Sentences with phrase «into familiar territory»

While the four - inch Zenfone 4 can seem a bit strange if you're used with the typically large Android devices that launch these days, the Zenfone 5 is back into familiar territory, both in terms of dimensions and feature set.

Perhaps the art market and institutions have by now weighed so much so on the freedom of aesthetic production, forming and informing our personal and collective comprehension of what constitutes abstract painting, that today abstraction as a formal category often lapses into familiar territory.

Tee K.O begins triumphantly but soon descends into familiar territory with players designing pieces of art and slogans which can be rearranged by others to produce whimsical T - shirts.

Fans of Nick Hornby's High Fidelity have something to sing about: Juliet, Naked, his new novel (on sale September 29th) will take readers back into familiar territory: the music world.

DETROIT (Aug. 3, 2016)-- Less than two weeks after adding another chapter to its already impressive record book, Corvette Racing rolls into familiar territory in pursuit of strengthening its GT Le Mans (GTLM) championship lead and resume as sports car racing's premier GT team.

As a movie, The Internship scoots quickly into familiar territory and resists any temptation to break the mold of inspirational, underdog comedies.

The Coen's delve into familiar territory, having done an excellent modern - day noir film Blood Simple as their big screen debut back in 1984.

Despite its release fourteen years later, Jason Bourne opens with this refrain, a subtle welcome back into familiar territory both in terms of character and mood.

After an amazing performance in Punch - Drunk Love, he slipped back into familiar territory.

It may feature a young, diminutive and deadly female, but it never slips lazily into familiar territory.

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.

The storyline, whilst being interesting to start with, soon tapered off into familiar territory, and the climax itself was quite boring.

As a film, it wanders into familiar territory other faith - based films find themselves in.

Not exact matches

When John Legend steps into the role of Jesus in front of millions of viewers on Easter Sunday, he'll be in familiar territory.

We say we do but we don't, not really, because they take us into territory with which we aren't familiar or comfortable.

If I'm writing about homosexuality, for example, I make an effort to consult with LGBT folks ahead of time, and I try to remain especially open to their advice, perspective, and critiques as I venture into territory with which they are much more familiar than I.

So I decided to dial things back and go into a territory that my midwestern side is already familiar with: mashed potatoes.

An expected onslaught from the host failed to materialise within the first period, and it was indeed «The Yorkshire Club» who continued to have the better chances; Ince's creative surge into the box resulted in Philip Billing receiving a clearance in familiar shooting territory around 25 yards out, and the Dane gratefully took his chance at a thunderbolt which was powerfully saved by Hennessey between the sticks for the Eagles.

Gracefully describing the behavior of fish and butterflies and humpback whales, spinning out extended metaphors of great explanatory power, and conveying it all in a voice that was both familiar yet rigorous, Dawkins not only achieved a superb, lay - friendly exposition of Darwinian evolution but pushed the science into novel conceptual territory.

I'm no stranger to tower defense games by any means, so diving into Anomaly Defenders was familiar territory.

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.»

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.

The Duffer brothers» «Stranger Things» on Netflix and the Jeff Nichols» film «Midnight Special» both call back to a specific attitude and time in pop culture (and in fact, it's the same time for both of them), but they manage to do so masterfully enough that it feels both like going back to something familiar while moving forward into unexplored territory.

Saving Private Ryan settles into familiar war scenario territory as the men undergo their mission, with the storyline becoming necessarily episodic.

Were it not for a charismatic turn from Thomas Middleditch (Silicon Valley, The Final Girls) and some striking visuals (many cribbed from the Michel Gondry playbook, mind you), there'd be almost nothing to recommend about Jason James» latest foray into familiar romcom territory, the thorny, over-written, and painfully prosaic new film, Entanglement.

Stacey Menear's screenplay doesn't manage to sustain its clever premise, with the final act featuring a banal and formulaic revelation that unfortunately takes what had been a spooky haunted house tale into familiar slasher movie territory.

It feels like a personal project for Desplechin, who perhaps tossed some autobiographical elements into the screenplay while exploring some familiar thematic and stylistic territory.

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.

This is familiar territory for Werner Herzog — a compelling crime drama and intriguing character study rolled into one.

There's nothing wrong with comfort food, but Danny Collins feels too comfortable; too afraid to provide anything other than a safe, cushy environment for moviegoers who are too scared to venture out into new territory within this all too familiar tale.

The Raid 2 is a recent example of the incredible stunt choreography that can make a mediocre plotline that much more amazing to sit through, and it's a shame that The Protector 2 falls back into such familiar «new school» action territory.

-- Patricia A. Crawford, Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education, University of Pittsburgh «In clear language, Castle leads students and educators through familiar but unique territory of practice in early childhood education into solidly based teacher research.

But Laurie McLean had a marketing company before she went into agenting, so this is familiar territory for her.

Lam's first book, a collection of interconnected short stories, opens with «How To Get Into Medical School, Part 1, a story which at first glance treads familiar territory - an Asian girl of first generation immigrant parents finds herself torn between her budding love for fellow medical student Fitz (an unsuitable boy by dint of him not being Asian) and her drive to succeed at the highest level as a medical student.

This familiar story takes an unfortunate turn deep into after - school - special territory when Lexi, Mia, and Zach collectively make a bad decision that results in a tragedy with extreme repercussions.

When it comes to specs of the BlackBerry Classic, BlackBerry stuck with familiar territory unlike the BlackBerry Passport where they ventured into some new ground.

The Coalition makes a strong debut with Gears of War 4, as they steer the Microsoft franchise into new (if not familiar) territory.

While the alignment system's integration into the battle system will change up how series veterans approach party building, recruiting demons for the party will be familiar territory.

But don't write it off just yet, While BugBear's Ridge Racer: Unbounded steered the series off course into Burnout's urban territory with a misguided emphasis on gritty destruction, Ridge Racer Slipstream favors a more familiar brand of colourful cars, twisty tracks and of course preposterous powerslides.

They are not «exploring the unknown» here, they are diving into very familiar territory: War!

Rise of the Tomb Raider eventually opens up in to more familiar territory by allowing you to go into open world areas, similar to the reboot.

A single clever mechanic can breath new life into what would otherwise be familiar territory.

Considered by Sushee to be the «fourth» installment of the series following the unreleased third game Fear Effect: Inferno, Fear Effect Sedna will take the franchise into unexpected territory; the crowdfunding campaign promises a third - person isometric tactical - action game with the familiar tones of the Fear Effect saga.

Narratively, the scene represents the moment when Croft transforms from victim into survivor, but it also marks the point at which the game pivots towards the more familiar and comfortable territory of action games — shooting and explosions — rather than Croft's humanity.

Super Mario Odyssey does just that - thrusts players far outside the familiar landscapes of the Mushroom Kingdom and takes them on a trip into unfamiliar territories around the world.

The way the team behind this game started you out in familiar territory and then lead you into brand new Sonic experiences was brilliant.

This is all familiar territory for Wyn Evans, whose work has often translated fragments of poetry and prose (by the likes of Emily Dickinson and Gertrude Stein) into morse code and other, often unreadable systems.

I am taken into unknown territory that is made immediately familiar.

Regarding her subject matter, Bartlett is noted for her treatment of familiar American imagery such as houses, trees, and white picket fences; she is also known to veer into non-figurative territory via explorations of geometric or painterly shapes.

Chris and Jim get into some pretty uncharted territory of conjecture about social behavior in an American future that is liable to be a lot different from what we're familiar with these days.