"My Architect" makes a good case that Kahn was the primary pivot away from the cool rationality of modern thought toward the contemporary search for subjective truth.
"They're just statistics," I'd say, the paragon of cool rationality.
In the beginning of the play she counters Theseus's impatience for the wedding day with a cool, imperial rationality of her own.
The project's dreamlike fragmented forms are conceived as a challenge to the cool rationality of the Enlightenment city.
The cool rationality was not.
Perhaps what some people find off-putting about these designs, in fact, is not their cool rationality.
It suggests a calculating mind, a cool rationality, underlying market behavior.
The songs seek a cool rationality that avoids both cynicism and (despite an occasional slip) self-pity; they recognize mopey introspection without drowning in it.
Isn't hyperbole the enemy of cool rationality?
Of course, he thought with cool rationality, the town, or parts of it, were haunted.