Far from cosying up to state legislators, the governor has gone to some lengths to appear as an outsider.
But far from cosying up to world leaders like Barack Obama and Danish PM Helle Thorning-Schmidt for a mobile snap, the subject of Miliband's portrait was of an entirely different nature.
Likewise, the relationship between journalists and police has fundamentally shifted: indeed, it is so far from being cosy as to be on occasion unworkable (which may be the lesser of two evils).
Streep, perhaps Hollywood's most respected and beloved actor, showed she is far from a cosy establishment figure as she carefully trod a line between praising Thompson and attacking Disney.
Marsalis and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra play new arrangements of compositions by one of jazz's most gifted melodists – but since Shorter is also still a sax improviser of startling unpredictability, the show will be far from a cosy reprise of his hits.
She was also a writer and lecturer on socialism, co-founding the Fabian Society alongside her husband Hubert Bland – although thanks to Bland's philandering and her own penchant for relationships with younger men, her own family life was far from the cosy ideal often presented in her novels.
Far from being a cosy crowd-pleaser, Shrigley is a tough and honest artist.
But both had an explanation for their behaviour, if not an excuse: in a country like Sweden where social democrats had been in government for all but nine years since 1932, political figures from the free market liberal camp inhabited a rather cosy world far from the glare of public scrutiny and press attention.
We retreated to the library – which has books suspended from the ceiling – for a nightcap, curling up in cosy chairs as far from a speaker as possible.
Appointments are far too cosy: new blood is seldom sought from outside.
