In the Yiddish vocabulary, words and word elements borrowed from a number of different languages occur together and often combine freely in a manner unfamiliar to the languages from which they derive.
But most Mormonism-related discomfort with Romney may, in fact, reflect less a view of religious truth than a sense that there is something vaguely troubling or unfamiliar in the Mormon manner or worldview.
In almost every other respect, German culture – books, food, manners – remains unfamiliar to every British person.
The divers who located the engine at the bottom of the Hudson River could see only a few inches in front of their masks, but they were not, in a manner of speaking, on unfamiliar ground.
"An article in Rolling Stone magazine depicting me, and people I admired, in a manner that felt as unfamiliar as it was unfair, ignited a firestorm".
In other words, the visually unfamiliar faces might behave in a manner similar to the personally unfamiliar but visually familiar faces.
Another standout in this section is Gauguin's "Still Life With Peonies" (Gallery 84), a relatively unfamiliar work painted in a quasi-Impressionistic manner but with the deep reds, greens and yellows typical of Gauguin's mature style.
The manners of speech, too, seem unfamiliar to the actors, and you can sense a slight embarrassment over those much-parodied RAF phrases – "prang", "wizard", "Jerry" – that Rattigan loved so much.
His manner, which was essentially border Southern, was unfamiliar in Los Angeles.
Nothing here is entirely unfamiliar: the title track creates a junkyard racket in the manner of Tom Waits, December Rains borrows its atmosphere from the noirish vocoder pop beloved of David Lynch.
