Possible Clues:

• Less chummy
• With more hostility it's more risky losing face
• More likely to cause skidding
• More wintry with greater risk not starting
• More slippery, as a road
• More treacherous in command? That is Republican
• Relatively distant
• Comparatively cold
• One centigrade? That's right -- or even more freezing
• Much less chummy