The big room had a somehow-familiar aspect, which was more than just the memory of countless crime films, and after a minute or two it came to him: it looked exactly like a newspaper office.
The place we now find ourselves in is like a state of remembering, as if a fog has lifted and revealed a new but somehow familiar landscape.
Their interactions occupy a strange yet somehow familiar border territory between tenderness and hostility, and they go for long stretches without looking at each other, even though body parts may be entangled.
There isn't a clear narrative to the piece, but there are scenes that sound somehow familiar: a nocturnal episode in which the sharp, bright birdcalls mellow into owl hoots; a terrifying scherzo that could be a storm or a hunt; a shimmering finale sunrise (or sunset).
I don't think I need to spell it out for you, but I will: A strange plant shows up at the door, seemingly friendly... a stranger, but also somehow familiar.... and then eats all of your food.
When an idea is old, somehow familiar, one cannot see anything new in it.
The power can be a burden and now he has met Zess, a beautiful stranger that is somehow familiar.
Wu looked less like a theologian than like an actor who'd play the kindly father in a Chinese soap opera: in his mid-fifties, he had a large, handsome face, a perfect pair of dimples in his cheeks, and a resonant voice that sounded somehow familiar.
THE heirloom tomato stew at Quince in Midtown has a haunting undertone, mysterious but somehow familiar.
A Prophet is indeed that rare thing, a wholly original piece that feels somehow familiar, the sort of thing you've seen before, but never seen done so well.
Think of a Martin Landau or a Tony Shalhoub: colorful and Old World, yet somehow familiar.
