They are almost too recognizable, and this, of course, is their power.
And so this mini-band of brothers — unsmiling, unidentified, but all too recognizable — continues to grow.
"I have heard, 'You're too recognizable for this part,' " Ms. Wallace said.
Pietrangeli offers us cartoon characters with human souls; their needs remain all too recognizable and their shortcomings all too familiar.
The wide attention that a high-value art heist garners makes the stolen objects too recognizable to shop around.
But too often the songs are patchworks of Mr. Wilson's past glories, making references that are far too recognizable.
Worse, she sometimes talks in that all too recognizable tone: "Mom, just a second, O.K.? I'm kind of in the middle of something here".
Until recently, a designer might have rejected a reference like a Navajo blanket as too recognizable — and too much the province of its master, Ralph Lauren.
Overexposure is thus a pressing concern for video-game actors, and Hale spoke several times of her worries that, one day, her voice might be thought too recognizable.
Atwood peppers this imagined world with the familiar: Biblical references, the all too recognizable threat of bioterrorism, and simple human emotion.
But Simonson pulls it off, making "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand" an entertaining and even rather moving novel of goings-on in a thin, gimcrack England that is, alas, only too recognizable.
