On a recent visit, my husband and I made the all too familiar mistake of parking in terminal A and soon afterward realized that we needed to get to terminal C. On this particular airport run, that was O.K. because we were ahead of schedule for picking up our daughter.
Perhaps I made the familiar mistake of observing Africa through Western eyes, because Fuller, who was in Zimbabwe at the same time as me, saw something quite different: the past repeating itself in the immediate violence washing over the country.
But I'm going to persist today in the hope that it may help prevent you making the familiar mistake that many others made, including me, in taking little or no interest until long after we should have done.
In the new translation by David Edgar, the alien word "trolls" has been perhaps wisely eliminated, but I wish Mr. Edgar hadn't made the familiar mistake of misusing the phrase "begging the question," which is jarring in this high-culture context.
They could take heart from their effort and commitment, and the reality they had prised apart a stubborn defence, but familiar mistakes crept in.
The book slows down here, becoming a more detailed evocation of adolescence, with all its familiar mistakes and messes.
It's not just that we feel more expansive at this time of year (though there is that) but that we fool ourselves, too -- we allow ourselves to make the familiar mistaken assumption that easy-eating early summer food is easily cooked, that a relaxed afternoon in the garden means an equally relaxed morning in the kitchen.
The Jets' offense moved the ball, but familiar mistakes bubbled to the surface.
The Bears have problems of their own with a defense that gave up almost 40 points to Green Bay last Sunday, with Jay Cutler making familiar mistakes at crucial times.
