When I exchanged baseball celebrities with pals at school, we used last names, to show a suave familiarity, but no one ever just said "Mungo," or even "Van Mungo".
Or they'll ask, 'What were you doing playing on 'Dancing With the Stars?' " For the actor Chris Meloni, best known for his starring roles on "Law and Order: SVU" and HBO's "True Blood," "the whole celebrity thing is a nice icebreaker in a building, but familiarity breeds contempt: no one is really going to bother you after the third or fourth time of running into you in the elevator.
Recently Dunn [ 18] provided a cogent exposition of how the apparent dissociation between recollection and familiarity on the one hand, and confidence on the other, could be more parsimoniously explained by a signal detection model.
Yet it may be the very familiarity of such images — no one of which has particular ascension over another — that shifts the emphasis, in "Memory of the Camps," to two sequences.
The intimacy and familiarity one often feels by the third or fourth night of watching the Olympics is really a measure of the intimacy Americans feel toward their televisions.
No one with any familiarity with the federal budget would disagree that it is health care costs that drive long-term deficits and terrifying debt projections.
"Virtually no one who has any familiarity" with the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on CIA interrogation practices "is 'neutral,'" the Director of National Intelligence, James R. Clapper, said in a message to the staffs of the government's intelligence agencies.
"Virtually no one who has any familiarity with the report and what it describes is 'neutral'neutral
The name lends itself so easily to familiarity, and one shouldn't be on intimate terms with a mountain.
One's involvement becomes deeper when each player is a familiar figure, a known quantity, and this familiarity increases one's capacity to endure boredom, all those dreary moments when nothing much of anything is happening.
