But the cuffs cut into my hands with the cold rigidity of reality.

Hauntingly her face returned, sad, stern in its cold rigidity.

I lay a hand on her cheek and recoil at the cold rigidity beneath my fingertips.

Upon the dark background, in striking contrast, lay a white, stern face, marble-like in its stone- cold rigidity.

Miss Mayhew's cold rigidity vanished at once.