If the setting was familiar for Woods, so was his middle-of-the-pack position.
The President's decision was familiar for being both spontaneous and confusing.
The early metalworker was familiar, for example, with hammering, embossing, chasing, inlaying, gilding, wiredrawing, and the application of niello, enamel, and gems.
Mr. Garrett was familiar for his white hair, impeccable suits, courtly manner and the wheelchair in which he sat: he had had a form of muscular dystrophy since the age of 19, and by the time he was in his 60s, walking had become difficult.
The image was familiar for the Mets, but it was one that had not been seen this season: Jose Reyes, the front of his uniform caked in dirt, smiling and clapping while springing to his feet at third base after a triple.
JERUSALEM — The face-off at the security gate outside the Western Wall one Friday this month was familiar: for more than two decades, women have been making a monthly pilgrimage to pray at one of Judaism's holiest sites in a manner traditionally preserved for men, and the police have stopped them in the name of maintaining public order.
