Citations:ur-cool

English citations of ur-cool

Adjective: "(slang) extremely cool"

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• 1999, Vikram Seth, An Equal Music, Penguin Books (1999), →ISBN, page 221:

  Helen, who is sitting just in front of her, stops playing, and turns to her. "Petra, I think we should cool it here."

• 1999, Alex Beam, "Still waiting for that New Year's invite", The Boston Globe, 20 August 1999:

  Happenin' guys Harvey Allen (liquor) and Richie Balsbaugh (media) haven't summoned me to their ur-cool Mistral shindig; a holdup with the mail?

• 2003, Ramesh Kumar, Malaysia: Riches from the Golden Land, Springer (2003), →ISBN, page 81:

  The pavements were turned into tree-lined, fountained boulevards; which boulevards are enlivened by jazz bands and lasers, lined by new cafes and bars, ur-cool by any standards; […]

• 2014, Melena Ryzik, "This Time, Jim Jarmusch Is Kissing Vampires", The New York Times, 3 April 2014:

  His film, opening April 11, stars Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton as Adam and Eve, an ur-cool bloodsucking couple whose love spans centuries and continents […]

Noun: "timeless or primordial coolness'"

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• 2000, Charles Shaar Murray, "Oh, my God! They have killed cool", The Independent, 3 October 2000:

  True "Cool" - capitalised by the authors to indicate its underlying substance - may shift its surface characteristics (other than the eternal sunglasses-after-dark). But its fundamental nature is constant. It is this ur-cool that Pountain and Robins seek to anatomise, and anatomise it they do.