Example sentences for: frigid

How can you use “frigid” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In a piece about Ingmar Bergman, the Swedish film director attributes both his psychologically probing cinematic style and his tumultuous love life to his emotionally frigid parents.

  • As two soldiers mounted on a motorcycle and cab push inexorably into the frigid landscape--with flour substituting for snow--there's an uneasy mix of the trompe l'oeil and the trumped up.

  • What has enraptured so many critics, among them Richard Schickel in Clint Eastwood: A Biography , is that the actor-director has learned to play with his own inexpressiveness--to make a joke of his frigid machismo without (and here's where the supreme balancing act comes in) travestying it.

  • Results to run tomorrow if my eyelids don't become frost-encrusted as I bundle up against blustery Arctic winds and walk in front of a bus stalled by frigid air, then stagger to the pavement, trip over a frozen dog, and break my spine.

  • Here is a sampling of improbable movie moments from the summer of 1999: A young man takes a sudden notion to hump an apple pie; a gargantuan crocodile inexplicably migrates from its tropical habitat to set up shop in a frigid Maine lake; a trio of doomed documentarians, being stalked in the woods by a furry witch, never stops filming and videotaping themselves even as they are supposedly jumping out of their skins with terror; the search for an Alzheimer's cure leads to the inadvertent creation of oversized mako sharks with brains so enhanced they are able to apply the principles of hydraulic engineering to their deadly advantage, to say nothing of operating commercial kitchen equipment.


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