The story has a lurid improbability that perhaps only the cool distance of journalism could overcome.

It doesn't alienate the audience, though as often as we're moved we are kept at a cool distance.

Jacob asked, his voice reaching for the same cool distance his superior had perfected.

Set on the eve of the 1968 Presidential election, the film managed a cool sociocultural distance at the time and it grows with the years.

Just where had his cool distance gone?

Miss Harris's gestures were at odds with the cool distance of her actual music-making.

"Nor with any others," she said from the cool distance of her existence.

We are far here from the cool distance of Degas.

She alternately holds her baby at a cool distance and smothers it with kisses.

The scene seemed to stretch into shadowy cool distances.