0 in an unfriendly way and without emotion:
1 in a way that shows lack of affection, kindness, sympathy, or feeling:
"Please don’t come here again," he said coldly.
The discursive institutionalisation of the ageing body is likewise anything but a coldly rational anchoring, related to a set of soberly calculated decisions.
If the latter embraced them unrealistically warmly, the former rejected them equally unrealistically coldly.
I am coldly furious to think that the next generation may be asked to suffer like the last two generations.
It is totally wrong to approach these matters, which must be approached coldly, in terms of anger or excitement or moral indignation.
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.
The lives of men, women and children were coldly and deliberately put at risk.
I shall do that coldly and rationally, because that is how to get people to listen, and that is how to achieve results.
I am coldly practical in appreciating what needs to be done.
