The nuanced understanding that comes with familiarity has been absent in his regime.
And on my visits, there was an easy banter between customer and chef that comes from familiarity.
A kind of comfortable love that comes from familiarity, or perhaps just a fear of starting over again?
The waiters — upbeat and knowledgeable — can step over the line when it comes to familiarity (one of my guests said that he could not remember ever being touched by a waiter before, which he was, repeatedly, on one of our visits).
In December 2004, TV viewers started to tune in to a reality show that documented the dramatic details of producing a runway collection, and with it came a familiarity with infectious little catchphrases such as "make it work, people" and "auf Wiedersehen".
What about the benefit of immersion, and the unique knowledge of a landscape and its residents that can only come with involvement, familiarity and stasis?
You see, to come from the familiarity of Ohio to a big city like Washington, D.C., it was my wildest dreams coming true.
With the increasing familiarity of such attacks comes the increasing familiarity of the reaction: the state of emergency, the military in the streets, the closing of the borders, the call for harder, fiercer, more unrelenting retaliation.
But more to the point, by saying nothing at the debate, Palin can reverse all of the negatives that have come from our growing familiarity with her.
The confidence of the respondents might have come with practice, responsibility, familiarity with frequently used drugs on the ward and adequate supervision by their senior colleagues [ 34].
