Sentence examples for genuinely familiar from inspiring English sources

Gale Anne Hurd, one of the executive producers, said that in the pitch meeting late last year, the channel executives were already genuinely familiar with Mr. Kirkman's work.

With the end of the war, Britain was flooded with soldiers who wanted a new life; Africa was "an earthly paradise" whose landscape was "genuinely familiar, indeed almost Scottish," and would provide food for a hungry Europe.

But confronted with a tight deadline and an overwhelming body of research (books, media, transcripts of speeches, personal recollections and the very official documents critical to the events of 11 November 1975) on which to base a narrative, I became overwhelmed by how little of the nuance, the drama, the subterfuge and the political context I had, indeed, been genuinely familiar with.

Marclay wondered if he could fashion from familiar clips a genuinely unfamiliar film, one with its own logic, rhythm, and aesthetics.

Her easy-reading novels always deliver a plot-driven narrative, a heroine who can take charge of a situation and some creeping menace that is genuinely scary because it is familiar in a personal way.

But while some of the transport, housing and energy projects announced were genuinely new, some had a very familiar ring.

Tracking their tricky relationship through the 11 years of the Thatcher premiership and beyond, Handbagged manages to tackle some pretty familiar material in a genuinely fresh and irresistibly mischievous spirit.

Back then, if you didn't agree with McCarthy, it was because you must be unpatriotic (sound familiar?), and it was a genuinely risky thing for Murrow to do.

Calling Magic in the Moonlight a "featherweight comedy", the magazine Little White Lies has a more angled take, suggesting it's "a bit like having lunch with your ageing parents: strained, overly familiar, sometimes amusing but seldom genuinely funny".

But rich or poor, every Holocaust documentarian is working the same territory, and some critics complain that the basic plot line of the Holocaust has become too familiar by now to permit genuinely original work.

Although we cannot be genuinely uncertain about the outcome of a familiar narrative, we can willfully entertain uncertainty.