Writer-director Damien Chazelle deploys familiar elements from a wide variety of sources to create a sweet-sour confection.
Coppola seems to be frustrated with old tools but hasn't found new ones, and De Palma, with astonishing virtuosity, deploys familiar formulas, tones, moods, and styles in ways that speak neither to the medium nor to the times nor, for that matter, even to himself.
He starts by deploying familiar Caroline mannerisms such as the nervous shooting of the cuffs and the rotating of his signet ring, but goes on to skilfully show us a man of principled anxiety who declares: "Without my voice and spirit, I am dust".
It is striking that Elliott does not deploy the familiar argument that we were duped or misled in 1975.
In these cases, the actions are ones the subjects can already do: what is learned is not a new action, but the appropriate circumstances in which to deploy a familiar one, a process termed contextual imitation [23], [59].
Nineteenth-century temperance campaigners deployed a familiar cast of stock figures: starving children, battered wives, drunks staggering and dying in the streets.
Adapted by Julian Fellowes, who's taken liberties with the original text, and dutifully directed by Carlo Carlei, it deploys the familiar emotional beats — if not all the lines — along with the usual mixture of comedy, romance and tragedy.
Taking a faded mansion that was once home to Marie-Laure de Noailles, a millionaire patron of the Surrealists and, upon a time, of the furniture designer Jean-Michel Frank, Mr. Starck deployed his familiar wiles.
In the case of Landbot, the team is deploying a familiar rich texting interface as a website navigation tool — meaning site visitors aren't left to figure out where to click to find stuff on their own.
