coldly

This temporal blending, far from being a coldly experimental exercise, immerses us in the pure pleasure of storytelling, as light and free as those magical puppet shows Gomes occasionally returns to.

Mali's military government says it is investigating allegations that soldiers "coldly executed" at least 24 civilians in the north of the country on Monday.

But something broke her — nearly every character here is broken, it’s a virtual trauma convention — and now she is the coldly efficient power behind what is meant to resemble a government.

This describes the players and the faceless underlings coldly murdering strangers and begging for their lives.

Vergriete described the incident as a "tragedy" and said "an individual coldly murdered several people" in the area.