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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.

Woolly


Definition:

  • (a.) Consisting of wool; as, a woolly covering; a woolly fleece.
  • (a.) Resembling wool; of the nature of wool.
  • (a.) Clothed with wool.
  • (a.) Clothed with a fine, curly pubescence resembling wool.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There is a significant group of disorders which present with unruly hair, and these have been described under all manner of titles, including crinkly, woolly, kinky, crimped, frizzly, steely, spunglass, in an attempt to define their clinical appearance.
  • (2) Analysis of these human competitor proteins with homologous assay systems of viral core proteins and corresponding antisera showed that all, including the normal tissue extracts, appear similar to core proteins of known viruses, especially the RD 114 and woolly monkey species.
  • (3) Our physiologic, clinical and pathologic studies suggest that woolly monkeys develop hypertension spontaneously and could be a useful model for the study of human hypertension.
  • (4) The binding protein from Rauscher and woolly monkey type-C viruses was the fastest migrating of the virion proteins in SDS-polyacrylamide gels and thus is designated p10 according to previous convention although our estimates of molecular weight were 8-9,000 daltons.
  • (5) However, the sarcoma virus genome could be rescued from these NF cells by co-cultivation with cells carrying "helper" Kirsten mouse leukemia virus or Woolly Monkey leukemia virus.
  • (6) But the Labour leader has only himself to blame because of his hopelessly woolly response to a question on this in his BBC interview on Monday.
  • (7) Electron microscope and gel electrophoresis studies show that the high-molecular-weight (50 to 70S) RNA extract from Friend virus (FV) is a dimer with the same basic structure previously observed for the RNAs from RD-114 virus, baboon virus, and woolly monkey virus.
  • (8) Cell lines transformed by woolly monkey sarcoma virus (WSV) in the absence of infectious virus production were analyzed for the expression of woolly monkey helper viral p30, p12, and gp70 antigens.
  • (9) Whereas mouse gs antigen was clearly detectable in tissue culture cells of several mouse strains, the respective gs antigens of rat, cat, Chinese hamster, woolly monkey, and gibbon ape were not detectable in cells of those species, using assays of comparable sensitivity.
  • (10) Her time among the Jaeger rails showed her that while customers (like those at M&S) tended to be well into middle age, that didn't mean they wanted elasticated waists and sensible woollies.
  • (11) This study describes the differential distribution of enkephalin-positive woolly fibers and acetylcholinesterase staining on adjacent sections in both the monkey and human basal forebrain area in an attempt to define the relationship between the basal ganglia and the basal nucleus of Meynert.
  • (12) Their focus on supernatural faith – on healing and speaking in tongues – is shared with LoveBristol, but E 5 put less emphasis on woolly jumpers and green politics and more on slick online videos and social media .
  • (13) Acquired progressive kinking of hair is an entity distinct from woolly hair in its onset at or after puberty, predominant involvement of frontal, temporal, and vertex regions of the scalp as well as the supra-auricular and postauricular margins, and a tendency for affected hairs to resemble pubic hair both in texture and color.
  • (14) So far, approximately 48 patients with woolly hair nevus have been described in the world literature.
  • (15) It sounds terribly woolly, and it is – the report is full of "principles of stewardship", memorandums of understanding and statements of best practice.
  • (16) Deep inside these caves, however, their minds moved to different matters and artists concentrated instead on the more majestic animals – mammoths and woolly rhinos – that then populated the Dordogne.
  • (17) As in the woolly animal, vasomotor responses were disorganized, although there was a tendency towards vasodilation.4.
  • (18) The degradation and excretion of 2-14C-uric acid were examined in three adult woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagothrichia) to determine the basis for the relatively high serum and urinary uric acid concentrations previously reported in this species.
  • (19) Murine (Rauscher, Ki-MuLV, AT-124 and two other xenotropic viruses), feline, RD-114 and Simian (woolly monkey and baboon) type-C viruses possessed the ability to rescue the sarcoma genome from NP cells but not AKR leukemia virus.
  • (20) Muscle spindles were sought in peri-auricular muscles of several primate species (rhesus monkey, woolly monkey, and baboon).

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