Sentence examples for attempt at familiarity from inspiring English sources

It's as if people began mentioning James Graham Ballard rather than JG Ballard (and what a great Nobel choice he would have proven!) or quoted VS Naipaul's first names in a misplaced attempt at familiarity with these writers.

Supplemental voices are absent, too no gossip, no unscripted attempts at familiarity.

a desire to return to the simpler, charmingly clunky products of yesteryear? or an attempt at lending a sense of familiarity to new objects and devices?

The 'black dog' metaphor, popularised by Winston Churchill, implies familiarity and an attempt at mastery over the illness.

Familiarity with O'Reilly's attempt at fiction, "Those Who Trespass: A Novel of Television and Murder," might make the prospect of dignified accountability from him seem even less likely.

Both a memoir and an attempt at a history of the genocide, it assumes considerable familiarity with Ottoman politics, but remains fascinating first-hand testimony to a monumental crime.

There's a horrible familiarity about History of Touches' depiction of a final attempt at sex in the dying days of a relationship and Lionsong's agonising depiction of icy passive-aggressive silence.

WASHINGTON — For their first attempt at wordless Shakespeare — that's right, wordless Shakespeare — the husband-and-wife leaders of the Synetic Theater company chose to apply their physical-theater aesthetic to "Hamlet," counting on audiences' familiarity with the plot.

The attempt at peace failed.

What a terrible attempt at positive spin.

An attempt at resuscitation is under way.