Bracingly

Now, it is back and better than ever, with the bracingly-cold waters of yesteryear replaced with a heated pool set at a very pleasant temperature of 28C.

Russell’s evocatively simple lyrics seamlessly blend the digital and the analogue, creating a song that feels both wildly intimate and bracingly new.

What resulted is a sprawling, bracingly honest conversation about the demands, splendors, and heartbreaks of a life in cinema, compelled equal-parts by prepared questions, spur-of-the-moment pivots, and decades of personal admiration.

The best of MacKay’s performance is bracingly, intensely physical, but his most impressive scene may be the one of the more vulnerable moments Ned shares with an English teacher hostage.

Her raffish Midwestern look contrasted bracingly with the restrictively tailored, often corseted look of her time.

This is one of the highlights of Minhaj’s bittersweet, vulnerable yet bracingly witty Netflix special Homecoming King, which sprung from his 2015 off-Broadway play.

But in this case, it has been bracingly — at times subzero — cold, especially compared with previous Winter Olympics.