Sentence examples for pretty much familiar from inspiring English sources

While someone from 1890 would have found a hospital in 1950 pretty much familiar, with a bunch of tweaks and upgrades, someone from 1950 would find a hospital today unrecognisable and startlingly futuristic.

We did it in front of a live audience and it was material that was pretty much familiar to us anyway.

CAN I COME BACK AND VISIT IT? Buyer's remorse is familiar to pretty much anybody who has bought a house.

Unfortunately, City Hall's designated targets are pretty much limited to a familiar list of urban miscreants: squeegee men, the homeless, prostitutes, pot smokers and radio blarers.

The Demons Next Door The story of "Rosemary's Baby" was once familiar to pretty much any literate, attentive American, and it has been copied countless times since.

Lutz & Patmos cashmeres do not come cheap, but then again neither does the image of success in such a cost-intensive business — a struggle familiar to pretty much every young designer working today in New York City.

So far as any outsider can discern, none looks even near that point.What this suggests is that if the American cartoon character packed up his shotgun and walked away now, the Arab world might well plod on in its familiar pattern, pretty much unscathed by September 11th and all that flowed from it.

Such disgruntled thoughts — familiar to pretty much everyone who has ever been a teenager — would appear to be what motivates the Hamlet of a smoldering, charismatic and largely unknown actor named Jason Asprey (whose mother, Tina Packer, is the artistic director of Shakespeare & Company and — gulp! — this production's Gertrude).

Tadoe was the clear winner in the exchange despite the fact that no one who's not obsessively deep into the Chicago drill scene knows who he is, while Mack Maine is at least a name that's familiar to pretty much any guy on the street wearing too much heavily branded streetwear.

If this strategy seems familiar, it's pretty much exactly what LeBron did earlier this season.

When the filmmakers arrive, you can pretty much anticipate the skewering of the familiar types: self-important, know-nothing American yuppies.