The harmonies and soft lighting, communal togetherness and apparent piety of It's You all help to create a warmhearted illusion.
And Ms. Cohen noted with regret the absence of young families, the loss of some of the communal togetherness, the cessation of Digging Day.
Wearing a satirical smirk, "Happy, Happy," which won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for a dramatic feature at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, sets out to puncture the clichéd image of Scandinavians as rosy-cheeked choristers bonded in communal togetherness.
The ballet trumpets family togetherness, communal celebration, high ideals, adventure, ordeals and rewards, and provides oohs, ahhs and laughs too.
From the 70's to the mid-90's, she concentrated on "healing," as she called it: communal dances of togetherness, dances for AIDS patients, dances to exorcise demons (in one case, a serial killer near her home, who was caught soon after).
People also seek community and togetherness.
During meal breaks Italian food will be served at communal tables "to reinforce the sense of togetherness," he said.
It's about togetherness, friendship and quite often communal singing – not expensively accessorised me-time – as such, it's hard to disentangle from communitarian Scandinavian attitudes more generally).
Rationing preserved a sense of togetherness, that the effects of austerity would be shared, managed together as a communal burden.
At 506 Fashion, Samantha LaGrone, the owner, said she was not convinced that Macon's three weeks of communal angst, prayer and deliverance would translate into long-term racial togetherness.
Vanishing bowling leagues, Mr Putnam says, are a metaphor for disappearing togetherness, as measured by a decline in all sorts of communal behaviour, from going on picnics, to belonging to trade unions, to joining political parties, to voting in elections.
