In three minutes some stars are out, and in four the planes are no longer distant lights but "had become the great, familiar, graceful forms with their high tails and long, intent noses".
I still thought of him - still think of him - as my great familiar and mentor, the making of me, though I now see that that carries all sorts of baggage with it that I had not expected.
Familiar names from the books kept popping up — Daisy, Gatsby, Brett, Jake, Wolfsheim, Dilsey — and amid the drone of seemingly random prose, every now and then, like an old friend turning up in a crowd, a snatch of one of those great, familiar American prose styles would emerge: laconic Hemingway; languorous Faulkner; romantic, jazzy Fitzgerald.
It gives all these great, familiar actors a place to rest their heads, unpack their bags and take some time to actually read those scripts their agents are sending over, without my having to worry about whom they're hanging out with in the meantime.
The truth (or at least my truth) was that every performance was an enchantment, a miraculous world unto itself that was also part of a greater, increasingly familiar, Bauschian universe.
We predict that virulence will also be greater on familiar hosts, because the pathogen sporulates on dead plant tissue.
However, there is a robust literature that emotional contagion in both rats and mice is greater for familiar conspecifics than for unfamiliar ones.
HSN is also unlikely to be necessary for the behavioral plasticity because feeding rates of males, which do not have HSN, were also greater on familiar food than the rates on novel food.
There, she accomplished similar wonders with two great and familiar works from the classical repertory, Schubert's C-minor sonata and Schumann's "Kreisleriana," as well as the 1973 composition "Versione," by the late Swedish composer Anders Eliasson.
Great and familiar cast, excellent script, superb production values and the direction is tight as a drum.
