Sentence examples for chilly manner from inspiring English sources

The German sported a soft-top Merc and a chilly manner, and wanted to sell up to get back to Hamburg.

Melville's vision of modern-day corruption, which he kept in check under the regime of Charles de Gaulle (whom Melville had served in the French Resistance), was evidently liberated by de Gaulle's death, in 1970; here, Melville's chilly manner turns sardonic as he vents pent-up bile.

It has its roots in England, land of warm beer and chilly manners.

This is a novel about class, about the citadel of chilly manners that Emily builds around herself and Zafar's mad, doomed attempts to breach it.

Partly because of her slightly chilly, uptight manner, as leader of the Commons Mrs Beckett has never received adequate appreciation for her role in holding both wings of the Labour party together.

With its acutely observant eye for class differences and chilly corporate manners "The Company Men" has two moral grounding wires.

In photographs, Copperfield assumes a manner of chilly mastery; in person he is open, bending, almost needy, reminding the world of his triumphs — his renown, his Emmys — as though the scale of his accomplishments still surprised him, too.

The way he sees it, Amy is chilly and manipulative; she's playing all manner of games.

Cerebral in the manner of Graham Greene (though quite a bit chillier), Watkins, like Greene, can create a wartime sensibility in which every footfall on the stairs has you holding your breath in anticipation.

Droves of people, despite a chilly drizzle, massed under white tents for demonstrations of all manner of Web sites, brought through a T-1 high-capacity telephone line set up just for the event.

Feeling chilly is just one of many feelings and behaviors that can be passed along in a contagious manner.