Sentence examples for comfortably familiar from inspiring English sources

Nothing is allowed to become comfortably familiar.

On the surface, it seemed comfortably familiar.

Under Mrs. Richardson's stewardship, certain aspects of the magazine remained comfortably familiar.

It all seemed comfortably familiar, as if we were nymphing for trout back home.

Much about the political scene in New Hampshire is comfortably familiar this year.

But today, that stretch of Route 6A is leafy: darker and more comfortably familiar.

These paintings fit a little too comfortably into a familiar niche of likable, intuitive, slightly cartoonish abstraction.

But filmmakers who have made the move to television have settled comfortably into the familiar modes of storytelling that Lynch tried to expand.

The program was comfortably and unchallengingly familiar: Schubert's Fifth Symphony and Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante shared the first half; Haydn's Symphony No. 92, the "Oxford," was played after the intermission.

For the past five months she will have been comfortably living in a familiar location following a familiar routine.

A recent study of "The Rite" by the musicologist Matthew McDonald argued plausibly that to evoke a genuine sense of primitive hysteria the composer used arbitrary formulas to assemble rhythmic patterns that would defeat anyone's expectations, even his own, and prevent the music from ever becoming familiar or comfortably predictable.