Sentence examples for World recognisable from inspiring English sources

Joanna lives in a world recognisable as 1970s America, but finds expression of her humanity difficult and seeks to become a "female man".

His special gift is to make these worlds recognisable enough – Doctor Sleep is full of the noise of the culture; references to Game of Thrones, Sons of Anarchy and even Twilight – that the supernatural stuff seems grounded; that its perils don't seem merely arbitrary.

But because his world is recognisable, we care what happens to him.

The Epilogue is loaded with information as well as anecdotes, so its design is crucial in nudging the reader forward into a world both recognisable – the intense bonds and fractures of family life – and alien – the torturously warped inner logic that underpins an eating disorder and that has its roots in that family dynamic.

Hytner gives us a real world occupied by recognisable people.

They are some of the world's most recognisable faces: defaced.

There is no question of seeing through it to a commonly recognisable world of illusion.

He worked in a recognisable world of the freelance media creative dogsbody.

All of these are in the made-up but recognisable world of Ingary.

Further down, we enter the more recognisable world of electric Tube trains, trams and buses.

Cuneiform, so he poetically declares, is "a magic bridge to a long-dead world populated by recognisable fellow humans".