The exchange was rare in that it involved high-level, bilateral talks, but it was familiar in that it swiftly appeared to implode in recriminations.
Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but they seemed not to want to be familiar, in case it looked like sycophancy, but not to want to be unfamiliar, in case it looked like disapproval, and then, caught in the headlights of friendliness, unable to remember how friendly they had been last time.
Familiar in aspect, it was as real to me as my own hand.
If those words sound familiar in Florida, it is because they are exactly the same.
The Bahá'í week is familiar in that it consists of seven days, with each day of the week also named after an attribute of God.
It is as familiar in Quebec as it is in Spain.So are the charges and counter-charges that pass between centre and periphery.
Little known in the United States before the games, Roots is very familiar in Canada, where it has 140 stores selling its signature sweaters, T-shirts, shoes, purses and jackets, popular with Canadians since the early 1980's.
It is the map of itself, blunt with intention, as familiar in dream as it is in daylight, consoling, warning, protecting.
He has lived in both Germany and America, but his name is more familiar in Europe than it is here.
The Klimtian iconography of sphinxlike women amid cosmic glitter was less familiar in 1980 than it is today; blockbuster exhibitions of Viennese art had yet to travel the world.
