The phrase "a familiar form of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that is commonly recognized or well-known in a particular context.
Example: "The artist's latest work is a familiar form of abstract expressionism that resonates with many viewers."
Alternatives: "a well-known type of" or "a recognizable style of".
It's all resembling a familiar form of dispersal.
Amusement rides are a familiar form of recreation and an important component in the tourism industry, found in both fixed-site amusement parks and travelling carnivals.
But it does have the advantage of being a familiar form of labor relations for a German car company like VW.
That would be a familiar form of nostalgia, and must be an important part of what 'Germany' came to mean in what wasn't the age of Goethe.
A guarantee is a familiar form of financing in which an auction house promises the seller an undisclosed sum regardless of the outcome of the sale.
The puzzle-piece ingredients of Al Souza's "Topsy-Turvy" are a familiar form of image fragmentation, but his jigsawed views are reorganized abstractly, making nonsense of the impulse to sort out the jumbled visual information.
Opera is a familiar form too his revival of "Don Giovanni" will return to the English National Opera this autumn.
At one point, the author compares Dylan's compositional method, which often involves quotation, appropriation and juxtaposition from a wide variety of musical, textual and even cinematic sources, to a more familiar form of assemblage.
This strategy continues to be a highly familiar form of corporate development.
The basis of Lorie Novak's elaborate project, of which the work at Wesleyan is just a piece, is family photographs, an overly familiar form of popular art that Ms. Novak has, through contemporary technology, elevated to a richly high level.
Such formulae serve many functions, from aiding memory, to holding our attention, and offering the comfort of a familiar form (Boyd, 2009; Miller, 1990).
