Time magazine drew attention to the film's wooden acting, especially on the part of Eastwood, though a few critics such as Vincent Canby and Bosley Crowther of The New York Times praised Eastwood's coolness in playing the tall, lone stranger.
Wisden described Hirst as playing "a great game", noted the coolness of his play under pressure and said that "Hirst's innings was in its way almost as remarkable as Jessop's".
"He had a calmness and a coolness to his play".
Hence the hysteria of fear and rage into which she disintegrates, a thing it would be painful to watch were it not for the persistent dry coolness of the play as it observes these important public people, these distinguished incompetent rhetoricians: a sceptical reserve embodied in the Friar's eye that glints behind the curtain.
Pop culture, drama and coolness are still in play, but the source for much of the imagery is now the Internet.
My reservations about Mr. Pollini have never been about the supposed emotional coolness of his playing.
Mr. Robbins plays with coolness as well as confidence, making space for equal contributions by partners like the tenor saxophonist Sam Sadigursky and the keyboardist Eliot Cardinaux.
Yet on Wednesday night when the superb French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet played an all-French program at Carnegie Hall, his first solo recital there, it was hard to avoid thinking that the restraint, the touch of coolness, even, in his playing was in some way essentially French.
But what impressed more than any of those things was the intelligence of the players, the patience and coolness they showed in playing out from the back, and their ability to push fame to one side and treat each opponent on the merit of his two legs, rather than the weight of his CV.
For "Au Bord," he cited Schiller: "In the whispering coolness begins young nature's play".
