Sentence examples for familiarity my from inspiring English sources

My astonishment has blended into familiarity, my familiarity into possessiveness, my possessiveness into nostalgia, my nostalgia into -- what?

As a second-generation Chinese-American growing up with a dearth of cultural familiarity, my first exposure to Beijing came as one of the perennially rotating crowd of language immersion students.

Far from being a passport to untold cinematic glamour and A-list familiarity, my nifty green pass only permitted access to a handful of showings, while red, blue and orange pass holders seemed to ghost through security checkpoints outside the smarter screening rooms.

Lauder has been spending a lot of time with the painting since July, when it arrived, contemplating it alone for an hour at a time after the museum has closed; once, while speaking to me, he referred to the portrait with proprietary familiarity as "my woman".

(Remember the black kid who touched Obama's hair to see if it felt like his?) I'd like to attribute this familiarity to my relative overconsumption of the news, and to my short tenure as a junior staffer at the White House, where, by long-standing custom, Presidential photos hang on most of the walls.

Verses or hymns stitched across frames or statues offered a sense of familiarity from my days back in elementary and middle school - where my independent and supposedly non denominational one featured a regular Biblical reading in the daily assembly in fact referred to as "chapel".

Through homesickness and loneliness and uncertainty, the familiarity of my childhood books have grounded me, taking me back to that bunk bed, my old bedroom and a house full of people who are still supporting me, even from the other side of the world.

It's a cheap familiarity on my part though, because I never really knew him beyond a breezy "hello," and it is my loss.

Q.Did your familiarity with My Morning Jacket precede that experience?

Why in the world was "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face," a meditation on domestic bliss and familiarity from "My Fair Lady," arranged as a sped-up samba?

He showed a flattering familiarity with my work, then suggested we go and have a drink in the press gallery bar.