Word: homeyness
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...Brattle Street), Looks (11-13 Holyoke Street), and Topaz (11 Dunster Street) opened. Passport sells travel clothing and accessories; Looks sells women’s clothing; and Topaz offers women’s jewelry and gifts, The store owners said that their goals are both to sell elegant and homey objects and to reach out to a broad type of consumers. The owners, many of them young entrepreneurs, named the Square’s commercial and high-traffic environment as the allure that drew them here and said that they hope to bring individuality to shoppers in Cambridge. Topaz said...
...murder illustrates how Hispanic gangs in U.S. cities are spreading their terror all over Central America. Deported to El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, these delinquents not only imported the mystique of U.S. gang culture - its neo-Nazi tattoos, rap music, baggy trousers and "homey" slang - but they also brought crack cocaine, semi-automatic weapons, home-made bombs and a level of calculated aggression not seen in the region since the insurgencies and counterinsurgencies...
Velázquez, one of the greatest painters in history, would take note. Born in 1599, he started his career painting bodégons, kitchen scenes, like the meticulously detailed An Old Woman Cooking Eggs. This was the homey territory that Dutch painters worked in all the time but where the high-minded El Greco didn't venture. (You can't imagine any of El Greco's crackling holy men doing anything in a kitchen but frightening the cooks.) Like Caravaggio, Velázquez would also use ordinary people as models for figures from the Bible. When he paints The Immaculate Conception...
Though I was pretty beered out by the end of my three-day stay, we made a pre-airport stop at a homey, British-style pub called the Bull & Bush, a microbrewery where the vintage-beer menu includes a bottle of Thomas Hardy's Ale from 1980 for $35 and a Chimay Grand Reserve from 1999 for $60. To my shock, while I waited for my delayed flight at Denver International, I stopped at the New Belgium Pub, where I had one of its malty Fat Tire ales. I don't know if there are any studies on this...
...homey touches, Castlemartyr, managed by Schulze's West Paces Hotel Group, is nevertheless a getaway that most mortals can only dream of. The Pratesi Italian linens on the beds and 50-in. (130 cm) HDTVS in each room are there to remind you that the $4,400 you might spend each night still entitles you to some old-fashioned cosseting...