The phrase
"familiar territory" refers to a situation or place that someone knows well and is comfortable with. It means being in an environment or situation that is familiar or easily understood.
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In establishing the policy on licensed personal assistants, we found a more
familiar territory with the caveat that the licensed assistant is under the control of both the principal salesperson and the broker.
This movie is really hard for me to rate simply because I loved the concept and the first half, but the second half goes too far
into familiar territory.
In the latter half she's
on familiar territory but with the twist that she apparently reveals more of herself than in previous collection....
Her assignments usually involve chemistry and applied physics, but sometimes range into
less familiar territory, such as information technology or conceptual papers on subjects like phase transition modeling.
For those that have played since the first Destiny, without knowing fully what the game has to offer, Destiny 2 feels like almost
too familiar territory.
Hence there was less attention to this set of papers, from my point of view the most important ones, than to earlier presentations, which covered
more familiar territory.
However, these reviews also dive deeper into the movie's shortcomings, mainly coming from treading
familiar territory as another origin story and putting forth a lead character whose defining characteristics might be a little to close to the Marvel franchise that started this whole universe with Iron Man.
Although its new look doesn't stray far
from familiar territory, this top safety pick now packs more power, burns less fuel and has a lower starting price than last year's model.
But following on the heels of Like Father, Like Son (2013) and I Wish (2011), this feels
like familiar territory from the director.
Mining familiar territory with an earnest clarity, he shapes a mild yet winning fantasy about hearts opening and friendships blooming.
Environments play differently as you evolve, making it fun to
explore familiar territory for previously unreachable items and access to new realms.
Yet the opening hour treads
such familiar territory, stumbling over more than a few wider Superhero clichés, you'll find yourself impatiently wishing him into the impossible - for - any - teenage - boy - to - ever - weave - anything - so - intricate spandex and just bloody well get on with it.
While the main event of the film certainly did happen, as well as some of the scenes (some of them, excerpted from the documentary, are shown during the end credits), the film as a whole does tend to
traverse familiar territory as far as feel - good sports films go, especially with the final game where all of the loose ends comfortably fall into place.
... takes a mostly hagiographic approach, eschewing subtlety while traversing
familiar territory about overcoming obstacles.
However, Woody Allen is
revisiting familiar territory with this September May romance and yet doesn't make it striking or even particularly memorable.
In some ways, one might accuse Hitchcock of being on «auto pilot», taking shortcuts for convenience's sake, relying on already used camera techniques, and cruising through
familiar territory by reaching in his old bag of tricks to stimulate audience reaction.
Cortlund and Halperin («Now, Forager») demonstrate a gift for not only creating beautiful images in unexpected moments, but also avoiding narrative shortcuts or tonal clichés to tell a story that covers
familiar territory while ultimately defying easy categorization.
Twenty years ago, Martinelli's expanded
within familiar territory with new sparkling cider flavors such as cranberry and grape.
As Bottas and Vettel tried in vain to topple the Brit, Stroll and Romain Grosjean were the latest drivers to go for spins, resulting in the former being in very
familiar territory at the bottom of the standings.
Meanwhile, «Nine» may well be terrific, but it's difficult not to see it as a retreat into more
familiar territory after the career setback of «Geisha.»
Even as its plot suggests more traditional coming - of - age dynamics, the filmmaker doesn't
retread familiar territory so much as reinvent it.
Live By Night offers Affleck
familiar territory given the issues with bank robberies, Lehane characters, and his Boston roots.
The supporting cast also includes Nina Dobrev («The Vampire Diaries») as Justin's love interest and «Key and Peele» «s Keegan - Michael Key, who doesn't venture too far
outside familiar territory in his role.
Director Rick Famuyiwa allows his film to trot through pleasant, although
overly familiar territory, as Lucia's and Marcus» families get to know each other.
The story is still good for an action RPG, don't get the wrong idea, but more casual players might not feel the need to trek through the
same familiar territory for each character.
What may seem like a lot of industry jargon and endless acronyms — 1031s, REI, REITs, NOI, leverage, LTV, amortization, Cap Ex — will all
become familiar territory in due time.
Instead, Fan jammed to the evolution - theme Ludum Dare this weekend to create the Windows freeware defense title Octogeddon, which he admits is
somewhat familiar territory.
Even in the midst of their rockstar - like reception, they found themselves in
familiar territory playing on the Hospital's giant crocodile statue!
Director Shane Black has covered
familiar territory before in the 2005 movie «Kiss Kiss Bang Bang» (a massively underrated film in my opinion), but he has managed to win me over once again here.