going to "show you her anyway.
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Several MSM outlets recently ran with the story of how Trump rallies appeared unnervingly similar to scenes from Nazi Germany, particularly after Trump asked his supporters to raise their right hand and pledge that they would vote for him.
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Others are newcomers, including an unnervingly talented transplant from overseas who doesn't seem to quite speak their language and who is said to live with her strange mother in a yogurt — oops, the word, it turns out, is yurt.
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Even if you're an old hand at navigating the shallow waters of small plates, it can be unnervingly easy to spend more than $100 on food and drinks at Saint Julivert and still wonder whether you've actually had dinner.
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The adult human world regards animals through a callous, utilitarian lens, as sources of food, labor or ornamental cuteness, a fact that "Okja," Bong Joon-ho's wonderful new film, takes to a dystopian but also an unnervingly realistic extreme.
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" The description reminded me, unnervingly, of the recent documentary "The Act of Killing," in which Indonesian torturers brag about their sick acts, which they justify with semantics: the word "gangster," they explain, comes from the word for "free man.
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As might be expected from an actress who frequently finds depths in roles both large and small, Spencer takes the chance to get beneath her character's skin, playing Sue Ann as simultaneously insane, justifiably angry, unnervingly empathetic, and unexpectedly glamorous.
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Part of the strength of Harold Pinter's plays, in which characters taunt, worry, threaten and displace each other with unnervingly long pauses, is their ability to dramatise in domestic form the silence imposed by states on many other political artists.
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They are welcomed with unnervingly open arms by Sam's mother and sister, who are either the nicest people in the realm or extraterrestrial spies who have come to conquer the seven kingdoms and harvest human organs for fuel for their ships.
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He has an unnervingly ambitious schedule for the first human mission to Mars, he's said nothing about how much it will cost or who's paying, and there's been no mention of any partnerships with space agencies or suppliers for material.
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Early in the movie, an adaptation of Dan Wells's young-adult novel of the same name, the director Billy O'Brien nicely balances the tedium of small-town life — the film was shot in northern Minnesota — with an unnervingly creepy vibe.
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He's got a couple guys who are at least 6-foot-10, one of whom looks unnervingly like Goran Dragic, and Birdie wins despite a blonde kid on the other team called "Johnny D" going supernova on them from deep.
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And yet, three years into the sitting U.S. president routinely spewing Islamophobic rhetoric to the masses, the conversation around Muslim issues has only grown murkier, more dangerous, and—when it comes to the current crop of Democratic presidential candidates—unnervingly quiet.
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The screen's format also helps establish a personal connection with the viewer (underscored by the frequency with which the film's characters stare directly, and unnervingly, into the camera) — a wordless, intuitive bond that is essential to the comprehension of the piece.
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The militants had their own pirate radio station, featuring an announcer with a deep and unnervingly sexy voice, who spoke slowly and deliberately, and claimed in a decelerated but almost raplike cadence that the fall of the city was imminent.
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As a beauty writer, a flawless, fuzz-free face was so attractive to me but, after booking in for a dermaplaning treatment at a skin-care clinic of my choice, my temperamental (and often spot-prone) skin felt sore and looked unnervingly red.
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PONTORMO: MIRACULOUS ENCOUNTERS Recently restored and leaving Tuscany for the first time, Jacopo da Pontormo's 483s "Visitation" altarpiece is an unnervingly sophisticated composition in which the Virgin Mary and three other women form a complex overlap of shadow and light. Sept. 473-Jan.
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It doesn't take long before their cloistered Jewish community in the North Caucasus region of Russia, begins to dramatically unravel, leaving the family of the kidnapped man scrambling alone and pushing his less-loved sister spiraling into the larger, unnervingly hostile world.
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The project's progenitor, NKSV, serves up noodly, hard-charging, 80s-flavored heavy metal mixed with power metal bombast, thrashy breakaways, and screechy, distorted, black metal-inflected yelps that somewhat unnervingly recall both vintage Children of Bodom and early Leviathan's lo-fi sickness.
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His mouth dropping into slack-jawed blankness, Mr. Gillen taps unnervingly into the silence, one imagines, that haunts this most supreme of melodists, a man held in fearsome abeyance from his own father and from a reactionary society that cannot easily accommodate him.
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They also have unnervingly close relationships with several key members of the Trump administration, which has sparked protests at home and fury abroad by imposing a temporary ban on entry to the United States for refugees as well as people from seven-Muslim majority countries.
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Everyone on and off the stage — and the boundaries between the two are unnervingly porous in this immersive London-born production — is focused on the 17-year-old Sudanese boy, newly bruised and bleeding, with the ugly lattice of scars on his bared torso.
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By mixing the real and the surreal, and using old fairy-tale magic, Hamid has created a fictional universe that captures the global perils percolating beneath today's headlines, while at the same time painting an unnervingly dystopian portrait of what might lie down the road.
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Dispatched by his bosses to retrieve an executive who has vanished in Switzerland, Lockhart, who is haunted by memories of his father's suicide, finds himself in the company and eventually the care of Dr. Volmer (Jason Isaacs), a suave Continental with unnervingly impeccable manners.
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Ray says he wrote the unnervingly upbeat "There Was a Time When I Needed It," from the perspective of a version of himself from "years ago," an addict sitting in bed trying to come to terms with the idea of getting clean and the pain that'll cause.
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I have the option of allowing the Dadbot to converse out loud, via Alexa (though unnervingly, his responses would come out in her voice.) He discusses the context of a Gertrude Stein quote, how to say "instrumentality" in Portuguese, and the finer points of Ottoman-era governance in Greece.
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Satirists in Kenya have gone so far as to issue mock "travel warnings" for black Africans heading to the US. Recent headlines — ranging from accusations of nepotism to the president's top spiritual adviser openly advising on policy-making — are unnervingly familiar in many fragile states on the continent.
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" During an interview at the David H. Koch Theater, City Ballet's home, the regal Mr. Stanley — at times, unnervingly calm — said he was never sure how to respond to compliments on his dancing because, as he put it, "Moving is like taking a vitamin; it's my means of survival.
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It's as if SNL is unable to see the real woman, whose need to bludgeon everything that pops up in front of her with talking points and demonstrable falsities is genuinely, unnervingly hilarious, because to see the real her might require pretending all of this is really happening.
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In washy strokes of watercolor, oil and gouache, the compositions depicted intentionally disjointed, unnervingly bizarre scenes: In one, a crinkled arm reaching upward, locked in a handshake with the divine; in another, a sallow ogre-like figure staring out at the viewer with a warm, wide-eyed gaze.
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The American photographer Fazal Sheikh's portraits of Somali refugees — taken in camps in eastern Kenya in the early '90s and then in 2000, and collected in his 2001 book "A Camel for the Son" (available in-full online) — are unnervingly direct, piercing through the thicket of rhetoric around immigration.
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He may be checking off some of those boxes in an ode to George Lucas; whatever the case, Mr. Johnson only infrequently comes across as dutiful or as overtly brand-expanding (as with a troika of calculatingly cute tykes who unnervingly suggest this series really will go on forever).
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The trial so far has focused on the car bombs, arsons and assassinations that Mr. Le Roux employed to protect his smuggling routes — violence that was previewed so unnervingly in opening arguments on Tuesday that a juror told the judge she feared for her safety and was excused the following day.
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The interplay between seen and unseen, and the unnervingly mature discipline of a quite young artist in erring on the side of providing too little information — which means either putting great trust in or making a great demand on the viewer, depending on your point of view — run through each.
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The Mormons are the last practitioners of The Great Christmas Kitsch Arts, and they will fill your mind and your heart with holiday joy as you listen to their choir, devour their unnervingly perfect Christmas cookies, and go caroling in their beautiful neighborhoods, each more immaculately decorated than the last.
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Swapping work, even for the fondest of pals, can be tricky: There's ego involved, and the fear of rejection, not to mention logistical concerns of transport and storage; with the middleman eliminated, the rules tend to be fluid, sometimes unnervingly so, given the vertiginous stakes of the commercial art market.
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At the beginning of "The Afterlife of Stars," Joseph Kertes's devastating yet unnervingly funny new novel, the young narrator, Robert Beck (who is, he informs us, exactly 9.8 years old), happens upon a scene of counterrevolutionary carnage at Budapest's Oktogon Square: From each of its eight lampposts hangs a Hungarian soldier.
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Handmaid's Tale With the defeat of Hillary Clinton at the hands of Donald Trump—a self-described preemptive grabber of women's genitals and alleged sexual harasser of many women—and a newly empowered Republican-led Congress itching to roll back women's reproductive rights, Margaret Atwood's theocratic dystopia seemed more unnervingly prescient than ever.
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From a distance, they could just as well be hanging in the corner of a high school science classroom, but as you get closer, you suddenly appreciate all of the unique details that make it completely and unnervingly real, including the metal hardware drilled into the bones in order to hold them together.
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The flip side of these companies' new dominance is that, not unlike the first industrialists, they turn progress from something that manifests inevitably with the passage of time into something that is being done to us, for reasons that are out of our control but seem unnervingly and suddenly within someone else's.
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It's less than two minutes of pure anxiety, channeled through a dominant lead guitar part, an unnervingly loose bass line, and stream-of-consciousness lyrics that alternate between the cryptic ("don't look at the carpet / I drew something awful on it") and the brutally straightforward ("you're such a wonderful person / but you got problems").
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Audience members could decide whom to follow, discovering perhaps that the father may be poisoning the young woman and causing her fits (played with Exorcist-like contortions by Rae Haas), or that the younger priest (an unnervingly dogmatic Brian Lore Evans) may be the most dangerous, with the absolute conviction of his belief in the devil's presence.
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We see Winston's discovery of a beautiful fellow traveler at his workplace (a feral Ms. Wilde, in her Broadway debut), and watch their subsequent blissful liaisons in a secret trysting place (shown in simultaneous videocast); and the pair's recruitment into a resistance movement by a bureaucrat named O'Brien (a creepily avuncular Reed Birney, who here unnervingly resembles Dick Cheney).
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The most unsettling aspect of "Swiped," as the experts note, is that because society is at such a nascent stage of this phenomenon, it's not as yet clear precisely where these forces will lead -- and whether those responsible have simply brought another shiny new wrinkle into the process of pairing up or, more unnervingly, opened Pandora's box.
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It was a period during which one designer (Thom Browne at Moncler Gamme Bleu) showed trench coats, cardigans, Chesterfields, sports coats and puffers in Alpine camouflage patterns on models with faces hidden unnervingly behind masks of the kind worn by snipers; when another (Italo Zucchelli at Calvin Klein) referenced his fascination with alchemy to explain a highly eroticized collection built around bonded foil colored silver and gold; when Kean Etro at Etro evoked the fragility of nature while handing out lavish color catalogs that whole forests were felled to produce; and when Alessandro Michele at Gucci quoted the Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin by way of elucidating how he had come up with his latest floral pajamas for daytime men's wear.
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A big man receives a pass out of a pick and roll, rises up, flushes a two-handed dunk, does a little pull-up to avoid a defender below, drops OFF the rim in a crouching position, lands in a squat with the sheer POWER from his dunk turns the wood floor beneath him in SPLINTERS, and then he reaches down to the ice rink under the court—it's one of those types of set-ups—and merges with the ice in a brief but VERY dramatic spiritual/physical type ceremony, this man-made ice invading his brain as he takes on a robotic affect and he spends the rest of the game with vapor pouring out of his body, performing all his tasks with unnervingly crisp precision.
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