One crucial ingredient, of course, is the voice, a medium-light baritone that conveys an innate homeyness, familiarity and a likable mixture of pride and self-deprecation. |
Her smiling brown face gave him at once a sense of homeyness. |
For those who want a little homeyness without the guesswork of arranging it in an unfamiliar place, it works. |
Jacqueline Kennedy's reaction to Mamie Eisenhower's coupon-clipping homeyness was an insistence on cultural glamour. |
Whether the pie or the doughnuts or the homeyness of the place first attracted him no one knows. |