When Charles was set to come face to face with one of the brightest, youngest faces of American politics, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, he was met with only a coldness and reminder of the crimes of British imperialism.
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Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
30 Apr. 2026
The term implies godlike deftness and speed but also a certain impersonal coldness — skill at the expense of passion.
Rugged individualism, frigidity of rugged individual.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
25 Jan. 2026
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.
One of the points of the posturing — in aerial ballets that take place away from public gaze hundreds of times a year — is to try to ensure that the frostiness between NATO and the Kremlin over Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine doesn't tilt into open hostility.
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