| The diplomatic exchanges between France and America are now, as they were then, icily polite at best. |
| We ended the conversation icily with my promise to mull over the other topics and to provide her with something in writing. |
| Her words rang out crystalclear, more musical than the cooing of the ringdove, but they cut the silence icily. |
| So I tend to like warm-hearted people rather than those who are icily perfect. |
| You know that the cherries are sweet, the ciabatta baked that morning and the melon so ripe that each slice will dissolve icily in your mouth. |
| I glared icily at him, and then mimicked him in a false, high, nasal voice. |
