Sentence examples for homely background from inspiring English sources
Adlington's eyebrows arched and her mouth dropped - but then, typically for an Olympian whose homely background has made her a national favourite, her formidable family weighed in.
In Trollope's fiction, even the most small-scale and homely stories have as a background this special crisis of modernization — not the crisis of industrialization and mass immiseration, seen by Dickens, but a crisis of institutions, produced by reform and standardization.
For example, "More of a homely feel, close to home, less people around.
Donaldson, sitting on a bench in the Little Angel's homely foyer, with Larry prowling around in the background, fondly remembers her own introduction to the arts by her family.
Her mother, Jenny, is beautiful and progressive with a prosperous background, housekeeper Helene Demuth is a homely "second mother", and Friedrich Engels – the Angel – is a kindly uncle with bottomless pockets from which he subs the shabby Marx family so that they may continue with their vitally important work.
I felt that 'Blueberry Hill' was a bit more homely as if you were moving from one home to another.
One painting, "The Artist in His Studio," from 1979, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, shows an inviting domestic space filled with plants, fruit, a conch shell and fine furniture; in the background Mr. Brandt is seen reflected in a mirror, working on his canvas in a homely apron.
Are you deliberately homely?
