More significantly still, as many as five world auction records were established for artists who are admittedly very well known, but do not rate as world celebrities familiar even to non-specialists.
I adore this painting, and have found many of Tanning's pictures are similarly beautiful and frightening, playing as they do with familiar, even cosy spaces by adding strange and disturbing elements.
Even as familiar as the story line is, this kind of payback does not usually strike as fast or with as much force as it did Sunday to golf's former top player, Tiger Woods, who already has had a number of things not go his way this year.
For average Iraqis, who have a lifetime of experiences of war and brinkmanship backed by threats of violence, there is a sense of the solemnly familiar, even as they worry that the latest flare-up in tensions between Arabs and Kurds might lead to direct conflict.
The volumes already feel familiar, even as I'm reading them for the first time".
Karimova and Kadyrov's whole deal seems pretty familiar – even banal, as kids breaking off from the values of a comfortable upbringing with connections because they "just want to dance!" is a tired cliché.
It isn't easy for conductors to put their individual stamp on works as familiar as Beethoven's symphonies, even if they've had a long career in which to experiment.
This approach lent even ballads as familiar as "Fire and Rain" and "A Case of You" a stream-of-consciousness immediacy that made you see them in a new way.
Even species as familiar as barnyard sheep have about 8% strictly homosexual males 10 – yet almost no one except sheep breeders is aware of this fact, presumably because it has been socially inappropriate to mention it.
Something familiar, even if the elements were as original as I could make them.
