Word: chillness
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...fruit desserts are especially good, and the restaurant's unique blend of coffee is excellent. No liquor is served, but you can bring your own, and the restaurant staff will chill your wine and provide you with glasses...
...like a bridge to me, or a new cycle; life coming out of death." The resulting pictures, done between 1968 and 1972, are among the solidest and least theatrical of Wyeth's work. They are also-to the extent that it is possible with naked flesh-puritanical pictures, chill in their contrasts of skin pallor and gloom, of skin against the resistant textures of grit, wood and opaque brown foliage. There is an edge of contrivance: Black Water, 1972, is much posed, and the profile of the body against its dark background is a trifle obvious as a metaphor...
...everyone did, however. As late as 1969, Michael Crichton took the basic gimmick from The War of the Worlds and turned it into the bestseller The Andromeda Strain. For millions of people, one Wellsian prediction, as headlined in the New York American in 1933, has yet to lose its Chill: H.G. WELLS VISIONS THE ENTIRE WORLD IN THE CLUTCHES OF ORGANIZED CRIME: SEES ERA OF DESERTED ROADS, FORTIFIED BANKS, BARRICADED HOMES. ∎R.Z. Sheppard
...only limited life-support chemicals. That was not the only problem. While the forward compartment's acrylic bubble acted as an insulator against the chilly (40° F.) sea, the rear compartment-where Link and Stover sat in light sports shirts and shorts-was quickly cooling off. The chill reduced the effectiveness of the chemical "scrubber," a sodium carbonate compound called Baralyme, which is used to remove exhaled carbon dioxide. To keep the chemical effective, the crew increased the air pressure inside the compartment...
...Korda's scenario, the sexes do meet. The "lowlevel satyromania" beneath the chill surface of office life engenders assorted love affairs. But because of the status scramble most liaisons are ersatz. When the colleagues of one executive discovered that contrary to the sly suggestions he liked to make, he was really not sleeping with his pretty secretary, the poor chap felt obliged to fire her and take another job himself. Here, as elsewhere, Korda often chooses an odd example, then proceeds on the assumption that it is some kind of norm. In real life, secretaries are often victimized...