She won the part because of familiarity — she, too, is a Silver Lake mom; that's her own minivan on screen — and because she radiated empathy for a character who might not deserve it.
The teams haven't always been in the same division, but perhaps that's part of it: familiarity might breed contempt, but being parted allows that contempt to simmer, too.
But fluency is also a function of familiarity, as grammar offers few clues as to the parts of speech that are not so much idioms as loose affinities.
Experience with minority recruitment has shown that many top minority candidates are interested in medicine rather than research, due in part to lack of familiarity with research and lack of role models in the scientific community.
"Part of it was familiarity," said Ms. Gaudino, a laboratory technician at Columbia University.
However, each of the identified genes has a relatively small effect on disease risk, explaining only a very small part of the observed familiarity in type 2 diabetes (Saxena et al., 2007; Sladek et al., 2007; Zeggini et al., 2007; Dupuis et al., 2010; Voight et al., 2010).
The relative lack of new entrants trying to address problems faced by the less wealthy is caused, in no small part, by the lack of familiarity with these problems among young, largely affluent entrepreneurs like Mr. Chen, a 28-year-old former engineer at Facebook.
Part of this strategy of familiarity was the inclusion of the two-piano arrangements of the symphonic poems as a way to prepare audiences for the orchestral versions.
Although the Twin Towers had not been loved by many, he added, they had provided the comfort of familiarity, becoming part of "the fabric of the New York we live in".
Previous studies have suggested that older persons view technology in healthcare with more suspicion, in part due to their lack of familiarity with technology.
