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  • Dr. Orkborne, much incommoded by this second interruption, coldly begged to know his pleasure. Camilla
  • Herta starts to breathe differently as we kiss; she is always self-possessed; every move of mine is coldly monitored.
  • Mount Kazbek rose coldly white against the darkness of the threatening sky. Ardath
  • After all, as the Home Office coldly points out, the law must be enforced.
  • The bonxie surveyed me coldly, raising dark wings and issuing a harsh double croak from its hooked, halfopen beak. Times, Sunday Times
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  • A look of vexation or a word coldly spoken, or a little help thoughtlessly withheld, may produce long issues of regret. Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power
  • They said hi back, but coldly and with a smile that seemed unfriendly and strange.
  • Ere I hid my head she was standing in her cavern halls, glowing coldly westward—her feet were blackness: her robes, empurpled, flowed mistily from shoulder down in formless folds of folds; her head, pine-crowned, was set with jeweled stars. DARKWATER
  • Pin-sharp and coldly factual, the images are all the more valuable for being entirely unposed. The Times Literary Supplement
  • The designs were pure, austere and coldly beautiful.
  • How to succeed and make the most of prosperity might be called the pervading theme of the essays, and subjects which in themselves suggest spiritual treatment are actually considered in accordance with a coldly intellectual calculation of worldly advantage. A History of English Literature
  • During the Water Front Strike, Freddie Drummond was somehow able to stand apart from the unique combination, and, coldly critical, watch Bill Totts hilariously slug scab long-shoremen. SOUTH OF THE SLOT
  • Hollywood deals in illusions, Arnold has always sought the truth, and that is why her famous pictures of Marilyn Monroe feel like glimpses of a living woman rather than coldly iconic memorials.
  • The next morning he coldly told her to buy the morning-after pill. The Sun
  • One minute he's smiling and making jokes, then the next he's snarling coldly at someone.
  • She bit down on her garlic, which cracked coldly, like bamboo being sliced by a knife.
  • In another there is a room, lit coldly by far too many fluorescent tubes, where you can go to buy nightgowns, camisoles, teddies, housecoats and dusters.
  • His defenestration was coldly abrupt, and in his place, the Football Association resurrected a veteran manager and former England star for seven games.
  • The event is not coldly cynical or sneering, but humorous and engaging.
  • The ad, which Let Freedom Ring PAC is currently trying to get on the radio, coldly describes Frank Murkowski's decision to pass his Senate seat onto his daughter, Lisa, after he was elected governor in 2002. Lisa Murkowski Painted As 'Princess,' Crybaby In Conservative Ad (VIDEO)
  • Medals hung from above the breast pocket, glittering coldly in the lamplight.
  • ‘I will give you one thousand denarii's for him, take it or leave it’ she spoke to me softly but coldly to Protius.
  • Forgoing politicking, I am deeply troubled by the unemotionality of our president whose eyes stare out coldly. Forbes.com: News
  • But where I draw the line on this is when marriage begins to be looked at as coldly as a business merger.
  • She stopped short, looking at me with wonder; and then, "Nothing here is mine," she answered in English, coldly and sadly. The Aspern Papers
  • Whiteley is no hagiographer - he can be coldly critical of his subject's blind spots and prejudices - and yet Banham's stature is enhanced rather than diminished by this study, which was no doubt the intention.
  • But a play that seemed mildly provocative on a first viewing now looks as coldly manipulative as its heroine.
  • As if women are choosing coldly between work and motherhood. Mothers who Leave
  • For my part I consider that it is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman, and if you wish to keep her under it is necessary to beat and ill-use her; and it is seen that she allows herself to be mastered by the adventurous rather than by those who go to work more coldly. Balkinization
  • Seeing him I felt the fear balled coldly within me unfold.
  • Bob Woodward sat there very kind of coldly looking at it. CNN Transcript Feb 12, 2007
  • I felt the charm on my necklace pressing coldly onto my chest.
  • “I pleasured her and made sure that she sated her needs,” Luc said, looking coldly at me. My Fair Succubi
  • There, high upon her golden throne, draped in her blazoned 'kaf' or robe of state, sat the fair Nyleptha, and when Sir Henry came in a little late, dressed in the full uniform of an officer of her guard and humbly bent himself before her, she merely acknowledged his salute with a careless nod and turned her head coldly aside. Allan Quatermain
  • Aboard his flagship, he stared coldly out the window as the vessel slowed to a halt.
  • Are you implying that I have something to do with those attacks?" she asked coldly.
  • Sapphires and jet decorated a chain around his neck, the gems glittering as coldly as his eyes.
  • he addressed her coldly
  • The silly clunch inhaled, she thought coldly, before she fixed her attention on Ozorne once more. The Realms of the Gods
  • Are you implying that I have something to do with those attacks?" she asked coldly.
  • Not that one can ever become a total abstainer from spending: one's landlord on quarter-day would remain coldly unmoved by a letter saying that one had signed the pledge. Try Anything Twice
  • Mckinley and his adviser, Mark Hanna, responded coldly when Platt first presented his plan.
  • Governments make calculations all the time, quite coldly and quite clinically.
  • I looked at her coldly; the torrent of her words was suddenly checked, something in my expression daunted her; she trembled and shrunk back. Vendetta: a story of one forgotten
  • The man wheeled around to face her, glaring coldly.
  • The senior revolutionary can play the situation coldly.
  • Herta starts to breathe differently as we kiss; she is always self-possessed; every move of mine is coldly monitored.
  • A lithe, active Swartzman "arranges" a passive Kinoshita into various postures on the floor in a duet comprised of interlacing lifts, turns and caresses, with something both tender and coldly puppetlike about them. The Seattle Times
  • But his language remains coldly factual rather than emotional. Times, Sunday Times
  • Strange that it should be the coldly clinical camera lens that captured the hidden emotions everyone else missed on his face.
  • She did so with admirable address--sometimes playfully, sometimes coldly, sometimes firmly, always kindly; yet with all this tact the repeated checks made Pinder cross now and then.
  • Caldere eyed him coldly then crossed to the other end of the counter to serve another customer. CODE BREAKER
  • Here, traditional Mediterranean devices have been collaged together to give a human heart to the formerly coldly functional institution.
  • The woman stares coldly at my mum as if she were crazy to even ask such a thing.
  • Coldly, unimpassionedly, he stated his terms: the entire French army to surrender arms and baggage and be treated as prisoners of war. The Downfall
  • He regarded Nicholson coldly as the Governor passed by.
  • The man was not a fantaisiste or romanticist at all – he did not even try to give us the churning, prismatic ephemera of dreams, but coldly and sardonically reflected some stable, mechanistic, and well – established horror – world which he saw fully, brilliantly, squarely, and unfalteringly. Illustrating The Unseen « Become A Robot
  • But these are bad times for organised crime in America - its popularity is down, and the public are more likely to view perpetrators as laughable bunglers rather than coldly efficient professionals.
  • The squares of sunlight that checkered our path were coldly white.
  • Those who had coldly sat and analysed the situation knew that would always be the case but rarely have so many wanted to be proved so wrong.
  • But as often as they discussed the matter with the governor, it was evident that he looked upon the idea coldly, and put them off with hopes. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 06 of 55 1583-1588 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
  • A man doesn't like to be coldly called a damfool at his own table. The Red Planet
  • His tail is lashing wildly, as he eyes me coldly with a predatory stare, and snarls loudly.
  • A few stars glittered coldly in the rifts between the clouds.
  • But I can safely assure my readers that he is not the product of coldly perverted thinking.
  • Sometimes, while Grandfather Gardinois, who had laid aside in her honor his old-fashioned hunting-jackets and swanskin waistcoats, was jesting with her, amusing himself by contradicting her in order to draw out a sharp reply, she would gaze steadily, coldly into his eyes, without replying. The French Immortals Series — Complete
  • His coldly rational attitude to sex as a harmless pastime alienates his son and threatens to tear his research team apart.
  • The remake of Casino Royale, the first Bond novel, will concentrate instead on the character of the spy, painted by Ian Fleming in the book as a suave, coldly aggressive seducer.
  • He could just have been a sore loser who'd met an opponent coldly invulnerable to his glowering mind games.
  • The stadium lights glare down coldly as you inhale a deep breath of cold, crisp air.
  • The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. Times, Sunday Times
  • A girl told today how a driver knocked her down and then stared coldly into her eyes as she lay on a pelican crossing.
  • The prime minister's speech was well/warmly/coldly, etc. received by the conference delegates.
  • The Adaptoid roars some nonsense about his form carrying the combined powers of the Mighty Avengers back when that meant more than super-strength, super-strength, super-strength, super-strength, little wings on your back, sheer evil bastardry, and a gun, respectively but The Vision coldly reminds him, I was designed to destroy the Avengers. Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes II #8 (of 8) | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
  • `We found forty kilos of plastique inside the washing machine," said the Inspector coldly. WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
  • And then just deny it coldly if it ever came to court.
  • The Chinese Communist leaders coldly and unemotionally assessed the requirements of the balance of power little influenced by ideology or sentiment.
  • Landa is a recognizably human figure of pure evil, a grinningly personable and coldly effective killer. Inglourious Basterds Movie Review: Ambitious, Exciting, Awkward and…Soulful? | /Film
  • She would at once understand the motive and, however coldly she dealt with me, she would understand the necessity.
  • One can bear coldly the jobbery of enemies, but not that of friends, and to Adams this kind of jobbery seemed always infinitely worse than all the petty money bribes ever exploited by the newspapers. Silence (1894–1898)
  • I want to run into the surf and away again screaming as the waves coldly nip at my ankles.
  • The senior revolutionary can play the situation coldly.
  • ‘I eloped with John Bardy, the stableboy you fired,’ Annabelle said coldly.
  • One minute he's smiling and making jokes, then the next he's snarling coldly at someone.
  • Martin was sharpening up now; paying attention to every inflexion in that coldly condescending voice.
  • This is no coldly efficient war machine, but an army of civilians.
  • The reception was coldly polite and I put the phone down thinking the message had arrived but no-one was home to hear it.
  • Will the mysterious and coldly menacing Cowboy carry out his threats?
  • The winter sun glared down coldly into his face and far off in the distance a semi honked its horn.
  • But — one might coldly ask, with a certain gestalt bent — don’t the miserable survivors at least make better widgets? The Drama of the Gifted Parent
  • Her accusation in front of her family had made him coldly furious, she realised with a jolt.
  • Still, "-- coquettishly, --" that is no reason why I should look coldly upon all commoners. Molly Bawn
  • The undergrowth encroaching upon them from all sides gleamed coldly in the light from the high-intensity flood lamps. SLEEP WHILE I SING
  • The trouble is it's rather shown up the cracks in our own united front,' Paula said coldly. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
  • The office was immediately next door: a large, coldly functional room smelling strongly of perfumed wax polish. STAGE FRIGHT
  • Love stories," Hutchins put in coldly, "are terribly stupid, except to those concerned. Tish
  • The man was not a fantaisiste or romanticist at all – he did not even try to give us the churning, prismatic ephemera of dreams, but coldly and sardonically reflected some stable, mechanistic, and well – established horror – world which he saw fully, brilliantly, squarely, and unfalteringly. Illustrating The Unseen « Become A Robot
  • Sitting on a shelf, Thomas Mann's "Magic Mountain" stares down as coldly and harshly as an alp in winter. As electronic readers gain popularity, what happens to the personal library?
  • Alright Clarissa," I called coldly as I came up to her, "I'm here again for you. The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection
  • Beyond the window, space stretched out to infinity, looking coldly back at them.
  • Will she coldly stare you down, leave you standing?
  • Maybe you're telling the truth, at that," she announced suddenly, eyes coldly unprepossessed. The Day of Days An Extravaganza
  • I only glared coldly at her and sidestepped, leaving her to deal with her zombie-like fans.
  • Beyond the window, space stretched out to infinity, looking coldly back at them.
  • Loose copper bullet casings and gunmetal gleamed coldly in the light sparkling like pieces of ice, cold and deadly.
  • In another there is a room, lit coldly by far too many fluorescent tubes, where you can go to buy nightgowns, camisoles, teddies, housecoats and dusters.
  • Despite his contributions to Bath's prosperity and the establishment of its Mineral Water Hospital, the corporation coldly watched its uncrowned king slide into poverty, but interred him in Bath abbey.
  • It depends on what you call alarming," the Indian said coldly. The Sorcery Club
  • The overuse of statistics - often downright misleading rather than coldly factual - has virtually killed political eloquence in this country. Times, Sunday Times
  • Terrence just glared coldly at Damien before turning swiftly on his heel and leaving.
  • The undergrowth encroaching upon them from all sides gleamed coldly in the light from the high-intensity flood lamps. SLEEP WHILE I SING
  • Ruth looked at her coldly, pushed her plate aside and stormed out.
  • Somehow or other an extraordinary idea has arisen that the disbelievers in miracles consider them coldly and fairly, while believers in miracles accept them only in connection with some dogma.
  • The young King smiled coldly, then with a little careless backward nod as dismissing the subject, strode from the room. The Golden Apple Tree
  • O molti problemi in casa...' She turned to Rebecca, and translated coldly: `I have enormous troubles at home. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • The coldly aloof Paradise Lake has been so named, we were convinced, because whoever fell in would be teleported, instantly deep-frozen, into the hereafter!
  • Initially, the Government ordinance was received with mixed feelings by the public, and coldly by the Association of Hotel and Restaurant Owners, which argued that the regulations would ruin their businesses.
  • Those who believe they are on the right side of history may view the social consequences of radical environmentalism, in coldly arrogant tones, as unavoidable collateral damage. The German Ecological-Industrial Complex
  • He also offered two of his men to guard the hospital from now on but the doctor coldly said it was unnecessary.
  • “No, it’s called a capot anglais,” corrected Maxine coldly. Lace
  • The stadium lights glare down coldly as you inhale a deep breath of cold, crisp air.
  • Holliday was a strange man: a Southern gentleman of elaborate courtesy, a hot-tempered brawling drunk, a fiercely loyal friend, a skilled professional gambler and hustler, a trained dental surgeon thus his nickname, a longtime sufferer of tuberculosis, and a coldly murderous gunfighter. New Tales of the Old West
  • A few stars glittered coldly in the rifts between the clouds.
  • Otherwise, all you have to represent the church are the officious suits in the conference room overly concerned with recording devices and coldly "unsealing" her from her family and church for all eternity. Undefined
  • She came face to face with a tall man with black eyes staring down at her coldly.
  • They sit somewhere, with malice aforethought, and coldly and calculatedly take someone's character apart.
  • Worse yet, these efforts are most commonly met with a coldly-written half-slip of paper sent back in your own SASE. Lucinda Week, Day 5: How Many Rejections DID Lucinda Get?
  • Husband and wife turned coldly accusing backs toward each other.
  • A hooded figure appeared before him and laughed coldly.
  • But I can safely assure my readers that he is not the product of coldly perverted thinking.
  • And where his songs were once communal anthems for misfits everywhere, his writing is now so coldly inward-gazing that it excludes the interests of everyone but Morrissey.
  • I am talking about people who coldly kill people in a calculating fashion.
  • I just coldly enclosed to her my cousin's letter of introduction, along with my address; and said to myself, 'Now, she'll know what a deuse of a fellow she has slighted: she'll know she has put an affront upon a connection of the Todworths!' The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866
  • The stadium lights glare down coldly as you inhale a deep breath of cold, crisp air.
  • ‘I only reprieved your penalty because I needed something quickly and you were the only one who could undergo the mission in time,’ Hador replied coldly.
  • In another there is a room, lit coldly by far too many fluorescent tubes, where you can go to buy nightgowns, camisoles, teddies, housecoats and dusters.
  • Even the most coldly logical of us can be prey to suggestibility. Times, Sunday Times
  • She bowed coldly, hoping that her coldness might be her salvation, since she did not wish to waste time in conversation with him, nor to explain why she was in such a hurry to go on with her walk. The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World
  • Patrick stared at her coldly for a minute then continued up towards the main control room.
  • And as we get more and faster trains on to the rails we can expect more deaths, so the casualty figures coldly used in cost benefit studies are all going to be out of date anyway.
  • Most often described as a coldly intellectual filmmaker, the documentary finds Resnais at his most playful. Paste Magazine
  • His mind was working coldly, dispassionately, without rancor, but with contempt for the weakness and promiscuousness of his father. Tai-Pan
  • coldly intellectual
  • The office was immediately next door: a large, coldly functional room smelling strongly of perfumed wax polish. STAGE FRIGHT
  • But his language remains coldly factual rather than emotional. Times, Sunday Times
  • The next morning he coldly told her to buy the morning-after pill. The Sun

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