President Bush's national security strategy and Chairman Powell's national military strategy reflected major adjustments to put the system on a rational post-Cold War track.
This can't be explained wholly in cold, rational terms.
Emotional, sensitive, often egocentric artists don't respond to cold, rational arguments.
If Franco Baresi was the Apollo of defenders, cold, rational and calculating, David Luiz is the Dionysus, wild, charismatic and emotional.
When it comes to making such short-term sacrifices, most of us don't rely on a cold, rational analysis of costs and benefits.
That's why a lot of movement people aren't good organizers: It takes a special cold, rational kind of anger.
Several hours later, while trying to suppress a feeling of horror, alarm, incredulity, bafflement and a kind of cold rational rage, I woke up.
The successful children in the marshmallow test tended to be better at using their "cold" rational mechanisms to override their emotional, animalistic "hot" bits, with distraction techniques.
Finally, two days later, the Labour MP Kate Hoey told the Huffington Post that she thought the agreement needed "a cold, rational look", and that the power-sharing Northern Ireland executive it mandated was "not sustainable in the long term".
