Dumézil argues that this play on Víðarr's spatiality would have been understood by an audience familiar with the God, an interpretation further warranted by his reading of the Lokasenna as being in significant part a book of puns and word plays about the different Aesir.
Poems projected onto the back wall in an antique script, as if they were title cards from a silent movie, offer a few basic hints, but those audience members less familiar with Indian gods, stories and mime conventions aren't given much guidance.
I'm familiar with Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the U.S.A.," of course.
Any Muslim familiar with the revelation God gave to Muhammad should know that.
Trump was a thrice-married New Yorker more familiar with mammon than with God.
Goonhilly, a sparse heathland at Britain's most southerly point, could have been designed for satellite broadcasts by a benevolent god familiar with the nature of the radio wave.
Even audiences familiar with Yasmina Reza's comedy "God of Carnage," and the way it reduces its four adult characters to squabbling children over the course of roughly 90 minutes, might raise an eyebrow at a production of the play that will open in Boston next month.
If we are Christians in more than name only, we need also to accept Jesus' invitation to dwell with him, get to know him; we need to become familiar with the voice of God calling us individually by name, to upset things, shaking society and politics and the religious establishment too.
Stephen Barr is an elementary particle physicist familiar with cosmology, who argues God's existence from two different sources of scientific evidence.
They are familiar with Fred Phelps and his "God Hates Fags" signs, Chick-fil-A Appreciation Days, and ballot initiatives designed to revoke their rights.
