As a young girl, I internalized the messages of these songs, tried to mimic their coolness and beauty.
Clarissa, famously, buys the flowers herself, and that allows her to enjoy the coolness, stillness, and beauty of the flower shop; the same, Woolf suggests, happens in Clarissa's inner life, where her heightened feelings are allowed to stay pure, untouched.
First, apologize immediately for your coolness, your class, your distracting beauty, or whatever it is that either imagine people see in you or you know to be true.
There are also contests of coolness, cuteness, toughness, smartness and beauty!
Does beauty bespeak shallowness or coolness?
First came a group of songs adroitly planned to let the artists move from, for example, delicacy ("Modenschein") to force ("Wehe, so willst du mich wieder") and end with extreme beauty, poignant in its coolness ("Lerchengesang").
Coolness is, well, cool these days.
The city's downtown has been that way for years: highly walkable, with pockets of real beauty and charm, forever promising a sleepy coolness that never quite materialized.
Her response to books is daring, sharp; she allows for mystery, beauty, strangeness, but she also allows for complexity, coolness, distance.
Anderson shares their self-discipline; their coolness under pressure; their appreciation of the exacting work ethic behind the beauty of objects; and their physical joy in the presence of danger.
