Perhaps it is more a loss of control that Australia's fast bowler's have induced, bringing with it the unfamiliar spectacle of highly skilled professional sportsmen finding suddenly that they are unable to perform reflex actions with any degree of certainty.
The sound of the Leicestershire victory song, Fields of Grace Road, ringing out across Chelmsford after the end of a 37-match winless streak, and their first away victory since 2010, was certainly unfamiliar, though.
Simon Godwin, in an outstanding RSC directorial debut, took an unfamiliar Shakespeare comedy and treated it as a hypnotic study of the identity-transforming power of love.
At the opposite extreme of England, another mysterious phenomenon is about to appear around the West Country coast: a floating island, a mini-geography that is desolate and unfamiliar, composed of rock and moraine from the Arctic.
As the final step in bringing evidence-based medicine to the patient, Sackett and colleagues had to persuade a sceptical medical profession, often eager to attack what was unfamiliar, to undertake the intellectual work implicit in the practice of this approach.
But to most web users, unfamiliar with encryption algorithms and open-source code, these precautions will seem extreme.
The following day – as visions of financial security danced through our heads – I'd just bitten into a slice of Bleecker Street Pizza when an unfamiliar 212 number rang through my phone.
My mum had made me plenty of pork luncheon meat sandwiches (Mother's Pride bread of course) and I may have had a flask of tea – but I had no hat, no re-hydrating bottle of water and no sunblock as I walked to Seaforth Sands to get the unfamiliar green corpy (that is, corporation) 61 bus from the start of its route to its terminus at Aigburth.
And, though the Guardian's reviewer rightly argued that this book is the least "Martian" of Reid's poetry, A Scattering is shot through with unlikely metaphor and unfamiliar takes on the quotidian.
Pineda wasn't alone in being an unfamiliar face on the field for any of the casual MLS fans who showed up to swell the crowd on Saturday, but after last week's collapse by the stars, they got to taste "the leftovers" taking Seattle back to the top of the standings.
We have had some memorable runs; with friends who run for our club, with friends with dogs, through local forest parks, along familiar and unfamiliar coastal paths.
