Slant Magazine claims that "...an uncanny sense of familiarity hangs over too much of the album.
Making images and words familiar and realistic can aid interpretation, but too much familiarity can dilute important distinctions, and too much realism can lead to interpretations that are too tied to concrete instances.
Or maybe, it was just too much familiarity between the two teams.
But at the same time, too much familiarity breeds, if not contempt, at least ennui or complacency.
Not wanting, perhaps, to reveal too much familiarity with this particular aspect of the out-there stuff, Wattenberg muttered, "You can't understand the lyrics anyway".
And in planning Monticello, Thomas Jefferson wrote about his wish to "procure a buck-elk, to be, as it were, monarch of the wood; but keep him shy, that his appearance may not lose its effect by too much familiarity".
The American people idolized Washington, and he played his part artfully, striking a balance between "too free an intercourse and too much familiarity," which would reduce the dignity of the office, and "an ostentatious show" of aloofness, which would be improper in a republic.
This volume lacks the intimacy of the author's two affecting memoirs about Zimbabwe ("Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa" and "When a Crocodile Eats the Sun"), and it sometimes assumes a little too much familiarity on the part of the lay reader with that country's tragic history.
Too much familiarity can be boring.
However, "Star Trek II" is not likely to attract many new fans — it requires too much familiarity with the TV series in its nomenclature and its characterizations for that, and is also not enough of a knockout razzler-dazzler.
