unheimlich

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1. Weird, uncanny.First known use 19th c.

   Werfner, damn him, keen-witted but unheimlich, is obsessed with railway lines

   2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 272

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   My point is that there is no grand single line, everything is in bits, & often absolutely dead, & always very unheimlich, almost macabre.

   1936, Isiah Berlin, letter, 3 Jun 1936

   The music rings throughout the hall, somewhat unheimlich, given that the place is so empty.

   2009, Søren Kirkegaard, translated by MG Piety, Repetition, Oxford, page 33