But Hawthorn remained, as they almost invariably do, coolly disciplined.
On Thursday Teresa Reichlen — coolly, almost austerely brilliant — offered the standout performance of the night.
But as it turned out, the "someone else" was almost always a coolly sophisticated patrician woman not that different from the real Dina Merrill.
Ms. Walter glides coolly, almost serenely through the very carnage to which her corpse will soon be added, the twice-widowed Livia scorning love as "another country" when not taking deliberate delight in lying about her age.
Seven times in the past eight years Sampras had coolly and almost routinely ground the Wimbledon field into these manicured lawns.
The boy pursues this end with monastic devotion, practicing stretches and strengthening exercises, which Wallace describes in precise anatomical terminology — lateral malleolus, splenius capitis, longissimus cervicis, etc. — creating a coolly detached, almost scientific portrait of psychological extremity.
A portrait of a marriage sliding ineluctably into crisis, Ms. Herzog's delicately constructed drama simmers along coolly until, almost unnoticeably, the small secrets and larger lies that have become woven into the fabric of a young couple's life begin to tear them apart.
Her first new movie for almost 50 years has been coolly received, and she faces renewed accusations that she failed to prevent more than 100 Gypsies being sent to die in concentration camps.
Malcolm's description of a famous blowup between Sischy and the sculptor Richard Serra, with his "aura of rough small-town America" and "aggrieved intonation of flat unyieldingness and threat," is almost impossibly vivid, a snapshot coolly snatched from the blur of an ever-shifting cultural landscape.
With her smoldering, earthy sexuality she is ideal for the role, managing to seem untamed, almost unhinged at times, yet also coolly calculating.
