McCain is known to be a forthright, noble man, but the cozy connection he has with Fehr is unsettling enough to make anyone wonder if the spectacle that unfolded before the senators yesterday was nothing more than election-year showboating.
To show General Wiranto's cozy connection to the Suharto government, for example, the weekly magazine Tempo found an old photograph that showed Suharto signing a piece of paper on the back of General Wiranto, who was leaning over to be used as a desk by the dictator.
Its cozy connections in the political and business world have helped it win plum deals like the exclusive rights to Japan's half of the 2002 World Cup soccer tournament in June; Japan will share the rights with South Korea.
NSI exploited its cozy connections with government insiders, its detractors allege, to land an exclusive federal government contract that helped earn it millions of dollars in sales and establish a market value of $2.2 billion.
In 2011, a Times investigation of how it was using $5.7 billion in construction bonds revealed significant misspending, shoddy workmanship, inadequate oversight and cozy connections among some contractors, college administrators and members of the board of trustees.
As the author of a new book about the Clinton Foundation ramps up his publicity tour, Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign believes it has already "turned a corner" in confronting his accusations of cozy connections between the organization's donors and Clinton's State Department.
And some say the cozy personal connections of ex-intelligence operatives to the military could invite abuse, like the divulging of private information to former colleagues in the agencies.
Providence and New York have had a cozy Cosa Nostra connection since the nineteen-sixties, when, on occasion, the New England mob boss Raymond L. S. Patriarca would travel south to mediate disputes among the five New York crime families.
Today's spurt of spirituality, at least the kind expressed by DMX, the rapper who ends his concerts with a prayer to Jesus, seeks a cozier, more direct connection to God: open, low-maintenance and not bound by strict orthodoxy, be it Roman Catholic or Buddhist.
I taught children how to truly write for the first time and share meaningful connections on a cozy carpet.
Even in prison, surrounded by inmates from the other side of the Upper West Side, it does not occur to him that without his cozy parental cushion and social connections he'd be living in a cardboard box or not living at all by now.
