Singer-brand shears are made into "singers" who "shear"; "flocking" and "fricassee" suggest familiar names for well-known sexual acts.
At other times they suggested familiar spaces; a series of performers spilled out from behind them in a neat visual trick (a stage version of the clown car), setting bright domestic objects on the built-in shelves.
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.
Are the four ideas I suggested familiar, things you're doing already, old news, or helpful information?
She suggests the familiar Woolf of the photographs without mimicking those huge, heavy eyelids and the eerily elongated limbs.
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.
It suggests that familiar stories and pieces of wisdom can nonetheless be obscure, even sinister or magical, in their lessons and meanings.
A common crux of the varied threads of research suggests a familiar bugbear: pressure engenders anxiety and anxiety, in turn, affects performance.
What we've seen of Alex suggests a familiar mixture of slacker and womaniser which is nothing new but Laura's openness is an interesting addition, given the relative lack of female characters who enjoy sex without judgement.
