His characters inhabit a society that is not quite ours, but which is familiar all the same. |
The burners on a gas stove are all the same size, but they can vary in the amount of heat or BTU's that each one puts out. |
It is usually regarded as an assertion that we are all the same under the skin. |
The carpets absorbed the sound of his feet landing on the floor, but Lombard stood still all the same to make certain that the Ifrit still slept. |
You're all the same, the lot of you, with your long hair and your hippy clothes. |
We are all the same people, but our relations with each other have changed. |