There's something about the absence of a familiar authority figure that turns a class of sweet-faced young children into a bunch of hungry piranha.
But with Jesse Jones's String Quartet No. 3 ("Whereof man cannot speak... ......), commissioned by the Juilliard School and presented here in its New York premiere, the group's familiar authority took hold.
The ball thudded into Clarke's helmet, body and gloves in swift succession (though not from the same delivery) but Clarke survived and by the end he was batting with familiar authority.
A gripping spectacle was decided 12 minutes from time when City captain Vincent Kompany - an injury doubt before the game and clearly lacking some of his familiar authority - sliced a clearance straight to Philippe Coutinho, who shot low and unerringly past Joe Hart to put Liverpool in control of the title race.
Of the three victims, Teena Brandon was the most familiar to authorities.
They exist, and excel, largely outside the realm of the familiar wine authorities whose scores in the past could have made or broken a winery.
The detective Paul Gerardi (Filip Peeters) was a collection of well-worn tropes in a predictably crumpled outfit with a standard unshaved look and a familiar anti-authority attitude.
His eyes were dull and watery, his teeth corrugated and stained, and he slouched with the familiar casual authority honed on the razor strop of decades of Soviet officialdom.
All-too familiar with authority figures and layers of bureaucracy saying 'don't', their Outlaw Gang would have obvious appeal to the likes of Bobby Roberts and his friends at Temple Newsam.
A number of years ago, Swindon borough council and NHS Swindon faced a problem familiar to many authorities.
The resonances of his death are all too familiar - the authorities had failed to defend people of whatever colour from racist violence.
