Word: unfamiliar
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Seen through Jim's eyes, everything that happens to him seems strange and somehow magical. On his first major journey, a trip in a truck with Uncle Al to South Carolina to see about buying some horses, Jim looks out at unfamiliar farmhouses and thinks, "People live here. They don't know who I am." Uncle Al makes a side trip to Myrtle Beach so that Jim can get his first look at the Atlantic: "He wished that just for a moment, until he grew used to the sight, the ocean would simply hold still. But the waves lined...
...Those unfamiliar with the University's inner workings might expect this search to be fairly simple--provost to president...
...some of the students enrolled, a Core can be more challenging than their other courses because it's in a unfamiliar field," Clark writes in an e-mail message...
...description of the ethnic conflict submerging the island is dispassionate. Curiously, Ondaatje does not explicitly name the tri-faceted sides of the conflict. For one familiar with the ethnicities involved, this does not present much of a problem. But one imagines that the reader unfamiliar with this international landscape might have some trouble orienting the words Sinhalese and Tamil within the story...
...Harvard is shipped out west, the environment will hardly be unfamiliar to many of the players on the team. The Crimson's entire pitching staff and the majority of its position players are from California. With seven representatives, the softball team has just as many Californians as the women's hockey team has Canadians. Thus, a year-ending trip out west just might be more desirable than a trip to either Hofstra or Notre Dame...