The old, familiar notion of us against them has been sharpened and pushed to the front once again.

The terrorists' motivations and beliefs may not be easily reduced to familiar notions of "root causes."

It exerts this power by shifting attention to what is generally overlooked, even examining our familiar notions of "place."

Immediately, across Web message boards came the familiar notion that he should just "shut up and play."

But other pictures, while not conforming to familiar notions of self-portraiture, do not seem out of place.

Most of what he argues flows from the single central proposition that familiar notions no longer serve us well in dealing with contemporary international affairs.

Such a principle is easily embodied in the familiar notions of "art for art's sake," of "knowledge as its own reward", and similar concepts.

He has argued that familiar notions of intellectual property become "towers of outmoded boilerplate" when applied to online information.

His thoughts, though, run counter to familiar notions.

We cannot contort the character of the Internet to suit our familiar notions of regulation.