Sentence examples for familiar opening from inspiring English sources

After a hideously familiar opening drive, the Michigan defense has buttoned things up.

Even the familiar opening music — Jean-Joseph Mouret's brass fanfare "Rondeau" — won't be spared.

Brass intonation, mostly secure throughout, fell apart during the familiar opening toccata of Monteverdi's opera "Orfeo".

Soon enough, the familiar opening chords of the sevillana began to play.

Even the familiar opening theme, composed by the rock musician Bob Mould, is sticking around for the time being.

Then, after the familiar opening bell rang, John O'Donoghue, a managing director, called out, "Let's go, guys".

As more than a million New York City public school students returned to class yesterday, Maria A. Aviles, the principal of Junior High School 45 in East Harlem, greeted children and reassured parents — a familiar opening-day ritual for a year that promises broad changes for the nation's largest school system and its principals.

While the parade season looks dishearteningly familiar, the opening of the new assembly shows that things are changing in Northern Ireland.

He seldom speaks long, but the crowds seem to love the presidential trappings, even if his remarks sound familiar: an opening joke, recognition of local and Congressional officials and comments on issues like terrorism, the economy or Medicare.

The familiar Adagio sostenuto opening of the Sonata No. 14 ("Moonlight") felt ideal, neither self-consciously neutral nor overemphatic and mawkish.

From the opening, familiar Vince Guaraldi piano chords it's clear that director Steve Martino is taking a "don't fix what ain't broke" approach with all this.