Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Cold-bloodedly dispassionate.
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- adjective unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice
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Examples
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Probably getting seduced by some cold-eyed harpy with a Twilight-meets-Eragon manuscript.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Opinions Make the Character 2010
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Probably getting seduced by some cold-eyed harpy with a Twilight-meets-Eragon manuscript.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Opinions Make the Character 2010
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But boy does it click along, from the moment actor Jesse Eisenberg's cold-eyed, awkward boy genius decides to get back at a girlfriend who dumps him during the opening credits.
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Getting seduced by some cold-eyed harpy with a Twilight-meets-Eragon manuscript, he assumed.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Opinions Make the Character 2010
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Sure, there's a new generation to entice - as the also recently reunited Suede have realised successfully - and no doubt a fair percentage of the Brixton crowd will be younger folks wondering who the hell might represent them, when the adults in their line of sight seem intent on exposing themselves as venal, self-serving liars, and their own peers' self-appointed spokespeople are woolly-minded, self-destructive druggies or cold-eyed, MBA-wielding careerists.
Charlie Ivens: Where now for Resurrected Left-Pop Iconoclasts Pulp? Charlie Ivens 2011
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But boy does it click along, from the moment actor Jesse Eisenberg's cold-eyed, awkward boy genius decides to get back at a girlfriend who dumps him during the opening credits.
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But boy does it click along, from the moment actor Jesse Eisenberg's cold-eyed, awkward boy genius decides to get back at a girlfriend who dumps him during the opening credits.
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But boy does it click along, from the moment actor Jesse Eisenberg's cold-eyed, awkward boy genius decides to get back at a girlfriend who dumps him during the opening credits.
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But boy does it click along, from the moment actor Jesse Eisenberg's cold-eyed, awkward boy genius decides to get back at a girlfriend who dumps him during the opening credits.
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It was that kind of day, where cold-eyed perspective overshadowed the romance of a new season beginning.
One Cold-Eyed Opener Sophia Hollander 2011
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