| Going out to dinner with friends — for, say, two hours of convivial overfamiliarity and banal, rehashed conversation — seemed like idiocy, and the emptiness was only exacerbated when my friends jumped for the check. |
| Mr Mather-Lees claimed the abuse had started as overfamiliarity and getting too close. |
| Pearson and Bonneville convey less pleasant characters with quiet conviction, yet even these performances cannot hide the overfamiliarity. |
| Irony in modern American war literature takes many forms, and all risk the overfamiliarity that transforms style into cliché. |
| Industry insiders suggest a mixture of greed, overexpansion and simple overfamiliarity has knocked the shine from certain formerly invincible megabrands. |
| I urge parliamentarians and diplomats not to allow overfamiliarity or cynicism to dull their appreciation of our work and to redouble their promotion of the Council of Europe in national capitals. |
