The chorus becomes a moral commentator; he uses archaic music to deliver a chilly message.
Even the ever-bickering Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel have had reunions, most recently delivering a chilly performance at the Grammy Awards last month.
But Cate Blanchett, adept at delivering the chilly surface of complicated human beings, doesn't set out to soften Guerin's edginess as she puts marriage and family ties to one side and attempts to crack a big drug ring.
But while Mr. Schrader is a deeply serious moralist who pulls you into worlds of churning emotion, Mr. Ellis delivers shocks at a chilly, seemingly noncommittal distance.
Fortunately, Kidman delivers... her performance is muted but reliably intense, hinting at wounded depths beneath Franklin's implacably chilly exterior... Grandage's production is a worthy effort, but a little passionless, inherently limited in dramatic force by its subject matter.
A chilly Jocasta monologue delivered in Irish brogue is followed by something more Shepard-esque: two detectives examining a roadside murder scene in the American southwest.
Dried chillies tend to deliver their heat more slowly.
On a chilly Wednesday evening, after delivering a speech to the Senate in support of a voting reform provision, Senator Schumer was driven by a young aide back to the D Street house, where he will give a tour.
The chillies don't always deliver a whack of heat.
Mr. Bush joked recently to Jay Leno on the "Tonight" show that his "little brother recognizes that Thanksgiving might be a little chilly" if he does not deliver Florida.
