("Within hours, a listener may not remember if it's true or false," Shankar had said. "It just feels recognizable").
It should all feel tedious and strident, except that the book's alienated affect, flecked with sorrow and humor and rage, is so recognizable as one of the few rational responses to the status quo.
Filming in mirrors or through sheer curtains, starting shots blurry and then bringing them into focus, the filmmakers create a vibrant, extravagantly beautiful world that, although steeped in global consciousness, feels as recognizable and immediate as any prime-time soap opera.
In their best work, however, the Coens conjure up mythologized places that feel vaguely recognizable and alarmingly peculiar at the same time: a noirish, gothicized Texas in "Blood Simple," a Kafkaesque Los Angeles in "Barton Fink," and in "Fargo" a whited-out Minnesota, presided over by the legendary figure of Paul Bunyan.
I spent a few hours walking around with my camera through all the familiar places my old neighborhood in the East Village felt only half recognizable in the dark.
Pancake's stories and their characters, though from the nineteen-seventies, felt both immediately recognizable and pertinent to the present moment.
Why do you think it felt so immediately recognizable? .
She uses all the recognizable tricks: diversion, enticement, encouragement.
The fact of the matter is I felt a strange but recognizable hole that grew just behind my lungs.
The conflicts Perrotta invents here feel both instantly recognizable and queerly portentous, calling to mind dystopic science fictions from "Body Snatchers," to Ira Levin's "Stepford Wives," to Ray Bradbury's "Martian Chronicles".
