Sentences with phrase «familiar ground»

I was on familiar ground with the cabin tech features.

I don't feel called to go over familiar ground.

In choosing an interest - based site you're starting on familiar ground.

Intermittently amusing and extremely familiar, Legally Blonde treads familiar ground on a reasonably funny premise (based on the book by Amanda Brown).

The remainder of Clinton's speech Friday covered familiar ground for the former U.S. Senator from New York.

The essays in The Cambridge Companion to Freud, edited by Joseph Neu, for example, cover familiar ground such as the information that Freud's Project for a Scientific Psychology contained the germ of his later theories.

Indeed, love is the courteous, familiar ground of our own care of them, for God's love is the ground of everything.

Outside of bludgeoning hellspawn DOOM VFR frequently takes a slower pace than any previous entry in the franchise by asking the player to retread familiar ground almost empty of combat in order to find a way to move forward.

She was on more familiar ground with 2010's «Somewhere,» about a spoiled hotshot movie actor (Stephen Dorff in a comeback role) who suddenly must parent his 11 - year - old daughter (Elle Fanning).

feels like familiar ground.

Multi-award winner Never Steady, Never Still, the long - awaited feature debut of Vancouver writer - director Kathleen Hepburn, treads familiar ground with heart aching poise and sensitivity.

Rogue treads familiar ground by returning to Black Flag's deft mixture of stabby shenanigans and sailing pursuits and in doing so, provides an interesting counterpoint to the recent Assassin's Creed: Unity which, in the eyes of many, took a step back from the strides the series made in Black Flag.

«La La Land» isn't the most original story — it borrows from all the classics, like «Singin» in the Rain,» «An American in Paris» and «A Star is Born» — but while the film treads very familiar ground, Chazelle freshens it up with some delightful song - and - dance numbers that attempt to redefine the movie musical, including one where the two lovers literally dance among the stars that toes the line between fantasy and reality.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio will probably be on familiar ground when he is questioned by federal prosecutors and F.B.I. agents in New York as part of a sweeping criminal investigation into his campaign fund - raising.

Denis Villeneuve's terrific narc thriller has Emily Blunt as a wide - eyed DEA agent and conduit into shadowy goings - on on the US / Mexican border, Traffic veteran Benicio del Toro is back on familiar ground as a mysterious figure so sinister, even his naps are scary, while Josh Brolin makes flip - flops the year's black - ops accessory of choice.

Regardless, because The American treads familiar ground in the «aging assassin / spy / cowboy makes one last attempt at redemption» subgenre, much of what transpires feels like it's been done to death already, leaving The American a minor, flawed gem in Clooney's filmography.

Columbia University professor Jeremy Dauber's Jewish Comedy: A Serious History is an erudite and entertaining exploration of the multidimensional Jewish comic sensibility, one that plows familiar ground while also unearthing humor in some surprising places.

With the gameplay formula not straying too far from familiar ground, however, the game developed by Pendulo Studios will hardly appeal to those who don't enjoy this classic genre.

This is some surprisingly familiar ground for Telltale, their last episodic game series the smash hit The Walking Dead (also based on a comic series) was awarded over 70 game of the year awards because of its great writing, characters and its mastery of the use of player choice and agency through its storytelling.

There are a few memorable moments sprinkled throughout this adventure, but this newest LEGO game covers too much familiar ground.

For Sevilla, a Europa League semi-final is becoming familiar ground, for a club who have thrived in the competition in recent years.

(This is no doubt familiar ground for you, but for the benefit of our readers, Michael Pollan has an elegant little video on why a Twinkie is cheaper than carrots — and sorry for the huge size — I just couldn't get this to scale down):

Rice was on more familiar ground Sunday as the former Nassau district attorney had a ceremonial swearing in.

The French - made movie travels familiar ground, with a nod as well to Airplane!

This is an unfortunate reality of the series, and it's tedious to retread familiar ground just to level up.

The game jumps between different dates, characters and gameplay moments and though the story actually gets semi-interesting towards the end, it feels like overly familiar ground and at around six hours, the campaign is certainly not worth the price of admission alone.

I had little patience for the indulgent hipster excesses of Miranda July's The Future, Rosie Jones» biased and ugly documentary The Triangle Wars, Stéphane Lafleur's tedious Familiar Ground or Federico Veiroj's tiresome and dreary Uruguayan ode to cinema, A Useful Life.

The opening chapter, in which Batman and Robin chase Killer Croc through the sewers of Gotham City, is a disheartening slog through familiar ground.

Treks familiar ground — call it NYC lit porn, with half the incisiveness of Husbands and Wives, but also none of its misanthropy — though you wouldn't know it from Frank Langella's conviction.

But since Clancy is genius - level brilliant, like Hannibal Lecter, and has great stores of compassion like Doctor Frederick Treves, and is also world - weary and consumed by confused grief, like Henry Wilcox, Hopkins is treading familiar ground here.

I have just finished reading Familiar Ground: Traditions that Build School Community, by Libby Woodfin, with contributions by Northeast Foundation for Children Staff (Northeast Foundation for Children, Greenfield, Mass., 1998).

If you are treading old familiar ground but have your own unique angle on it, then it may be something readers are willing to pay for.

It's not a retread across familiar ground, the car ride to work, the province of sleepwalkers.

Sam Hunter, the exhibition would seem to announce the gallery's move into the blue - chip realm, and it covers thoroughly familiar ground under conditions whose crowding evokes an auction - house display.

Seven new paintings by German - born, New York - based Charline von Heyl tread familiar ground between gestural abstraction and Pop representation, all while managing a distinctive and very appealing sense of independent identity.

This is some surprisingly familiar ground for Telltale, their last episodic game series the sma...

With three four - cylinder engines for the U.S. market, the A4's engine portfolio remains on very familiar ground.

After the narrative incoherence of Red State and the thin plot of Tusk, Yoga Hosers puts Smith back on far more familiar ground.

Apparently, Craig was in need of a break from London and treading over familiar ground.

Parkville is familiar ground in a different sense for Uncle Jim Berg who worked for more than 40 years in Victoria's legal system, including as founding CEO for the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service (VALS).

In some ways, Nadia Was Here feels like familiar ground.

Partly this was because the moderators, principally NBC's Brian Williams and Tim Russert, spent too much time reviewing non-Black-Brown issues, like the Iraq war, encouraging the candidates to pointlessly retread familiar ground.

He has begun to try to write against type and found little success when he plowed familiar ground: The dreadful Yellow Dog, which appeared in 2003, reads like a parody of a 1980s Amis novel.

While Batstone covers familiar ground, he makes the important but often overlooked point that a corporation does not exist by itself but is part of a larger community.

Schrader is back on familiar ground with First Reformed, the meditative story of an upstate New York pastor (a subtle Ethan Hawke) racked by guilt at his own shortcomings and soon to embrace desperate measures.

-- Heretic brings players to familiar ground as the «Halo 2» arena Midship returns in «Halo 3.»