What's the difference between coolly and nonchalantly?

Coolly


Definition:

  • (a.) Coolish; cool.
  • (adv.) In a cool manner; without heat or excessive cold; without passion or ardor; calmly; deliberately; with indifference; impudently.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unlike a similar tale across Stanley Park recently, when Kevin Mirallas ousted Leighton Baines and missed from the spot, Balotelli coolly sent Cenk Gonen the wrong way and Liverpool were reprieved.
  • (2) We don’t need a man to help us or lead us … We’re protagonists who defend a Podemos for everyone.” Iglesias responded coolly, saying he was convinced there would be “far better candidates”.
  • (3) Divock Origi scored a coolly taken first-half goal.
  • (4) Hence his fondness for placing the camera far away from its subjects: Hidden coolly watches as a child's small world falls apart, his cries muffled by the intervening space; and Code Unknown concludes by showing how life, likened by Haneke to a flea circus, indifferently unravels on a Paris boulevard.
  • (5) It cleverly balanced clothes with catwalk appeal and clothes for women with an eye for something coolly modern.
  • (6) In a reverse Hastie, Shorten stepped in on Thursday to save Keogh from a pressing question about how many billboards he had placed around the electorate, but not before his untroubled candidate coolly replied he was “not running a count”.
  • (7) On her own, Perkins tended to look game in her alert, coolly androgynous way, yet also a little lost, as if waiting for a prompt that wasn’t coming.
  • (8) She coolly imagines it was the 'picture with the two legs apart and the camera in the middle' that mostly shocked people.
  • (9) Interestingly, when Chinese warships sailed through US territorial waters around the Aleutian islands last month , the US military reacted coolly, saying the Chinese naval vessels passed “in a manner consistent with international law”.
  • (10) Playing through the pain barrier after taking a blow to the knee against Newcastle, Lukaku coolly matched his tally of 20 goals last season.
  • (11) As Rivelino's shot raged through, Moore killed it as coolly as he would have taken a lobbed tennis ball and strode upfield.
  • (12) Lee and Clayton linked up again and, with the angle narrowing for the former Crewe trainee, Clayton coolly slotted a first-time finish between Carson’s legs.
  • (13) A notorious paper written in 1835 by Thomas Macaulay , commenting coolly that "a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia", called for all printing in Sanskrit and Arabic to be banned, and Hindu and Muslim religious schools outlawed.
  • (14) Franken also coolly dismissed an earlier remark from Cruz that essentially amounted to telling Democrats to not ask Sessions tough questions.
  • (15) Albrighton’s perfectly weighted pass exposed the Brazilian and Vardy did the rest with the minimum of fuss, coolly dispatching a low shot inside Simon Mignolet’s near post.
  • (16) ", Hansberry coolly replied: "Well, I hadn't noticed the contradiction because I'd always been under the impression that negroes are people."
  • (17) But this idea has been received coolly in Brussels; the leader of eurozone finance ministers has said that the problems of the Italian banks are not yet serious enough to allow Renzi to override state-aid rules.
  • (18) Fuchs did not track Mata from Mkhitaryan’s killer pass and, with Morgan playing him onside in the middle, Mata shot coolly past Schmeichel.
  • (19) She is the seducer, not the seduced, a role which few women claimed in the 60s: she engineers her own loss of virginity, and coolly plants the $20 hospital bill for the "one in a million" haemorrhage that ensues upon the poor young professor whom she entraps.
  • (20) Nice for Findley, who's been underwhelming in his return to Salt Lake, to get a goal in such familiar fashion from his more effective days — using his speed to force the mistake and finishing coolly.

Nonchalantly


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a nonchalant, indifferent, or careless manner; coolly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All of this in the same tones of weary nonchalance you might use to stop the dog nosing around in the bin.
  • (2) There was nothing accidental about Saffiyah Khan’s easy nonchalance, grinning through the spitting rage of Ian Crossland at the EDL rally in Birmingham city centre at the weekend; Ieshia Evans knew there was more power in calm when she approached the police in Baton Rouge last summer.
  • (3) So it is only a fool, like me, who would walk nonchalantly around the headland during a high wind.
  • (4) In interviews during the Star Wars years, Fisher affected nonchalance about that break-up.
  • (5) Part of their appeal was their apparent nonchalance, which tended to be mistaken for cool but was really, she says, just gauche bemusement.
  • (6) Early in the second half, Rivera, with a splendid burst of individualism, flicked the ball over his head to beat one man, accelerated past two more, and sent a superb shot which the little goalkeeper almost nonchalantly fisted over the top.
  • (7) The concert has been long prepared, Josh and his friend Ahmed from the perilous estates nearby laying tracks to "Jessie Wright" and another song for Agnes – "a tribute to a girl got shot in Hoxton", Josh says, with apparent nonchalance, but a stab of sorrowful anger in his eye.
  • (8) And the streets of Athens looked like Glastonbury – minus the mud; plus the teargas … Standing in London's Greek heartland, I feel a curious detachment, a curious out-of-body nonchalance that people also describe when they're remembering a car crash.
  • (9) When I ask if his public attacks on Blatter and Fifa might have been rashly intemperate, his tone is nonchalantly defiant.
  • (10) She was characterised by her very specific sense of failure, which was rueful but nonchalant at the same time: Pearson's iconic image had Kate Reddy smashing up shop-bought mince pies to make them look as though she'd made them herself.
  • (11) As Glastonbury virgins, they treated the world's biggest festival with the same nonchalant naivety with which they'd conducted their entire career, and with the added issues of an enormous crowd and 2007's ultra-sensitive perimeter sound limiters, it made for a distant and underwhelming experience.
  • (12) It hardly needs saying how rare this is in an industry where interviewees, generally, come wobbling  at you like carnival floats, the girls with a small army of wardrobe support staff and the boys trembling from the effort of looking nonchalant in their duds.
  • (13) She stayed with my eldest daughter until I had moved house, and is now back here doing her thing, all emerald eyes and feline nonchalance.
  • (14) Creditably, McLeod retained sufficient poise to nonchalantly extend his right foot and dink the ball over the advancing Mannone.
  • (15) Given how perfect Ford’s nonchalant swagger works for the character, it seems criminal that there was ever any other option.
  • (16) I climbed too fast for vertigo to strike, scissored my legs over the railings, dropped on to concrete, rolled, picked myself up, then endeavoured to walk across the neatly trimmed lawn with a nonchalant air.
  • (17) This bullish assurance is bookended by Okoye's studied nonchalance.
  • (18) For extra kudos, hold court with the argument that the avant-bland looks on the catwalk are the natural extension of how Phoebe Philo, current queen of catwalk cool, has made the tradition of giving artistic and retro references to a collection look old hat by her habit of shrugging nonchalantly and insisting the clothes she designs are just, y'know, stuff she wants to wear.
  • (19) Of course it’s nice to be up 1-0 and not 0-1, but we didn’t play that well and we’re going to have to do it much, much better on Sunday … they are more athletic than us and stronger than us.” Recovered from an ankle injury, Spurs guard Tony Parker contributed 19 points and reacted to questions about the heat with nonchalance.
  • (20) Yet no matter how many people are bellowing at him, Lansley perpetually wears the nonchalant expression of a man killing time by humming cheerfully in a lift.

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