Sentence examples for startling familiarity from inspiring English sources
Online, the relative cases of "Martha" and of "Andy" and even of "Alexis," who originally took her mother's side in the divorce, get debated with startling familiarity.
Perhaps they mistook the restrictions on differential compensation for a restriction on commissions, though that would suggest a rather startling lack of familiarity with the issues the rule is intended to address.
He took me to an auction of Jewish religious memorabilia and showed me round some of Vienna's many unusual museums, each time startling me by his familiarity with porcelain dolls, the life of the murderer Hugo Schenf, scouting, the history of poison or the construction of wind-up automata.
Over half a century after three brothers (Brian, Carl and Dennis Wilson), a cousin (Mike Love) and a high school classmate (Al Jardine) started a band in 1961 in Hawthorne, Calif., the surviving original Beach Boys have put schisms, battles for credit and lawsuits behind them to perform songs that are no less startling for their Top 40 familiarity.
Time and familiarity have softened what must have been the startling impact of the house 50 years ago, before Lever House and the Seagram Building were constructed, when New York's exposure to the glass-walled International style was pretty much limited to the United Nations Secretariat tower.
MacDonald argues that Philip's greater familiarity with the metaphysical works of Aristotle and the Arabic commentators accounts for the startling innovations of his work on the transcendentals.
The familiarity is important.
Familiarity with America helps.
