For understandable reasons, Miamians were swept up in the emotion of what was clearly a cold-blooded act of murder.

It was the most brutal and cold-blooded act Tom had ever known.

"For this cold-blooded act" he was immediately apprehended and was locked up in a windowless room.

Oh, you're so quick to see it as a calculated, cold-blooded act, aren't you?

For an instant, she doubted that she could really carry out such a grisly, cold-blooded act.

It was a cold-blooded act of pure enjoyment.

"This was a cold-blooded act of will aimed at the United States and Israel."

Winnie, as the tabloids called her, claimed self-defense; the prosecution called it a cold-blooded act of murderous jealousy.

But for his victims, and for him, it would be nothing more than a cold-blooded act of butchery.

Ninco Nanco became soon known for his cold-blooded and ferine acts.