Gumby and his horse Pokey became a familiar presence on American television ; they had their start in the Howdy Doody Show, and later got their own series The Adventures of Gumby.

He is a highly regarded space enthusiast, and is a familiar and respected presence on several space forums on Usenet and the Internet.

According to this theory, the presence of a gay couple, played by real-life gay actors ( Christopher Sieber and John Benjamin Hickey ) that had adopted and raised a child was too much of a shock and considered inappropriate for the time slot, which would be a more " familiar " one.

His on-screen presence alongside these performers – who were already familiar to Anglophile comedy buffs – helped lay down a marker for Connolly's eventual return to the US in his own right eight years later.

The first pictorial representation of the familiar memento mori theme that was popularized in 16th-century Venice, now made more concrete and vivid by the inscription, is Guercino's version, painted between 1618 and 1622 ( in the Galleria Nazionale d ' Arte Antica, Rome ), in which the inscription gains force from the prominent presence of a skull in the foreground, beneath which the words are carved.

The most familiar of these is probably the presence of ions of calcium and magnesium which interfere with the cleaning action of soap, and can form hard sulfate and soft carbonate deposits in water heaters or boilers.

The familiar red colour of these rocks arises from the presence of iron oxide but not all the Old Red Sandstone is red or sandstone — the sequence also includes conglomerates, mudstones, siltstones and thin limestones and colours can range from grey and green through red to purple.

From a young age, Alsammarae was intimately familiar with Iraqi politics due to his family's presence in this sphere.

The most familiar example of quality advertisement pursuit-deterrent signal is stotting, a pronounced combination of running while simultaneously hopping shown by some antelopes such as Thomson's gazelle in the presence of a predator.

Meanwhile, the American folk musician Richard Fariña ( 1937 – 1966 ) was also bringing the Appalachian dulcimer to a much wider audience, and by 1965 the instrument was a familiar presence in folk music circles.

Unlike its Marvel Comics counterpart What If ...?, which bases its stories on a single point of divergence from the regular continuity, most Elseworlds stories instead take place in entirely self-contained continuities, with the only connection to the canon DC continuity being the presence of familiar DC characters.

Edward B. Titchener also documented the effect and described the " glow of warmth " felt in the presence of something that is familiar.

Although shy birds that are usually hidden within vegetation, their loud calls are familiar and give away their presence.

a delightful book, a new treatment of a somewhat familiar theme, but crafted into a strange shape and told with such fineness of presence and such impressive language that it hardly matters what the book is about.

* Safer Schools PCSO-Provides a visible familiar police presence in local schools, tackling local school and student issues.

Annoyingly mannered in performance as well as tiresomely familiar in the way it trots out its angst-ridden urban characters ' problems, picture has a hastily conceived, patchwork feel that is occasionally leavened by some lively supporting turns and the presence of so many attractive people onscreen.

They further stated that " the presence in the programme of presenters familiar from children's programmes ... took some parents off-guard in deciding whether their children could continue to view.

Although steeped in the culture and mythology of Ireland, Murphy's work does not trade on familiar clichés of Irish identity, dealing instead with Dostoyevskian themes of violence, nihilism and despair while never losing sight of the presence of laughter, humour and the possibilities of love and transcendence.

Modern scholars have pointed this account follows a familiar pattern in ancient literary biography of adding in a tale concerning a faithful dog and how its presence benefited its master ( said master invariably being the subject of the biography ).

The absence of Homer at Helicon has been noticed by Richard Hunter ( Hunter 2006: 18f ): " The presence of Homer would spoil the party, for the tendency to see these as rival figures for supremacy in epos is familiar from the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, parts of which derive from the classical period ".

His view is dominated by a familiar and looming presence in this paradisiac landscape — Musa Dagh, which means Mt.

The presence of a goatee on a familiar character is now seen as an immediate clue that the character is an evil twin.

The Renaissance audience, familiar with stage satire of Puritans, would not have been surprised that Busy, far from abhorring the fair and its debauchery, is ready to rationalize his presence there as allowable and even godly.

But it was smaller, offered less interior space, and lacked the familiar road presence of the original.

Fathead minnows have also been found to produce fewer epidermal alarm substance cells ( and therefore less schreckstoff ) when in the presence of familiar shoalmates ( Wisenden and Smith 1998 ).

* Moo shu pork – The native Chinese version uses more typically Chinese ingredients ( including wood ear fungi and daylily buds ) and thin flour pancakes while the American version uses vegetables more familiar to Americans and thicker pancakes.

Some such stories are exaggerations of actual events ; others are completely fictional tales set in a familiar setting, such as the American Old West, or the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

* Most users of American libraries are now familiar with pinyin romanization.

Sapir's 1905 Master's thesis was an analysis of Johann Gottfried Herder's Treatise on the Origin of Language, and included examples from Inuit and Native American languages, not at all familiar to a Germanicist.

Throughout the 1950s, Mad featured groundbreaking parodies combining a sentimental fondness for the familiar staples of American culture — such as Archie and Superman — with a keen joy in exposing the fakery behind the image.

For example, an adult American is expected to be familiar with " Birds of a feather flock together ", part of the American paremiological minimum.

Professional wrestling is often portrayed within other works using parody, and its general elements have become familiar tropes and memes in American culture.

The Whig canon and the neo-Harringtonians, John Milton, James Harrington and Sidney, Trenchard, Gordon and Bolingbroke, together with the Greek, Roman, and Renaissance masters of the tradition as far as Montesquieu, formed the authoritative literature of this culture ; and its values and concepts were those with which we have grown familiar: a civic and patriot ideal in which the personality was founded in property, perfected in citizenship but perpetually threatened by corruption ; government figuring paradoxically as the principal source of corruption and operating through such means as patronage, faction, standing armies ( opposed to the ideal of the militia ), established churches ( opposed to the Puritan and deist modes of American religion ) and the promotion of a monied interest — though the formulation of this last concept was somewhat hindered by the keen desire for readily available paper credit common in colonies of settlement.

American concert and stage performers will often fail to " breathe " and / or " voice " between the two fricatives, leading audiences familiar with British slang to hear " Don't you love arse ?," misinterpreting the lyric or at the least perceiving an unintended double entendre.

Hentzi concluded that American Beauty was " vital but uneven "; he felt the film's examination of " the ways which teenagers and adults imagine each other's lives " was its best point, and that although Lester and Angela's dynamic was familiar, its romantic irony stood beside " the most enduring literary treatments " of the theme, such as Lolita.

This offset is often missed by those not familiar with the history of American surveying.

The architecture of Robert Venturi, although perhaps not as familiar today as his books, helped redirect American architecture away from a widely practiced, often banal, modernism in the 1960s to a more exploratory, and ultimately indubitable, design approach that openly drew lessons from architectural history and responded to the everyday context of the American city.

" Gregory S. Jackson argued that Alcott's use of realism belongs to the American Protestant pedagogical tradition that includes a range of religious literary traditions with which Alcott was familiar.

As a trader, he became familiar with local Native American peoples and likely learned the dominant language.

Burke was familiar with Carlyle's coaching ability, as the latter had coached the Manitoba Moose from 1996 – 2001 ( International Hockey League ) and 2004 – 05 ( American Hockey League ); the Moose had been the Canucks farm club since 2001.

The majority of original British voices were replaced by celebrities more familiar to the American public, such as Whoopi Goldberg and Chevy Chase.

In 1949, American attorney and former U. S. Army Air Forces officer Harvey Stovall ( Dean Jagger ) is vacationing in Great Britain when he spies a familiar Toby Jug in an English antique shop.

In the days following Warner's death, newspaper obituaries recounted the familiar story of " the four brothers who left the family butcher shop for nicklelodeons " and went on to revolutionize American cinema.

Not until the time of the American Civil War did the language of the slaves become familiar to a large number of educated whites.

" The characteristic " Color Timer ," more familiar to American audiences as the " warning light " on his chest, was added at the eleventh hour.

American new wave audiences were most familiar with " Let Me Go ", which received high rotation airplay on Alternative / New Wave format radio stations, such as Los Angeles, California's KROQ-FM, and Long Island, New York's WLIR, plus frequent MTV exposure.

An American Heritage columnist called it the " famous opening clarinet glissando ... that has become as familiar as the start of Beethoven ’ s Fifth.