Not in the dated American slang sense — with which he is familiar because he was once married to a woman from New England (that overeducated and thorny beauty would never have used the phrase, but somehow in her chilly Puritan environs he brushed against it and picked it up like a burr) — but in a literal sense: she resembles a doll.
"When you see real Rococo, it's chilly, icy somehow, like expressionism that's been embalmed," he said.
We consumed a steady diet of hashish and Snickers bars and ended up in a blizzard that killed several hikers but somehow left us only chilly.
The magazine version of summer is easily dismissed, the standard shorthand that frames my imperfect/perfect, chilly, wild summers as somehow ersatz.
Sexually ambiguous and somehow nave, earnest but a little chilly, she managed to use that affectlessness-as-brainpower persona that had already invaded television commercials, stand-up comedy and sitcoms.
Basically a gang of guerilla hookers armed with video cameras, they started incorporating vaginal close-ups into chilly, existential tripe and somehow disguised porno as high-art cinema.
The fear was that – for all his oratorical brilliance – Obama somehow lacked empathy, that he was a slightly chilly, aloof figure, that he struggled to connect emotionally.
You might flatter yourselves that you can read between the lines, and that what is unspoken is somehow more profound for being unsaid, and all that chilly posh English bollocks.
Suddenly noticing that I looked a little chilly — I had felt that it would somehow be in poor taste to get dressed before Fuller did, and while he was talking — he quickly put his clothes back on and then led the way to the house at a fast trot, pausing only to pick up an exceptionally good example of "our friend tetrahedron".
