Sentence examples for curious familiarity from inspiring English sources
But Stephanie Merritt, in the Observer, said: "Emily Barton's remarkable first novel proves difficult to define; it straddles genres while possessing a curious familiarity, reminiscent at times of Swift and Peake, set against the landscape of a Brueghel painting".
The curious sense of extreme familiarity may be limited to a single sensory system, such as the sense of hearing, but as a rule it is generalized, affecting all aspects of experience including the subject's own actions.
In these works and in "La Flamenca," the combination of general aesthetic familiarity with new particulars makes for a curious listening experience.
The report defines it as follows: "People high on openness are more artistic, creative and intellectually curious, and tend to prefer novelty and variety over familiarity and sameness".
It is a song that is sad and hopeful and homesick and happy, a marriage of frustration, familiarity and deep-rooted love, the sound of that curious moment in the year when we all seem to realise where we belong.
Curious George's popularity, according to his Q Score, a rating that measures familiarity and fondness on a scale between zero and a hundred, is at a potentially precarious point.
A curious old statute in Italy's civil code, enacted by the Fascists to encourage familiarity with firearms, gives hunters, and only hunters, the right to enter private property, regardless of who owns it, in pursuit of game.
The familiarity is important.
