Word: frigid
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Rather than mutual orgasm, most modern guides describe and counsel other methods as sometimes leading to "greater fulfillment" for the woman. In The Frigid Wife, Gynecologist-Psychiatrist Lena Levine cites numerous case histories of women whose sexual happiness was blocked by the belief that there was only one "right" form of sexual intercourse. "In this confusion," she says, "sexual coldness may develop." She advises numerous forms of stimulation...
...moment is exquisitely interpreted and profoundly affecting, but the rest of the film is cold. However, the chill is deliberate. It counterfeits the frigid region of unbeing inhabited by the hero. It forces the spectator to see the hero's life from an infinite distance, with an infinite impersonality. The experience is uncanny. It makes the moviegoer feel almost like...
Protective Cold. Paradoxically, the fact that the raw March wind was a frigid 14°F. and the river was close to 32° was in Roger's favor. When he lost his hold on the ice and fell in, he was already exhausted and chilled; he probably did not fight much for air, and as a result he inhaled less water than he might have. The icy river soon dropped his body temperature-certainly below 75°, but how much lower, nobody knows-so that when he drowned and circulation stopped, his brain suffered less from oxygen deprivation...
...sullenness or depression, and the advent of real cheerfulness and kindliness in their stead. Smooth the brow, brighten the eye, contract the dorsal rather than the ventral aspect of the frame, and speak in a major key, pass the genial compliment and your heart must be frigid indeed if it do not gradually thaw...
Dora Harmsworth is frigid, while her husband Malcolm is a great prig. To make up for the lack of physical love, the pair chatter incessantly about love in the abstract...