A somber presence at the Jerusalem meeting he is said to have engineered, Jakovos kept a cool distance from the hoopla. (religion-online.org)
As a Canadian outsider, Cronenberg brings a cool distance to Wagner's vision of how Tinseltown's celebs and exploiters are too crazed to see how their hungers are consuming them; fire is the movie's purging force. (filmcomment.com)
Glen Fogel takes a cool distance to the nostalgic overtones that occupy his work by exaggerating his object's mode of display — transforming the sentimental with a hyperactive presentation of its value. (bard.edu)