Sentence examples for rather more familiar from inspiring English sources

Patrick Hamilton (1941) Suggested by peninsularguy Based in rather more familiar settings, another popular nomination was Patrick Hamilton's Hangover Square.

Now the UN seems to have embraced a method of taming the rapists and killers rather more familiar in Congo by trying to kill them.

With strong showings for Argentina and Japan, voters seem to have plumped for literary cultures rather more familiar on western bookshelves.

Asia lacks such people, especially those practised at helping Internet and software companies rather than more familiar IT hardware firms.Many of those who call themselves "venture capitalists" are really glorified bankers indeed, most of them work for divisions of banks.

Harding's last-minute absence meant that we didn't get to hear the original version of Bruckner's Third Symphony but rather its more familiar third version, shorter than the original and here propulsively paced by Claus Peter Flor, standing in on the podium.

Gyoza, made with shrimp rather than the more familiar pork, were also bland.

The creamed spinach featured leaf spinach rather than the more familiar chopped variety, which annoyed traditionalists.

This French soup rather than the more familiar, creamy American version disappointed a diner expecting the latter.

Rather than the more familiar broad lawns and verandas, the surrounding woods provide intimacy and a much-valued quiet.

(Four out of five lightning strokes go from cloud to cloud, rather than the more familiar cloud to ground strike).

It was something rather more potent and familiar, the genuine disappointment of a let-down fan: "Well... dull.