The phrase "abandoned familiar" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It seems to be an incomplete or incorrect expression, and without additional context, it is difficult to determine its intended use.
Example: "The abandoned familiar house stood in silence, a relic of the past."
Alternatives: "neglected acquaintance" or "forsaken friend".
Davies regards The House Of Mirth as one of literature's great modern tragedies and has wanted to film it for 15 years, during which time Martin Scorsese also abandoned familiar territory to film another of Wharton's books, The Age Of Innocence, with Winona Ryder, Michelle Pfeiffer and Daniel Day-Lewis.
In "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay" he abandoned familiar romantic themes for "sad, wistful introspections, amplified by unforgettable descending guitar riffs by Cropper".
Her view is that the reluctance to accept the reality of climate change is a reluctance to abandon familiar ways of life, which is what averting climate-caused disaster requires all to do.
Anyone who has endured a fracas over music at worship will appreciate the Methodist church scene of outrage in the pews when the congregation's music director, fresh from summer music camp, tries to "pep up" the organ music and abandon familiar "Southern hymns".
So for the past year I've abandoned my familiar student lifestyle in Leeds for an exchange year at the University of South Carolina.
They abandoned the familiar and strode bravely into the unknown, confident that doing so would enable a better future.
I believe in that suggestion, and I was sorry to see it forsaken, as the plot abandons familiar ground and heads into a fantastical bad dream.
But still he sounds credibly charged here, the only song on this album where he abandons his familiar vocal caress and still sounds comfortable.
It is as if Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove persuaded the British to abandon a familiar route ahead and try their short cut to national greatness.
Having said that, abandoning the familiar, if wrong, conception of human behavior is daunting and unsettling; it calls for establishing new knowledge structures and being open to some humbling truths about ourselves and some uncomfortable truths about our justice system.
Did J&R go the way of other electronic and music purveyors like Crazy Eddie's, The Wiz or HMV? No. Instead, J&R is abandoning its familiar horizontal shopping bazaar for a vertical one.
