Cinema can be, as Roger Ebert wrote, "a machine that generates empathy," by showing us unfamiliar points of view, and allowing us to leap between characters, places, and cultures.
As she barked her instructions, according to the sol-fa system with which I was unfamiliar, pointing at the piano, I can say quite truthfully I had no idea what I was supposed to do.
When an adventurous first-timer pointed to the unfamiliar item rooster's XXX, the handsome Uighur waiter deadpanned, "Chicken testicles, ma'am.
The former Dolphins coach Don Shula watched from a suite, an unfamiliar vantage point for the Hall of Famer.
After all, the world onscreen, with its mean-spirited, celebrity-driven media and its easy adoption of cynicism as a style, is not so unfamiliar, a point Mr. Fry makes without pushing it too far.
Earlier this season, after Jeff Van Gundy had paired Allan Houston and Latrell Sprewell in the backcourt to start three consecutive games, Houston went to the coach and expressed a discomfort with starting the game at an unfamiliar position: point guard.
For those unfamiliar, Choke Point consisted of bureaucrats in several independent federal agencies taking it upon themselves to shut legal businesses – such as payday lenders and firearms dealers – out of the banking system.
In other countries including the Netherlands, however, GPs are still relatively unfamiliar with point of care CRP testing.
That means that plugging in to unfamiliar charging points can be a security risk.
