Tchaikovsky was able to use the familiarity of the Onegin story to his advantage, however.
Instead, Wayward Pines uses the familiarity of all these other shows to add to the seeping sense of dread that infects every moment of the show.
But rather than use the familiarity of it all as an excuse to make a lazy film, Stuart Orme, the director, turns it into an advantage: the focus here is all on the characters.
Even before that, though, big-screen chronicles of caped crime fighters were exhibiting the parodic self-consciousness that is a sure sign of decadence, even as movies like "The Incredibles" and "Hancock" were able to use the familiarity of the form as a platform for fresh ingenuity.
Acknowledging the "Presumed Innocent" reader's sense of déjà vu is crafty, but what makes this new book more than a cleverly executed stunt is Turow's determination to use the familiarity of the story and the characters for purposes loftier than earning some very hefty royalties.
So really the concept apps were the most blatant part of DeepMind's sales pitch today — using the familiarity and popularity of smartphone apps to try to win over the UK public to an alternative vision for the future of NHS healthcare delivery.
So really the concept apps were the most blatant part of DeepMind's sales pitch today — using the familiarity and popularity of smartphone apps to try to win over the UK public to an alternative vision for the future of NHS healthcare delivery.
Besides, another advantage of using smartphones is the familiarity of general users with these electronic gadgets as well as the quick and easy installation of applications, such as what is concluded in [14]. .
Prayer (Quercus, £18.99), Philip Kerr's first standalone novel in a decade, is a rum beast that uses the cosy familiarity of the thriller form to buttress a fantastical supernatural plot – "the strange and the sinister embroidered on the very type of the normal and the easy", as one character puts it, quoting Henry James.
