overfamiliar

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Unlike those reporters who parachute in to write about the “backward” nature of such folks, McHugh offers affectionate, respectful views of people a lot more complex than overfamiliar stereotypes.

From Los Angeles Times

Without the overfamiliar words, the pain is still familiar.

From New York Times

An adaptation of Jake Bernstein’s non-fiction book Secrecy World, the true investigation, led by journalists, was one Soderbergh has said he was keen to play down, feeling such a narrative arc was overfamiliar.

From The Guardian

And it captures the problem of the series “Fosse/Verdon,” which for all its technical panache, puts stage center an overfamiliar biopic story of a brilliant, difficult artist.

From New York Times

In “Widows,” he takes on a subject of familiar and overfamiliar entertainment, the heist film, and infuses it with myriad political elements, which he brings to the fore.

From The New Yorker