He depicts Clinton as arriving in office totally unprepared to manage the White House, thanks in part to his familiar desire to please everyone around him.
A general interest in re-examining parts of the urban fabric that we take for granted, like streets, piers and canals — as opposed to the more familiar desire to create striking visual objects — is one of the main strengths of the exhibition.
Her ongoing project, Escape, stems from the familiar desire to get away from our computer screens and the human instinct to go into the earth.
And it suffers from the familiar, crippling desire to be naughty without risking offense.
Still, in many districts like District 2 on the East Side of Manhattan or District 26 in northern Queens, decentralization worked as planned, resulting in the election of civic-minded people who were familiar with the desires of residents and put strong principals at the heads of schools, which attracted the best teachers and turned out high-performing students.
It's a familiar feeling: the desire to gorge on a muffiny mountain of sponge and take delight at a "surprise" filling.
Most young readers have not-so-secret love affairs with Judy Blume at some point or another, largely for what she says in this clip from the Today show (via Jezebel), about a reader recognizing in her books a familiar behavior or desire and realizing that they're "not the only one".
Also, the extent to which we are distracted from the serious concerns of society by the glamour of public entertainment figures and the extravaganzas of the cinema and sports field represents a deep-seated human desire, familiar to the Romans, to be distracted from serious and troubling matters.
When couples succumb to habit, turning one another into pieces of domestic furniture (every lump and sag familiar to us), desire dies.
And the rhetoric of Moldova's protesters had another familiar ring: The desire to reject the values of their parents and an entire older generation.
