On the contrary, he regards Russia's travails and the dim prospects for their correction with cold-eyed realism.

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We are also cold-eyed realists about the challenges that reaching such a deal are presented -- or present themselves.

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He took to the international stage with the same nerveless and cold-eyed composure that has marked his performances at Everton this season.

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Mr. GINSBERG: Angel-headed hipsters, burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz.

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She was clear-eyed about a threat that many could not see while the Cold War still raged.

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