He wanted to draw closer to her but was restrained by the stiffness of her posture, a certainfrigidity in her manner.
2
He was scarcely so tall as she was, and Penelope's attitude towards him was marked all the time with a certainfrigidity.
3
In responding to the often florid salutations of such, I instilled into my barely perceptible nod a certainfrigidity that I trusted might be informing.