The world of Pride and Prejudice expects women to accommodate male pride as a social fact, to smooth over awkwardness, to accept that status and wealth compensate for coldness or indifference.
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Her fierce intelligence helps paper over some of the screenplay’s rougher transitions, and even lends a measure of legibility to Sylvia’s sudden coldness.
Scientists speculated that a slow metabolism and the frigidity of the water may have combined to keep the octopus mother alive.
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Before there were ice rollers, cryo masks, and other face-cooling tools that purport to firm and smooth skin with the power of frigidity, there was the simple act of dunking one's face in a bowl of icy water.
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