I was never one to pine for my creature comforts, for the familiarity of home, but something about the uncertainty of knowing when I'll be permitted to go back to the UK presented a challenge to me that I never anticipated.
Recognition, in psychology, a form of remembering characterized by a feeling of familiarity when something previously experienced is again encountered; in such situations a correct response can be identified when presented but may not be reproduced in the absence of such a stimulus.
If handled well, the team could leverage the complexity (and familiarity) of the '60s to create something powerful while still being a pulpy crime yarn.
Like the traditions it has exposed and celebrated, the festival delivers the comforts of familiarity and continuity — something the city, and music fans from beyond its borders, have come to depend on.
As we become accustomed to a world in which change is the only real constant, the familiarity of the book at bedtime is something to cling to.
However, a marriage bound up with the familiarity of time, commitment, and affection is something worthy of aspiration.
Or it's abstract: the familiarity of a favourite song, a film, something to tune out the bad weather.
The team wanted to design something that had the "familiarity of a car".
Yet familiarity is something different again from love.
