Sentence examples for a cold calculation from inspiring English sources

Perhaps, in a more reticent age, he hesitated to describe such a cold calculation in print.

But he made a cold calculation that it was worth maintaining the illusion of closeness, which meant enduring the slights and the condescension.

This is not just a fetishised obsession with parliamentary tradition but a cold calculation on the part of the Tory party.

What becomes clear on the streets of Kifl, as in other parts of Iraq, is that a cold calculation is being made, as people tally the dinars in their pockets.

"It's a cold calculation by politicians really".

The researchers therefore speculate that trust, admirable trait that it is, boils down to a cold calculation of expected rewards--in this case, reciprocity from the investor.

I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that your plea that I not execute my campaign is motivated by idealism and is not a cynical, cold calculation designed to play on what little idealism I have left.

Armed attackers targeted a school in a cold-blooded calculation that their victims, whom they first tortured, then killed, would be defenseless, innocent children.

Even in that staged photo opportunity there was a hint of cold calculation: Mary Cheney, his openly lesbian daughter and campaign manager, was missing from the tableau so as not to upset the anti-gay base or divert from the night's message.

Her quick rise has been driven by relentless fundraising, the force of personality and what some would call a kind of cold calculation.

And if we adopt that position, then every birth is a moment for cold calculation: Is this family good enough for this baby, or is there another family somewhere who would be better?