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.