Word: frostbitten
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...particularly inventive, the brilliance of the film is that, compared to modern horror film standards, freezing temperatures and a pack of wolves do not sound particularly frightening. However, Green portrays the group’s desperation in such a hauntingly realistic manner that he manages to make frostbitten faces and frozen limbs be just as disturbing as the most expensively elaborate special effect...
...character is written to be helpless—she often panics and lacks the common sense one should have in a dire situation. Her biggest lapse in judgment comes when she falls asleep with her bare hand gripping a pole. The audience must watch as she peels her frostbitten hand off in sheer agony. Moments like these provide great thrills, yet one wonders how anyone could be so foolish when the stakes are so high...
...family that it had already taken away. His relationships with his wife and daughter have been unknowingly frayed because of his long hours and lack of emotional presence. Though the illness steals the tangible comforts—the house, the office with a view, and even a few frostbitten fingers and toesit leaves behind the immaterial and the eternal—love, devotion, and his mind. By forcing Tim to reevaluate what is most important to him, the illness reverses the apathy and obliviousness that his job and fortune created in his personal life. He is compelled...
...this was our beloved football team, who went without a much-needed last-minute dose of pep. Football games are won and lost on pep, as any real fan knows. Luckily, the Crimson carabinieri went on to thrash the Bulldogs, 10 to nothing, in front of a frostbitten, largely vegetative crowd. There seemed to be more enthusiasm about the announcement of Sen. Edward Kennedy’s attendance at the annual competition than any one of its actual happenings...
That's about to change. Word is getting out that there is something wild and delicious stirring in this frostbitten soil, waiting to be discovered. Chefs who have long looked to France, Italy and Spain for inspiration and ingredients are now literally combing their backyards for the raw materials to create a cool new Nordic cuisine. Instead of the borrowed prestige of imported foie gras and truffles, the new taste of the North is foraged chickweed, Arctic brambles and livestock breeds that date back to the Vikings...