In places it sounds like an homage to the Modern Jazz Quartet: cool, clipped, gelidly beautiful. |
Veiny swaths of polyester resin rest on wooden backings, their texture by turns gelidly smooth or ulcerous, suggesting human hides or irregular spills of melting fat. |
The United States Supreme Court, however, was not the colonial judiciary. It gelidly declined to co-operate with Washington. |
Those lights of human intelligence losing human expression, gelidly protruding like the alien eyes of certain uncatalogued creatures of the deep. |