The over-all ambience reflects the passions and the interests of Deborah Szekely, a cherubic, pink-cheeked, Brooklyn-born dynamo, and the widow of an ahead-of-his-time Hungarian philosopher and nature lover, Edmond Szekely.
There are touches of quaintness — a glass of wine comes to the table in a milk quartino, water is poured from recycled whiskey bottles, and candles flicker inside canning jars — but the china is resolutely modern, and the over-all ambience is one of easy, improvisational elegance.
All the ambience in the world can't compensate for the lack of developed characters.
For all the ambience it had, the generically designed stadium could have been in Mars -- the Pennsylvania town or the planet.
Crammed with markers, rolls of the white tape used to make last-minute edits, ink-scrawled plywood desks and rectangles of cardboard, it has all the ambience of a submarine boiler room.
He insisted on replacing it with another, all the while muttering, "Ambience, ambience".
On the edge of a field in Somerset, with a view of a cricket pitch and in an ambience of all-round rural Englishness, is an object on which so many metaphors have been expended that it needs no more now.
Tourists and locals stream across the bridge to graze and gather, meet and shop, to take in a bit of culture or purchase the latest work from the artist of the moment, all in an ambience that has brought a gloss and a coating of cool to Oslo that was noticeably absent.
A new British crime thriller about corruption in the Met, it possesses all the witching ambience of a nocturnal, neon-sheened Bangkok thriller, with a bubbling, electronic soundtrack to offset the Nil by Mouth-levels of London scuzz.
They ransacked the English language for new ways of describing the school hot dog, the beans, the ice cream and, above all, the ambience.
A small band of brothers, it turns out, who on the day before the parade were squirreled away in a worn downtown office that has all the ambience of a penny-stock boiler room.
