"It's true, I didn't go out and join the Conservative Party," he said, with that familiar trace of mockery toward the Political Union.
I open my eyes, feel that familiar trace of regret I feel every morning, and start mulling over my breakfast options: sad porridge or sad Alpen?
I open my eyes, feel that familiar trace of regret I feel every morning, and start mulling over my breakfast options: sad oatmeal or sad cereal?
Like their cousins, the earnest, Oscar-trolling biopics featuring movie stars doing careful impressions, these cut-and-paste lives trace a familiar narrative of rise, fall and at least partial redemption.
Her language contains elements from Aeolic vernacular speech and Aeolic poetic tradition, with traces of epic vocabulary familiar to readers of Homer.
There is a ballet warm-up in the musical, as well as partnered social dances like the foxtrot, a bolero and traces of the more familiar strut and shake of Broadway show-dancing.
They are read as Freudian texts about the relationship between men and women and as Jungian coming-of-age parables, tracing a familiar path that takes the hero or heroine from home, through a transformative experience (often in the forest or a faraway land) and home again, endowed with new wisdom or status.
She looked kind of familiar.
Mr. Shahzad, now 30, appeared to be tracing a familiar arc of frustration, increasing religiosity and, finally, violence.
Fresh canvas was laid out for a second version, and I traced the familiar image of the egg and its thousand jagged reflections by hand, in pencil, still in shock.
According to the New York Times, "Mr. Shahzad, now 30, appeared to be tracing a familiar arc of frustration, increasing religiosity and, finally, violence.
