How To Use Coldness In A Sentence

It is true: but liberality baulkes, and feares covetousnesse and niggardize, more a great deale then prodigallity; so does zeale lukewarmnes and coldnesse, more then too much heate and forwardnesse; the defect is more opposite and dangerous to some vertues, then the excesse. A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich
That is why it said that the opposite of love is not hate but indifference, our apathy to act, our coldness in commitment.
Would the blandishing enchanter still weave his spells around me, or should I burst them all and turn away in coldness! Master Humphrey's Clock
Coldness or sweating, flushing, poor circulation, fatigue, fainting.
Steam hissed and water came in cascading sheets as she shook the biting coldness away.

I feel the coldness once again come over me, then I feel the pain from the countless bruises over my body, and the bleeding from my head.
I was so hurt by her coldness and scepticism that tears rose to my eyes.
She recalled his hauteur and studious coldness towards herself, his air of deep understanding and mastery, his magic look of wizardly youth, his eloquence, his immense self-possession, his mysterious connection with Cleopatra's indisposition and recovery. Too Old for Dolls A Novel
It is summer here and yet sometimes I sense an everlasting coldness amongst the city folk.
the coldness made our breath visible
It was supposed to be full of love and passion and friendship, not coldness and distance.
This house would be planted, if possible, neare to some riuer, or fresh running brooke, but by no meanes vpon the verge of the riuer, nor within the danger of the ouerflow thereof: for the one is subiect to too much coldnesse and moisture, the other to danger. The English Husbandman The First Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of euery Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments
Walke with me (deare sal heart) into my Chamber, and there at a secret little window, I shall shew thee what he doth, that drove thee to such a suspition of me, and we shall heare beside, what answere he will give my maide Ancilla, whom I will send to comfort him in his coldnesse. The Decameron
The lack of empathy for the characters and corpse-like coldness permeating both the look and feel of the picture make it a tough film to connect with.
As we talked — about September 11, the war in Iraq, her time in the Senate, and (briefly, abortively) her husband — she showed little trace of the coldness that has long been ascribed to her. Take Two: Hillary's Choice
It seems to lessen the coldness of the gray and add an inviting warmth to the store design.
Pity, however, carried the day, and had it not been for the irritating coldness of "that little hard-hearted thing," as she called Jacqueline, she would have entirely forgiven her. The French Immortals Series — Complete
She was afraid Nick might treat her with coldness and pretend he had forgotten who she was.
She could finally tolerate no more of his coldness and penny-pinching ways.
The great photographer and documenter (gallery) of West London Charlie Phillips documented many black funerals at Kensal Green: somehow the black and white photos seem to emphasise the coldness of the ground in which people born under a warm Caribbean sun were buried. January « 2009 « Squares of Wheat
An intrusive coldness suffused my arteries, flooded my veins, scalloped my core in ice.
His eyes were open, but unseeing, hazed over with a frightening coldness, unblinking.
She expresses only disappointment in him and offense at his coldness to her during the last phone conversation.
He was conspicuous among the young men of his standing for the forwardness with which he took his side against "Tractarianism," and the vehemence of his dislike of it, and for the almost ostentatious and defiant prominence which he gave to the convictions and social habits of his school He expressed his scorn and disgust at the "donnishness," the coldness, the routine, the want of heart, which was all that he could see at Oxford out of the one small circle of his friends. Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890
There can be such inhumane coldness from the corporate powers … There are stories and I have personally witnessed where an employee is written up if missing work for an emergency such as a child being rushed to the hospital. Think Progress » Coal disaster company Massey Energy denied time off for miners to attend their friends’ funerals.
One day he even reproached Therese with what he termed her coldness for Laurent. Theresa Raquin
Here, in the rocky steppes of the western part of the continent, there was no water, and the coldness leeched into every living thing, through hair, fur, and skin, whether worn or grown. More Conan Fan Fiction!
Hence the coldness, the cause of which is scarcely avowable. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
He had that good reason for sympathy with haughtiness and coldness, which is found In a fellow – feeling. Dombey and Son
Nietzsche's iciness and coldness, the Alpine retreat and solitariness all have an effect in producing a complete and total nihilism - ‘no interests at all.’
Crowley goes on to cite the Obama administration's "Orwellian coldness and efficiency" in "waging waged war on those who have had the gall to disagree with it. When Bill Clinton was President, I truly believe the Democratic Party has allowed a certain level of preventable death and destr
It will not be here amisse to adde this one observation further; That it is better to drinke this water once a day, then twice, and that in the mornings, after that the Sunne hath dryed up & consumed the vapors retained through the coldnesse of the night, &c. as is formerly declared. Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain
I still sense an aura of coldness, but I guess that's something I'll have to approach practically next time.
But I won't miss the onslaught of spiders, the austere personality of a wealthy neighborhood, and the accompanying coldness from the void of the garage below me. Wanderlustress:
It will surround the caster and any unit they are with with a shield of intense coldness.
Through the metallic coldness of a long distance phone connection, Mariza's voice crackles with warmth as we do Time Zone Math to orient ourselves in relation to each other on the planet.
This one turned out pretty well, but I am not fond of the coldness of the colors.
Lady Margaret received her with a coldness that bordered upon incivility; irascible by nature and jealous by situation, the appearance of beauty alarmed, and of chearfulness disgusted her. Cecilia
I felt there was a certain coldness in her manner.
If any dyscrasia, such as excessive heat, coldness, dryness or moisture appears in the wound and delays its healing, it is to be met by its contrary. Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century
She looked at me with coldness - the ignorant one, the fool who had passed by in the night, a person no more, malefic, absurd.
This is the thing which some fools call fickleness; but which is not the death of feeling, but rather its dreadful perpetuation; this shyness is the final seal of strong sentiment; this coldness is an eternal constancy. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens
She has that reserve and slight coldness of manner which is typically English.
Woman, with her instinct of behavior, instantly detects in man a love of trifles, any coldness or imbecility, or, in short, any want of that large, flowing, and magnanimous deportment, which is indispensable as an exterior in the hall. XII. Essays. Manners. 1844
But perhaps, because he was essentially simple, he would have fitted in well enough if he had been less ready to voice his grievances and ruffle the calm which she so carefully preserved, which he called coldness and for which he reproached her often. The Misses Mallett The Bridge Dividing
It will surround the caster and any unit they are with with a shield of intense coldness.
Must people identity coldness with hostility and deprivation; warmth with friendliness, nourishment, closeness and intimacy.
But you may feel their disapproval, their coldness, their jealousy. The Guide to Greatness in Sales
It will surround the caster and any unit they are with with a shield of intense coldness.
Afterwards her home had become a place of coldness, of ugly, hidden, unspoken emotions.
I love the feeling of slowness and how a day can start off with a chilling coldness that melts into a strange half-warmness later on.
You shall place the vpper or best end of your house, as namely, where your dining Parlor and cheifest roomes are, which euer would haue their prospect into your garden, to the South, that your buttery, kitching and other inferiour offices may stand to the North, coldnesse bringing vnto them a manifold benefit. The English Husbandman The First Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of euery Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments
It seems almost too absurdly incredible, Wannie, but do you know I believe this ice of ours gains in coldness as the warm weather comes on! Storytelling
I also got mildly tipsy on fruit wine which was necessary due to bloody coldness.
an unfriendly coldness of manner
Skullcap will probably not be very effective for the individual with weak digestion and internal coldness while asafoetida will probably not be effective for the individual with a toxic, stagnant liver.
Thank you for the review, March mentioned you'd done this - I agree with all re the previous ones - minimal, coldness are excellent descriptions - I used the word sparse earlier to March. Perfume Review: Ineke Evening Edged in Gold
He discerned a certain coldness in their welcome.
I felt there was a certain coldness in her manner.
The critical were there, representing various shades of belief and prejudice, from the quiet repressionist, who, disdaining emotion, views with dispassionate coldness the great tenets of the faith, to the irrepressible enthusiast whose spiritual understanding is often lost beneath a foam of feeling; from the instructed brother who reads his title clear with logical accuracy in the Scriptures and glories in his standing with belieing indifference to his state, to the anxious soul whose hope of heaven veers with every changing wind of fitful emotion. The First Soprano
She has that reserve and slight coldness of manner which is typically English.
The rough bare boards of the walls, naked but for one old picture of a horse cut from a magazine, carefully pasted upside down, and probably designed chiefly to cover some defective spot that was admitting too much coldness; the crazy table shaking with every gust and causing a tiny kerosene lamp to flare up and menace the dim religious darkness by depositing even more lamp-black than was its wont on its already negrine globe; the meagre board of dark bread, "oleo," and molasses; the weird minstrelsy of the hurricane -- the whole a harmony of poverty and war. Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers
Both the mothers flinched at the coldness in his voice, and Mrs. Trousdale was suddenly overwhelmed with guilt.
He worked his way over to the window, opened it, and took a spit into the fresh biting coldness.
a distressing coldness of tone and manner
True, Hoddle doesn't shout and bawl, but there is a coldness to him.
Secondly, having regard to the great swelling and coldness of the limb, we must apply hot bricks round it, and sprinkle them with a decoction of nerval herbs in wine and vinegar, and wrap them in napkins; and to his feet, an earthenware bottle filled with the decoction, corked, and wrapped in cloths. The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
Actually, her coldness concealed a totally unexpected and almost uncontrollable emotional reaction. Times, Sunday Times
When I saw it I thought you had sent it back in a huff, tired out by my sauciness, and coldness, and delays, and were going to keep an account of dimities and sayes, or to salt pork and chronicle small beer as the dutiful wife of some fresh-looking, rural swain; so that you cannot think how surprised and pleased I was to find them all done. Selected English Letters
This explains why coldness and freezing render Savours dull, and abolish odours altogether; for cooling and freezing tend to annul the kinetic heat which helps to fabricate sapidity. On Sense and the Sensible
When I say, The weather is _so_ cold, or _very_ cold, or _intensely_ cold, the words _so, very_, and _intensely_ modify the adjective _cold_ by expressing the _degree_ of coldness. Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room
These she could deal with, not this deadly coldness exhibited by Alice.
He discerned a certain coldness in their welcome.
During six years of school, what was worse than the pain of the exercises was the coldness of the adults.
Now you shall further vnderstand that on the South side of your house, you shall plant your Garden and Orchard, as wel for the prospect thereof to al your best roomes, as also because your house will be a defence against the Northerne coldnesse, whereby your fruits will much better prosper. The English Husbandman The First Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of euery Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments
I loved the feeling of the coldness in that moment, the wind chilling me, numbing my skin.
The particular horrors of that regime, unique in the methodical coldness of their execution if depressingly familiar in the depths of their bestiality, would seem to have been plumbed and catalogued ad infinitum.
Actually, her coldness concealed a totally unexpected and almost uncontrollable emotional reaction. Times, Sunday Times
There was a certain coldness in her attitude towards me.
She clasped me in her arms and the coldness encapsulated me like a fog.
We fell into each others arms and I kissed her pear-shaped diamond necklace feeling its coldness against my teeth.
The uniform color blue signifies a continuous coldness.
At first the rain made no impression on the bulk of snow, but ran from every sloping surface and froze on every flat one, through the coldness of the earth; and so it became impossible for any man to keep his legs without the help of a shodden staff. Lorna Doone
Me with the tiny bundle of coldness that was almost hurting me to hold. The Sun
Me with the tiny bundle of coldness that was almost hurting me to hold. The Sun
Much of the marble coldness of Hester's impression was to be attributed to the circumstance, that her life had turned, in a great measure, from passion and feeling, to thought.
However, Pat does not recognize how similar she is to her father and persists in blaming the failure of the relationship to sustain her on his coldness, and miserliness.
It isn't the coldness, but the surface of the ice cube itself that creates the fizz.
Patients experience overwhelming apprehensiveness and anxiety, fear of death, and coldness, followed by body weakness and dizziness.
His self-hatred finds its cruelest expression in his coldness toward his devoted wife.
Simple lines and soft tones combine to produce a minimalist decor which doesn't suffer from coldness or lack of personality.
Within quarter of an hour the coldness of the night had gone.
Those mysterious years of coldness receded into the background as our children grew up and moved on.
His mother and he were treated with arctic coldness at the funeral.
Rather than melting away like normal frost, the coldness lingered where Bruetar had grasped the hilt of the sword.
Also I carried some other provisions, grieving much at their coldness: and then I went to the upper linhay, and took our new light pony-sledd, which had been made almost as much for pleasure as for business; though God only knows how our girls could have found any pleasure in bumping along so. Lorna Doone
I compressed my shoulders into myself as I crossed my arms together in my pockets, trying to shield myself from the icy coldness.
Jim enters the frame, kisses his wife on the lips, reads her coldness, sits down.
She talks more about her mother's coldness.
When we talk about a tonal palette, we are really talking about aesthetic properties like warmth and coldness in color, and not about patterns on an oscilloscope.
Leo Kanner in a 1949 paper identified "parental coldness" and a "lack of maternal warmth" in the parents of autistic children, leading to the term refrigerator mother. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
Under the shiny surface there's homelessness, ignorance, insane people on the streets, hypocrisy, a certain coldness and strong individualism in people in general.
She has that reserve and slight coldness of manner which is typically English.
Many secret indispositions, coldnesses, and aversions to duty, will undiscernibly steal upon it; and it will require both time and close application of mind, to recover it to such Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II.
In practical symbolism the fixed element of water is used to represent long-accumulated sediment, water trapped by the coldness of ice or the heaviness of mud.
Some have accused her of coldness, of clinical detachment.
Lucile seemed ready to cry, and showed a repressed perturbation quite unexpected of her; while, try as she would, Frona could not call upon her usual sympathy to drive away the coldness which obtruded intangibly between them. CHAPTER 21
Her heart ached as the coldness gripped her and tore the dress to pieces, only shreds of innocent cloth lingering between her forsaken fingers.
There was a certain coldness in her attitude towards me.
There have been all sorts of idiotic stories like the "cackle" (which actually could have been legitimate -- is she avoiding the question?) and her "coldness" or "calculated tears" but on the other hand, no-one has seriously scrutinised Clinton's claimed "35 years of experience" either. Hillary Spokesperson Blasts Reporters For Using Drudge As Their "Assignment Editor"
Nevertheless, I sense a growing coldness toward homeless persons, as well as toward welfare recipients in general.
The word frigidity means coldness, and when a woman has no desire for sexual relations or experiences no pleasure when she has sexual relations, she is said to be frigid. Woman Her Sex and Love Life
It was about this moment when Rübetsahl began to discover that he had mistaken the tall, gray-eyed girl with whom he was talking; that her coldness was rather a transparent purity like that of star-beams which seem cold to the hand but warm to the soul, and that her apparent unimpressibility was rather the veiled impressibility of an enthusiasm which was so strong that it feared itself. Tiger-Lilies. A Novel.
The cloying heat of the cottage was replaced by the raw coldness of the night.
Clinical signs were seen 5 hours after dosing, consisting of salivation, lachrymation, noisy respiration, tremors, unsteadiness, coldness, piloerection and wet urogenital region.
He loves the rich movement vocabulary and the technical skills, but abhors the coldness and infantilism.
The abstract philosophy of the One might seem indeed to have been translated into the terms of a human will in the rigid, disinterested, renunciant career of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, its mortal coldness. Plato and Platonism
This part of the countrey is most part wood, sauing here and there pasture and arable ground, many riuers and diuers Islands vnhabited, as the most part of the countrey is, for the coldnesse in Winter. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
The coldness quickly stung my fingers as I shiveringly held my camera. Please Bring Their Families Comfort
The punishment was a sorrowing coldness that killed all heart's ease. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
I like the contrast between the warm sun on the cement walls and the coldness of the blues in the icy water.
She has that reserve and slight coldness of manner which is typically English.
Me with the tiny bundle of coldness that was almost hurting me to hold. The Sun
It seemed to him that Tanaki's eyes always hid a shadow of coldness.
I felt its coldness spreading through my body, killing off the cells, one by one.
Age of his Churches? the coldnesse whereof himselfe hath expressely foretolde. A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich
No, not stertorous," reflects our narrator three pages in, remembering his ailing father, "rather wheezeful, softer, gulping, an immeasurably beautiful strange ancient fish glopping glooping groping rasping for air, at air …" But in this quest for literary uniqueness, there is too much calculation and coldness; something of the "love" needed to make it a full-blooded work of art is missing. Debut fiction: Quilt by Nicholas Royle; The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai by Ruiyan Xu; The World Beneath by Cate Kennedy
In these lines Stevens describes the mind as a concentrated tool trained to withstand the blizzards of loneliness, trained to endure coldness and bleakness, in order to behold beauty without being overcome with misery. History of a Suicide
A new sweetness pervades daily life and replaces the coldness and formality of familial relationships under aristocracy.
They were gray, and the coldness she saw in them was even colder than the freezing, inhospitable tundra that her best friend had come from.
Coldness of spirit hinders praying; prayer cannot live in wintry atmosphere. Fervency in prayer
The coldness of the colors is given an unusual strength in this photograph by the presence of the vibrant alpenglow: The cold and warm colors intensify each other.
Secondly I answer, that in all such medicinall fountaines, as this, simple water doth farre surpasse and exceed in quantity, whatsoever is therewith intermixed; by whose coldnesse it commeth to passe, that the contrary is scarce, or hardly perceived. Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain
Violent thunder-storms, with showers of rain and hail, are frequent accompaniments of volcanic eruptions everywhere; but owing to the coldness and dryness of the air into which the vapors from the Icelandic volcanoes ascend, their condensation is so sudden and violent that great quantities of electricity are developed. The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire
If we can find an instance of a locus of smoke which is also a locus of the absence of some property, coldness say, then coldness cannot be identical with fieriness. Analytic Philosophy in Early Modern India
The mixture of heat and cold and the disharmony of yin and yang causes coldness of the limbs.
I can sense the coldness from the others, but I cannot feel it through the fire in my veins. To Call Our Own (7/36)
She obeyed instinctively, the coldness of the gun barrel chilling her skin.
The decorating style is characterized by the sleekness of lines and the coldness of colors.
By reason of the excessive coldness of the air, hindering the ascent of the smoke, was so filled with the fuliginous steam of the sea-coal, that hardly can one see across the street, and this filling the lungs with its gross particles exceedingly obstructed the breast, so as one would scarcely breathe. When a Billion Chinese Jump
The silent children followed close at her heels in a tight little huddle, as if the lamplight were a warm thing that could shield them from the coldness of the shadows. The Dollmaker
Some who knew him think that he suffered from pathological coldness, a deficit of feeling.
Her mother would be upset by the coldness with which she herself treats Anne.
Sometimes people would wince more from the coldness of the alcohol on the cotton wool than they would from the needle.
That which makes for its coldnesse is its stipticknesse. All About Coffee
He had an inclination to glory, but it was tempered more with rashness and fury than with moderation and counsell: his liberalities were without discretion, measure, or distinction, immoveable oftentimes in his purposes, but that was rather an ill-grounded obstinacy than constancie, and that which many call bountie deserved more reasonably in his the name of coldnesse and slacknesse of spirit. "[ Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497
In portraying the therapist, her combination of coldness and reluctant vulnerability is spot on.
That the internal membrane of the nostrils may be kept always moist, for the better perception of odours, there are two canals, that conduct the tears after they have done their office in moistening and cleaning the ball of the eye into a sack, which is called the lacrymal sack; and from which there is a duct, that opens into the nostrils: the aperture of this duct is formed of exquisite sensibility, and when it is stimulated by odorous particles, or by the dryness or coldness of the air, the sack contracts itself, and pours more of its contained moisture on the organ of smell. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
The coldness also triggers the urinary organs, so more calcium, potassium and other inorganic salts are discharged with urine.
The iced coffee I feel works as the coldness is nice when your whole body feels numb, then the caffeine and sugar perk you up, and the milk soothes the stomach. Hangover Cures: Myth, Legend, Fact | Lifehacker Australia
She had lost her reputation, and the narrowness of her income, and coldness of her lover contributed to make her miserable, and to increase the phrensical disposition of her mind. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland
There's something anodyne about even his best work; it has the cerebral coldness of a crossword or mathematical puzzle.
The cellar, which was a dank and dark part of the house, housed several things, including all the things that would need ice or coldness to keep good.
Skullcap will probably not be very effective for the individual with weak digestion and internal coldness while asafoetida will probably not be effective for the individual with a toxic, stagnant liver.
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
My body hurts, but the coldness is so predominant that I don't care.
Whereas the pains of the raphania, or painful convulsion, commence with coldness of the part, or of the extremities. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
There were periods of sulking, of pronounced distance, of coldness.
While elecampane root is better used for a cold or cough associated with coldness, weak digestion, low energy and whitish to clear mucus discharge.
No matter which emotion we choose, meaningful connections with ‘coldness, numbness, melancholy’ can easily and unforcedly be made.
She has that reserve and slight coldness of manner which is typically English.
His eyes sort of changed when he said it, the coldness was replaced with something deep and soulful.

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