Sentence examples for on a familiarity from inspiring English sources

Now it's predicated on a familiarity derived from ubiquity.

Understanding a story, joke, film, or cartoon depends on a familiarity with conventions.

In many cases, ready comprehension of a simple sentence depends on a familiarity with the background of a particular period of history.

Dayne's patient running style -- he tends to pause in the backfield before choosing his angle of attack -- is predicated on a familiarity with his blockers' styles and techniques.

The movie was also stung by the ambivalence of critics and fans, many of whom came to it with expectations based on a familiarity with, and often deep reverence for the complex illustrated story of damaged crime fighters being hunted by a killer.

The attacks could be based on a familiarity with the target and/or target group--phishing, spearphishing, picking purchases that go unnoticed, cooking up scams involving known networks of friends gleaned from voter data married to social networking accounts -- but I digress.

Another line of evidence suggesting that the N170 reflects processes prior to face identification comes from studies demonstrating the absence of a familiarity effect on the N170 component [ 28, 29].

All the new house pianos and nods to Kraftwerk - both appear on one track, Reflections – suggest a familiarity with dancefloors past, and songs such as Beginning to Fade maintain Django Django's easy pop touch.

In the Austronesian case, this could imply, on linguistic grounds, a familiarity with both wet and dry rice as well as with transplantation techniques (Sagart 2003).

Famous people report a severe loss of privacy that borders on territorial violation, a familiarity by strangers "that sometimes breeds inappropriate closeness".

He was a major architect of nearly all the proposals that Mr. Obama made on the campaign trail, a familiarity that could help keep his presidency on track through his first term.