Sentence examples for a familiar background. from inspiring English sources

It was more about finding someone from a familiar background who speaks the same language.

The warnings have become a familiar background noise, droning in the American imagination.

So what advantage do subjects demonstrate when they see an object that they've seen before against a familiar background?

"I wanted it to have a familiar background, something they knew; but a mystery would force them to address a different type of world than their own".

Yet when the state installed a new operator at a Queens nursing home, he had a familiar background: he runs a home in Albany that was cited for violations that endangered residents, state officials said. 1 Fresh Air Fund 34 OBITUARIES 35 Charles Eaton A member of an American entertainment clan whose credits go back to the Ziegfeld Follies, he was 94. 35 Chess 34 Weather 24.

As was mentioned in section 2, such a syntactically and semantically combinatorial language of thought is a familiar background assumption for causal theories.

And the war in Iraq has gone from a gathering storm to familiar background noise, like the baseball scores or stock market reports.

Tourists who visit New York must have a similar problem, seeing the city not as the familiar background to everyday life but as a picture postcard or TV drama, as if the city for them were a film -- a performance -- rather than a place.

Mostly it was the crisp, honest discussion of gay lives, loves and pressures, all set against a familiar sitcom background.

But Mr. Biggers, who was born in 1970 and teaches at Columbia University, has a tendency to overprogram his work conceptually, forcing viewers to read it with reference to a familiar, generalized background of African-American history.

From the familiar background chatter of people speaking Chinese, a syllable leapt out from nowhere.