Sentence examples for in her chilly from inspiring English sources

We meet death herself, cranky and overworked, in her chilly cave.

When she arrives in her chilly flat, Hal tears open her damp meal of takeout fish and chips and surveys the overdue notices that have arrived in that day's mail.

But today, gripping a hot cup of tea for warmth in her chilly room in the Palace of Westminster and freshly returned from a family camping holiday in America, she concedes: "I have talked to Gordon Brown, yep.

Not in the dated American slang sense — with which he is familiar because he was once married to a woman from New England (that overeducated and thorny beauty would never have used the phrase, but somehow in her chilly Puritan environs he brushed against it and picked it up like a burr) — but in a literal sense: she resembles a doll.

The inevitable romance, when it arrives in the person of a French bistro owner, Fanny (Marion Cotillard), whom he covets at first sight, is a half-baked affair in which her chilly resistance thaws faster than ice cream in a microwave.

And when she does turn up in all her chilly grace, it takes a while for us to register -- because perhaps the last time we saw her on screen was in Bertolucci's The Sheltering Sky -- that this fascinating, aloof creature is played by none other than Debra Winger.

Constance unpacked her clothing that first night in her strange chilly room, brushed her teeth, plumped the pillows on her new bed, set the alarm.

Each has a separate narratorial voice: just behind Constance's shoulder in her chapter; chilly with irony for Emmet; and in Dan's section, an observing and desiring "we" that speaks for the gay community.

On the computer screen at her busy but organised desk in her Arctic-chilly east London studio, are some plans and renderings for the two shows she is working on for 2004.

We were sitting in her big, dim, chilly office.

Her books' "bright comic surface belies a dark subtext of sin, incest, murder and betrayal," Ms. Kakutani wrote, adding that "cuckoldry and sexual gamesmanship thrive in her novels, and a chilly air of malice (or at the very least manipulation) that's reminiscent of Muriel Spark's work hovers over her characters".