Former sketch comedy writer Bob Nelson's screenplay is full of wry rural observations (Mount Rushmore looks "unfinished, like someone got bored… ") and Payne's familiar Sideways-glance at the foibles of people in quiet crisis is typically sympathetic.
Aaron stands over me, his Noise coming at me in fragments of scripture and of his next sermon and Language, young Todd and the finding of a sacrifice and the saint chooses his path and God hears and the wash of pictures that's in everyone's Noise, of things familiar and glancing flashes of– What?
THE advent of Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ" has brought with it a controversy that seems, at least at first glance, familiar, even ritualistic.
In thematically arranged chapters — on remembrance, forgetting, and spectacle — he produces close readings of the novels, films, monuments, and prisons that form "the identity of war" in Vietnam, "a face with carefully drawn features, familiar at a glance to the nation's people".
Green's pieces depict flowers, butterflies, birds, trees, and other parts of nature that might seem familiar on first glance.
In 2000, as it happened, I was already familiar, in a glancing sort of way, with a longitudinal study that followed the lives of two hundred and sixty-eight men who graduated from Harvard in the years around 1940.
Their work takes subjects that may on first glance appear familiar and challenges you to take a second look.
"Still the Same Old Story," as the title simultaneously suggests and denies, is at first glance a familiar tale of marital dissatisfactions.
During this anniversary year his music is being played up and down the land, from January to December: rare as well as familiar works, as a glance at the Elgar Society Web site (www.elgar.org) shows.
The man's pale, mustachioed face, his elegant coat and slender frame, looked uncannily familiar; when Sirois-Trahan glanced at the label on the canister of the film reel—"Greffulhe wedding"—he recognized the surname of the French countess who famously served as a muse to Marcel Proust.
On second glance, they were familiar faces: 11 immigrant shopkeepers who work in the neighborhood.
