Sentence examples for formal cold from inspiring English sources

"Last Year at Marienbad" was "a milestone in the history of the cinema," Mr. White said, "its formal, cold beauty and ever-shifting levels of reality, its gorgeous black-and-white camera work and its unforgettable performance by Delphine Seyrig were widely influential at the time".

The history of the building — the U.S. Interests Section — and the people who have worked in it over the years tell the story of the foibles of U.S.-Cuban relations, a kind of vacillating status of formal Cold War foes who at times have shared private chats, mojitos and barbecues.

"The clear preference is not to have a formal cold-war style set of negotiations that produces a 300-page document that lays out what can be done and what cannot be done by two adversaries," a senior official said.

It was easy to be formal and cold in English".

There was something about the people – although they seemed foreign and formal and cold – that suited me.

Maria, on the contrary, remained formal and cold in her relationship to the children, very much in keeping with her general character.

She is on safer territory when she suggests that Romanticism was a revolt against the formal, the cold and the logical.

She learned that Robert had two cats, named Mu and Yan, and together they invented a complicated scenario in which her childhood cat, Pita, would send flirtatious texts to Yan, but whenever Pita talked to Mu she was formal and cold, because she was jealous of Mu's relationship with Yan.

Dostoyevsky's Petersburg is the city of unrelieved poverty; "magnificence has no place in it, because magnificence is external, formal abstract, cold".

"They wanted openness and lightness, nothing too formal or too cold.

What it is is a cold, formal landscape, and deliberately so.