And, while homeowners are cautioned to think of more than the bottom line, banks, naturally, have done business in coldly rational terms.

Death seems to have an emotional problem when it comes to the Eternal apprentice--the mention of the name alone is enough to get the specter to lose its coldly rational head.

He was coldly rational at first.

It was insidious, that voice, and tempting, and a coldly rational core of her knew it was even right.

No, this event had been done for a purpose by coldly rational men.

Some researchers remain skeptical that the human mind works like the coldly rational Bayesian machine suggested by the Nature paper.

A coldly rational part of his mind weighed his thinking and found the balance uncertain.

In reviews of the story, Loomis tends to be regarded as a coldly rational scientist obsessed with controlling the valley to ensure the survival of remaining plant and animal species.

Shed froze, suddenly coldly rational.

An emotional commitment to one's spouse is valuable in the economist's coldly rational cost-benefit calculus because it promotes investments that both partners want to make.