How to Use cold-eyed in a Sentence

cold-eyed

adjective

• Beneath them was a relentless worker and a cold-eyed political operator who, almost alone among the wives of French presidents, built a base of power that was her own.
  — ABC News, 6 June 2026
• The patriarch would like the ladies and Coleman to join him forthwith in Mexico; the letter’s bearer – a cold-eyed brute named Amos Turlow – will serve as guide.
  — Erin Douglass, Christian Science Monitor, 26 Nov. 2025
• The setting, which changes from a blank Brutalism to a trailer-park-home installation suggesting one of Arnold’s cold-eyed dioramas, creates its own theatrical coup.
  — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026
• Played by a Colman Domingo who is done up to look the most wax figurine of them all in a shellacking of makeup, prosthetics, and colored contacts, Joe is always either giving an avaricious open-mouthed leer or a cold-eyed glare.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2026
• Yet, however eager the demonstrations of Denmark’s contribution and NATO’s collective goodwill may be, a more cold-eyed rationale may lie beneath their surface.
  — Lisa Abend, Time, 18 Jan. 2026