Of late she'd started to treat him with a cool reserve he found upsetting.
Several generations of good breeding hid most but not all of the cool reserve in her voice.
When asked what the race has been for him, he answers with cool reserve: "One small step."
There's a cool reserve about you that is anything but Irish.
I saw the hell behind his cool reserve and sensed his terrible pain.
I wouldn't lose the cool reserve that Damian could give me, not for anything.
The cool reserve in her voice was still there, but for a moment, he saw the girl underneath the composure.
For a moment, the cool reserve that characterized her family faded.
Outwardly, the Queen was all cool reserve, but uncertainty shot through with fear filled the smell of her.
He'd wondered what it would be like to peel away that cool reserve.