It is her astonishing talent to be able to take events so familiar that they seem anodyne and turn them into the most devastating social and human critique.
It had taken so long for him to be able to lie down in his familiar bed.
Dementia has taken so much of her memory, including the nasty stuff, that she's delighted to see his familiar face.
That they are so familiar takes nothing away from the song of the first chiffchaff, or the sight of a bluebell wood when the flowers are at their peak, but it is worth reminding ourselves that there are other, perhaps lesser-known aspects to our springtime which provide less familiar but just as invigorating sights, and sounds, and smells.
We forget that the First World War took place in glorious Technicolor, so familiar are we with its monochrome version.
The erosion of the print infrastructure, and the millions of paper-based subscriptions so easy to renew, so high quality (in their way), and so familiar, will take more than a fancy storefront in iOS and more than a year or two of modest increases in sales.
Their daily activities and patient interactions are often so familiar and taken for granted that it makes it difficult for them to identify, describe or explain them in an interview or questionnaire.
"He takes the design we are all so familiar with and subverts it into something different that makes us reconsider our own reality," Alonzo says.
Across the centuries, our predecessors have struggled to define and understand how to grapple with what is so intellectually elusive yet so familiar that we take it for granted day after day.
Behind him, in a cabinet, is something so familiar that it has taken me a while to notice it.
