It was a specific recipe: comfortable familiarity set against an alien horror.
Exposing the gears of race and privilege that grind beneath the unit's easy familiarity, "Allegiance" sets up a complicated dance of duty, doubt and desperation.
Playing games in a familiar setting is much more enjoyable, and familiarity has played a strong role in human survival.
But after six months of Trump as President a kind of familiarity has set in, and the warnings perhaps do need restating.
In the familiarity data set, the method correctly classified 88.5% of the subjects, and the average length of test was reduced by about 50%.
Some have commented on the initial familiarity of the set-up in The Beginner's Goodbye: a Baltimore widower receiving second chances.
The comfortable specificity and familiarity of the setting – the way rows are routinely and silently choreographed around the morning's toast and eggs – is part of a larger torment.
A century ago, at the time of the first world war, the guns fell silent, at least on this side of the Channel, as the greatgrandfathers of these men traded shotguns for rifles – I pondered whether the ancestors of these beaters, shooters and keepers, had found some familiarity in this setting.
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In "Get Shorty" and "Be Cool," the writer showed a disdainful familiarity with Hollywood, setting loose Chili Palmer, the Miami loan shark-turned-entertainment industry macher (played by Travolta), who exploited the guilelessness of any number of easy Tinseltown marks.
