Perhaps it has to do with the worn, lived-in quality of its wooden accents and seating.

But the place has a lived-in quality too; family members come and go, clutching bags and calling to one another down the hallways.

It gave the room a comfortable lived-in quality.

Several of the younger actors simply do not add their own pound of flesh to these mysterious characters, which gives the play an only partly lived-in quality.

"Everyday People," an ensemble drama written and directed by Jim McKay, has a roaming, lived-in quality, a lovely and enlightening simplicity.

For all the subtle grandness and the touches of antiquity in the high-ceilinged room, it had a comfortable, lived-in quality.

Though the conclusion is too tidily therapeutic, Brad Silberling's film "has an understated lived-in quality and a wry, unforced sense of the absurd" (A. O. Scott).

His Tristan lacks a comparable lived-in quality.

Despite its newness, there was a lived-in quality from the moment they moved in.

Very snazzy and streamlined, but somehow it lacks the cozy, lived-in quality the old place had.