Sentence examples for unfamiliarity a from inspiring English sources

(Given the work's unfamiliarity, a shortage of printed librettos and a lack of overhead titles were serious drawbacks here).

It's theatrical in the best sense; despite the moments of complexity and unfamiliarity, a non-specialist audience can be moved and challenged by the work, and see its transparent beauties and more resistant passages as part of a dramatic structure.

Among several factors, China has "a non-democratic system, an unfamiliarity, a completely different society and political system, I think that is what Australians are wary of," said Alex Oliver, who headed up the Lowy poll this year.

Recognition skills depend on two related processes: the perception of familiarity or unfamiliarity (a rapid intuitive process based on previous experience), and recollection (a slower conscious recall of knowledge) (Henson et al., 1999; Wagner et al., 1998).

(How's that for being an influencer?) It's fine not to know about these things, but it suggests an unfamiliarity with a world that is ever-changing.

The remaining justifications were considered to be due to the trauma leaders' unfamiliarity with a new modality and a substantial change to a well-established protocol [23].

As Bourdieu notes, relationships within a field are defined by power and struggles around the accumulation and distribution of capital therein (Bourdieu 1991, p. 242; 1986, p. 20), such that where capital is lacking, as a result of unfamiliarity with a field, the individual with limited power over the rules of the game may experience failure (Erel 2010).

Legal experts say much of the consternation here over what many consider rough treatment in the news media and the courts is rooted in a general unfamiliarity with an American justice system that differs profoundly — in procedure, tone and philosophy — from the French model.

Wright actually said of Duckenfield in that meeting that "unfamiliarity" as a match commander could be an advantage, because an inexperienced officer would be "more on their mettle".

Sometimes unfamiliarity with a work can be an advantage, cannot say I found the musical interludes remotely intrusive, at times they even helped move the narrative along, John Lithgow's 'morning after' monologue was a joy and yes, you're right, Nancy Carroll, who it times was so abrasive, seemed to be spitting shards of glass, was excellent.

Now take the unfamiliarity with a place like Toronto, add in a different language, cultural barriers and place it thousands of miles away.