frostiness

Example Sentences

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But the extent of that frostiness is even clearer as passes and those who were involved speak their mind.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 5, 2023

If the frostiness persists, then just ask whether you’ve done something to offend them.

From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2022

Her steely persona and frostiness towards contestants was baked in to Weakest Link's very identity, and members of the public would apply to the programme knowing they would be ridiculed.

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2021

Garrett Lerner and Russel Friend, writing partners from “House,” created this exercise in choreographed, multi-strand nostalgia, and it has some of the emotional frostiness and processed sentimentality of that earlier show.

From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2021

Minor deviations earned her little frowns on wise brows, or a degree of frostiness and withdrawal of sympathy.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan