McLeish said: "I've said it before, that Twitter and the social networks is not a world familiar to me.
Eventually, Piketty says, we could see the reëmergence of a world familiar to nineteenth-century Europeans; he cites the novels of Austen and Balzac.
The two had met months before Mr. Litvinenko's death, sharing an interest in the business of risk analysis, consultancy and information gathering in a world familiar to both of them.
I had attributed a rather different meaning to the term: I had taken it to mean, quite simply, fiction set in a recognisably realistic world, familiar and therefore cosy; a world that is blown apart by a catastrophic event.
It is, in short, a debate about how parents can best make their children happy: by encouraging their individuality but risking their alienation, or by incorporating them into the world familiar to their parents, but risking their self-loathing.
JPod is set in a world familiar from Coupland's earlier novels Generation X and Microserfs: glib, amoral, often quite funny, but so cloaked in levels of wearisome irony that nothing ends up meaning anything.
Scott Fitzgerald, post-World War II Manhattan a world familiar to his New Yorker readers, bounded by Radio City Music Hall and Bergdorf Goodman and Central Park (where Holden wonders about the ducks on the lagoon and where they go when it freezes over in the winter).
Suppose, for example, that worlds are arranged in similarity spheres nested around the actual world, familiar from the Stalnaker-Lewis approach to counterfactuals.
And while the new series exists in a world familiar to fantasy fans, it rarely butts up against direct parody of beloved properties. .
And precisely what these people seem to want (apart from getting to bomb Madrid, of course) is to make the world familiar to themselves again, by resurrecting the signifiers of the past.
