Adverb
In a cold manner; without warmth, animation, or feeling; with indifference; calmly.
Source: Webster's dictionaryState is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people'. Friedrich Nietzsche
Alone! - that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE! Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly intellectual task. Martha Stout
There's a cool web of language winds us in, Retreat from too much joy or too much fear: We grow sea-green at last and coldly die In brininess and volubility. Robert Graves
Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly. Anne Lamott
A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future. Garrett Hardin