icy
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Elizabeth Debicki plays the queen bee, a bully born into high status as the doctor’s daughter, whose icy lavender gowns contrast crisply against Colman’s hand-knitted rags.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
But there’s no icy chill to his vision, only the glib confidence that a feel-good montage or a piercing Anohni and the Johnsons ballad will blind us to his film’s lack of human connection.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
When he first touched down in the U.S. in early June, he was best known to the rest of the world as an icy goal machine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Whenever he has the chance, Haaland also chops wood and plunges his enormous body into icy water.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
He tried to picture her ancestors trudging across that icy bridge.
From "I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964" by Lauren Tarshis
What killed in Austin drew a decidedly icier reception in Boston.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
But as harp seals move north to colder, icier habitats, such as off Baffin Island, they may face a new threat: polar bears.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 23, 2024
In more frigid and icier environments, they depended more on animals and fish.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
In New York City, where the snowfall totals ranged widely — four inches on Staten Island, 8.3 inches in Manhattan, 13.1 inches in Queens — life was largely back to normal on Sunday, if icier.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2022
The broad-leafed trees become smaller, there are more pines, the air cools, the sky turns an icier blue: we’re heading away from spring.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
"That day will come as surely as spring comes after even the iciest of winters," he insisted from the dock, addressing anyone who might hear, against all the odds.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2023
His final trek to history began under the iciest conditions.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2023
The new study indicates that one of the world’s coldest and iciest regions has already hit that threshold.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 20, 2023
After wallowing around in the gross-out bad behavior of the Sokes, Thurman is the ray of sunshine that melts even the iciest Chicago snow; the sweetness that cuts through the acid.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2016
I shot Mom the iciest look I could give.
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez
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