To see those three black words stark on the page brought the whole mad idea into a cold clarity that struck me to the bone.

Then, with a cold and sudden clarity, he realized they were clues.

The only light was starlight, but it illuminated everything with a cold clarity.

Now, cold clarity governed his mind, My one true love is dead.

His mind was still working with cold clarity; he must take advantage of the brief respite from Pan fair.

Sten wondered, in a moment of cold clarity, what the woodcock felt.

She saw her situation with a fresh, cold clarity.

Immunity to personal fear often made personal danger stand out with precise cold clarity when it came.

Like him, she thought, with a cold clarity.

However, as brightness lengthened across the land, the same cold clarity waxed within.