Sentence examples for cosy terms from inspiring English sources

Despite his financial problems, he has remained on puzzlingly cosy terms with Russia's central bank.

And it's not just politicians who are on unhealthily cosy terms with the biggest of big business.

Yet while mainstream rom coms, such as Nancy Meyer's Something's Gotta Give (2003) and It's Complicated (2009) have successfully cashed in on the underserved over-50s audience, sex in these films is usually either the butt of a joke or depicted in patronisingly cosy terms.

Even a financial officer at one of these firms casually describes the big four as "an oligopoly".That cosy term hardly seems appropriate just now.

These were called detergents, a deceptively cosy, domestic term for what were highly toxic chemicals.

The term "cosy catastrophe" was coined by the author Brian Aldiss and has a very specific meaning.

Or at least, the Wyndham of his most successful novels, The Day of the Triffids and The Kraken Wakes: even Aldiss admits that this definition does not fit Wyndham's greatest novel, The Chrysalids. "Cosy catastrophe" is a term I've been aware of for years, but I only read Aldiss's definition when researching this top 10.

He extols the fact that there's a bit of a "family atmosphere" at the Orange Tree ("some people don't like that at all, I'm sure, and think it's cosy") and carefully nurtured "long-term relationships" with actors and playwrights.

Hip, gritty Vesterbrø – once Copenhagen's meatpacking district with more butchers per square metre than anywhere else in Europe -- is fast evolving as the city's hub for unconventional bars and post-industrial hygge (the all-encompassing Danish term for anything cosy).

An optimization study is performed using different skew quadrupole families, and, importantly, local and global correction of the linear skew terms in maps generated by the code COSY INFINITY [M. Berz, COSY INFINITY version 8.1 user's guide and reference manual, Department of Physics and Astronomy MSUHEP-20704, Michigan State University (2002). URL http://cosy.pa.msu.edu/cosymanu/index.html].

Cosy: In this article we use the term cosy to refer to the Danish phenomenon ' hygge'.