Making images and words familiar and realistic can aid interpretation, but too much familiarity can dilute important distinctions, and too much realism can lead to interpretations that are too tied to concrete instances.
Of course "Scientific Party" comes to mind, but this sounds too much like familiar and dubious attempts to imbue wholly undeserving movements with the credibility of science, merely by tacking on the label -- Mary Baker Eddy's "Christian Science," for example, or L. Ron Hubbard's "Scientology".
Nature versus nurture, too little maternal love or too much, the old familiar questions.
Like Mr. Gerth and Mr. Van Natta, Mr. Bernstein includes too much recounting of familiar details about the Clintons' past.
Notwithstanding the enjoyable image of the 48-year-old squeezing himself through a foam mangle in a soft-play area, 40 minutes of it is too much of a familiar thing.
Chuck Hudson, the director, stuck clearly to his story without too much embellishment: here, familiar, were the downtrodden Cinderella, her henpecked father, the vain and self-absorbed stepmother and her two ditsy daughters.
The problem of too much information is painfully familiar to professional historians.
Boswell was horny and irresponsible, already drinking too much and far too familiar with London's many prostitutes.
"Maybe audiences are finding films that they're exhausted by, or perhaps they find them too familiar — too much playing toward a sense of expectations.
His oeuvre has appeared too full of its own stock devices: too many musclebound jocks among its men, too many forced smiles among its eagerly rushing women, and too much dependence on a familiar armory of runs and jumps.
