Sentence examples for mere familiarity from inspiring English sources

Mere familiarity is not a good reason to prolong a policy that's not working.

We must distinguish between mere familiarity with petitioner or his past and an actual predisposition against him, just as we have in the past distinguished largely factual publicity from that which is invidious or inflammatory.

DeBruine tried morphs resembling celebrities such as Ben Affleck and Sarah Michelle Gellar to see if mere familiarity led to increased trust, but it was only the self-resemblance that inspired confidence.

It is important to note that smelling a food on the breath of a conspecific leads to much stronger alterations in later responsiveness to a food source than mere familiarity with the substance [ 30- 32].

"You're getting paid by him, too!" Kurt is not a whore, of course, but the mere suggestion, and Paul's familiarity with Bollek, is enough to send him running: "I am determined to make my way alone," Kurt writes to his sister.

In contrast, familiarity discrimination is mere sensation of prior occurrence and thus does not accompany episodic memory (Brown and Aggleton, 2001).

This is where their familiarity departs from being mere pictures of things as we know them.

Popularity itself, and its correlate, celebrity, became an intrinsic value the mere fact of widespread knowledge and familiarity became a reason to pay attention.

This seems to have something to do with the mere-exposure effect (also known as the familiarity principle), which is the tendency for people to like things (or people) simply because they frequently encounter them.

But for all their familiarity, Scrooge's time travels were mere ghostly dreammongering.

Despite its initial familiarity, The 306: Dawn is no mere rehash of All Quiet on the Western Front and Oh! What a Lovely War.