But if the past is any indication, cozy and inventive gatherings like these can give birth to larger-scale developments in dance performance, programming and public support.

Ivankov did not astound the cozy gathering of 2,278 at the Nassau Coliseum tonight, but he avoided costly mistakes in winning the all-around and a $10,000 check.

But even I don't want to give friends the same dinner every time they come around for a cozy gathering.

It was a cozy gathering of players, family and friends.

Driving up to San Francisco for the Gore party on that spring evening, Andreessen expected to find a cozy gathering of maybe 50 people.

It's weird enough, this whole cozy gathering, but now I have to do it on no sleep and with bodies piling up.

But inside the white clapboard farmhouse at StanPat Farm in East Moriches, there is a cozy gathering.

Well, those cozy gatherings are still very much alive, thanks to a large loophole in the law that both parties are happy to march through.

Into this cozy gathering came the short, stocky and bearded Mr. Smith.

The room was very large to them; to Martians it was probably suitable for a cozy social gathering.