icy calm

Frequency: 5.72.5 per million words

a cold, controlled, and unfriendly quietness

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Examples (20)

  • He listened to the accusations with an icy calm that was more terrifying than rage.
  • She maintained an icy calm throughout the crisis.
  • With an icy calm, the surgeon delivered the grim diagnosis.
  • His icy calm frightened everyone in the room.
  • The general's voice maintained an icy calm as he gave the order to retreat.
  • Despite the chaos, he spoke with icy calm.
  • She surveyed the wreckage of her car with a strange, icy calm.
  • The killer's icy calm was chilling to witness.
  • Her trademark icy calm made her an intimidating opponent in negotiations.
  • She faced her accusers with an icy calm.
  • Despite the chaos around him, a feeling of icy calm descended upon him.
  • Beneath his icy calm, he was actually terrified.
  • "There's no need to raise your voice," she said, her voice a mask of icy calm.
  • He handled the emergency with icy calm.
  • When he finds out, he won't shout; he'll react with that icy calm of his.
  • He reacted to the bad news with icy calm.
  • Throughout the entire interrogation, he has maintained an icy calm.
  • Her icy calm demeanor hid her true feelings.
  • An icy calm fell over the boardroom after the CEO announced the mass layoffs.
  • Maintaining an icy calm is essential in this dangerous job.