cold-eyed


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unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice

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A critical bout of Ferrari failures and questionable wheel-to-wheel antics from a frustrated 30-year-old Vettel only served to sharpen Hamilton's cold-eyed commitment and he says: "It has been a battlefield, but it has been a fantastic experience.
With one sequence that will trouble vertigo sufferers, no make-up and a double-chin at times, Aniston's often cold-eyed, biting performance might have earned her a Best Actress Oscar nomination in another year, especially as director Danny Barnz sensibly delays unfolding her character's back story.
Prosecutor Francois Molins identified the man as Maxime Hauchard, one of at least three young Europeans believed among the cold-eyed fighters on the video as the extremist Islamic State group tries to portray itself as an international movement.
Obama puts human rights on the back-burner to foster strongman stability President Barack Obama is sometimes described as a foreign-policy "realist." It's an abstract, imprecise label, but when it is laid on Obama, it is intended to describe his cold-eyed emphasis on core American interests, rather than, say, on the promotion of rights or democratic politics abroad.
Setting aside all the emotional arguments, the actuaries' cold-eyed verdict is in.
It is a place of chilling weather, cold-eyed natives and deep, dark and nasty secrets.
Yet the cold-eyed tycoon, together with fellow Dragon Theo Paphitis, has pumped money into a pioneering group that mixes dance and circus skills in stunning performances.
Peter Wright QC, prosecuting, described the defendants as having the "cold-eyed certainty of the fanatic".
And, while Podhoretz writes that both the leaders and the populations of the Allied nations exhibited "a cold-eyed singleness of purpose that helped break the will and the back of their enemies," the fact is that the Dresden bombing, which had dubious strategic and psychological value, was hugely controversial at the time.
ATIGHTLY knit group of cold-eyed fanatics has decided to challenge British racing in an attempt to impose their evil will.
Monush is knowledgeable, opinionated and sometimes cold-eyed, but rarely cold hearted Elsa Lanchester is "a vibrantly batty actress"; Aldo Ray is "gargle-voiced"; and Zsa Zsa Gabor is "a juicy celebrity, but not an actress of any serious note." And Marjorie Main is an "irresistible old buzzard with a voice that squawked like a barnyard fowl."
Edward Fox was also the cold-eyed Jackal in The Day of the Jackal (1973), and played Harold Macmillan in A Letter of Resignation to such effect that to many critics he really was the shattered and disillusioned Prime Minister himself.
The White House considered the Clintonites fools for expending political capital on intractable issues like the peace process, opting instead for a cold-eyed disengagement.
Hay juices up the menace of their presence in a European fashion magazine--one wields a blunted baseball bat, another has a razor blade between his teeth--but he loves their cold-eyed heat, and he uses them to redefine elegance.