He was handsome then, not countrified, like most of the farmers or their grown sons, and he wore a long white belted motor coat.
Much as he has a set of different voices — a soft, ruminative tone for conversation, a booming, exaggeratedly countrified delivery when he's playing the role of bullhorn preacher — Kinky has a few different walks.
Kefauver's manner of speech is not so much countrified as it is pedantic, and he has been a pushover for a whole list of reformist schemes, such as Atlantic Union, legislative reorganization, and the more-and-bigger playgrounds cure for crime & juvenile delinquency.
The space is cavernous, and the music in the bar is loud, but everything else is countrified in the manner of an overdone Hudson Valley bed-and-breakfast — pine sideboards, gourds, farming implements, landscape paintings, and photographs of stern-looking Victorians.
Alt.country fans saw him as an apostate, in contrast to Farrar, whose post-Uncle Tupelo work was single-mindedly countrified.
A few "countrified" wooden frame houses still exist, as does the odd brick dwelling with a crenellated Dutch gable.
A compulsive womanizer and a sexual braggart, he is erotically obsessed with the wife of the camp commandant, Paul Doll — the elusive and haughty Hannah, who "conformed to the national ideal of young femininity, stolid, countrified, and built for procreation and heavy work".
But this is a diner with a Hamptons twist, and it is not limited to the minimalist, countrified décor — all pale wood, white walls, sky-blue accents, and tables with enough space between them that you could perform cartwheels (which is what one child did on a Sunday afternoon before an adult intervened).
Pronto, which includes Mr. Jorgensen, was the most assertively pop, while the Autumn Defense, featuring Mr. Stirratt and Mr. Sansone, sounded warm and radiant, all countrified shimmer.
Night life in Yllas was countrified and slow — one might even say Arctic.
The newcomer has been drawing crowds, but it is hardly cozy or countrified.
