Sentence examples for familiar whether from inspiring English sources

But Doerr maintains a steady pulse that feels oddly familiar: whether from bedtime stories or something yet older is hard to tell.

I suspect that I am not the only woman who finds this scenario familiar, whether from Enid's vantage point or from Denise's, or both.

The series, which has its premiere on Tuesday on CBS, is called "Unforgettable," and because the structure and plot points are so familiar, whether it succeeds will depend largely on the appeal of its star, Poppy Montgomery.

But there's also an easy joy in the familiar, whether it's a classic you've waited years to hear live or just the gleeful surprise of a novelty cover or remix.

— John Donohue Classical Music Composers, critics, and concertgoers tend to think of Romanticism as a style that's friendly and familiar, whether it's offered in the form of a Schubert sonata, a Tchaikovsky symphony, or a Brahms quintet.

So it's a pleasure, on the train from London Bridge one early September morning, to see the friendly and familiar face of Julia Quenzler, an artist with whose work the whole country is familiar, whether they know it or not.

The crowds at Spendour in the Grass (who were for the most part phenomenally well-behaved, even when their patience was stretched to the limit) were able to appreciate the less-anticipated and less-familiar, whether they were waiting out The Strokes' half-baked latest output between Is This It singles, or being treated to James Blake's moody loops while clearly primarily setting up camp for Flume.

But researchers have struggled to nail down whether the animals are simply recognizing something familiar or whether they are connecting the stimulus to a specific individual.

For example, judgments can be made on whether an individual item is novel or familiar and/or whether an item has been previously associated with another item, a particular location or context.

Take, for example, the "familiarity effect," which means that we tend to like things that are familiar -- whether people, beliefs or products -- and we like them even more when we feel threatened or stressed.

For all three, the debate centred on familiar territory: whether Mitchell's impious approach to a classic text was justified.