Bleak
Cool
Cool adjective - Having or showing a lack of friendliness or interest in others.
Both words in one sentence
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Cool Car: While not exactly a car, the Kettenkrad is cool enough to be salvaged from a bleak, airless alternate dimension where Axis has won WWII (And promptly caused an apocalypse), and lovingly restored by Pinky and Brains to working condition.
Source: Literature / The Laundry Series -
Stealth Parody: Certain elements of the film noir genre, and by extension, classic Hollywood films (the effortlessly cool protagonist, long takes with minimal editing, suspenseful plotting, bleak and cynical tone) are oh-so-subtly skewered by Godard.
Source: Film / Breathless
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