This led to similarly offbeat performances, many of them variations on the smiling, charming, cold-blooded killer with a screw loose.
This being England rather than France, she is too canny to let any of these men get anything more than sweet talk from her. Life in the English countryside is, as she observes, so very dull without a good bit of amorous game-playing (in this respect, her character seems a dry run for the charming, cold-hearted Mary Crawford in Mansfield Park).
Brookner's male characters tend to be charming cold-hearted cynics on the make; her women, gloomy though their lot is, are studies in depth, emotions flowing deep underground, and self-control; the shock of her drama, although domestic, nevertheless registers high on the Richter scale.
Specifically, he is 007 as conceived by Ian Fleming a professional killing machine, a charming, cold-hearted patriot with a taste for luxury.
Charming, charming, charming" by NPR.
The general's son – droll, charming Henry Tilney – pours cold water on Catherine's lurid suspicions and she nearly dies of shame at how her reading has misled her.
One fragment, in which the poet calls on Aphrodite, the goddess of love, to come into a charming shrine "where cold water ripples through apple branches, the whole place shadowed in roses," was scribbled onto a broken clay pot).
In a comprehensive examination of their psychological profile, trolls were found to be more Machiavellian (impulsive and charming manipulators), psychopathic (cold, fearless and antisocial), and especially sadist than the overall population.
Lecter is cold, calculating, charming, lucid, highly dangerous and utterly remorseless.
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He was rather old, always had a cold, and was charming and courteous.
