Waiters glide discreetly past banquettes and tables nestled close to the stage; the club's dropped ceiling increases a sense of cozy intimacy, and a $40 cover charge ($20 for late weekday sets) brings a graying, affluent audience.

Auriemma's accomplishments draw considerably more notice from the fans who pack Gampel Pavilion, admirers who seem to have developed a cozy intimacy with the coach and his No. 1-ranked team.

Part of her, she says, "never felt as surely and plainly myself as I did in Alex's presence"; part of her, however, rebelled against this cozy intimacy.

There is also an opera-house sumptuousness about Nicholas Georgiadis's decor that is a novel contrast to the cozy intimacy of most American versions.

But that's exactly what develops in a funny, romantic film filled with cozy intimacies and lovely, wide-screen images of the French countryside.

The expedient did little to enrich the sound and also deprived the recital of the cozy intimacy that can be suggested by four hands and two jostling bodies at one keyboard.

There was a cozy intimacy in this conversation that was oddly comforting, Orchid thought.

It seems to sate the yen for cozy intimacy, long to steep, slow to unfold.

Its smallness creates cozy intimacy, hominess.

Scored with an eclectic sampler of Weill's songs, "LoveMusik" strives to achieve chilly distance and cozy intimacy in the same breath.