Sentence examples for familiarity against from inspiring English sources

The risks of darkness were also linked to unfamiliarity, with belonging and familiarity against the risks of poor light.

It was a specific recipe: comfortable familiarity set against an alien horror.

Yet even this familiarity was helpless against Miami's superior talent, depth, conditioning and ambition.

But if you mapped excitement against familiarity, you'd get a downward slope.

It was almost exactly what I'd expected and that familiarity had turned against me.

He struck first in the second inning against Javier Vazquez, whose familiarity with the Mets might have worked against him.

At the karate school across the street, called Martial Arts Against Drugs, familiarity also works in Mr. Fabrizi's favor.

On the other hand, no matter how gifted Mr. Mitchell is, he doesn't have the Q-rating to lure years' worth of tourist ticket buyers to a show whose familiarity may finally work against it.

For all her familiarity, that alone argues against the business-as-usual, more-of-the-same case that Republicans are prepared to make against her for the next many months.

As such it examined the six primary variable outcomes of interest (defined above) against nano familiarity, age and gender.

But the familiarity of those elements rubs against elements familiar to Marshall's fans: fleeting relationships, missed connections, subtleties poignant and unsettling.