They like having a clear moral code, familiar rituals, continuity with a tradition, and a community that shares their values.
This autumn, Alan Beith celebrates 10 years in the job; he's a familiar symbol of continuity and reliability.
Stamp would probably argue that the difference between Lutyens' memorial and Carmody Groarke's is that the former still has some affinity with a familiar language, a continuity with the classical architecture of death – the complex tapering proportions, the heavy stone, the wreath – which becomes banal when reduced to simple steel girders, which suggest another, industrial language.
But, if so, reorganization of familiar materials implies a continuity through revolution that Kuhn minimized.
"With The Force Unleashed II again we're trying to create a story that if you've played The Force Unleashed," explained the comic book writer, "you're going to know a bit more going into it, but hopefully the story still stands on its own and you can enjoy it even if you haven't played [the first game], whether or not you're familiar with all the continuity".
Community-based care is preferable to institutional care because it keeps child survivors within their familiar community and provides continuity in their socialization and development.
Comedies rise and fall on the continuity of cozily familiar characters, which makes their final episodes particularly problematic.
These films, whether they were Edison-style theatrical variety shorts or Lumière-style actualities, were perceived by their original audiences not as motion pictures in the modern sense of the term but as "animated photographs" or "living pictures," emphasizing their continuity with more familiar media of the time.
We are all familiar with the idea of continuity.
Nevertheless, only a minority of philosophers of the past espoused atomism at a metaphysical level, a fact which may explain why the analogous doctrine upholding continuity lacks a familiar name: that which is unconsciously acknowledged requires no name.
