Word: froid
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...Froid, Mont. and Adams House...
...guys; I thought he was a bad guy. Maybe that's why I also assumed that his surname rhymed with lizard. (It's GrizZARD.) Later, catching up with his early work, I wondered if studio casting directors were as naive as I was - if they saw some steely sang-froid in his playing of these roles that persuaded them he was too chilly a presence for Hollywood stardom...
...smiling Sarkozy. Ségolène Royal offered no such platitudes. "This is a debate of ideas," she demurred, saying that she has "a different vision of France's future" than her opponent. At one point in the debate she boasted that she had beaucoup de sang-froid. No one's likely to disagree. But it may not matter much after Sunday's vote...
...Randy got her first training bra, he blurted it out on the air. The show's intimate, neurotic tone made watching Paar an energizing, enervating experience -Event Television.. Carson established order, control (one of his favorite words), an elastic predictability. After the Paar boil, Carson, with his sang froid and what Tynan calls "his cobra-swift one-liners," brought a cooler temperature to Tonight. He seemed to verify Marshall McLuhan's dictum that TV is a cool medium, not for shouters but for soothers. (This was before Crossfire.) He was also a dry white wine in the sweet, gushy...
...gift from the heavens to University President Lawrence H. Summers, this winter had been a hard, bitter season. Surely, though, this was no challenge the proud snowmen and snowwomen of our campus could not surmount. Surely students would live up to their predecessors’ sang froid and dash out into the freeze, defying nature...