Novitzky answered Ruby's questions coolly, often locking eyes with the jurors when answering.
That strategic fact of life and death invites the question that coolly consistent sophists love to ask: If we are disinclined to attack the nuclear buildup in North Korea, why are we hot to attack a somewhat less imminent threat of mass destruction from Iraq? Saddam Hussein is a recent, serial aggressor, while totalitarian North Korea has not launched an invasion in the past half-century.
But after her waffling, pompous colleagues it was a relief today as she asked sharp, precise, coolly scornful questions.
Wilson coolly deflect questions about actual gun violence, in particular the Sandy Hook massacre, shifting into a higher register loaded with intellectualized abstractions.
For two and half hours he coolly fielded questions from a group of 35 select committee chairmen on hot-button topics.
"So I'm told," she says coolly on the question of whether greater visibility increases the impact of failure.
Mr. Grey coolly fielded benign questions from a deferential prosecutor.
Born in Dhaka and raised in England, Ali herself appears to take no stand on such questions: her authorial presence is coolly unobtrusive, as though she has disappeared into her characters' points of view, into their ideological and moral assumptions.
The interview was broadcast on 26 June 1960; according to his biographer Selena Hastings, Waugh restrained his instinctive hostility and coolly answered the questions put to him by Freeman, assuming what she calls a "pose of world-weary boredom".
Even so, she swept into a Senate office building and coolly responded to reporters' questions.
In this way, the questions of crime and punishment are coolly, indirectly raised.
