Sentence examples for as coolly as a from inspiring English sources

As coolly as a scholar discoursing over a favorite merlot, he lays out exactly why he expects to be disappointed.

Within a year, Mr. Ojanpera, who earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering, was cruising the palm-tree-lined streets of Beverly Hills, meeting with technology-wary studio executives who greeted him as coolly as a producer pitching a sequel to "Ishtar".

Literary theorist Frances K. Barasch described Voltaire's matter-of-fact narrative as treating topics such as mass death "as coolly as a weather report".

With headsets still in place, they explained as coolly as possible that an earthquake was under way — something obvious to people in eastern Japan, but unknowable to others in western Japan.

Like the best folk-song interpreters, he is capable of singing of incredible violence without betraying any weak sentiment: "With his sword he cut off her head and kicked it against the wall," he relates in Little Mathie Grove, as coolly as though the murderer had just peeled a banana.

One of the social workers spoke excitedly about the therapist he wanted me to see after I was released: "You'll love her! She's crazy, just absolutely crazy!" I remember responding to the social worker as coolly as I could while pushing down hard on a weeping rage: "I'm not sure we share the same tastes".

Gorging on a sense of power and control — he orders an assassination in London as coolly as he summons Bollywood starlets to his yacht in Thailand — he resembles the Hydra-headed demons in the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.

"His Achilles' heel is when things go wrong a little bit, he doesn't handle it as coolly as perhaps other drivers do.

She overcame the pressure as coolly as she took her penalty, which may not have been surprising.

At least this time nobody missed one in a shoot-out; in fact Alan Shearer, given a chance to bring the scores level from the penalty spot in the first half, took it as coolly as you like.

Meyer answered them as coolly as he saved the Hokies' season against Pittsburgh on Saturday when his friend and the Heisman Trophy front-runner went down before halftime with a sprained right ankle.