But it was in the familiar Bond territory of food and drink that I think my close reading really delivered.
The now familiar Bond martini, with its strict instruction to be shaken, not stirred, and its large vodka measure, is the love child of an early deal with Smirnoff vodka when the Bond movies became popular.
Most of what were to be standard ingredients in the series are here at the start – the opening credits with the familiar Bond theme accompanying the hero shooting straight into the camera lens, the outlandish villain with his plans of world domination, the Bond girls to be bedded and left to their fates, the cynical quips that accompany the deaths of foes and so on.
But the greatest appeal of Portrait of Wally is its no-holds barred story of endurance, of rightfulness and the human love we sometimes feel for the inanimate things that help create a familiar bond to our life here on earth.
In this review, we feature key recent discoveries and advances across the whole range of σ-hole interactions for anion recognition, from the familiar halogen bonding to the almost unknown pnictogen and tetrel bonding.
Though similar to the more familiar hydrogen bonding, four primary differences between these two interactions make halogen bonding a unique tool for molecular recognition and the design of functional materials.
Joe Charbanic's film makes much of the supposed familiar psychic bond between killer and pursuer, which leads to the moody posturing to be expected when these two tangle.
Ideas about the genius of nature (even more than of art), the alien strangeness of birds, the familiar rituals and bonds of parenthood ricochet through the gallery.
A technocrat by nature, Mr. Thain is very familiar with mortgage bonds from his days on Goldman Sachs's mortgage trading desk in the 1980s.
But the play's misty-eyed melodrama and romantic view of sacrifice would have been as familiar as war bonds to Americans who wept through movies like "I'll Be Seeing You" and "Since You Went Away".
