Sentence examples for recognisable to us from inspiring English sources
His rise to fame was swift and inexorable; by the early 1990s he was reportedly more recognisable to US children than Mickey Mouse.
Such was the character's popularity that, according to one study, he was more recognisable to US children than Mickey Mouse or Abraham Lincoln.
The techniques he used were recognisable to us – the cut-up method for lyrics, the theatricality of his performances, the use of mime.
What is most remarkable about The Days of Abandonment is its lucid portrait of a woman slowly losing touch with any coherent sense of self, while remaining entirely recognisable to us.
The hero, Berenger, is alternately frightened, defiant, desperate, frustrated, impotent, self-loathing, envious and ultimately completely unhinged by the "epidemic" in a way that is immediately recognisable to us.
Its inexorable unspooling – minute by minute, death by death – is recounted in a way that captures the lightning speed and agonising slow motion of disaster, the way in which it is simultaneously filmically recognisable to us and utterly aberrant.
Despite the war of attrition, recognisable to most of us in long-term partnerships, that rages in the Campbell/Millar household, from the radio settings ("First argument of the day – Fiona switches on the Today Programme, I switch it off") to his domestic inadequacies, the couple have weathered three decades and raised three near-grown children, Calum, Rory and Grace.
"How recognisable, how familiar to us is the man so beautifully portrayed [by Kant]," wrote Iris Murdoch.
He is instantly recognisable to tourists".
But there was something recognisable to me about it.
