Sentence examples for strange familiar from inspiring English sources

In his first two novels, Darin Strauss made the strange familiar.

This, in and of itself, is a brilliant take on the artist's mandate to "make the strange familiar, and the familiar strange".

Throughout his book, Fountain makes the strange familiar and the familiar strange, showing the human factor that links seemingly diverse nations.

It's a form, as is often noted, that makes the strange familiar and the familiar strange, a narrative principle that Mr. Kosinski embraces again and again with niceties like Jack's Yankee baseball cap and Jack and Victoria's candlelight dinners.

I'd been lost before Bloss; I'd been stumbling along the path with half of me missing; and then I met her, this strange familiar; her face, part mirror, part my own, smiling back at me.

This is one of the axiomatic constructs of science fiction, which makes the familiar strange and the strange familiar, whether it's the dark, rainy Los Angeles of Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" or a Europe that foreshadows that of World War II in H. G. Wells's 1933 novel, "The Shape of Things to Come" (which three years later became the film "Things to Come").

Here's a selection from "Strange & Familiar: Three Views of Brighton".

Strange And Familiar Britain as seen by Martin Parr.

It was a strange but familiar closing of doors.

"For the locals, it's strange and familiar at the same time".

What was weird once we started was that it was both strange and familiar.