Sentence examples for false familiarity of from inspiring English sources

He's a formal person, disliking strangers who immediately assume the false familiarity of calling him by his first name.

"The fundamental issue we had to get after was false familiarity with the brand; a lot of consumers have a dated perspective of what the brand is.

Attempts by politicians to appear "down with the kids" routinely curl the toes; here, Miliband circumvents the danger of doing a Gordon Brown (who claimed false familiarity with Arctic Monkeys in 2006) by exhibiting no taste, of any kind, whatsoever.

This false familiarity is the strangest thing.

There is a veil of misleading familiarity, of odd and false association, between us and the French judges.

Curiously, sheep are frequently found at earth's more stirring spots, lending them a false sense of familiarity.

For those of us who have lived through hurricanes in the Mid Atlantic states and Northeast, another psychological factor can diminish concern – the, "I've lived through this before" effect, a false sense of familiarity.

But we take what happens in the water for granted, because its proximity gives us a false sense of familiarity.

Therefore, basic visual features common to many complex visual stimuli, which would be encountered during the delay, may provide a false signal of familiarity for the novel object (thus we have referred to such interference as 'feature ambiguity'; for a more detailed account of this proposed mechanism, see Cowell et al., 2006; McTighe et al., 2010).

Yosemite is one of the most photographed places in the world, and the familiarity of those images can lead visitors to a false sense of security.

Yes, Google does have an undo button for recalling emails that went out wrong, but in this case the familiarity of the button placement may have lulled many Gmail regulars into a false sense of security.