The phrase "cozy without" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
Example: The cabin was cozy without feeling cramped or cluttered.
Likewise for a property that is "cozy" without reference to a wood-burning fireplace.
Home stagers are the people who sweep through homes going on the market and make them look uncluttered and cozy without a huge investment of time or money.
"IT WAS important to make the rooms feel residential and to have subliminal touches of Hollywood glamour," designer David Collins says, "but it's quite difficult to make a contemporary interior look cozy without appearing fussy". One solution: incorporating a Maya Romanoff wall covering made from wood veneer.
At the vanguard is the US website craftster.org, where thousands worldwide post their creations, and which rejoices in the motto "no tea cozies without irony".
Meanwhile, it looks like the relationship between the FBI and the NSA — two intelligence agencies that are meant to operate mostly independent from one another — has gotten a lot cozier without anyone noticing.
These touches (like the framed family photos on the walls, the stacks of Italian fashion magazines and of books by authors ranging from Ivana Trump to Ernest Hemingway) are clearly meant to add touches of cozy domesticity without sacrificing the luxuries (a heated towel rack) that one expects from a good hotel.
The bargain has been that studios get access to a vast network of auditoriums equipped with large screens, state-of-the-art projection systems, and cozy seats, without having to pay for their construction and upkeep, and in return, theater investors get to keep just enough money from ticket sales to recoup their capital and operating costs.
Both games are a bit gimmicky and a bit high-tech — you won't be able to play these in a cozy beach house without internet, for example — but it's a fun departure from the norm.
Unlike "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot," which was largely patched together at the editing deck, "A Ghost Is Born" was mainly recorded live, with a slightly different lineup: Mr. O'Rourke plays on every song but one, and the music sounds a bit more shivery without the cozy keyboards and guitars of Jay Bennett, who was sacked before "Yankee" was released.
With a tall gabled roof line reminiscent of an Amsterdam canal house, a divided Dutch door with hand-forged hardware, and a Victorian addition with a front porch, it's a child's crayon version of a cozy, archetypal house, even without smoke pouring from its three chimneys.
This was an accident of birth: neither my mother nor either of my grandmothers was a baker (male ancestors didn't figure into this equation at all), and without a cozy nursery initiation into the rites of baking, it can seem a forbidding, arcane art.
