Still, familiar signposts in a ballet translated from literature can elevate the spirit, as Leonid Lavrovsky's "Romeo and Juliet" proves on the Bolshoi Ballet's current tour of the United States.
A few (drizzle, scree) are still familiar, but many evocative, useful and beautiful ones, from "Smirr" (fine misty rain, Gaelic) to "monek" (mineral rich ground, Cornish), are not.
Busiek believed that this would make her different from Lana and Lois, but still familiar to readers who also watched the show.
The typeface used is still familiar today as "Bembo type".
There are places that you've never seen, but you still know them – places familiar from the Ten O'clock News, from the Guardian, from the movies.
There are still more familiar faces from the past.
"People I knew when they were in strollers are now coming in with their own children," said Esther Rogak, Mr. Rogak's mother, who at 85 still greets familiar faces from behind the front counter.
Henry Threadgill, the Chicagoan saxophonist and composer, is by no means a jazz celeb, but he's a hero to many influential insiders for his adventurousness with structure and instrumentation, and for explorations of timbre that transform the jazz sound, while still leaving familiar clues from its roots.
The sense of déjà vu as you find yourself sitting in a still life or walking through trees familiar from a watercolor is a bit like stepping into a hall of mirrors.
Dressed in a black suit with a tie and still sporting the under-chin beard familiar from the 10 weeks of hearings that ended in June, Breivik smirked when he entered the courtroom and gave his now familiar, far-right salute when his handcuffs were removed.
