Art history has long been viewed as a "soft" discipline populated by intellectual types making subjective judgments, in contrast to the cool objectivity of the hard sciences.

In his other plays, Mr. Hare has often maintained a position of cool objectivity -but with far greater emotional complexity.

That it does not is not so much a sign of the playwright's cool objectivity as his failure to master terseness and form.

She seemed to be examining him with the cool objectivity of a horse-woman studying a derby winner soon to be auctioned off for stud.

After he killed my father, I studied his files and grew to admire his cool objectivity.

He could feel Danilo observing him with his usual care, the cool objectivity that the paxman seemed to bring to every situation.

With cool objectivity, he watched the press heap bucket after bucket of lies and filth on his image, provoking them to renewed activity whenever they tired.

"Glad I can live up to my part of the bargain," Kiera said with cool objectivity.

It deals sympathetically with the Israelis, while it treats the Palestinians with a cool journalistic objectivity.

He stared down at Melis Nemid with cool objectivity.