cold-bloodedness
Example Sentences
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But when it comes to campaigns and elections, the former House speaker has never had much use for sentimentality, priding herself on a reptilian cold-bloodedness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2024
The soft tissues that would be the most informative about warm- or cold-bloodedness are rarely preserved in fossils, and paleontologists obviously cannot directly measure an extinct animal’s body temperature.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 20, 2022
It’s their very detachment, what you might call the cold-bloodedness of science, that makes science the killer app.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2015
That level of cold-bloodedness was one of the few genuine surprises in “Grand Guignol.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2014
And yet the more he thought of it, all the more shocked did Clovis feel at the absurdity of such aspirations in one so lowly, and the cold-bloodedness of that remark.
From The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Lewis Wingfield
