Sentence examples for familiar parade from inspiring English sources

That is refreshing, too, providing a welcome corrective to the familiar parade of slick self-publicists.

The past two weeks have seen a familiar parade of witnesses and detectives testifying in the case.

But her larger point, she said, is an art historical one about how a familiar parade of greatest hits is misleading to viewers.

The impact was slight on the characteristically festive atmosphere, as the familiar parade of Italian political, business, artistic and social luminaries gathered at the opera house in Milan on the time-honored date of Dec. 7.

The characters involved in the making of "Nosferatu" are a familiar parade of show business types, with an added fillip of interwar German decadence, signaled by a brief scene in an erotic cabaret and the occasional flourishing of a hypodermic needle.

Page five was dominated by the rest of the article, under the title "Who will blink first when Iran is on the brink?" A page-wide photo of a missile rolling past Iranian dignitaries on a reviewing stand (reminiscent of the familiar parades on Red Square) is aimed at the centerfold of the Outlook section, as if poised to blow it to smithereens.

Every element of the scene is independently familiar – the parade of vertical trunks, the low-hanging moon, the architectural remnant of some aristocratic parkland – but all are made extraordinary and oneiric.

The clothes were light, free of gimmicks, and here and there were touches of Mr. Gaultier's familiar wit: a parade float of a ball gown made of densely packed tulle in a jungle camouflage pattern and a pair of jeans embroidered from the pockets down in clear crystals to look destroyed.

Students of labor history will be familiar with the parade of militant actions: the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, the execution of Parsons and three other anarchist leaders after an 1886 demonstration that ended with violence in Chicago's Haymarket Square, the Homestead Steel strike of 1892 and anarchist Alexander Berkman's attempt to assassinate the man responsible for crushing it.

It followed three days in Darwin's supreme court, where Gooda and co-commissioner Margaret White heard evidence on the long-broken systems from a parade of familiar experts singing familiar refrains.

In terms of subject matter and story, then, In Parenthesis appeared to be late on parade, treading familiar ground.