Singer-brand shears are made into "singers" who "shear"; "flocking" and "fricassee" suggest familiar names for well-known sexual acts.
Sometimes the depiction of a single instant may suggest familiar events around it, but above all heighten our sense of the split-second before us, as in the Majolica plate, also in the Lehman Collection, that depicts Daphne turning into a tree to escape Apollo.
'Conversations' suggests familiar, familial discourse rather than formal moralising.
Probably it was the accumulation of all of these things, as well as something valedictory in the air that suggested a familiar version of Britain was vanishing.
She suggests the familiar Woolf of the photographs without mimicking those huge, heavy eyelids and the eerily elongated limbs.
The latter suggest a familiar cartoon motif: the tail of a cat that has just stuck its paw in an electrical socket.
In the Northern Hemisphere, the trends seem to be much larger than what our models are suggesting, a familiar theme once again.
In understanding human memory and its tics, Scott A. Small, a neurologist and memory researcher at Columbia, suggests the familiar analogy with computer memory.
The poet's impulse to seek sanctuary in isolation, and the militant's to seek justice through intervention, should, she suggests, feel familiar to us in 2008.
