| He deliberately and calculatedly chose the county fair to kick off his presidential campaign. |
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| If anything could be more calculatedly red-rag to a bull, I don't know what it is. |
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| His voice was calculatedly calm, betrayed by occasional outbursts of frustration. |
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| They sit somewhere, with malice aforethought, and coldly and calculatedly take someone's character apart. |
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| Were some people calculatedly closing down their business premises just so the government might be embarrassed? |
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| They tend to be sceptical of extreme statements that call state institutions calculatedly inhumane. |
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| We must consciously and calculatedly plan to prepare our people to compete to promote and defend our interests and aspirations. |
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| I held my breath and awaited a reply as you shifted your weight delicately, calculatedly. |
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| The movie calculatedly attempts to replicate the things that made the original successful, and fails. |
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| His enemies have been able to cast him as a man calculatedly placing himself on both sides of every issue. |
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| This was, I find, a piece of calculatedly shabby behaviour by which he hoped he might seize some tactical advantage over Mrs Ellis. |
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| For a society slow and too poor to discard the traditional facade, the sharks set a calculatedly reassuring trap. |
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| Its characters are calculatedly charming and the script slyly ends each of its tragic notes with a sight gag. |
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| You deliberately and calculatedly abused trust placed in you by pupils and staff. |
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| Mr Khamenei's attitude towards the diplomatic process has been calculatedly ambiguous. |
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| But there is also room for disaster. In the era of tea-party conservatives, Mr Pawlenty is calculatedly veering to the right. |
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| Theirs seems to have been a marriage only in name, she calculatedly exploiting him, he dazzled by her glamorous looks and haughty manners. |
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| There is nothing necessarily inconsistent in the use of a calculatedly artificial dramatic design to convey a serious dramatic statement. |
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| What we have here is an opposition calculatedly using the tactics of deceit, promising one thing to gain office, with the intention of doing exactly the opposite if elected. |
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| The well-crafted and calculatedly installed photographs through which he expressed his populist theme determined that the show would be of, but necessarily not by, the people. |
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| Denzel Washington stars as a paralysed forensics expert relying on rookie cop Angelina Jolie in a calculatedly nasty serial-killer case. |
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| This does not at all mean that the novel is cynical, or calculatedly constructed, it just means that it's a great example of YA fiction. |
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| Calculatedly come-lately, mainstream publishing houses soon signed their own midlist gay authors. |
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