Sentence examples for falsely familiar from inspiring English sources

His manner with the elderly was natural and respectful, neither falsely familiar nor excessively deferential.

The scant few blocks north toward the dizzy roofline of St. Patrick's Cathedral passed unreal, falsely familiar.

She recounts several incidents, involving, for example, a gratifying exchange in a hardware store, the appearance of a falsely familiar woman, a possibly irrational fight between a couple, a suicide attempt, a monologue by a crazy man on the street addressed to the author while she eats frozen yogurt, and a conflict between two older women on a bus.

At times, they looped back on themselves — indicating the point at which walkers typically spot a familiar landmark, falsely conclude that they are walking in a circle,_ _and begin to panic — but the walkers almost never circled all the way back to the start.

There is a grim, but familiar pattern of disabled men falsely accused of sexual crimes they didn't commit.

Since leaving Thoughtful House, he has been working on a book about parents who have been falsely accused of Munchausen syndrome by proxy: the world of false accusations, of unheard parents in pain — familiar territory, all of it.

As in the case of meanings, genres vary from age to age, culture to culture, and even individual to individual, and the interpreter therefore faces, and needs to resist, constant temptations falsely to assimilate a work's genre to other ones with which he is more familiar (e.g. Shakespearean "tragedy" to Sophoclean "tragedy," or vice versa).

Falsely accusing the staff".

Twenty people were falsely convicted.

People can be falsely arrested.

He is not falsely humble.