Sentence examples for a somewhat familiar from inspiring English sources

Hardinge realises a somewhat familiar yet fantastical world; characters are richly described and colourful, the action vivid and breathtaking.

For Mandella, it was a somewhat familiar feeling -- 10 years ago, after a very good day here at the Breeders' Cup, he was dumbstruck.

Because however bold the decision is to turn this into a price war, Spencer's blogpost has a somewhat familiar ring to it.

While the opening scenes have the pace and visual variety of a movie (albeit a somewhat familiar one), the film quickly comes to feel wordy and stagebound.

Similarly, Götz Spielmann's "Revanche," the Austrian nominee for the best foreign-language film Oscar, marries a somewhat familiar narrative of underworld criminality to a somber investigation of a Europe uncomfortably caught between its rural past and its global future.

Compare the tonality, as well as what Brodsky liked to call the essential "plane of regard," with that of lines written 20 years later in "View With a Flood": A somewhat familiar landscape, currently flooded.

The N.S.A. has successfully turned what was a somewhat-familiar metajoke back onto us: we've been metahoisted on our own metapetards.

The teams treat two separate groups of patients, but MDs from team A are somewhat familiar with the patients treated by team B, and vice versa, because of proximity, collegiality, early-morning fellow sign-outs (informal), and formal sign-outs that include both teams and the oncoming night call MDs.

A dramatic, if somewhat familiar turnaround, and now Santos needed a goal, with the dangerous Quintero already subbed out.

(Jeannette Catsoulis) 'CARAMEL' (PG, 1 36, in Arabic and French) Set in a Beirut beauty salon, Nicole Labaki's debut feature presents a charming, if somewhat familiar, tableau of female friendship and mild melodrama.

O. Scott) 'CARAMEL' (PG, 1 36, in Arabic and French) Set in a Beirut beauty salon, Nicole Labaki's debut feature presents a charming, if somewhat familiar, tableau of female friendship and mild melodrama.