Sentence examples for superficially familiar from inspiring English sources
A subtle writer, he demands an attentive reader as he explores, through superficially familiar narratives, substantial themes.
The women, it's true, are of a type not often depicted on the stage -- middle-class, conventionally mercenary, besotted with television culture -- and the ambition of the playwright, Benjie Aerenson, seems to be to explore a superficially familiar subculture, as if it has been hidden in plain sight.
We don't need more superficially familiar, intellectually vacuous, and insecurely arrogant people running the country into oblivion.
Most importantly, the game of chess enables us to compare chess experts, who possess extensive experience and knowledge about chess objects and their relations, with chess novices, who are superficially familiar with the game of chess and its objects.
Our most honored kingdoms, the animals and the plants, were relegated to a small circle in the corner, with the rest of the tree blooming in microbes — the familiar bacteria, and a superficially similar but fundamentally different group called the archaea.
On the one hand, city immigrants have limited social resources and are not familiar with and only superficially acculturated into the urban environment.
When it made its debut on MTV in December 2009, "Jersey Shore" seemed superficially like one more entry in a familiar reality format that the network all but invented, where young people are made to live, work, party and sleep together while the videotape rolled.
But it has also been disputed whether these authors are really deploying the concept of truth-making with which we are familiar rather than employing, perhaps for reasons of grammatical convenience, superficially similar turns of phrase that make it sound as if they are expressing our concept (Dodd 2002: 81 3; MacBride 2005: 137 9; Glock 2007).
Superficially, the phenomenon Bishop is examining is not new, and the litany of division he recites is familiar.
"London Calling is a classic example of a song that has become so familiar that its original meaning has been lost," says Gray. "It's instantly recognisable and superficially the perfect invitation to the capital and the world's premiere sporting event, but it's actually about the end of the world, at least as we know it".
