Sentence examples for becomes unfamiliar from inspiring English sources

"The familiar is either so closely cropped or presented in such a unique way that it becomes unfamiliar," Ms. Rhein said.

What happens when the familiar (the home, our children, our partners) becomes unfamiliar or invaded by outside forces (hauntings, home invasions, possessions, abductions, psychosis)?

"He recontextualizes those different elements and creates almost a kind of surreal experience of something that is perhaps very familiar but that becomes unfamiliar, or is discovered in a new way through his work of art," said Nicholas Baume, the director and chief curator of the Public Art Fund.

Such unfamiliarity can be created through older people travelling as tourists to new areas; as a consequence of urban regeneration; or as a result of cognitive decline, where the familiar becomes unfamiliar.

When life becomes unfamiliar, that's when we grow the most.

She is the "scout into the wilderness," as one critic said, of her own town, which becomes unfamiliar and scary when seen in the light of the racism and classism that upholds its polite surface.

And so began the work of living a life that, in an instant, had become unfamiliar.

But he gave Jets fans what have become unfamiliar feelings: confidence and hope in the team's starting quarterback.

Even if he'd become unfamiliar — morose, silent, unable to read — he was familiar — his scent, body, posture, gestures, voice.

For most of the time since 1997, the first interpretation has appeared to predominate.The strain of Conservatism that Mr Cameron embodies has thus become unfamiliar.

Her speech in Birmingham on Monday was a signpost towards a kind of Toryism that has become unfamiliar in both the Thatcherite and the modernising eras.