THE play is utterly familiar, a perfect marriage of form and content, with some of the most famous lines in English comedy.

There was something utterly familiar and vile about the place.

It was utterly familiar to Kieran, and yet he had never seen this woman before.

He gazed out into the utterly familiar blackness of space, illuminated by very many tiny points of light which were stars.

So ran his first egocentric paranoid-sounding and utterly familiar thought.

Almost everything seemed at once vaguely surprising and utterly familiar - like an extended attack of deja vu.

I could never forget that either Germany was like a stepmother: utterly familiar, utterly despised.

She could make out no specific details as yet, could not discern exact numbers, but the faint, dark energy was utterly familiar.

The crowd noise picked up as the game went on, and despite the unusual setting, this was otherwise an utterly familiar preseason opener.

They seem both ineffable and utterly familiar.