homeyness

From start to finish, there was an almost studied homeyness to the day.

The feeling of homeyness and warmth is heightened by the friendly staff.

She also brought a certain homeyness to history.

While execution may vary enormously, the food is the essence of homeyness.

Achieving homeyness in a gilded setting seems the latest goal.

The cool and sleek has an overlay of idiosyncratic homeyness.

In upscale houses, homeyness may be used to "lower the tone of an otherwise daunting room."

The fact that the dining room is smaller than a subway car, with only 25 seats, reinforces the homeyness.

"The place had a certain homeyness," he said.

Some decorators manage to achieve perfection and an air of homeyness simultaneously.

The atmosphere is an intriguing mix of small-town homeyness and downtown style.

The reason for the ambivalence, he said, is that homeyness is a powerful "cultural construction."

That sort of homeyness is all there.

Simulated homeyness, he said, means producers and designers are "working harder to get us to feel the intimacy."

The homeyness of the scene gave him a little unexpected kick in a spot he would have sworn was tougher.

Both added an antic air of homeyness to this tale of passion.

The homeyness impulse is so strong that not even imaginary ropes across living rooms can stop its encroachment.

Indeed, the restaurant itself is a combination of modern dazzle and Old World homeyness.

Scattered bits of cast-off clothing added a little forlorn homeyness.

Thus homeyness is smuggled in with a messy family room or a cozy den where the family really lives.

There was a prevailing aura of good will that reflected the well-meaning homeyness of America.

He used a Yiddish expression meaning homeyness.

People are looking for homeyness and safety, and they don't mind giving up some freedoms for it.

But while glitz, in sociological parlance, trickled down, homeyness will have to trickle up.

Call it the sophisticated new homeyness.