Word: homeyness
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...fetch up a distinct and unique image and sensibility in every person. And indeed home can be many things: a house, a town, a neighborhood, a state, a country, a room. Home can be wherever one feels at home, and even a scrap of a place can mobilize that homey feeling. The old standard Autumn in New York plausibly evokes a person looking down on the metropolis from the 27th floor of a hotel to find that the "glittering crowds and shimmering clouds in canyons of steel-they're making me feel I'm home." Plausible? In London...
...election coverage began, while polls were still open across much of the country, with a too cozy report from the White House on the positive signs that Republicans perceived. CBS erred the other way. The hyperkinetic Rather, who had stoked up on spaghetti for energy, seemed infatuated with homey metaphors ("as long as a well rope") and cutesy topical imagery ("E.T., phone home: [New Mexico Senator and Former Astronaut] Jack Schmitt needs help"). Above all, he appeared hell-bent on spotting a Democratic trend. For Republicans, he said, "it certainly doesn't look good. No way to make...
...designs suggests that he is a bit befuddled and confused. John Kennedy's graphic movement indicates a superior intellect. Obviously he had bad feelings toward the first, messily drawn house, which may be the White House. His feelings are moderate toward the middle house, and truly homey toward the third. Perhaps he felt some confusion about job vs. home...
...this homey and tenuous network tore apart, and the town with it, when the new owner, the Oxford County Telephone & Telegraph Co., announced it was replacing crank with dial. Before you could say d.a., a "Don't Yank the Crank" committee was formed. T shirts displaying that motto went on sale in Brad Hooper's village store. There were town meetings and more town meetings. Lawyers were hired, and briefs got filed with the public utilities commission to prevent the conversion to dial, and even void the sale...
...only hint of a tradition of fantasy. At one point we awake with the correspondent not knowing whether the terrifying crises of the past hours were real or only a dream. We share an unsettling feeling about the bizarre nature of submarine life: It is both heimlich (homey, cozy, enclosed) and disturbingly unheimlich (uncanny, strange, spooky...