Sentence examples for is universally familiar from inspiring English sources

A couple of teenagers sulk, flirt and preen their way across the stage: the scene is universally familiar in its coy comedy, but the language is not.

Taken at face value they are universally familiar animal heads, like the characters in Aesop's fables.

His violin concerto and his piano concerto are universally familiar, and the ballets -- "Swan Lake," "Sleeping Beauty" and "The Nutcracker" -- are definitive scores.

And if the first words of "Moby-Dick," "Call me Ishmael," are universally familiar, its last words -- then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled 5,000 years ago" -- have currency too: a reporter for Slate.com quoted them recently to describe Pamela Anderson's breasts after her implants were removed.

Harper's Weekly reported that the name of Charlie Chaplin was "a part of the common language of almost every country", and that the Tramp image was "universally familiar".

He is universally popular.

Today, he is universally venerated.

Now he is universally despised.

Card payment is universally accepted.

(Now, he is universally called by it).

"The present one is universally hated.