He examined the cold-eyed, sallow, hate-filled face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noble House]

He must pay whatever the cold-eyed creditor demanded.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859] Reference

Mr. Duperreault has a cold-eyed view of the challenge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marsh on Cusp of Outcomes] Reference

He was like Giuseppe, young, hard, cold-eyed and quick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying Finish]

But I'm a cold-eyed realist when it comes to the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: George W. Bush Holds Campaign Rally in Duluth, Georgia - March 1, 2000] Reference

I will be a cold-eyed realist when it comes to the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: McCain and Bush on Campaign Trail in California - March 6, 2000] Reference

They walk around cold-eyed, like billboards about nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Them] Reference

His support for Clinton was cold-eyed and somewhat resigned.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bluegrass Battle] Reference

But McNamara had long since lost his air of cold-eyed stoicism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Riddle of Robert McNamara] Reference

The messenger looks from the cold-eyed woman to the troopers behind her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic of Recluce]

Not this cold-eyed, dark-skinned manling who kills wasps with his fingers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ender's Game]

One by one they fell before the cold-eyed warrior and his terrible blades.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last Sword Of Power]

Personally, I didn't trust the cold-eyed vendor either, but I asked, "Why?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Leave a Message for Willie]

And across the Channel waited a sinister, cold-eyed figure clothed in black.    From Wordnik.com.  [England Under Hitler]

Rider and Edgar were to intimidate her with their silence and their cold-eyed stares.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trunk Music]

High walls and soul-less rooms, and cold-eyed messengers with offers of gold for death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waylander]

He proudly calls himself a "realist," which is true: there is no more cold-eyed man in politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Riding The Wave] Reference

He drew rein and stared at the cold-eyed men while Lekky shrank against him, shivering with fear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last Sword Of Power]

She had given it a cold-eyed look and walked away without even the formality of taking its scent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wrong Woman] Reference

Beran entered the room, and halted, surveying the clansmen, who turned cold-eyed faces toward him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Languages of Pao]

"I'll smash it!" he shrieked at the cold-eyed boy bearing down on him like death's sleekest engine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wizard and Glass]

He didn't, but the expression on that hard, cold-eyed face made it pretty clear that he would like to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Blood]

But he is also a cold-eyed realist, and a deft legislator who is not always ideologically predictable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mcconnell's Challenge] Reference

Aberius lifted his head to stare cold-eyed at the Red Hawk's lieutenant, a ferret confronting a mastiff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Invincible]

"Our regrets," Borosage said, cold-eyed, flexing his hands, and I wondered what it was he was regretting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreamfall]

So a cold-eyed disgust with the world leads to something not too distant from Voltaire's cultiver son jardin.    From Wordnik.com.  [La carte et le territoire by Michel Houellebecq – review] Reference

Yet depending on the times, statesmen in Washington tend to toggle between crusading moralism and cold-eyed pragmatism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sorry, Sudan] Reference

Captain Kraljevac gave them passes which permitted their passage through the cold-eyed guardians of the Beklavac narrows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Swordbearer]

He looked appealingly at Lee, knowing he was the most chicken-hearted of his uncles, but Lee was cold-eyed and disinterested.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maura's Game]

A fascinating aspect of this gift is that the folksy Buffett, usually a cold-eyed tax whiz, isn't being at all tax-efficient.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Truth About Buffett's Tax Bill] Reference

Pamela is on her feet before him, the chair evaporated in a puff of continuity clipping, her expression a cold-eyed challenge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

Some time later, Haralachan strode from his chambers in his elegant dark robes, the very image of controlled, cold-eyed royalty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chaos Gate]

To the Thracian King, Cotys, he sent a long letter assuring him of friendship; but carrying the assurance was the cold-eyed Attalus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lion Of Macedon]

However it was, I went first, with Vyland and the two cold-eyed men we'd found waiting in the little steel room following close behind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fear is the Key]

But his real gift was in handling his career, which he managed with as much cold-eyed detachment as any other property in his portfolio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Building Arnold] Reference