Sentence examples for familiar act from inspiring English sources

The deceased are often shown performing some familiar act for the last time.

Before Sept. 11, this scene would have seemed horrible but also routine, a familiar act of theatrical violence.

Mr. Green's killing — still an all too familiar act in a Harlem that is more peaceful than it was in 1980, when the program was started — has thrust the Youth Marines back into the neighborhood's spotlight.

Augmented by exhibitions, panels and films in New York and performances of Balanchine ballets and related events in other American cities and abroad, this homage may seem like one more familiar act of piety.

The show — polite, pulpy, promotional — is both a familiar act of Bravo self-cannibalism and also an implicit acknowledgment that most of these chefs could not sustain a series alone (the exception being Ms. Carroll, though a show starring her might be Bravo's darkest offering).

Miyamoto recognizes that there is pleasure in difficulty but also in ease, in mastery, in performing a familiar act with aplomb, whether that be catching a baseball, dancing a tango, doing Sudoku, or steering Mario through the Mushroom Kingdom, jumping on Goombas and Koopa Troopas.

Familiar acts, like the graceful but demanding acrobatics on a pole, have returned, too.

The 5,000 Americans visiting Sydney for the festival will see some familiar acts, among them New Yorkers like Lypsinka, the drag diva, and Patty Chang, a performance artist, as well as Randall Wong, a male soprano from San Francisco.

As always, the simple and familiar acts of waiting in line, surrendering our tickets, finding our seats, listening to the calm voices of the flight attendants will help reassure us.

A consistent triumph of pacesetting style over traditional substance, this circus relies on literal smoke and figurative mirrors to present highly skilled but familiar acts in an extraordinary manner.

Handel initially tacked the two now familiar acts onto his "Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline" (1737), with the text altered slightly to set the stage for a tyrannical new king and the plagues that would spell the end of captivity for the Israelites.