The mind manipulation is stunningly precise -- cold hearted to be sure, but when trying to defraud someone, cold heartedness is a requirement.
His "technical" approach has led Husik to observe that "Ibn Daud leaves upon us the impression of a precise thinker, cold and analytical.
And then there is the incredible richness, the emotional and active expressiveness of the Russian language that's nearly unmatchable in the more precise but cold English.
An execution-style shooting that claimed many members of the same family with one shot to the head, some as they slept, sparing only two infants and a three-year-old child, at least one right next to their murdered parent the assault seems singularly precise and cold-hearted.
It would have been a very strange snap that suddenly turns a sixty-four-year-old man into a precise, impeccably organized, cold-blooded mass killer.
Precise manufacturing of cold rolled, thin, and narrow metallic strips has become more important for various applications.
It is at the edge of the petal that love waits Crisp, worked to defeat laboredness--fragile plucked, moist, half-raised cold, precise, touching.
As cold, precise and soulless as the diamonds that figure briefly in its plot, "The Counselor" is an extremely unpleasant piece of business.
Numbers, data, surgical accuracy: That's what Cutler advocated, and that's the kind of cold, precise science that NASA workers had to use to make the moon shot successful.
In her review of the volume in Strange Horizons, Victoria Hoyle writes that "there is something incredibly precise, clean, and cold about Clarke's portrayal of 'women's magic' in this story (and throughout the collection)—it is urgent and desperate, but it is also natural and in the course of things".
