In English, many things are named after a particular country – but have you ever wondered what those things are called in those countries?
- He comes across as harsh and cold-hearted, but is not afraid to show Keel's warmer side if need be.
- It's hard to empathise with a cold-hearted man who, in developing the electric chair, first practised on household pets.
- But every man wants home to be a safe refuge from the cold-hearted world.
- Police made the gruesome discovery a few days later and soon arrested the cold-hearted woman after piecing together the sorry story.
- Before Logan came into my life, all those rumours you probably heard about me being a cold-hearted and uncaring cheerleader were all true.
- Surely this wasn't the cold-hearted harpy that had spurned my affections.
- Officers say these people are the ‘lowest of the low’, and that even seasoned criminals will condemn their cold-hearted behaviour.
- Nothing wrong with that, a cold-hearted capitalist might argue.
- Why does it surprise anyone that a company involved in a cruel business would act in a cruel, cold-hearted manner?
- Before you think that I sound cold-hearted and callous, I want to point out that I've worked with the handicapped before.
- You want cold-hearted, single, Ferrari-driving professionals.
- I couldn't believe how cold-hearted my own mother was being.
- American women were conservative back then, and they thought this man was cold-hearted and so they did not vote for him and he almost lost.
- From his first appearance, Waugh wore the air of the silent but deadly gunslinger, a steely-eyed, cold-hearted winner.
- At first, we thought that the world was too cold-hearted.
- I didn't want him to be the cold-hearted stranger he had been earlier… I wanted his laughter, his warmth.
- Just to show we are not the cold-hearted, ambulance-chasers of popular myth we have brought you some good news this week.
- He dispels the well-travelled myth that, in order to achieve, successful individuals must be cold-hearted and clinical.
- It's a move that is so cold-hearted and so profoundly dishonorable that it could only have been made by people who have lost all moral direction.
- Scotland hasn't produced too many cold-hearted sportsmen with the killer's instinct for an awful long time.
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