Sentence examples for sense familiar from inspiring English sources

The land that your body instinctively knows is a part of your being, that awakens every sense, familiar smells, sounds.

And Krusoe's witty book, for all its drifting in the slipstream of realistic narrative, ends up being, in the old and honest and satisfying sense, familiar.

Worst of all were the moments when war and its arguments were reduced from the remote, and political, to the intensely personal, and to that terrible sense, familiar to anybody who has experienced war, that nothing, or almost nothing, can justify its wounds.

Back in the seventies, when the Iron Lady was blaming the Labour Party for wrecking the U.K. economy and implying that it got its marching orders from Moscow, she packaged this subversive message as homespun common sense familiar to every housewife.

The expressions which contain the word "external" might read as if Sextus was talking about the external world in a sense familiar to us from early modern skepticism.

He takes Einstein to defend this as a principle of individuation of physical systems, without which physical thought "in the sense familiar to us" would not be possible.

In New York, in June, as McEnroe thought ahead to Wimbledon and the U.S. Open, which begins Aug. 25, he was telling everyone who would listen that he sensed familiar epic possibilities for the kinetic pair.

Time, space and the sense of familiar place had been fractured and nearly abolished.

Abed, who has Asperger's syndrome and dreams of making documentaries, is in one sense a familiar sitcom character, the gentle alien observer — like Latka, in "Taxi".

Yet to see her next to the actress Lou Doillon, the daughter of Jane Birkin and the filmmaker Jacques Doillon, was to sense a familiar Jamesian awkwardness.

Similarly, when Mr. Bakshi visited the Takashi Murakami show now at the Brooklyn Museum, he was happy to sense the familiar DNA of Betty Boop.