Sentence examples for making familiar from inspiring English sources

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

He advocated a practice called "styling the goods" or style "engineering," making familiar products look new, and desirable.

The Diamond Jubilee has prompted a slew of new royal biographies, making familiar points about how the monarchy has shrewdly adapted to modern mores.

Vicki Bennett's work is created using an unusual technique which expands film scenes beyond their conventional screen ratio making familiar Hollywood situations stretch out to reach the viewer.

Part of the uncanniness of Kelley's work lies in a process of what you might call de-representation, making familiar things look unfamiliar, the representational feel abstract.

This is more than puerile iconoclasm: the pope has in some sense been chosen.Jeff Koons's outsize renderings of children's toys succeed in making familiar products strange.

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.

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

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