coolly
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But devotees do want someone called “Sherlock Holmes” to have some passing resemblance to the character they know—the coolly cerebral detective whose self-containment is as pronounced as his deductions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026
The 18-year-old coolly rounded goalkeeper Inaki Pena, a former Barca player, and slotted home.
From Barron's • Jan. 31, 2026
“Hello,” Grohl sang coolly over a bed of thrumming electric guitars, “I’ve waited here for you.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2026
The Coast of Utopia was a massive trilogy about the 19th Century Russian liberal thinker, Alexander Herzen: coolly received at the National Theatre in London, it was a huge success in New York.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2025
“On the contrary, nothing would suit Polonius’s ambitions better than for you to marry me,” said Hamlet coolly.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
Vocabulary lists containing coolly
