icily
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Djrum, the project of British musician Felix Manuel, issued “Under Tangled Silence,” an icily pretty record that combined jazzy and neoclassical piano flourishes with fleet and skittering drum programming borrowed from ’90s styles like jungle.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025
Caroline hugs Ken, and after icily embracing Shiv, kicks off a baby reveal exchange for the ages.
From Salon • May 22, 2023
When I pointed out that used bathing suits are akin to used underwear and that no one sells them secondhand, she said, icily: “Cultural differences.”
From Slate • Jun. 3, 2021
Sean Connery carried it off with icily disdainful style, perhaps at the baccarat table, in full evening dress with a cigarette hanging from his lips.
From The Guardian • Aug. 25, 2020
And Longstreet had said icily, cheerily, “It will be where it will be. If you cannot find the headquarters of this whole army you cannot be much of a spy.”
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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