Seasoned travellers are wearily familiar with the prob-lem of locating accurate maps.

It was all wearily familiar to Gideon.

And the blame-the-parents-for-everything game is at heart a wearily familiar dramatic device.

Dr. Nigel Seel of sciencefiction.com called it tired, unoriginal and boring, saying, "It's hard to care about the flimsy characters, the plot is wearily over familiar, the hero is passive throughout and overall, not enough happens."

Most are unknown to urbanites wearily familiar with popular homeopathic medicines like echinacea and melatonin.

He had become wearily familiar with such cryptic poetic language during his boyhood as a scholar of the singing skalds.

Alas, in a pattern wearily familiar from recent Mariinsky tours, such expressive outbursts appeared haphazardly amid stretches of lacklustre, even slipshod, playing.

Nino is wearily familiar with the whims of North London mothers.

Measures like these sound wearily familiar, just like solutions to that traditional bugbear, the City's short-termism.

The violence of his reaction was wearily familiar.