"cold violence" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is usually used to describe a form of aggression that is colder or less extreme than other forms of violence. For example, "She was the victim of a cold violence, her abuser never raised his voice or threatened her."
The story delivers a series of thrilling twists, cold violence and jawdropping reveals.
Her perspective is at once childlike and brutal, combining indoctrinated religious fervour with a cold violence, without moral qualms.
The Road also encapsulates the usual cold violence, the biblical tincture of male masochism, of wounds and rites of passage.
And they are vulnerable – to cold, violence, exploitation and prostitution, and to death as they take crazy risks throwing themselves on to trains heading for Britain.
This collection of short stories juxtaposes the cold violence of 1960s crime with a girl's first day at nursery, while the descent of an immigrant ruined by drinking, loneliness and paedophilic tendencies appears next to a bittersweet tale of teenage growing pains, against a 70s backdrop of Thalidomide and Elvis.
To everyone he meets he stays a stranger". The music captured the sleek hero, who shared an interest with Bond in sporty cars, exotic locations and concealed gadgetry and introduced himself as "Drake, John Drake". The comparison stopped there, because Mr. McGoohan, a married and devout Catholic, insisted on avoiding Bond's womanizing or cold violence.
Most people freeze in the face of cold-blooded violence.
Cooke distills Westlake's lean prose to concentrated bursts of scruffy chiaroscuro, looming negative space, pacing-tiger tension and ice-cold violence.
Even as the usual fighting season in Afghanistan is drawing to a close as the weather grows colder, violence has continued to plague large stretches of the country.
A parable of cold war violence, "Neighbours" shows how quickly peace devolves into chaos when people lose their heads: nobody wins.
So here's a measure of cold comfort: violence on the Mount may not be imminent, because few people expect a final deal on Jerusalem any time soon.
