Sentence examples for familiar experiences from inspiring English sources

Perhaps the closest equivalent would be the reunion concerts by Cream and Led Zeppelin – except that both those involved simply the resuscitation of familiar experiences, the revisiting of memories.

Though she was careful not to draw a straight historical equivalence between the 1950s and 2007, Ms. Hamilton described how the thwarting of Suzanne's talent and the profound self-doubt that results are psychically familiar experiences for African-Americans today.

But amnesia is one of those uncommon syndromes that makes a handy metaphor for much more familiar experiences, for instance -- in its narrowest application -- the temporary blackouts that can result from overindulgence in alcohol or drugs.

Thus, according to the formalists, these viewers miss the opportunity of being taken into a fresh world of purely aesthetic experience and get from a work only what they bring to it: familiar experiences and emotions they employ the work to recall.

The genius of the narrative lies in how neatly the familiar experiences are turned into occult ones; the Cullens, for instance, are very much like the non-vampire family in "Endless Love"; even the terrifying Volturi are the Italian family you go and stay with in Europe.

Second, both reflect on familiar experiences, especially puzzling ones.

(Dorothy Parker, in a telegram to her editor) A familiar experience.

FOR the peccaries at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo, it is a familiar experience.

They make sense as ham-handed attempts to add fresh trinkets to an otherwise familiar experience.

So it's a familiar experience to find a page filled with these useful links.

A small electric shock caused by static electricity during cold, dry weather is a familiar experience.