But it is all so coolly calculated that what comes across has the warmed-over feeling of a theatrical pose.

Luke Calder was a coolly calculating, ruthless man who would stop at nothing to get where or what he wanted.

Rune smiled without mirth, his eyes coolly calculating on her pale face.

Still, Rexford was a man who calculated coolly.

Pitt was coolly calculating the chances of escape.

He might have been caught by surprise down at Carrickmines, but ever since, he had been coolly calculating.

Even Kerry seems coolly calculating about himself.

She met his eyes in that moment, saw that they were calm and coolly calculating, and felt a quiver of anger at her own weakness.

THERE was an almost prophetic note in the speaker's voice, as though he had coolly calculated the future.

Tears splashed his round cheeks and he made no move to wipe them away, a choice that seemed both purely childlike and coolly calculated.