Sentence examples for make familiar from inspiring English sources

To make familiar, or to make foreign?

"I love finding ways to make familiar characters into someone unique," Ms. Ashford said.

Part of the twentieth-century modernist program was to make familiar things seem strange.

But Ms. Mathews's thoroughness manages to make familiar ground feel fresh.

"It's funny to the eye," he said, "when trained dancers make familiar shapes and movements.

Sure, there are cowbells, and Amadou's quicksilver fingertips make familiar Afro-pop figures, but there's also plenty of synthesiser (one track almost sounds like Royksopp).

She makes familiar historical figures seem fresh and unfamiliar ones seem vitally important.

2D platformers can seem old-fashioned, but this aesthetic makes familiar moves feel fresher.

The poet of the Iliad excels at making familiar things turn suddenly strange.

Second, those who did practice plural marriage scarcely exhibited the lascivious behavior made familiar in anti-Mormon literature.

Equally unoriginal are Matthew Porter's efforts in the mock-commercial genre made familiar by artists like Richard Prince and Roe Ethridge.