Example Sentences

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But the airstrike was calculatingly limited: The rockets and missiles were intercepted, and damage was minimal.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2024

“The Conservatives selected him quite coolly, quite calculatingly, because they thought he was a winner,” Professor Garton Ash said.

From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2022

While not essential to casual filmgoers, the study helpfully dissects, for Hitchcock obsessives, this most calculatingly self-conscious director’s methods and compulsions.

From Washington Post • Apr. 12, 2021

My bipolar delusions were never so calculatingly self-serving.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 4, 2019

There was a certain prim set to her mouth, and her eyes, as she looked at him, were calculatingly cool.

From Stubble by Looms, George