Sentence examples for cold clarity from inspiring English sources

Perhaps it is despair meshed with cold clarity.

In this moment, we have to act with cold clarity.

Mattie's ex-husband's new wife has a fake Scottish accent, which amuses Mattie no end: "Her little burrs... !" LAMOTT'S compassion needs this splash of cold clarity.

Pelecanos is one of those dangerous writers who aren't afraid to take risks, so there's a merciless reality to his characters and a cold clarity about the way they talk, think and feel.

They saw heartbreaking horrors, or were tempted by women, booze and loot in a liberated city, or were shattered by prolonged artillery barrages, or realised – suddenly, and with cold clarity – that they would almost certainly be killed in the next few days.

Spirits soar in such infinite space, one feels euphoric in the cold clarity of the peaks, and the silence speaks to the soul".

This picture focuses with cold, resolute clarity on what poverty means.

Caroline Fox, who was probably as fond of Mill when young as anybody could be, said that even he must shiver sometimes at the terrible cold, calm clarity of his mind.

With some cold networking, clarity and a powerful elevator pitch, she gained control of her career and her future.

Such cold-eyed clarity, useful to a philosopher or mystic, can only be a disadvantage for the novelist, who needs to enter, at least temporarily, her characters' illusions in order to recreate them convincingly on the page.

For the first time in her life she is performing stone cold sober, so clarity is quite a novelty in itself.