ambience

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This album is more of the same and generates its own coffee-shop ambience which is both a strength and a weakness.

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  • "Maybe the ambience isn't so good, but at least the food stinks." —  Drop Shot by Harlen Coben
  • With its black serene sky, the silver bar in place of a sun, the ruined fountain and eccentric forest, the place had a Mexican Twilight Zone ambience -- like an old B-movie set awaiting its Dramatis Personae -- that appealed to him. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 03 - March 2001
  • She adored the ambience, the sense of history apparent. —  Helen Bianchin - The Wedding Ultimatum
  • But she doesn't neglect the ambience, which is why her settings include fresh-cut flowers, candles, dimmed lighting and even quiet background jazz. —  Los Angeles Chronicle
  • There was a really cosy and almost romantic (as romantic as you can get with about 15 people in one place) maybe nostalgic is a better word ambience going on. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
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