Example sentences for: coldly

How can you use “coldly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Feminists approve of the novel, about an aging rock star and her two abandoned children, because it coldly documents the woman's abuse and is "clear-eyed about the economic forces that shape women's lives" (Valerie Sayers, the New York Times Book Review ). Others say Allison "leans precariously toward melodrama" and tries too hard for "gut-wrenching emotion" (Phyllis Richardson, the Los Angeles Times Book Review ).

  • Since it's difficult to reconcile the portrait of the "virtual psychopath who had created an entire fantasy world involving the President, a woman who now wanted to destroy him," with the woman who was pursued then "coldly dumped" by him, the only prudent conclusion to draw from the Enquirer is that we have one wacky White House.

  • She still refers to me as a friend, but I feel I am treated quite coldly now.

  • "Charming," my wife replied coldly as she shrank into her seat.

  • New York 's David Denby adds to the ruckus over In the Company of Men : It "is a repellent experience--a schematic, coldly cynical work that pretends to expose coldness and cynicism."


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