Sentence examples for usual familiarity from inspiring English sources

But on that particular day the usual familiarity of speaking over the phone was eclipsed by the suddenness of tragedy.

Standing quietly near the coffee machines was Wang Chong, a writer at China Youth Daily, who had more than the usual familiarity with Obama.

His troops are stuffed toys and plastic wrestlers with movable limbs that Mr. Hegarty has coated with a brown wax to make their usual cuddly familiarity alien.

As usual, Grammy voters going with familiarity over innovation.

As usual, LaVette's vocals are unimpeachable, and the extreme familiarity of the material only occasionally sounds like top-notch karaoke.

Another problem is familiarity: there are too many of the usual suspects who populate shows devoted to work by nonwhite artists.

For all her familiarity, that alone argues against the business-as-usual, more-of-the-same case that Republicans are prepared to make against her for the next many months.

The familiarity with privation implied here is a long way from the usual version of pop that climbs the charts.

But this show's creator, Usual Suspects writer Christopher McQuarrie, obviously has an instinctive awareness of audience over-familiarity.

Yet for all their familiarity, the experience that produced the artifacts eludes replication, in ways that go beyond the usual problems associated with transmuting lived events into the historical and cultural record.

For both teams, Edgbaston provides the opening note in a gathering crescendo of Anglo-Aussie cricket that will take in not just the usual five Tests plus one-day series, but an unrelenting arm-wrestle of sustained competitive over-familiarity.