This Times Square fish palace is vast, cool, and serene, like a fjord.
— In the vast, cool basement of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library here, Jennifer Mandel held up a hand-drawn map of the United States from the late 1970s.
Soon after the war, Welles himself played one of those vast, cool and unsympathetic intellects in "The Stranger," a 1946 production that remains Welles's most seriously underestimated work.
In the coda, a darkly radiant mass of sound, incorporating voices and instruments from all four sites, evokes Earth under the gaze of what is described as "a great intelligence, vast, cool, and unsympathetic".
The Phi store on Greene Street is a vast cool, dark space of dizzying height, an effect accentuated by smooth free-standing obsidian walls and willowy black Corinthian pillars that seem to be in a midadolescent growth spurt.
The Arctic suits her: there's something inherently calming in the vast cool sweeps of ice and rock and sea and sky, undisturbed by cities and highways and trees and the other distractions that clutter up the landscape to the south.
Hindsight helps, but Welles seems to be lending a particular portent to the novel's description of the lurking Martian menace: "Intellects vast, cool and unsympathetic regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us".
The vast Cool Britannia souvenir shop seems to be doing a roaring trade, but supervisor Rajees Chundavida, 30, says they would expect to be busier.
Central electric power plants, in particular, are highly dependent on vast quantities of cooling water that will become scarcer under climate change.
To prevent the server stacks overheating, tech companies spend vast sums on cooling technology - more than a third of a data centre's hefty energy bill may go on air conditioning.
