Sentence examples for familiar mass from inspiring English sources

He returned to find a familiar mass of cameras and microphones awaiting after the team's practice.

Even the riots that erupted in a part of Oldham last summer seem a bit familiar: mass immigration has been a fact of life for West Europeans for several decades now, and so have its concomitant problems.

One might hope for answers reflecting fresh thinking, but the emerging response of SW1 is drearily familiar – mass surveillance on the assumption that "the gentleman from Whitehall knows best".

Here's the strangest thing: the television series, lasting more than five and a quarter hours, was bovine of pace, often ugly to behold, and content to meander along byways that petered out into open country or led inexorably to dead ends, yet I was tensed and transfixed by every minute, like a worshipper at a familiar Mass whose mystery will never abate.

The new normalization of the general eigenproblem derived here can degenerate to the familiar mass orthogonal relationship of undamped eigenvectors.

Actually, despite the magnitude and enormity of loss it produces, the reasons for genocide are painfully simple and yet all too familiar: Mass murderers are guided by a political calculation that eliminating others will enhance their power and that the benefits derived from such murderous policies will outweigh the costs.

Experiences that once seemed dynamic and enriching become rote, familiar, mass-manufactured, factory-scale.

Few rider advocates or others familiar with mass transit in the state question the agency's need for higher fares and increased aid to operate the nation's third-largest public transportation system.

Ms. Allen, who lives with her 15-year-old daughter, Sadie, and her 3-year-old Boston terrier, Pippi, is probably most familiar to mass audiences as the C.I.A. operative who pursues Matt Damon's Jason Bourne.

Impossible: "I hadn't imagined such a place, how could I have?" Necessary: "Each separate corner of the world was obsessed with its own set of the familiar, the mass of fine points its residents were sure every human had to know" — so much so that the whole world "was populated by idiots savants, who knew what they knew very well and not all that much else".

Along with a person's waist-to-height ratio, which another recently published study confirmed is a better measure of disease-inducing abdominal fat than the familiar body-mass index, a flaccid handshake may be a warning that all is not well.