in the bosom

Yet with a nerdy, naive central character in the bosom of a slightly eccentric family, I’m reminded more of other narrated-from-the-future, semi-autobiographical period pieces like “The Kids Are Alright,” “Moone Boy” and “Everybody Hates Chris” — which you can consider very much a recommendation.

Even now, she acknowledged, “affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.”

Watching one of them admiring her washing, "like an actress in a commercial," Joanna thinks: "That's what they all were, all the Stepford wives: actresses in commercials, pleased with detergents and floor wax, with cleansers, shampoos, and deodorants. Pretty actresses, big in the bosom but small in the talent, playing suburban housewives unconvincingly, too nicey-nice to be real."

Being back in the bosom of family and finally feeling rooted after aimlessly moving from one place to another.

Twenty years ago, “I believed in the bosom of my heart that what we were doing was to avoid any kind of apartheid,” he said.