The Shakespearean bed trick, where it is so dark that somebody ends up making love to the wrong somebody (or as it happens, ultimately the right somebody), could never happen in our bright bedrooms, but the soft velvet of darkness turns even a familiar lover into an unknown encounter.
The components may be familiar to lovers of this kind of slow-motion techno-soul that bring to mind a heartbroken HudMo too debilitated by love to do anything but make late-night glitch ballads, but the variety of tones and textures Streten employs throughout is impressive.
Perhaps through his "double nature," Mr. Wilson suggested somewhat cryptically, explaining that behind the strange marathon runner is a familiar spurned lover.
It's hard not to find this embarrassingly familiar: the unloved lovers, the unsucceeded successes.
Today, her name is familiar to book lovers from coast to coast.
The new location, at 218 Middle Neck Road, is a familiar one for lovers of Italian food.
Her parents' lives follow a familiar route — young lovers whose marriage breaks under the weight of poverty, too many children and not enough to look forward to.
The tone of the Moravian choruses will be familiar to Janacek lovers: tales of disappointment and lost love set in a palpable, wide-open evocation of the natural world: And under that maple, my darling Embroiders a green head scarf.
Over the next three decades, their joint name would become as familiar to food lovers around the world as the gastronomic bible they always hoped, but never quite managed, to unseat, the red "Guide Michelin".
The people behind most #MeToos are of a more familiar scale: friends, lovers, acquaintances, teachers, colleagues, bosses, the countless anonymous strangers who have forced their way forever into their targets' memories with indelible words and deeds that they, no doubt, have long forgotten.
