Sentence examples for chiefly familiar from inspiring English sources

For most people the work is chiefly familiar as transmitted through the Mozart-Da Ponte opera, a sublime social comedy in which class is clearly a crucial factor.

Set aside this exhibition's awkward attempts to underscore the specifically Jewish character of Modigliani's work (for example, curators point to his formal fascination with noses); for anyone chiefly familiar with the masklike faces and stylized bodies of Modigliani's later paintings, this trove of early drawings will be a revelation.

Jeb Bush's halting response has so far been defined chiefly by that familiar silver foot in his mouth.

I looked into Kreymborg (familiar to me chiefly as an early champion of Moore) and happened to read a poem of his, "Vista", backward.

At the follow-up post-operative clinic appointments difficult information, chiefly histopathology results and prognosis, are communicated in a familiar environment by clinicians the patient has met previously.

Most of what Saval has to say is not only familiar but derivative; as he admits, his book is "chiefly a work of synthesis".

Kant was familiar with arguments of the kind that we just saw Descartes mount (chiefly from similar reasoning in Leibniz and Mendelssohn) but he was not impressed.

To placate domestic opponents of the war, chiefly within his own party, Mr Obama has promised to start withdrawing American troops from Afghanistan in July 2011.Struggling in HelmandNo one familiar with the complacency and drift that has characterised NATO's efforts in Afghanistan can be unimpressed by this new sense of purpose.

To the relief of gay rights advocates, Kennedy later in Tuesday's argument returned to some of his more familiar themes about equality and at one point chided a Michigan state lawyer for insisting that marriage was chiefly about biology and procreation, and not recognizing the dignity derived from being in a committed couple.

Chiefly Florida and Georgia.

Chiefly South.