单词 | calculatingly |
例句 | Now compare that performance to Rickman’s 1988 breakout role in the action thriller “Die Hard,” a role that, for many, redefined the modern movie villain as a calculatingly pathological control freak. Alan Rickman never disappeared into a role. But that’s what made him great. 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z “To see these three young men calculatingly reduced to quivering corpses before my eyes really burned into my being.” Howard Brodie, 94, Combat and Courtroom Artist, Dies 2010-09-24T05:19:00Z With a dozen vigorous or venal characters blasting away and exposing dread family secrets, the Madea Christmas show is a calculatingly naïve, occasionally spectacular entertainment, well worth catching on Amazon or Netflix. Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas: How Low Can You Go? 2013-12-13T20:39:26Z When that pianist is the supremely gifted but calculatingly inscrutable Evgeny Kissin, it is a choice that brings one to the concert hall with a specially keen curiosity. Evgeny Kissin – review 2012-11-22T17:43:55Z While not essential to casual filmgoers, the study helpfully dissects, for Hitchcock obsessives, this most calculatingly self-conscious director’s methods and compulsions. Review | In ‘The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock,’ it’s the contradictions that made the man 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z After fleeing to London, Copley was less successful than West in keeping his politics “calculatingly obscure.” Our country’s first spin doctors: The painters of the American Revolution 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Wilde is fabulous and calculatingly cool as Devon. ‘Vinyl’ is HBO’s HBO-iest show yet. That’s mostly a good thing. 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z I greatly admire Mr. Urie, whose smart, calculatingly silly performances in both “Torch Song” and “The Government Inspector” were theater high points last year. Review: Michael Urie Puts the Madcap in Hamlet’s Madness 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z “The Conservatives selected him quite coolly, quite calculatingly, because they thought he was a winner,” Professor Garton Ash said. Boris Johnson May Be Fading Out, but Not the Divisions He Stoked 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z The problem is everything is so low-key, so calculatingly underplayed, that the stakes are never convincingly heightened. Review | ‘Captain Marvel’ — Marvel’s first movie built around a woman — is not the empowering thrill it wants to be 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z My bipolar delusions were never so calculatingly self-serving. The Mail 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z Even on editors and buyers, the most calculatingly style-conscious folks imaginable, shorts were as common a sight in Paris as cigarette smoking teenagers. Shorts Are (Finally) in Fashion 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z The way he played — instinctually, decisively, calculatingly, silently, with little movement beyond his shifting eyes and nimble fingers — meant he could play several hundred hands an hour. Las Vegas Gunman Chased Gambling’s Payouts and Perks 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Fury, not an unintelligent man, but wilfully counter-intuitive and calculatingly offensive, thinks there is a Dracula connection. Tyson Fury’s demons keep prodding him into the theatre of the absurd | Kevin Mitchell 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z Although poison was viewed as a particularly cool and calculatingly feminine murder weapon, it was not only women who chose to administer it. Sex, lies and arsenic: how the 'king of poisons' lost its crown 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z It’s a shame that the beginning of a movement that has come so far, so fast has been reduced to a trite, calculatingly manipulative reenactment. ‘Stonewall,’ about a pivotal point in gay history, misses the mark 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z He looked calculatingly beyond at the forest as he spoke, his eyes measuring the distance between the trees and his roses. Shirley Jackson: “The Man in the Woods.” 2014-04-21T04:00:00Z The doorway was not six feet from the place where he had halted and he eyed it calculatingly, noting the footing he must cross, licking his lips, eyes strained wide open. Bruce of the Circle A 2012-03-06T03:00:27.120Z Decisions should be made, to the greatest extent possible, in their absence—and, as much as possible, calculatingly, even algorithmically.” How Do You Tell If Your Boss Is A Robot? 2012-02-09T16:54:39Z A New Yorker profile in June described him as “highly ambiguous” and “calculatingly elliptical.” The Lede Blog: With Essays on Democracy, Chinese Blogger Stirs Debate Among Reformers 2011-12-27T21:29:28Z New "skids" are nicely pealed by hewing off the bark smoothly, and plentifully as well as calculatingly laid along the road. Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick 2011-10-11T02:01:03.847Z She never made herself cheap, and went out of her way to avoid men whose eyes ran calculatingly over her figure. The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z A pause followed and he looked about the room again calculatingly; then started as though he had forgotten something. Bruce of the Circle A 2012-03-06T03:00:27.120Z The sharp, Julian cast of countenance was never more pronounced, and the eagle eyes gleamed inquiringly, calculatingly. The Argus Pheasant 2011-08-27T02:00:20.160Z She looked him over again, calculatingly, as closely as she had at first, but with a different interest. The Last Straw 2011-06-27T02:00:58.100Z She looked at him calculatingly a long moment as he twirled his hat and kicked at a pebble with his boot. I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z New "skids" are nicely peeled by hewing off the bark smoothly, and plentifully as well as calculatingly laid along the road. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z He walked slowly out into the street and paused to look calculatingly at Abe. Bruce of the Circle A 2012-03-06T03:00:27.120Z He usually conducted his affairs so carefully, so shrewdly, so calculatingly. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z She emerged from fear commanding, impressive, and Hilton hesitated, putting one hand to a chair back and eyeing her calculatingly as though scheming. The Last Straw 2011-06-27T02:00:58.100Z The other drew a hand across his mouth calculatingly and jerked his hat-brim still lower. I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z Stern materialism, cold, calculatingly just, impatient with the dreamer, with no charity for lovable human frailties, has always mocked at the notion of a fanciful place where great and glorious things are going on. Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z Her husband eyed her calculatingly and rested his weight on the table once more. Bruce of the Circle A 2012-03-06T03:00:27.120Z He squinted calculatingly at me for a second or two, then addressed the mate. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z Lou Gehrig said he was lucky to live and die a Yankee, but the young DiMaggio felt Gehrig was calculatingly underpaid for all of his loyalty. Sports of The Times: Maybe Jeter Should Leave and Expand His Horizons 2010-12-01T21:09:00Z He picked it up, looked calculatingly at it, set it down, and picked up a tumbler. I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z As he halted with a swagger beside his men, one of them spoke quickly in an undertone and he looked calculatingly about the room. The Song of the Wolf He looked about him calculatingly as though wondering what was best to do first, and the man on the bed stirred uneasily. Bruce of the Circle A 2012-03-06T03:00:27.120Z I do not do Mr. Brumley as the human lover justice if I lead you to suppose that he plotted thus clearly and calculatingly. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman I 13 saw Ward, his eyes narrowed calculatingly, his body swinging forward like a whalebone spring, delivering his attack with nice accuracy. Gold Patrick denied hotly though still calculatingly, and risked a step forward, stopping when the gun instantly swung his way. The Moon is Green “There’s nothing ahead, of course,” said the conductor calculatingly. Ralph on the Overland Express The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer If the result was a man who thought half calculatingly and half heroically, it would be an exaltation for the Englishman, but a degradation for the German.—O.A.H. Gems (?) of German Thought He was never calculatingly careful of his own welfare. William Penn Mrs. Barnett's mouth simpered at the implied flattery; but her eyes, always looking calculatingly for substantial results, were studying Reedy Jenkins. The Desert Fiddler There was a certain prim set to her mouth, and her eyes, as she looked at him, were calculatingly cool. Stubble At all events, there was a pertinent suggestion in the words that met the gaze of the young engineer and caused him to halt calculatingly. Ralph on the Overland Express The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer “It will cost us twopence each,” said Pauline calculatingly, “but we can afford it; it’s nearly the day for our sixpences again.” In the Mist of the Mountains She was deliberately impulsive; calculatingly reckless; systematically chaotic. Princess Zara What he suspected was that the two were connected and that, somehow or other, the smooth gentleman who boarded and lodged with the Macombers was responsible, knowingly, calculatingly responsible for the change. Fair Harbor It broke strikes, put secret agents into manufacturing concerns to stimulate efficiency, or calculatingly and in cold blood put other agents in to wreck a concern in the interests of a rival. Joan of Arc of the North Woods As his eyes calculatingly swept stream and hills, they suddenly caught a flutter of white through the trees, and it was coming down the winding path which led across the hills to Hollis Creek. The Early Bird A Business Man's Love Story He surveys her calculatingly: he is a very keen man of the world, and he has recovered sufficiently from the peculiarity of the situation to speculate upon it with true British acumen. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 He settled his spectacles more firmly upon his nose, and ran his gaze calculatingly over the assembled voters. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul She had loved him and she had left him, deliberately, calculatingly, left him and love, for the world, the flesh and the devil—tempted by a fortune untimely directed to her hands. Burned Bridges He looked calculatingly over the table and asked, in tones that somehow seemed to tell of injury, of personal affront: "What you having supper for at this time of night?" The Seeker "Very kind of you, I'm sure, young lady," he said and turned to Mrs. Hetherington, who looked at Marcella calculatingly between narrow lids. Captivity It is a positive tragedy, this being calculatingly thrown at the head of a so-called desirable young man! The Inner Sisterhood A Social Study in High Colors She paused for a moment, and eyed them calculatingly. The Brimming Cup "Perhaps it would be wisdom on our part to kneel before the thing," said Hugh calculatingly. Nedra In the end the Browns always yielded, but grudgingly, calculatingly, never being taken by surprise. The Last Shot No dismissal could be colder, no treatment more calculatingly callous. The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry Also perhaps her knowledge of human nature, though I like to think that there are not many elder sisters so calculatingly callous as Bridget. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 28, 1917 It carefully and calculatingly distributed his riches among the members of his family, overlooking no individual of it. What Is Man? and Other Essays She had seen too much of men and women preening upon noble disinterested motives when in fact their real motives were the most calculatingly selfish; she preferred doing herself less than justice rather than more. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise The quiet stranger looked at the door calculatingly. Maggie, a Girl of the Streets Evidently he had calculatingly arrayed himself so as to appear at one and the same time as Emperor and as a field-commander. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Poll, thrust his head on one side, and looked almost calculatingly upon the svelte figure of his mistress, and said in a meaning croak, "come to dinner—the guest is hungry." Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense "The Fourth of July is a week from next Wednesday," Charley said calculatingly. The Ramblin' Kid Prudential acts, he declares, are obviously good in their consequences; they therefore deserve no praise; whatever one does calculatingly, with view to future results, has no moral worth. Problems of Conduct She already had swung back, in order, as was her wont, to hit Tamara cruelly and calculatingly; but suddenly stopped just as she was, with gaping mouth and with eyes wide open. Yama: the pit "Why no," he returned, calculatingly; "that is, if the risk is not too great." The Sea-Witch Or, the African Quadroon : a Story of the Slave Coast Gerald watched him warily, carefully, rather calculatingly, for he could not decide what he was after. Women in Love The star-flecked eyes were not upon us; they looked over and beyond—coldly, calculatingly. The Metal Monster But he had dragged it in, protesting that it should not influence the case, yet coldly, calculatingly intending it to do so. The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series Those who fall into error she beats with her own hands, beats cruelly, coolly, and calculatingly, without changing the calm expression of her face. Yama: the pit It carefully and calculatingly distributed his riches among the members of his family, overlooking no individual of it. Is Shakespeare Dead? From my autobiography. |
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