eerier

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Syndromes and a Century's slightly cheerier bucolic, nostalgic first half with its eerier, antiseptic second half might suggest a flimsy "Country Mouse, City Mouse" - style instructional fable, but the picture takes a higher road, depicting the things it depicts for what they are rather than for where they sit in some authorial normative hierarchy.

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  • No castle in Scotland, no druidic circle of stones, no crypt beneath a Pharaoh's pyramid could be eerier or could channel more voices of the dead to the ears of the living And few places could be more moving or peaceful For what it's worth, this tale grew—literally—from a footnote, but every supporting detail in "Iverson's Pits" is as accurate as I could make it. —  Prayers to Broken Stones
  • Syndromes and a Century's slightly cheerier bucolic, nostalgic first half with its eerier, antiseptic second half might suggest a flimsy "Country Mouse, City Mouse" - style instructional fable, but the picture takes a higher road, depicting the things it depicts for what they are rather than for where they sit in some authorial normative hierarchy. —  3quarksdaily
  • As the banjos start plucking by song # 2 ( "Divinations"), you get the feeling that this one's a less calisthenic work-out than prior Mastadon-ia and something a lot eerier. —  Roadrunner Records Latest News
  • I completed my b. tech (just wrote eerier subject result yet to come) what is best career to take? —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • Cassandra Castle of Winchester, Va., a friend of a victim, said something else gave her an even eerier feeling. —  Top Stories - Google News
 

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