cold type

noun

, Printing.

type set by a method other than the casting of molten metal, as text composed on a typewriter and photographed.

First recorded in 1945–50

And then her Southern speech, indescribable and impossible in cold type.

Not wholly, for even in "cold type" some measure of the power and persuasiveness of the orator's argument is suggested.

The cold type and the insentiate page constitute at best only the record of nature's rarest gift.

Described in cold type, the counseling process probably appears a little sticky.

While I'm gone just see how pretty those stories look in cold type.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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