Sentence examples for Unpleasantly familiar from inspiring English sources
Then he excused himself to perform an unpleasantly familiar chore.
The night seemed unpleasantly familiar for Wilkens early.
One of the people who was shot, Bailey Maples, recalled that Rodger had a "creepy" laugh – a laugh would become unpleasantly familiar to investigators and the press in the following days, as his online world began to be revealed.
The outbreak of anti-German sentiment in Britain that greeted the news that Queen Victoria was to marry Prince Albert rang unpleasantly familiar bells for the author of ITV's new hit costume drama, Victoria, when she researched Sunday night's episode.
And notwithstanding a smidgen of originality in the unpleasantly familiar setup of helpless victim and instrument-wielding sadist, this wearying entry in the canon suggests only that ferreting out new ways to inflict pain requires more imagination than anyone on hand realized.
From the first page's reference to the 1864 equivalent of the 1% – "the Upper Ten Thousand of this our English world" – Trollope's account of a society in which money, breeding and influence, rather than skill or integrity, are the primary routes into power is unpleasantly familiar.
People react really unpleasantly.
Mother smiled unpleasantly.
"I sing unpleasantly," he says.
