He succeeds, and in so doing gives the picture its out-of-time stillness, which for some people makes it seem chilly, boring or robotically weird: Sunday Afternoon in the Twilight Zone.
It all seems chilly and lifeless from up there".
Yet there are qualities that don't so much bridge the categories as recur in them: moral passion and an irony that seems chilly until it's used as a branding iron.
Theseus's court, where desire is constrained within marriage and a rather cruel humour reigns, seems chilly and formal in comparison.
It may not seem chilly at all when you first step out, but you're likely to be standing or lying motionless for quite awhile, waiting for the next 'good one', the dampness of the early hours will take its toll.
So although there are hints that cold snaps hasten upheavals and spark some forms of social stress, it seems that chilly temperatures could be off the hook when it comes to causing crime at least for now.
"All Over," for instance, may have seemed chilly and remote when it had its New York premiere 31 years ago.
But the cavernous lobby, while undeniably chic, seemed chilly.
He deftly illuminated the harmonic details of "Les Adieux," but in general the playing seemed chilly and overly eccentric.
They alternated, though, with periods that make the modern tropics seem chilly: the planet's average temperature was sometimes as high as 50°C.
They were cut off by China this year after Washington sold weapons to Taiwan, and military officials still seem chilly toward the United States.
