Example sentences for: frigid

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  • 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.

  • If all politics is a lie We tell ourselves, if People who think they are Conservative have horrible Anarchic lives, raping children And people who think They are radical, and Tell you so, typically, Are repressed, authoritarian, and Thinly frigid in their Personal bearings, Leaving the world on both sides To be divided up between Aggressive territorial types Finding ideological excuses To kill other people's children-- If all this is patently, Obviously so, so that Only poetry, and not Politics can save us-- Is there any hope for us then?

  • Not surprisingly, Cook's book proved controversial, and she eventually responded indignantly to her critics in The Nation : "Why are so many wedded to a stereotype of a frigid, sublimating, forever lonely Eleanor Roosevelt?"

  • 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.

  • Based on a grim novel by the Baron of Bleak, Russell Banks, and set in a frigid town in northern New Hampshire, Affliction tells the story of Wade Whitehouse (Nick Nolte), a part-time police officer and full-time flunky, who's constitutionally unequipped to survive a succession of personal and professional crises.


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