Sentence examples for familiar surface from inspiring English sources

A lulling, convincingly familiar surface has always been essential to Mr. LaBute's work.

I slump at my desk, laying my head down on its warm, familiar surface.

I always felt I was principally engaged in a love story and in a story about people falling through a familiar surface into unexpected depths.

With one notable exception (the Belarus Free Theater's galvanizing "Being Harold Pinter") the shows listed below have the pleasingly familiar surface appearance of the Broadway of decades ago.

Another virtuoso performance by contemporary art's most technically gifted purveyor of psychedelia, Fred Tomaselli's new suite of complex collaged paintings extends a career-long fascination with the kaleidoscopic profusion he detects beneath the familiar surface of things.

It was one more challenge heaped on the team facing a contest on red clay, a slow and less familiar surface to the Americans and their lone star, Stan Smith.

Paradoxically, this explanation tends to be developed in antagonistic proximity to each other: it ricochets against the familiar surfaces of the marriage in cruel mimicry of the dependency that is now being disavowed.

In the winter of 2001-2, whEnglandand won series in both Pakistan and Sri Lanka, he hit 553 runs at an average of 61.44, including two centuries; in Tests overall, his average on the subcontinent was identical to his record on more familiar surfaces.

Desson Thomson of The Washington Post gave the film a positive review, saying "Ratatouille doesn't center on the over-familiar surfaces of contemporary life.

Rather than using the familiar concave surface, engineers there are experimenting with a lens whose surface resembles a Mexican sombrero.

Old familiar questions surface: Who are these people?