frostily


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without warmth or enthusiasm

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They frequently post on social media, however: "I do post on social media because it's my right to post whatever I want on social media," he says, a touch frostily.
And given that she asked for a very personal mandate during the general election campaign and didn't get one, the only question is why is she still here?" May replied frostily: "Which party was it that got the highest percentage share of the vote, Labour or Conservative?
"YOU are aware, are you not," I said frostily down the phone to the Birmingham Mail's political editor Neil Elkes, "that we have entered, politically, a period of purdah?
506, reported rather frostily: "A Horn Concerto with string orchestra by Malcolm Arnold conducted on the evening of 17 July is an altogether slighter work designed mainly to exhibit the extraordinary virtuosity of the soloist." Many other reviews were decidedly more enthusiastic in tone.
Asked whether Leicester's success should leave the usual title challengers red faced, Van Gaal said frostily: "No, it's sport."
His act is still a disaster and Maddy is still acting very frostily. A very funny, highly entertaining diary of everyday life in Louis' household.
Hours later another boat eventually found Mum and Daughter drifting, sorted their problems, and the family became somewhat frostily re-united.
I always eagerly await the passage "Slava vo vyshich Bogu ..." (Glory be to God on high), in whose apex Gabriela Benackova has set a frostily light flat tone.
In a rerun of previous failed efforts at bridging sectarian and ethnic divisions, Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurdish leaders met behind closed doors and then stood frostily before cameras as Maliki's Shi'ite predecessor Ibrahim al-Jaafari read a statement denouncing "terrorist powers" and supporting Iraqi sovereignty.
Mrs May replied frostily: "I don't think that question should be dignified with a response."
"The vice president reaffirmed that while the United States does not take a position on the competing territorial claims, no nation should take provocative steps to advance claims over disputed areas in a manner that undermines peace and stability in the region." Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying reacted frostily to Biden's comment, saying it amounted to "intentionally taking a biased position".
In Sunday's season premiere, Lady Mary frostily informed Carson the butler that he had overstepped the mark in urging her to move past her grief over her husband's death and get more involved in running the estate.