The whole point of “going native” is that the familiar Western civilization is portrayed as inauthentic, ugly, broken, flawed.
Brendan, Brian, Terence, and Kevin kept on with a familiar determination even as they became bone weary.
The built-in audiences that come with familiar material also helps.
These men were plagued by a familiar hypocrisy that all of us have (or will have) experienced.
But it was still the first animated Disney movie to not be based on a book or a familiar fairy tale.
Though not exactly like the others, it had the all too familiar lines.
familiar cases of this are furnished by fashions of dress and by slang.
Nothing about the aspect of the other rooms of the chateau had struck you as familiar?
They are familiar, unquestioned, popular, and they are always current above their value.
There is a house there with which I am familiar, and which has two outsets.
mid-14c., "intimate, very friendly, on a family footing," from Old French famelier, from Latin familiaris "domestic, of a household;" also "familiar, intimate, friendly," dissimilated from *familialis, from familia (see family). The sense gradually broadened. Of things, from late 15c. The noun meaning "demon, evil spirit that answers one's call" is from 1580s.