Its effect on Rutley was instantaneous, for his frigidity melted as snow beneath a summer sun.
The natural temperature of Mars would be, as we have seen, very low, and unless it is modified in some way not yet indicated everything points to a frigidity too intense to permit the continuance of life and growth of any sort known to us.
It must not, however, be supposed that this view of the natural tendency of women to frigidityhas everywhere found acceptance.
He cannot agree with Sollier that this kind of sexual frigidity is a symptom of hysteria.
This abstinence was not due to any frigidity of disposition, but from prudential and religious motives, and, to some extent perhaps, from the imperfect but genuine satisfaction afforded by solitary indulgence.
Kossmann states that the opinion as to the widespread existence of frigidity among women is a fable.
The removal of sexual frigiditythus becomes a matter of some importance.
There is, however, much uncertainty as to what precisely is meant by sexual frigidity or anesthesia.
This lake fed by the torrential Frio River derives its name from the frigidityof its waters whose origin is the glacier on the east slopes of El Tronador.
I told Prat that he had better dress warmly but the Spaniard said that since we were only to endure a few days' frigidity he could stand it.
There is a great variation of soil and climate ranging from barrenness and frigidity in the high Andes to exuberant vegetation and torrid heats in the department of Oran.
You might not think him so genial if you saw the frigidity with which he receives some of our guests.
Meanwhile his companion, apparently wholly oblivious of the frigidity of his companion's manner, sat with his hat pulled over his eyes, and his face as undecipherable as the riddle of the Sphinx.
The word frigidity means coldness, and when a woman has no desire for sexual relations or experiences no pleasure when she has sexual relations, she is said to be frigid.
When the husband is sexually weak (suffering with premature ejaculations) he either fails to awaken the sexual instinct in the woman, or if it has been awakened it is apt to turn not only into frigidity but into aversion to the act.
But when the frigidity is of such a degree that it amounts to a strong physical aversion to the act, it should be considered a bar to marriage.
The causes of frigidity in women are many, but here are the most important ones: First and foremost is the repression of all sexual manifestations which the unmarried woman has to practice, and has had to practice for many centuries.
Such frigidity is often the cause of a disrupted home, often leads to divorce and is legally considered a sufficient cause for divorce or for the annulment of marriage, the same as impotence in the man is.
A very frigid woman, if the frigidityis not due to serious organic causes, may have very healthy children and make an excellent mother.
Frigidity as an agent in marriage may be considered from two points of view: the offspring and the husband.
Henchard felt like Saul at his reception by Samuel; he remained in silence for a few moments, then throwing off the disguise of frigidity which he had hitherto preserved he said, "Then I have not come in vain.
She glanced covertly at his averted, forlorn face, and her frigidity thawed a trifle as she was cognizant of an element of truth in Orlick's claims.
Her mysterious mien and unaccountable frigidity drove the chill of another fear into his being.
It seemed as though he had suddenly realized the frigidity of Dave's silence and the hollow ring of his own professions.
Dave's frigidity was no less for the smile that accompanied his next words.
Then he leant forward in his seat, and a subtle, deliberate intensity, more deadly for the very frigidity of his tone was in his whole attitude.
The frigidity of her tone was wholly at variance with her expression.
In his childish simplicity he had anticipated an outburst of enthusiasm; a Republican Chamber could but acclaim him for having saved the Republic; and now the frigidity of one and all quite froze him.
Janzen was at last emerging from his wonted frigidity and mysteriousness.
You could tell this by the frigidity of her glance, by her absent expression, by the haunted air she ever wore, unable as she was to bestow a thought on anything but her calamity.
And as for himself, indignant at these outrages on masculine self-respect, he redoubled his frigidity towards her.
Julien was rewarded for the frigidity which he put into those words.
He noticed, no doubt, an increasedfrigidity in the manner of comte Norbert, and a fresh touch of haughtiness in the manner of MM.
The only thought comparable in terror to such a conflict, had to do with the solitudes and abject frigidity of inter-stellar spaces.
Reifferscheid's frigidity had required only one test to become a deep trouble.
The temptation to glance at the wild divinings of dreamy-witted women from the point of view of the practical man, was aided by the intense frigidity of the atmosphere in leading him to criticize a sex not much used to the exercise of brains.
And then the shopman, espying the gold bag, and being by it and by the English frigidity humbled to his proper station, fawned and replied that he had cars for hire, and the best cars.
And so it was with frigiditythat she inquired whether cars were to be hired.
His style, drier than that of Meleager, more elevated than Straton's, is marked by a frigidity of good scholarship which only at intervals warms into the fire of passionate poetry.
In spite of the misplaced apparition of St. Peter, and of the frigidity which belongs to pastoral allegory, Lycidas is a richer and more splendid monument of elegiac verse.
I have no reason to trust you,' I said, with a frigidity that I hoped would take from him all inclination for a nearer connection; but he only smote his forehead as if it had been a drum, and complained of my cruelty and obduracy.
The characteristic features of the system in Paris may be described simply as extreme frigidity and extraordinary accuracy.
The more calmly I acted in this matter, the more deeply she seemed to be offended by the quiet frigidity of my letters.
This writer does not support the view of the sexual frigidity of prostitutes, but in this, I believe, he is influenced by statistics and outward facts, rather than personal knowledge gained from the women themselves.
A volume of Poems, published in 1891, was characterized by a certain frigidity and by occasional lapses into commonplace, objections which may also be fairly urged against much of Lecky's prose-writing.
In his tragedies the rhetorical elaboration of the style only serves to bring into prominence the frigidity and frequent bad taste of the matter.
These latter have all the airlessness, the want of poetry, the frigidity of things constructed after a formula, daring and brilliant though that formula is.
The blossom was overblown, the bubble on the point of bursting; and all those pupils who had gathered round him, drawing like planets from the sun their lustre, sank at his death into frigidity and insignificance.
But the frigidity of old age had fallen on his feeling and imagination.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "frigidity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
