Steve Post was in familiar mode, deploring commercialism on public radio.
Instead, Blair has been in familiar mode, repeating the old tunes that stress his sincerity and good faith, his firm belief that he was right and his view that it all comes down to a matter of judgment: "This isn't about a lie or a conspiracy or a deceit or a deception; it's a decision," he said.
In familiar modes of risk assessment, such as that performed in the insurance industry, vast amounts of appropriate data are available to precisely bound risks.
When loans fell through, better ones materialized: how much more interesting it is, for example, to see Agnes Martin's only video, the 1976 "Gabriel," in place of unobtainable paintings that would have presented her in a familiar mode.
She begins in a familiar mode, establishing her personality through a series of irreverent jokes.
He performs in his familiar mode, like a boiler aglow with fires monotonously raging within.
A few stories are in a familiar mode of straightforward realism.
Indeed, the Kennedy Center turned out to be one more arts compound in a familiar mode — a cultural shopping mall connected far more intimately to its parking garage than to the life of the city around it.
The source material is "Mr. Mistake" by Nevermen a trio made up by TV On The Radio's Tunde Adebimpe, Faith No More's Mike Patton, and experimental rapper Doseone and the new version by BoC finds them in their familiar mode: ever-weightless, ethereal, and smudgy.
The project took off from a reproduction of "Abstract Painting (724-4)," a multi-hued work, from 1990, in Richter's familiar mode of oil paints dragged in layers across canvases with squeegees or boards.
The book, which appears to be an expanded version of a Newsweek article by Mr. Clinton that appeared in June, shows the former president in two familiar modes: freewheeling policy wonk and genial retail politician.
