He looked up, familiarity striking him like a hit to the head with a blunt object. |
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Perhaps the benefits of wooden ice hockey sticks are predominantly psychological, based on the familiarity factor. |
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Their lives were entwined in a special way and during that time familiarity bred its own sense of humour. |
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They preferred the pally familiarity of Kelly, with her thick fringe, boxy business suits, glasses and the voice that could saw wood. |
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Their familiarity with their individual host country's culture is often superficial. |
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There was a familiarity about her, this princess, this wood nymph, a familiarity he couldn't express or identify. |
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It was partly greater familiarity with the soundtrack that made me enjoy it more. |
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Among people living in the same hutong there exists a very special degree of familiarity. |
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The instinctive personal preference and familiarity with formalin is an important factor in diagnostic surgical pathology. |
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Their familiarity with current events there demonstrates the closeness with which they watch all that passes in the old land. |
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Locals talk about sushi, feta cheese and tiramisu with casual familiarity and can probably discuss the finer qualities of Peking duck. |
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There's constant repetition which, at times, gives the writing the soothing familiarity of a fairy tale. |
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He, on the other hand, is impudent, and addresses the Lord with pert familiarity. |
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The trio share knowing smiles, suggesting a sexual familiarity I don't want or need to know about. |
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Their ability to conduct surprise raids presupposed close familiarity with currents, beaches, and locations of population centres. |
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In part it is governed by familiarity breeding disinterest, if not contempt. |
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Perhaps the very familiarity of hospital or police dramas inclines us to take the protagonists for granted. |
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She was chestnut-haired, her face bearing some odd and yet alluring familiarity. |
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Subgroup analyses, however, indicated variation among respondents with respect to knowledge and familiarity with legumes. |
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After years of familiarity with her work, I'm convinced that exact knowledge of the system makes little difference in appreciating the paintings. |
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It's probably their most recognisable track and contains a guilty pleasure thanks to its chant-along chorus and welcome sense of familiarity. |
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The popularity was due largely to the familiarity with the story, and extensive media publicity. |
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Maltese culture defines correct behavior and comportment in a variety of ways depending on status, familiarity, age, and social connections. |
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This site-specific installation collectively and individually embodies a repellent familiarity. |
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The stock of knowledge refers to a student's familiarity with the content and language of economics prior to entering a university course. |
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Access, knowledge and familiarity with technology is still dividing the haves from the have-nots in an increasingly unequal world. |
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Knowledge of the signaling mechanism and familiarity with signal-related functions help one write programs more efficiently. |
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Taking on the Latvian in the main lines requires a bit of knowledge and familiarity with the critical lines is essential. |
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Some background familiarity with philosophy is assumed, but no detailed knowledge of texts or terminology. |
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Job seekers' experience and their familiarity with the Chinese market were the focal issues for headhunters. |
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Familiarity with new technology increased acceptance, and this familiarity can be learned locally or taught during an experiment. |
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Her vernacular Dutch writings reflect familiarity with Latin, rhetoric, numerology, Ptolemaic astronomy and music theory. |
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They are using the experience to gain familiarity with the technology, enter new markets, and meet new clients. |
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The measure of a joke's effectiveness is equal to the quality of its writing and delivery multiplied by the familiarity of its subject. |
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They effectively harness the familiarity of well-know ditties to send up celebrity culture. |
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The towers look like beacons in the stormy night, still strangely reassuring in their solidity and familiarity. |
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Correlations between perceptions of physical resemblance and social closeness and familiarity were positive and statistically significant. |
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See it once and it will haunt your memory with the pleasant familiarity of an old friend. |
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Harriman Nelson allowed his old friend the freedom of familiarity in his cabin. |
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On some level I suppose there's a suggestion of friendship and familiarity there that could be seen as flattering. |
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A quick google reveals that he is a spiritual medium, the gleaming white raiment possibly implying a familiarity with the angelic host. |
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They say familiarity breeds contempt and I can certainly vouch for that when it comes to door-to-door salesmen. |
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But familiarity breeds contempt among wrestling fans, who want to know what a wrestler has done for them lately. |
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No previous knowledge is required, although familiarity with the glottal stop and tolerance of torrential profanity is a necessity. |
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His movements were very quick, yet delicate, showing his skill and familiarity with the knife and the task. |
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That her strange outburst of familiarity proceeded from some strong motive seemed to be more than probable. |
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Once again he was stuck fraternizing with the enemy, and once again where he should have felt guilt he felt a tinge of familiarity. |
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The album kicks off with the single, which is a wise choice, given that it sets things in motion with a welcome ring of familiarity. |
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Though the plot has the unmistakable ring of familiarity, strong acting and directing carry the film through occasional missteps. |
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In an age of cinema that favours familiarity, remake and rehash, this director remains one of the few remaining apostles of the pioneer spirit. |
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Also, it is tied to outdated models of brand-loyalty and presumes a familiarity with the work of couture houses. |
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Fans enjoy the comfort of familiarity and don't cotton to corrections in cast, tone, or circumstances. |
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I'm not sure he recognised me at first but when I introduced myself he greeted me with the familiarity of a family friend. |
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His shift from inscrutable correctness to open resentment and then to a kind of familiarity is both compelling and hilarious. |
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Lee nudged my ribs with her elbow playfully, with a friendly familiarity that surprised me. |
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Our appreciation of beauty in a work of art becomes muddled with familiarity. |
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I used to be able to withstand the loneliness of my personal life by finding refuge in the comfort and familiarity of work. |
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A true lady will always repulse familiarity or rudeness, either of speech or manner. |
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There was poets' pub, lousy with drunks and soft with words, glittering with ideas and familiarity and mutual admiration. |
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There are times I am lulled by familiarity, and I have spent time with people who are less than challenging. |
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Love is built on friendship and familiarity and a trust that cannot come instantaneously. |
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Import restrictions and greater familiarity with Japanese engines has prompted American tuners to use the Honda VTEC powerplant though. |
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The Magyar tribes who arrived here at the end of the 9th century found flourishing vineyards and familiarity with wine-making techniques. |
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She plinks away with butterfly amino for practice and rifle familiarity with full-throttle fodder for big game only. |
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You must have a familiarity with the character and history of the land you tend. |
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He has that enviably precise balance of familiarity and distance, humor and restraint, insouciance laced with respect. |
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It was, perhaps, his familiarity with Surrealism that caused Wroblewski to endow his art with a combination of concrete and dreamy qualities. |
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It provides a sense of familiarity and friendliness which is hard to dismiss. |
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There was, admittedly, a vague sense of familiarity there, but nothing she could recall right off the bat. |
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Dimbleby will be advantaged by the fact that he has never been in BBC programming management and that he has a blend of familiarity yet distance. |
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The familiarity and self-evidence you speak of is, of course, precisely the proper object of critical thought. |
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Gabonese often avoid showing too much familiarity with a new acquaintance so that they won't appear disrespectful. |
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In fact, familiarity through friendship or kinship tends to expand trust that leads to cooperation only under certain conditions. |
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Ryder's familiarity with the camera contributes to his disarmingly ingenuous presence, by turns determined and naive. |
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Surrounded by nice quiet things and an utter absence of familiarity, I went up the wall. |
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Mean familiarity across all traces in memory indexes the likelihood that a match response is elicited. |
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Much of this cultural work happened at the level of emotional affinity and familiarity. |
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All subjects reported having familiarity with computers and 16 of the 20 subjects reported familiarity with shipboard equipment. |
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But perhaps Gwyneth was able to clinch the deal by demonstrating that she had some familiarity with existential miserabilism. |
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To take a bisque judiciously requires a cool head and great familiarity with tennis. |
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You lost three people who provided not only closeness and familiarity but most likely emotional support. |
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There is very little to break the familiarity and deadening monotony of Aslam's routine. |
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From the initial blare of the trumpets, the album has that thrill of half-recalled familiarity. |
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Detractors say skeuomorphs represent the triumph of familiarity over function. |
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Dapper as ever in jacket, chinos and boat shoes, and looking 20 years younger than he actually is, this time he greets me with warm familiarity. |
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Even after years of marriage and familiarity, the love was strong, the respect running deep. |
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If familiarity breeds contempt, and change is the name of the game, then how to turn the anti-incumbency in its face? |
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Enough familiarity with quantification theory is assumed to handle the very elementary quantificational concepts involved. |
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His unprompted use of the precise number bears witness to a weary familiarity with it. |
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There was no evidence that increased familiarity with a site or with a female increased fertilization effectiveness for a male. |
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Because nearshoring partners live in regions closer to home, they often have a greater familiarity with English and with American culture. |
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It's like an initial second of unwittingness, and then gradual recognition of the familiarity. |
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The breathtaking new images from Mars have the seductive familiarity of holiday snapshots. |
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This holds such an uncanny familiarity, or unheimlich recognition, they could have been reading the Flea's diary. |
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He will be advantaged by the fact that he has never been in programming management and that he has a blend of familiarity yet distance. |
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A few repeated contacts in a soup kitchen, a marketplace or a hospital ward can suffice to create a sense of familiarity. |
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No record remains of the education that gave Chaucer lifelong familiarity with Latin and several vernacular languages and literatures. |
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My familiarity with the richness and variety of vernacular language inevitably led me to become a proponent of orality in literacy. |
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Empathy and familiarity with someone gives rise to a vicarious capacity to experience his responses, a kind of second nature. |
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I get up and throw myself at him, burying my face in his jacket, wanting to hide away in this familiarity. |
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The language carries its own values, the comforting familiarity of its age-old prejudices. |
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Every nook, corner, wall and ceiling was like a blow in its acute familiarity. |
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Still, I couldn't place her but even her clothing, a worn leather jacket and a red knit scarf, had a certain familiarity. |
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One of the most striking contrasts between the 196Os and the 1980s was a growing familiarity with external services and institutions. |
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It is time to stand back from a situation that has gained acceptability through long familiarity and reappraise it objectively. |
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Her photographs of Einstein were rejected by Life in the 1950s for precisely this quality of seeming candidness and familiarity. |
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The effect of all this familiarity is to allow us to concentrate on the various characters and their interactions. |
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Written compositions will show a familiarity with informal, spoken English. |
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The everyday familiarity of chicken makes the threat seem all the more plausible. |
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He looked around at the others, and could already feel a sense of familiarity deep in his bones. |
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The contemporary material is the most accessible, probably because of our familiarity to both the characters, and the writing style. |
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He drove up to the hills along the remembered roads, frightening in their familiarity. |
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It has become known as a lively venue, particularly in the evenings and at weekends and offers a mixture of friendliness and familiarity to its many patrons. |
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Talking about death is never easy, but with food, comfort, and familiarity, a new kind of dinner party is making it easier. |
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This crepuscular conflict requires a new vocabulary and a familiarity with a new type of history. |
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The patterns and images he adapts are seductive in their familiarity and kitschness, but also in how they have become suddenly, shimmeringly strange. |
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And there is definitely something to finding solace in food, familiarity, and memory. |
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As a pioneer used to thinking outside the box, Odent demonstrates familiarity with a formidable range of subjects, from ethnography to endocrinology. |
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Anyone who has familiarity with chemical dependency treatment knows of circumstances where leaders have relapsed or not been honest about their recovery. |
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Rather, cultivate an aura of benign but almost yawning familiarity. |
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While it gives people a sense of commonality and familiarity, it also keeps them from seeing the bigger picture and being responsive to the leading of the Holy Spirit. |
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Living in a society openly governed by force with those who have demonstrated their familiarity with it increases the danger. |
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If familiarity breeds contempt, then overindulgence breeds snobbish connoisseurship. |
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Second, if familiarity breeds contempt, anonymous familiarity seems to fuel it even more. |
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For me, the key to finding my natural rhythm is familiarity. |
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Such familiarity insulates Gingrich from the kind of flip-flopping charges that have proved so corrosive for Romney. |
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There was no lingering sense of familiarity that made most Americans give him a second glance, even with his died hair and previously colored contacts. |
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Being a rookie athlete requires you to leave a world of familiarity, where you've established credibility, to step into a new realm of high expectations. |
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His guile and familiarity with the underworld gets him a job as a photographer for a scandal sheet, working under a good natured, alcoholic editor. |
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Nor is he merely sight-reading based on familiarity, as he was tested by writing down some simple phrases which he could not have known in advance. |
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I know because I saw him sit down at the typewriter and begin banging it out in his inimitable style, which included forced nicknames and chatty familiarity. |
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Lack of familiarity of the timetable, layout of the college and the new students makes it extremely difficult for him to understand the nuances of the social situation. |
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Thanks to his familiarity with syllabic scripts he succeeded in identifying a number of consonant-vowel pairs that spelt out words which seemed convincing in their context. |
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What we need is not comforting distance structured through familiarity, but rather the strength to look critically and consciously at that which most unnerves us. |
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Their analysis can usually be faulted on grounds not of unsophistication, but of insufficient familiarity with the complexities of Scholastic or Eastern Trinitarian thinking. |
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Put very crudely, familiarity and success bred scepticism and contempt. |
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Cultural familiarity, if not in this case ties of kinship, connected these Utes and New Mexicans, enabling the latter to establish themselves peacefully in Ute territory. |
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A management buy-in has all the features of an MBO but carries much higher risk, because the prospective management team has less familiarity with the business. |
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As he matured, Campbell became a stalwart supporter of the marriage between agriculture and industry and systematically increased his familiarity with both. |
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I was awed, but it was awe born of familiarity, not strangeness. |
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But there is no strangeness, only the familiarity of a shared past. |
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They would presumably have familiarity with the published work prior to the 152 Patent and realise that no solvents other than sulphonic acids seem to work. |
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From the outside, it seems a rootless, ephemeral sort of existence, evocative of the chummy, locker-room familiarity that was a hangover from playing days. |
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They found no relationship between the rate of referral and physicians' knowledge, beliefs and familiarity with the effects of alternative therapies. |
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The survey showed that the 456 dietitians who responded had low knowledge of regulatory processes and familiarity with new food products of biotechnology. |
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Knowledge and familiarity with the avenues of HfV transmission may mobilize nurses who question their ability or role in thwarting the virus and disease. |
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It may sound simple enough, but familiarity with the gear and proficiency in these basic skills is imperative when you are on top of a mountain in a howling gale. |
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For one thing, the Wachowski brothers have a knowledge and familiarity with a number of ideas, concepts and philosophies that play an important part in the Matrix films. |
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Very few Japanese people ever extend their knowledge of Bulgaria beyond familiarity with its yoghurt, which has become part of the national cuisine in Japan. |
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At the same time, he conducts his analysis with a dispassionate respect that evidences both his years of familiarity with Eritrea and the maturity of his knowledge. |
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Skinner believes there's no way you can become a VA without several years of office experience and considerable familiarity with the necessary technology. |
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The South and East courses always provide a challenge and increasing familiarity with the layout provides the knowledge necessary for good course management and good scores. |
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I have referred to these simply to note the closeness and familiarity which existed between the two men at the time. Mr Samant then proceeded to contact Lawrence Jones. |
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It extends to insights that come only from intimate familiarity with them, allowing connections unseen by others to be recognized and used for productive purposes. |
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As we come near, their strange familiarity becomes simply strange. |
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The students vary with regard to their levels of enculturation, that is, familiarity with the accepted customary beliefs and social norms of the dominant group. |
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The indirectness of the process invites a certain familiarity. |
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The core computer literacy required is familiarity with point-and-click Web pages, and it also helps if readers are familiar with the idea of threaded discussions. |
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It could be further magnified because over time non-U.S. firms will have much more information on and familiarity with Iranian oil and gas fields. |
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Modern scholars who deal with Israel's ancient political religion and the prophets who proclaimed its transformation are burdened with a scholarly spurious familiarity. |
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Their familiarity with export licensing and their ability to corrupt officials and hide illicit cargo in legal consignments could all assist nuclear smuggling. |
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Again I gave a civil evasion to the girl's trivial question, and as I did so her companion, looking over her frowzy pompadour, stared at me with insolent familiarity. |
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Having attracted a familiarity rating of just over two per cent, it's fair to say that in the eyes of the NSW electorate, Morris Iemma is a dark horse. |
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The familiarity and warmth of the Muppets combined with the soothing heartfelt music of the late John Denver will make any Gen Xer feel like a kid again. |
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The mass-produced fairytale gratifies this desire by emphasising the sense of familiarity achieved through the outward material and ideological sameness. |
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The ground rule on that subject would be never to make familiarity with one's earlier works necessary for enjoying or appreciating the current one. |
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Overall, Home Steak was a pleasant experience and the waiters' obvious familiarity with many of their guests confirmed that this restaurant is a place to go back to. |
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Studies quote the increasing spread of retrofit solutions or ex-works, prompted by legislation as well as growing familiarity of end users with this technology. |
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She is no outsider, but a talented draftswoman whose upbringing in a family of steamfitters afforded her familiarity with the milieu of pipes, valves and boilers. |
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Jorge Luis Borges wrote many short pieces on Wells in which he demonstrates a deep familiarity with much of Wells's work. |
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The stigmatizer appears to have no familiarity or experience with a male serving as the primary caretaker of the children. |
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In addition, reading the manuscript itself requires familiarity with the letterforms of the native script. |
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Social deixis concerns the social information that is encoded within various expressions, such as relative social status and familiarity. |
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That the young Shakespeare could have been the tamperer is suggested by his familiarity with the terms in the strange passage. |
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Without familiarity with these abbreviations, the facsimile will be unreadable to many. |
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French critic Maximin Roll was greatly impressed by Gautier's thorough familiarity with her subject. |
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Chris's use of tactile exploratory procedures depended on the type of task, her familiarity with it, and the manipulability of the objects. |
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The difference is one of familiarity and choice not law or logic. |
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Discussion of jaundice requires familiarity with the normal pathways for production and elimination of bilirubin in the body. |
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Rarely, nouns illustrating things with no gender are referred to with a gendered pronoun to convey familiarity. |
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Lescarbot's familiarity with Montaigne, is discussed by Ter Ellingson in The Myth of the Noble Savage. |
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The study differed from prior research that there is more balance in familiarity of the dominant language. |
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The last position of procurator, an uncertain one, was of Gallia Belgica, based on Pliny's familiarity with it. |
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British immigrants would have had little or no familiarity with the complex process of growing rice in fields flooded by irrigation works. |
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He went into Poland, being in displeasure with the pope for overmuch familiarity. |
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Three books old, the first thing that strikes you about Amitabha Bagchi is the sheer familiarity you feel with his fiction. |
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Apostolic succession may be an inevitable factor, just as familiarity plays a vital part in the lives of those who follow. |
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The fusion of European and Chinese cultures makes Macau a fascinating place, perfectly combining western familiarity with eastern exoticness. |
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He speaks of computer languages with the familiarity of a carpenter discussing his hammer and saw. |
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The two big threats to an auditor's professional skepticism are familiarity with management and the cult of personality. |
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So in this case, the appearance is quite human like, but the familiarity is negative. This is the uncanny valley. |
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You don't want to be a legal beagle about it. You are not a dog! Still, a passing familiarity with employment law isn't such a bad thing when you're working for others. |
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DentalBlue President Steve Klister said the new dental product line combines the state's largest network of dentists with the quality and familiarity of the Blue Cross Brand. |
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Burns's poetry drew upon a substantial familiarity with and knowledge of Classical, Biblical, and English literature, as well as the Scottish Makar tradition. |
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And print media still has a warm familiarity, not unlike the analog watches I have observed most engineers still wear despite the ready availability of a digital timepiece. |
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Who has familiarity with Karol Szymanowski's Hagith and Krol Roger, based on the composer's novel, Ephebos, with the collaboration of the writer Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz? |
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The variety of Chaucer's tales shows the breadth of his skill and his familiarity with many literary forms, linguistic styles, and rhetorical devices. |
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Those of Shakespeare's plays that seem to display the unities, such as The Tempest, probably indicate a familiarity with actual models from classical antiquity. |
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Back on Route 66, back to familiarity with freeways and roadsigns, we headed to Flagstaff, a Frontierland, with tribes selling art and restaurants aplenty. |
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Currently, there is a lack of familiarity for US surety bond issuers with Australian exporters, and between Australian and US financial institutions. |
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Aided familiarity with products in development such as alkaline phosphatase, Pyridorin, CXA-10, CMX-2043, Bendavia, THR-184 and BB3 is low among surveyed nephrologists. |
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He assumes some familiarity with set theory, algebra, and topology. |
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Tourism for New Zealand is up, possibly due to its exposure in the series, with the country's tourism industry waking up to an audience's familiarity. |
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In the new century, familiarity has been embraced by producers and investors anxious to guarantee that they recoup their considerable investments. |
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