The first is a familiar mistake of elaborating all the factors responsible for some specific event and calculating all the probabilities as if they were independent.
Katy B made a familiar mistake: embracing the idea that to be taken seriously outside the nightclub meant making her sound more austere, more performed, as opposed to just played.
Perhaps I made the familiar mistake of observing Africa through Western eyes, because Fuller, who was in Zimbabwe at the same time as me, saw something quite different: the past repeating itself in the immediate violence washing over the country.
But I'm going to persist today in the hope that it may help prevent you making the familiar mistake that many others made, including me, in taking little or no interest until long after we should have done.
In the new translation by David Edgar, the alien word "trolls" has been perhaps wisely eliminated, but I wish Mr. Edgar hadn't made the familiar mistake of misusing the phrase "begging the question," which is jarring in this high-culture context.
On a recent visit, my husband and I made the all too familiar mistake of parking in terminal A and soon afterward realized that we needed to get to terminal C. On this particular airport run, that was O.K. because we were ahead of schedule for picking up our daughter.
