He dispenses a mixture of theology and governance that chills with its casual certainties and its disregard for political and human implications.
He wrote verse that chills with its sense of ominous consequence for lost innocence: An infected wind weeps in our garden; Before our house, a scarlet lantern glows; Death's silver razors play, like fiddle bows, White music on the throats of pious calves.
Most believe that chilling with ice subdues the complex flavors of single malts.
Gertrude picks up a cup at the end, and walks around with it -- but gone is that chilling line announcing her present death, "The Queen carouses to thy health, Hamlet".
The poem recreates that chill with the parched matter-of-factness of its conclusion, beyond which life seems, at least momentarily, unimaginable.
Chase off that chill with a lightweight cardigan layered over your dress.
Washington clearly has a stake in the global battle against HIV/AIDS, but how do we reconcile that urgent need with the chilling fact that black men in the nation's capital experience rates of HIV that rival that of Sub-saharan Africa?
"The banality of 'Love Story,' " Newsweek said, "makes 'Peyton Place' look like 'Swann's Way' as it skips from cliché to cliché with an abandon that would chill even the blood of a True Romance editor".
And even though that night was only his fourth day of work, he was familiar with the chill of that air and the scent of the raw meat, the tomatoes and the chopped onions that were stored inside.
The recreational body-shaming of female celebrities matters to a great many people who look at what you have had to deal with and are reminded, with a familiar chill, that whatever women and girls achieve, we are nothing if we do not conform to society's demented definitions of beauty.
