Sentence examples for familiarity over from inspiring English sources

As usual, Grammy voters going with familiarity over innovation.

Again and again, the senator was portrayed as a manager who valued loyalty and familiarity over experience and expertise.

But for the umpteenth time, the Grammys went with familiarity over risk, bestowing album of the year honors (and several more) on an album that reinforced the values of an older generation suspicious of change.

Bigger, brighter, more or less graphic, naturalistic or chromatically loud, they have nothing special to declare about that point where the road disappears beneath an arch of boughs, for instance, other than its happy familiarity – over and over.

WASHINGTON — As he heads into a second term with sweeping ambition in an era of gridlock, President Obama is assembling a new White House team that looks much like the old one, choosing familiarity over freshness even at the risk of insularity.

It began as original and accrued familiarity over the course of four decades: a coward who was the soul of honour, a hero likely to ride away, stick his finger up the barrel of his opponent's gun or get winded in a fight and complain of damage to his dentistry.

Table  5 shows that familiarity, over-diagnosis, education and age were significant predictors, while gender was not.

Often, auditing relationships span decades, increasing the likelihood that familiarity breeds over-cosy ties.

The staff all understand the difference between service and servility (still a depressingly rare achievement in British restaurants), and between familiarity and over-familiarity.

There is a familiarity to the over-indulgent splatter of doctrine and theories that for some will surely tickle their brainy appetite.

LONDON — A weary familiarity hangs over the latest clashes between India and Pakistan, whose armies have traded artillery and accusations in recent days, jeopardizing new efforts to normalize relations between the two countries.