When Williams says that Batmanghelidjh hasn't changed, she doesn't merely mean that she was always a big girl who wore the bright ethnic clothes and elaborate turbans that make her instantly recognisable – although, as it happens, she was.
His account of events is not always recognisable to someone who was there at the time.
There is always something almost-recognisable and yet at once unnervingly imprecise about the world of a Philippe Claudel novel; something that makes a reader feel as though he is somewhere real, but not in place with particularity.
The local and specific is always more alluring, more recognisable than the general: that's why so much international theatre is so soggy and bland.
The comedy becomes diffused throughout the film, to the point at which it is not always recognisable as comedy.
The ryanodine-InsP3-receptor homology (RIH) domain is not always recognisable, in contrast to the channel domain with six trans-membrane domains and the pore between transmembrane domain 5 and 6.
Frayn's virtues as a comic writer were always based on his ability to evoke the instantly recognisable - the awful predicament, the common foible, the typical character.
"It's recognisable because of its height but it's always been a shape on the landscape rather than a place lots of people have visited".
Unexpectedly, but entirely convincingly, she describes him as an actor-painter, constantly assuming roles as he surveys himself, endlessly mutable but always recognisable, as actors must be.
Morphological change was not always easily recognisable, particularly in cells derived from liver, and was not always a stable feature of any given subclone.
