How To Use Familiarising In A Sentence
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It was because of the possibility of literary devices losing their defamiliarizing capacity that the distinction between device and function was introduced.
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In effect, Stephen Greenblatt's latest book Hamlet in Purgatory has taken on the challenge of defamiliarizing the most famous play in Western literature by placing it in its proper theological setting.
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SF can and often does function as analysis through conceit, the future re-presenting the present, defamiliarising it in order to expose its faults, to allow "the defectiveness of the ruling paradigm to be seen whole".
Narrative Grammars
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The poems themselves act as fissures in the surface of consumerism, defamiliarizing cultural meanings.
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Accompanied by Adam Ferguson, he visited on this occasion some of the finest districts of Stirlingshire and Perthshire; and not in the percursory manner of his more boyish expeditions, but taking up his residence for a week or ten days in succession at the family residences of several of his young allies of _the Mountain_, and from thence familiarizing himself at leisure with the country and the people round about.
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10)
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Whether it was in the service of merging art and everyday life, defamiliarizing the ordinary or creating evocative formal disjunctions, these artists managed to successfully integrate those objects into the work as a whole.
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These initial defamiliarizing images set the tone for the sketch's central drama-the transformations that the youth's point of view undergoes.
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We spent a few minutes familiarizing ourselves with the day's schedule.
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We spent a few minutes familiarizing ourselves with the day's schedule.
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Familiarizing ourselves with a set of assumptions attributable to him would be problematic indeed, as it would be for many other authors.
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This is an introduction to my story; I will just be familiarizing you with the characters and the setting.
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Faculty's mastering language, training of pedagogy, familiarizing with history and accomplishing of art contribute to the improvement in their humane quality.
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By searching ports and quays, diving teams are familiarising themselves with their layout so that in future it will be easier to spot anything out of the ordinary.
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It was because of the possibility of literary devices losing their defamiliarizing capacity that the distinction between device and function was introduced.
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It was because of the possibility of literary devices losing their defamiliarizing capacity that the distinction between device and function was introduced.
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Children are to be found in it as well, waiting till their fathers and mothers are ready to go home, sipping from the glasses of their elders, listening to the coarse language and degrading conversation, catching the contagion of it, familiarising themselves with licentiousness and debauchery.
DRINK, TEMPERANCE, AND THRIFT
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The underlying principle of revision is the use of various defamiliarising techniques that upset the reader's expectations.
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By defamiliarizing well-known buildings, some of which we may have an image of in our mind, Sugimoto compels us to consider them with renewed attentiveness.
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It is definitely geared toward starting out and familiarizing the gamer with the game.
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Familiarising new products among consumers goes a long way in sharpening their across-the-counter salesmanship.
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Familiarizing models are thus far accessible.
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Conclusion: Familiarizing with CT scan patterns may help the clinician to exclude certain diagnoses and narrow the differential diagnosis for others.
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Familiarizing yourself with your local birds – those that are easily seen in your backyard, neighborhood or nearby park – can help you learn about your regular feathered visitors.
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The reverse structure is a crude way of defamiliarising a very basic plot and has none of the formal invention and daring of, say, Tarantino's experiments in cause and effect.
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Getting into that mindset, defamiliarizing the familiar, is really fun.