Word: frigidities
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...Watched Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, a statesman far too aloof to squirm, submit in frigid silence to tongue lashings by Laborite and Conservative back benchers who compared him unfavorably to President Roosevelt...
Miss Crothers has tried so many combinations of the misunderstood wife, the neglected and frigid husband, and the frustrated spinster that she does not get very much intensity into scenes that should be dramatically poignant. Although it is not the fashion to be aroused or wistful, surely the scene where Caine Woodruff, the publisher's wife finds out that she is in the same room with the woman who has enticed her husband, and the parting scenes are too artificially cool...
...charity folk gave them more to eat than they have had in many months at home. Among the suburbs of the capital, schoolhouses, suburban railway stations and district lodging houses offered shelter for the night, but London itself was different. In London the hunger horde came up against that frigid Old Etonian, one-armed Sir Edward Hilton Young, His Majesty's Minister of Health, who was wounded at Zeebrugge Mole in 1918?a fact of which he is so proud that like Admiral Nelson he pins his empty right sleeve forward on his chest...
...frigid House of Commons which rapidly grew wrathful Mr. Thomas disclosed that the "Irish Question" is kept at boiling point today by these three live coals from Dublin...
...from Oxford, gets betrothed to Lady Middleton's marmoreal daughter Sarah, but when Easter and Basil see the trim life to which he is doomed they clear for home. Puppetstown has become a moldering tomb, Aunt Dicksie a crotchety recluse. She hates to have the children spoil her frigid peace, but warms to them and to life in the end. Puppetstown resounds again with the laughing speech learned from immemorial tradition and the local Blarney Stone. In a style extraordinarily luminous and concise Author Stuart's novel treats of highly-pitched human relations, no less real for being...