Blaming Genes: From the "Our Genes are Our Destiny" department comes a London survey that claims frigidity is genetic. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-06-01] Reference
Mrs. Weatherbee's frigidity had miraculously vanished. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Allen: Right Guard] Reference
The offspring is not affected by the mother's frigidity. From Wordnik.com. [Woman Her Sex and Love Life] Reference
Most of the other kinds of frigidity, however, can be cured. From Wordnik.com. [Woman Her Sex and Love Life] Reference
Did we mention that Marnie is a psychodrama about frigidity?. From Wordnik.com. [The Hitchcock Hollywood Portfolio] Reference
Moonlight, therefore, frequently involves the idea of frigidity. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
Every one silently remarked her absence of mind and unusual frigidity. From Wordnik.com. [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference
Which, I will say, by the way, is one of the causes of female frigidity. From Wordnik.com. [Woman Her Sex and Love Life] Reference
At the house is formality and frigidity; at the home is ease and enjoyment. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep] Reference
Blandly Lim closed the door, noticing the frigidity, and chortled inwardly. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
Miss Blimber, with his usual polite frigidity, and walked out of the study. From Wordnik.com. [Dombey and Son] Reference
Shake well for an icy bite, or stir until your wrist is sore to get a silky frigidity. From Wordnik.com. [A Valedictory Toast] Reference
At one time, she was all cordiality and ease; at another, all stiffness and frigidity. From Wordnik.com. [Nicholas Nickleby] Reference
Psychologists tell us there are three reasons for female frigidity: hate, fear and guilt. From Wordnik.com. [Joan Z. Shore: Viagra for Women? No Way] Reference
As far as the husband is concerned, it will depend a good deal on the degree of frigidity. From Wordnik.com. [Woman Her Sex and Love Life] Reference
Truly, man is a strange being, who can adapt himself to equatorial heat or polar frigidity. From Wordnik.com. [Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America] Reference
(O) Certain temperamental conditions may be associated with barrenness: lack of affinity, frigidity. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
His manner, even to senators and representatives of his own party, was reserved to the point of frigidity. From Wordnik.com. [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference
They had heard, I suppose, of the box of doubloons, and Miguel was 'a good fellow, 'in spite of his frigidity. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
She admitted to him early on that the rumours about her unattainability, even frigidity, had some basis in fact. From Wordnik.com. [The Satanic Verses]
Understandably, it was a far from convivial dinner that Charles served, soon afterwards, with impeccable frigidity. From Wordnik.com. [Salvage for the Saint]
It was an indifference for his person and his speech which could in no way be associated with purposeful frigidity. From Wordnik.com. [The Road Leads On] Reference
With as near an approach to frigidity of manner as she could show to a man to whom she was so indebted Noreen replied. From Wordnik.com. [The Jungle Girl] Reference
Oh, he'd pictured the meetings often enough; pictured, too, and schooled himself to endure, the aloofness, the frigidity. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
Neo-classicism has been called an embodiment of frigidity, but the style is equally imbued with senti - ment and emotion. From Wordnik.com. [NEO-CLASSICISM IN ART] Reference
You must understand, my dear Claude, that I met these advances with a frigidity of manner that left no doubt as to my intentions. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Water vapor absorbs heat, and so would have warmed the atmosphere on ancient Mars from its current frigidity into a toastier range. From Wordnik.com. [The Search For Life] Reference
But if fantastic, he was bold; and if too hot for the frigidity of America, he was but preparing to touch France with kindred fire. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844] Reference
The president took a visible turn toward peace and the beginning of an end to the political intensity and frigidity of the Cold War. From Wordnik.com. [John W. Whitehead: The Day Hope Died] Reference
In some cases the frigidity is congenital, that is, the lack of desire with inability to experience pleasure during the act is inborn. From Wordnik.com. [Woman Her Sex and Love Life] Reference
The frigidity which had grown up within her during the last two months might possibly be relaxed now under the influence of this closer association. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
In the one there is excess of sentiment, in the other the contrary vice of frigidity, and a premeditated and ostentatious use of figurative expressions. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
"What shall I say to Claudet?" repeated Julien, endeavoring to conceal the suffering which was devouring his heart by an assumption of outward frigidity. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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