cool-headed

Crucially, he was also seen as cool-headed – a valuable trait during the first febrile months after the Brexit referendum.

“I associated boyhood with cool-headed stoicism, rugged self-reliance, the freedom to live on my own terms,” Bossier writes in “Cactus Country,” their bracing memoir about the experience.

Franco is a cool-headed ironist with a flair for oblique narrative and a fascination with the detached worlds of the wealthy.

An opening “For Heaven’s Sake” off 1997’s double album “Wu-Tang Forever,” with roughneck verses from Inspectah Deck and Cappadonna, segued into Raekwon’s “Incarcerated Scarfaces” like a live-band mixtape — the cool-headed grit in Raekwon’s delivery accentuated by the band’s brooding accompaniment.

When David saw the phrase “cool-headed logicians” in the manifesto, his heart sank.