cool-blooded

"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