Sentence examples for chilly tone from inspiring English sources

"I was very attached to that ashtray," I told my mother in a chilly tone.

Their sessions take on a distant, chilly tone, and she begins to feel like an "interloper".

That book is not particularly well known today, but if Thoreau's chilly tone in it seems surprising, it is because, in a curious way, "Walden" is not well known, either.

The rigour needed to produce a show which can be livestreamed globally seemed to lead to collections with a chilly tone: a very skinny silhouette sharpened further by gold buttons and militaristic epaulettes.

Mr. Parigi maintains a chilly tone throughout the meager proceedings; one of the most disturbing, and delectable, elements of the movie is that Nikki looks like an extravagant line item in the film's budget.

As affectionately remembered by the poet and rocker Patti Smith, who once lived with Mapplethorpe, and by art-world luminaries in New York and London who speak in grander, chillier tones, Wagstaff and Mapplethorpe were a diabolical power couple who lived and died in a mad pursuit of aesthetic perfection and erotic sensation.

And even Mr. Fulks acknowledges that some people ascribe a chilly, superior tone to his work.

If this starchy, nearly two-hour allegory about human hubris bluntly addresses a historical moment when global warming threatens the planet and pollution is fouling the seas, its chilly, formal tone keeps you at an emotional distance.

The characters are like distant cousins of the women in extremis of Lifetime movies, dealing with provocative but not life-threatening situations — hiring a hooker to ruin an ex-husband's life, raising a son while sneaking out for appointments as a high-priced escort — in the quiet, chilly, tasteful tones of an HBO drama.

In the last stanza, and elsewhere, the register is chillier, the tone a parody of the official, short-hand dismissal: "high crime, low income…" Another distancing device, a favourite in Gardiner's poetry, shows the speaker awkwardly engaged in manual work.

Add salt, to taste and a pinch of sugar if the tomatoes need sweetening or the bitterness of the chillies needs toning down.