Sentence examples for more cold calculation from inspiring English sources

One has only to read the statements or listen to the audiotapes of terrorist leaders to detect more cold calculation than what Burleigh terms obsessional killing rage.

It can emerge out of nothing more than the cold calculation of self-interest.

In other words, his decision was based more on a cold calculation of business and financial interests than a visit from the Ghost of Christmas Present.

Either out of fear — some have said that the squad was fired on — or out of cold calculation, they gunned down more than a dozen villagers before retreating to the port of Vung Tau.

Hitz, in considering le Carré's classic, "The Spy Who Came In From the Cold," observes that when agencies violate agents' trust, it's more often due to "bureaucratic ineptitude" than to "cold calculation".

He commits his crime with cold calculation, which makes all the more bitter the revelation (in a "where are they now" sequence during the credits) that he received but a slap on the wrist for a double homicide.

Perhaps, in a more reticent age, he hesitated to describe such a cold calculation in print.

Brokers say that younger buyers, especially those under 30, often approach their first home with cold calculation and an appetite for risk more often associated with real estate moguls.

I think this movie captures a sense of cold calculation, which might mean, at times, truncating the characters' more inner workings in favor of emphasizing how astute their instabilities are.

In fact I couldn't help wishing the confrontation had played out the other way round: I've always preferred the cold calculation of Roose, a man who, like Tywin Lannister, made cruel decisions for entirely pragmatic and thus far more scary reasons to the more crude psychopathy of a Joffrey or a Ramsay.

No more cold showers.