Sentence examples for an overly familiar from inspiring English sources

It's an overly familiar, somewhat tired production.

It's why the troupe's online send-up of an overly familiar target (young Williamsburg types) works.

"It's an invasion of someone's space" to use an overly familiar manner, she said.

Lacking his usual sharpness, he treads not so much a revolutionary road here, as an overly familiar one.

He is derided for hosting them almost too reliably and for being an overly familiar presence at them.

The results are not as disturbing as they should be: man-made disaster replayed as lyrical video spectacle is an overly familiar art-world convention by now.

And if you sometimes wish the filmmakers had prodded him more, they (and he) present a puzzle of a kind overly familiar in 20th-century history: How was a man who believed in justice able to ignore the ugly facts all around him?

Unfortunately, the result is a slower, more somber entry in the Sick Soul of the Bourgeoisie genre — an overcrowded, overly familiar category, typified in the United States by "American Beauty" and "Little Children," in which the spiritually comatose reconnect with life by having affairs and suffering.

This is not a man overly familiar with the Rodney King video, or the dark side of US foreign policy.

It combines the music of Underworld with a modest, overly familiar storyline.

Repeated interrogations of Elizabeth and her servants led to the charge that even when his wife was alive Seymour had on several occasions behaved in a flirtatious and overly familiar manner toward the young princess.