It occurred to him, with a feeling of awful coldness, that she still didn't believe what was going on.

The coldness in Christian's eyes--that awful, empty coldness, like winds blowing across barren plains--was more convincing than all Jessy's talk, her books and movies, her fevered drinking of blood.

Peter Schjeldahl once wrote about "an awful coldness" in Degas, "which is nothing less than the thin, intoxicating air on the snowy peak of the capital A in Art."

Tesla feels an awful coldness as his fingertips drop into empty eye sockets.

There was nothing there, no expression, except that awful coldness.

When he was ready, that awful coldness of doubt rose once more in his belly.

As she watched it, an awful coldness seemed to slide up out of the ground and possess her whole body.

Lansing felt the awful coldness of its pain gripping at his chest, as if a great fist had grabbed him and was slowly squeezing.

The awful coldness of loss wrapped itself again around his heart and squeezed.

Knowing it brought on a horrible feeling of despair that sometimes crept up on her and filled her brain with an awful, empty, rotten coldness.