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  • "A manager needs to be cool-blooded, strong, resilient and Mick McCarthy has all of these qualities."

    Arsenal's Arsène Wenger hails Mick McCarthy's work at Wolverhampton 2011

  • When cool-blooded Stringer Bell learns of D'Angelo's attempted defection, he orders his murder -- which is framed as a suicide.

    Tapping Into 'The Wire' 2007

  • The brain stem, located near the top of the neck, is also called the “reptilian” brain because it is similar to the brains of cool-blooded reptiles.

    Having It All John Assaraf 2003

  • (God save the mark!) even intellectual, when perhaps she has a wealth of love and devotion and heroism stored up behind that impulsive disposition and those dazzling black eyes which would do and dare more in a minute for some man she had set that great heart of hers upon than your cool-blooded, tranquil blonde would do in forty years.

    From a Girl's Point of View Lilian Bell

  • Even Cyrus, who was accustomed to look upon himself as the cool-blooded senior among his band of intimates, tingled

    Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods Isabel Hornibrook

  • I believe the hardest task is that of the cool-blooded women.

    Girls and Women Harriet E. (AKA E. Chester} Paine

  • Parker had been a trying fiance; he was a cool-blooded, fishlike little man; there had been other complications: her father's heavy financial losses, her mother's discontent in the lingering engagement, her sister's persisting state of unmarriedness.

    The Heart of Rachael Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • The heart of his young friend had melted within him at this revelation of the submissive isolation of the sweet-tempered, cool-blooded old scholar.

    Hillsboro People Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

  • The cool-blooded spinsters are moved by this, but not to the point of braving Wotan's ire.

    The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912

  • Hitherto there has been no whisper of love in that arduous career of wool-weaving, sailoring, and map-making; and it is not unlikely that his marriage represents the first inspiration of love in his life, for he was, in spite of his southern birth, a cool-blooded man, for whom affairs of the heart had never a very serious interest.

    Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 1 Filson Young 1907

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