Sentence examples for familiarity like from inspiring English sources

I wanted a voice that would sound far more homegrown and familiar -- a familiarity like a teacher's voice or a preacher's voice.

These paleontologists talk about the mannerisms and physical qualities of dinosaurs with loving familiarity, like English professors discussing characters in novels.

This Zip Code tour is once again selling familiarity, like most latter-day Stones tours, and while there are few surprises in the setlist, this time something is different.

Famous faces too numerous to list pop up instead of punchlines – this is comedy which leans on familiarity like the perma-drunk Edina leans on her put-upon assistant, Bubble (Jane Horrocks).

Recognition is a much easier task – all you have to do is look at something in your environment and generate the correct feeling of familiarity (like when you look at your revision notes and think "I'm sick of looking at these").

An image usually strikes me because it has an eerie familiarity, like something I already know or feel deeply.

I've already been teased about my limited skills by a number of the world's best chefs, though Adrià — perhaps because the language barrier limits all but a kind of intuitive, physical familiarity (we like each other, but we can't really talk to each other, at least not well) — was in fact more respectful than most.

But, as Ms. Chang said, "familiarity breeds liking.

The guiding principles at De Hogeweyk are familiarity, comfort, like-mindedness.

Familiarity increases liking, so mix up people's workspaces to provide opportunities for mingling.

Also, the familiarity and liking ratings did not significantly predict the individual differences in generosity (Kolmogorov Smirnov test, n=24 for each group; experimental group: familiarity r=0.04, P=0.85; liking: r=0.16, P=0.46; control group: familiarity r=−0.12, P=0.58; liking: r=−0.02, P=0.93; all participants: familiarity r=−0.1, P=0.51; liking: r=−0.01, P=0.93).