Examples of coldly

• Not surprisingly, they felt betrayed and angry at being received so coldly and so grudgingly by the beneficiaries of their selfless politics.

• Justice is not about coldly applying abstract formulas, but about carefully and sensitively considering the details that make a ruling appropriate in the particular case.

• Some of these efforts are welcomed by the local inhabitants; some have been coldly received with suspicion, and others positively rejected.

• I am within the recollection of people who were then present in saying that that proposal was received very coldly.

• I have never heard anything so coldly cynical.

• But let us consider quite coldly what it is we are being asked to do with this amendment.

• There is no one objective which clearly justifies an affirmative decision and no formula through which we can derive a coldly logical conclusion.

• I am coldly practical in appreciating what needs to be done.

• I shall do that coldly and rationally, because that is how to get people to listen, and that is how to achieve results.

• The lives of men, women and children were coldly and deliberately put at risk.

• We saw that opportunism in its ugliest form in the coldly calculated carelessness of her words about immigration on television a week or two ago.

• It is totally wrong to approach these matters, which must be approached coldly, in terms of anger or excitement or moral indignation.

• I am coldly furious to think that the next generation may be asked to suffer like the last two generations.

• If the latter embraced them unrealistically warmly, the former rejected them equally unrealistically coldly.

• The discursive institutionalisation of the ageing body is likewise anything but a coldly rational anchoring, related to a set of soberly calculated decisions.