How To Use Coolly In A Sentence

Mentally recollecting myself, I took a deep breath and said coolly, ‘Andrew, please leave.’
Do we really believe that people who are capable of such horrifically violent crimes are going to be so coolly logical and rational?
Women who'd long been pensioned off the catwalk are emerging reborn in their fifties and sixties, as coolly desirable, quietly, but confidently shimmering with big-name campaigns.
without more ado Barker borrowed a knife from his brigade Major and honed it on a carborundum stone as coolly as a butcher
Sometimes the songs have a folksy sway, cool melodic lines unfolding with squeezebox sounds, soft basslines and understated percussion around them; sometimes, they coolly shuffle like the bouncier songs of Madeleine Peyroux. Half Seas Over: Half Seas Over

His coolly rationalist approach to religion was complemented by an excitable temperament and a taste for the picaresque.
dastard," but he coolly waited until Haldane had finished, and then asked in his former tone: A Knight of the Nineteenth Century
As he coolly, incisively probes away, his questions elicit fascinating personal revelations, generating feelings of anger, guilt, panic and emptiness.
He sits, away from the hustle and bustle of on-field activity, coolly calculating the options.
So much so that, in meeting her, an edge of brittle insecurity appears faintly visible beneath her ageless face and coolly cordial manner.
The show includes film stills and coolly fetishistic fashion photography, notably various ad campaigns.
Apparently, the way to be coolly nonconformist is strict conformity to a nonconformist trope? EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Best email in a while
For all its white heat, in other words, the sur-reality of Friday Night left me alone in the earthbound darkness, coolly and contractively contemplating the state of my own connubial bond.
The most typical image of him is a mondaine hedonist, coolly sucking on a Gitane while caressing a ravishing doll. GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 11/30.
The teleplay begins as a simulated documentary about the impact of a nuclear strike on Sheffield, but ends up as a coolly Bergmanesque vision of a literal hell on earth.
Some would call this coolly rational behaviour selfish, others prudent, but the one thing it is not is panic.
The man who would coolly appropriate some discoveries of others under cloak of a mere prefatorial reference was perhaps an expounder rather than an innovator, and had, it is shrewdly suspected, not much of his own to offer. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science
Well," replied the other, coolly, "he is what I call a nondescript; like an attorney, or a surgeon, or a civil engineer, or a banker, or a stock-broker, and all that sort of people. Love Me Little, Love Me Long
Faustus craunched his teeth while the monk was saying all these noble things about the countenance of the Devil, who turning coolly to the physiognomist, said, Faust's Leben, Thaten und Höllenfahrt. English
The youngster promptly ran in on goal and coolly slotted the ball to the back of the net.
A writer in the "Atlantic" [1] gravely tells us the wood thrush is sometimes called the hermit, and then, after describing the song of the hermit with great beauty and correctness, coolly ascribes it to the veery! In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs
She had four felony convictions for burglary and petty theft with priors, and had been out of prison for a couple of years when she coolly shoplifted, then viciously fought me in the parking lot.
‘Hello sir,’ he said, restraining his urge to jump away from Hope and coolly released her with a gentle pat on the back before holding his hand out to Daniel.
He was always keyed up, alert for attack, wary of being attacked, with an eye for sudden and unexpected missiles, prepared to act precipitately and coolly, to leap in with a flash of teeth, or to leap away with a menacing snarl. The Outcast
One coolly abstracted the city, taking what he wanted and discarding the rest, reshaping it to his liking with emphatic yesses and nos.
The heroine, in a nice change of pace from the usual insecure whiner, is described by the mangaka herself as "invincible"--she is coolly confident in herself and her quite formidable powers. Manga Mondays with Kethylia 12/3 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
Then he walked back to the bridge site to meet his wife, who was coolly descending from the iron basket.
The Dutchman had his back to goal when he received a pass from Robert Pires but with a deft and exquisite touch of his left boot he flicked the ball around Nikos Dabizas, pirouetted and ran the other side, leaving the Newcastle defender completely disoriented before coolly beating Shay Given. Guardian writers choose their favourite Premier League goal
John Davis coolly sat on a powder-keg from which the top had been shot off, and was so found by an officer, who hastily censured him for his loafing -- "bumming" during recess. The Lincoln Story Book
What the play needs, but doesn't get in his staging, is British sangfroid and coolly clipped British-accented delivery unraveling in just the right places.
His manner was coolly polite and impersonal.
The 'Linderella' story continued at the Air Canada Centre as the Taiwanese American stepped up and coolly dropped a three-pointer from the top of the arc with a half-second to play to beat the Raptors 90-87. Jeremy Lin does it again with last second victory over Toronto Raptors
For several seemingly interminable seconds no one moved as the coolly brooding glance subjected her to a flagrantly masculine appraisal.
Crashing chords pound out from the piano line while the clarinet speaks in a tonal, coolly cerebral mode.
The Englishman finishes his cigarette, exchanges a joke with his 'bunkie' and coolly goes 'over the top.' Winning a Cause World War Stories
And the Scot enhanced his growing reputation by bursting through and finishing coolly. The Sun
She coolly signed her loopy signature at the bottom.
Dale's eyebrow twitched in slight annoyance, as he walked past the girl coolly.
He received my suggestion coolly, ie unenthusiastically.
The "ouija" lies as coolly and confidently as it tells the truth; in fact, it is dogmatically positive that its statements are correct in every case, even when they are glaringly incorrect at the very time they are written. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal
They were written very coolly, very detachedly, very sardonically – saying, well if this is what you, mankind want to do with the world, then this is how it will be. Ballardian » “Driven by Anger”: An Interview with Michael Butterworth (the Savoy interviews, part 1)
And moments later, it was Savage who jinked through the Donegal defence before placing young Meehan who coolly fired home a lovely goal.
She caught a coolly calculating glint in the other woman's eye.
Besides Mr. Oakhurst, who was known to be a coolly desperate man, and for whose intimidation the armed escort was intended, the expatriated party consisted of a young woman familiarly known as "The Duchess;" another who had won the title of "Mother Shipton;" and "Uncle Billy," a suspected, sluice-robber and confirmed drunkard. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers
I coolly laughed and tried to place a simple mask of foolery on my face.
Washington: India American teenager Kavya Shivashankar finally won it all in the televised US National Spelling Bee competition, nailing esoteric words from "hydrargyrum" to "Laodicean", coolly writing them down with her finger on her palm. SiliconIndia.com
The sound of the Zehetmair Quartet - refined, lean and coolly transparent - isn't obviously suited to full-blooded romantic works like the quartets Schumann composed in 1840.
I suppose you call saleratus bread and salt pork and flapjacks SIMPLE?" said the doctor, coolly; "they are COMMON enough, and if you were working with your muscles instead of your nerves in that frame of yours they might not hurt you; but you are suffering as much from eating more than you can digest as the veriest gourmand. Selected Stories of Bret Harte
‘Some interesting techniques,’ he appraised coolly, pulling the wrapping off and setting it aside.
It's your choice, Nina,' David said coolly.
This classily produced and coolly graceful set features chunky Hot Club rhythm-guitar backings, lazily driving blues and subtly underplayed Hammond organ breaks.
He coolly leans against a pillar and appears the personification of suave elegance, wearing a modern tuxedo.
Metaphysical poetry, which rooted religious experience in the natural world, gave way to a religious poetry either more cerebral and coolly rational, or else more ethereal and other-worldly.
They are arranged as two- and three-bedroom ochre-walled cottages, each coolly tiled, comfortably accoutered and elegantly secluded, each with a private balcony or terrace overlooking the rugged Tyrennhian coastline.
He coolly appraised the situation, deciding which person would be most likely to succeed.
‘I just convinced them with my sincerity,’ he says coolly, waiting a couple of beats.
Indiana, now, was preparing to scream, and Miss Margland was looking round to see whom she should reprehend; but young Westwyn, coolly opening the door, with a strong arm, and an able jerk, twisted the perfumer into the passage, saying, 'You may send somebody for your goods.' Camilla
Adrian asked me coolly as he unbent from checking if his victim was still conscious.
And note how they tend to interact with each other informally: openly and interactively versus reserved and coolly. Globe and Mail
A Jew, once purchasing oil from a poor Arab, carried his villainy so far as actually to make his tare and tret weigh more than the skin-bag when full of oil, and coolly told the amazed Arab he had no money to give him for the value received. Travels in Morocco
The pale man coolly smiled and blocked the blade with his own sword, then counterattacked his foe.
The landlord pressed his demand upon the macer, who, in fact, was privately reimbursed by the marker; but he was coolly told that he ought not to allow such improper practices in his house, and that the sum was not recoverable, the transaction being illegal. The Gaming Table : Its Votaries and Victims : Vol. 2
Archbishop of Canterbury, is transformed, as if by irreverent enchantment of the dissenting interest, into A Favourite Terrier, or Cattle Grazing; and the most extraordinary work of art in the list described by the Bleater, is coolly sponged out altogether, and asserted never to have had existence at all, even in the most shadow thoughts of its executant! Contributions to All the Year Round
I flashed a look of gratitude at Noelle, and she nodded coolly.
If this sounds like European avant-garde theatre at its most off-puttingly modish, the effect is in fact kookily funny and coolly self-aware. Thomas Ostermeier: 'Hamlet? The play's a mess'
The traveler may call it stupid and ugly, if he calls it at all; our Hermitage still patiently wears its havelock of weather-beaten shingles, for _it_ knows that beneath its lowly roof -- radiant with whitewash and fresh paper -- are cozy, coolly curtained rooms, where friendly books look down from the wall, and drowsy arm-chairs woo from the corners. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
Fourteen years after this was made, the idea of robberies from trains, and indeed coshing drivers - coolly omitted from the professor's sophistical account of what harm his thieves have really done - lost a smidgen of its innocence.
The girl's brown eyes looked coolly at her, taking Manda's hand in a limp handshake.
She caught a coolly calculating glint in the other woman's eye.
Dark-haired Frank is the coolly logical member of the team, while his brother Joe, a fingerprint expert, is slightly more emotional.
In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne becomes coolly exceptional in her idealistic determination to lie beyond the common ground of social expectations, unlike her betrayer, the Reverend Dimmesdale who wallows in self-recriminations, guilt and discomfort, as if he had taken the conventional female role in relation to illicit passion. And Again, Love « Tales from the Reading Room
This was the same man who had coolly stolen wife and property from his own brother and then had jeered at him, probably with that same expression puckering about his evil, gray eyes. The Rainy Day Railroad War
His back was to her, but he turned to face her, coolly, his eyes taking in her dishevelled appearance.
From a dimple-kneed, despotic, strenuous youngster, ruling the nursery with a small hand of iron, in half a year Drina had grown into a rather slim, long-legged, coolly active child; and though her hair had not been put up, her skirts had been lowered, and shoes and stockings substituted for half-hose and sandals. The Younger Set
Two minutes before time he latched on to James Okoli's through-ball and coolly slotted the ball past Leigh Walker in the visitors' goal.
Even the Soviets, who had sided with the Spanish government against Franco, react coolly.
Selwyn coolly watched him as he sank on to the couch and sat huddled together and leaning forward, his soft, ringed fingers covering his impurpled face. The Younger Set
The pilot, however, coolly opened his throttles and used the forward thrust of his engines to pull him to a stop.
Her nature vistas also coolly refer to the kitschy scenes found on the sides of customized vans.
No, not nice go 'leep' tanning up," said Pomp, coolly; and there was a long pause, with the monotonous talking of the Indians still going on. Mass' George A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah
He called a farrier, who coolly rivetted irons on my ankles. The Daughter of the Commandant
His back was to her, but he turned to face her, coolly, his eyes taking in her dishevelled appearance.
He was thus enabled to coolly return fire with his single-action handguns even as lead rained through the spaces above.
Diary posits her as a threat to the insularity of the Monteils and their vapid way of life, a threat Moreau coolly limns in one of her most nuanced, restrained performances.
When close to the whale, in the very death-lock of the fight, he handled his unpitying lance coolly and offhandedly as a whistling tinker his hammer.
Terry, beside me, glanced round coolly at the troopers and the Indians and whispered: "Quis custodiet ipos custodes? Isabelle
Alan Kelly was fouled in the penalty area and Coleman coolly converted the resulting penalty.
And she does so by staying coolly and confidently on point, emphasizing that the Nebraska laws acknowledge the amazing technological advances in the science of fetology since Roe v Wade. Vital Signs
Since then, Carlton has coolly fielded questions for congressional inquisitors with wit and folksy aplomb.
So much so that, in meeting Streep, an edge of brittle insecurity appears faintly visible beneath her ageless face and coolly cordial manner.
She tried working in a different, much looser style and even painted abstracts, but her paintings in this new vein were coolly received and after 1962 she did not exhibit her work.
The Steelmen's most reliable poacher coolly slotted into an empty net from an acute angle to claim his 13th strike of the campaign.
And the Scot enhanced his growing reputation by bursting through and finishing coolly. The Sun
Their greeting was coolly polite with an undercurrent of dislike.
The teleplay begins as a simulated documentary about the impact of a nuclear strike on Sheffield, but ends up as a coolly Bergmanesque vision of a literal hell on earth.
He claimed the men provoked him with threats and uncivil behaviour and he had acted in a flash of uncontrollable violence, but the jury decided that he coolly planned to kill them.
David walked up and coolly punched the man smack in his mouth.
What often happens is that one half of the noncommitted couple starts to fall, noticeably and hard, for the other half, who remains coolly detached. Carolyn Hax: He's not that into her; how clear should he make that?
By now she was regarding me coolly, no doubt imagining torrid affairs. Times, Sunday Times
And the Scot enhanced his growing reputation by bursting through and finishing coolly. The Sun
He has been described as the archetypal all-round centre-forward, because he finishes coolly, shoots powerfully with both feet and is good in the air. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
Sir Henry's surprise and anger were great, when the driver, coolly stopping his horses, commenced taking off their harness; -- and informed the travellers, that _there_ must they remain, until he had received some instructions from his owner, which he expected by a vettura leaving Rome at a later hour. A Love Story
Metaphysical poetry, which rooted religious experience in the natural world, gave way to a religious poetry either more cerebral and coolly rational, or else more ethereal and other-worldly.
Anyway, my campanula did not show their faces until mid-July, winding coolly through the hot froth of lobelia and by now rampant fucshia.
They had got off to a dream start as Townson, on his return from suspension, outpaced the Exeter defence and coolly lobbed the keeper.
“Lothaire will be just one among many vampires,” he replied coolly, belying his interest in this one. Dreams of a Dark Warrior
His jailers are Hirst's menacing, gangsterish, Cockney-accented servants: Foster, played coolly as the smoother, more obviously gay one by David Walliams (of TV's "Little Britain" in his first "straight theater" role); and Briggs, played by Nick Dunning, as the one who delivers the Pinteresquely boring road-directions monologue while shimmering with suppressed violence. Contemplating Artistic Mysteries
'Kings! ye athirst for conquest,' etc. _You_ are not _athirst_ for it but _take it coolly_. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866
The Ukrainian, celebrating his 28th birthday today, made no mistake as he coolly slotted the ball past Marshall.
In fact the evidence hints that they are as coolly fuzzy as ever, bands like this don't go away they just fester and get better in the process.
‘Shut up and slip into the dress, so I can zip you up’ Kirk said coolly.
The Spanish hotshot saw his first shot saved but coolly slotted home the rebound. The Sun
He heard his voice issuing coolly, a trifle ironically.
To keep the acronym in tact, perhaps our journalist is "nonchalant", or seeming to be coolly unconcerned or indifferent? BSNYC Friday Fun Quiz!
Not an emotion flickered across Lisa's face as she stared coolly back at the waitress.
After some colloquy, she dismissed her very coolly, remarking, “ 'Deed, freet's dear sin' I sauld freet in streets o 'Aberdeen.” Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character
Subienkow played his game as coolly as if he were bartering for a foxskin. Lost Face
Many of the guests were wearing white, and looked coolly glorious as they grazed on the crispy zucchini flowers. Times, Sunday Times
Legacy giggled in response before marching deeper into the pond, enjoying the muck and mud squish coolly between her toes.
Then Mark Boucher, who smashed two fours and one massive six in his 24, was coolly stumped by Sangakkara.
Swifts responded when striker Dwayne Edward waltzed the ball round Lance Key, but defender Daniel Cunningham, making his debut, coolly shepherded the ball out under pressure.
I was gathering my things when Skinner walked, no swaggered up to my locker and coolly kicked the left corner.
Vincent stepped into the room coolly and kicked the door shut with a slam.
Still, the visual dissimilarity among works and within mediums is offset by a coolly consistent emotional tenor that overtakes the viewer as if by stealth.
‘He's against it,’ replied Coolidge coolly as he reached in the icebox for a beer.
For several seemingly interminable seconds no one moved as the coolly brooding glance subjected her to a flagrantly masculine appraisal.
I talked slowly, coolly, just barely managing to keep my voice light and only mildly curious.

How To Use Coolly In A Sentence

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