creepiness
Americannoun
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“You Miss Me” combines the theatricality of Roxy Music with the supper-club creepiness of chamber-pop singer Scott Walker, its pulsing orchestrations signaling danger.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
After nearly three years, Apple TV+’s thriller returns with more sci-fi creepiness, nuanced social commentary and black humor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025
They have face coverings too, making menace out of the same blank-faced creepiness the villains embodied in the original film and its 2018 sequel.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2024
In the heat-soaked world of Marty Hart and Rust Cohle, creepiness was an affectation — part misdirecting figment, part metaphor.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2024
Not only the creepiness of Seward Park and the creepiness that just happened at Dick’s, but all creepiness, all powerlessness, all moments where you feel your fate in someone else’s hands.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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