froideur

• Quicksand (Kitsune), clones the froideur of Jackson's favourite decade with love and skill, and makes for nagging pop with emotional substance. —  Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk
• Once expunged from his life, his adversaries are dismissed with glacial froideur. —  Home | Mail Online
• And it is evident today as she sits in the corner of the sofa, a marriage of passion and primness - the polo neck, brooch, skirt that falls at a tasteful point above the knee, counterbalanced by the throaty laugh, and the famous Deneuve froideur somewhat measured by the smirk that occasionally plays across her lips. —  Film | guardian.co.uk
• The froideur between mother and daughter is indicated, stated, even resolved at the finale, but never dramatized. —  The New Yorker
• I'm interested, however, that he brings up the matter of Kidman's initial casting in "The Reader," as I've long wondered her tense, discomfiting froideur might have served the role, and the film, more effectively. —  In Contention

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