Even if Russia decides that implacable opposition to the US should be a cornerstone of its foreign policy, this would be the basis for a frigid diplomatic relationship — but nowhere near enough to start the New Cold War.
And since the latest outbreak of the Palestinian uprising, a year ago, and the attendant photographs of Israeli soldiers firing on Palestinian rock throwers, the relationship has turned frigid.
Even when he deployed his most charming courtship rituals – humping her leg, say, or getting drunk and accusing her of being frigid – she refused to consummate their relationship.
Their relationship only grew more frigid, Mr. Grimaldi said, after he insisted on keeping a larger portion of his consulting fees from city contractors -- picked by Mr. Ganim only if they funneled bribes to him, Mr. Grimaldi said.
In the past few years, researchers have used genetic information to sort out this relationship and to understand how polar bears thrive in the frigid Arctic, feeding primarily on seals and other marine life captured from holes in the ice.
For the Obama administration, the disclosure of the cables — dating from 2004 to 2009 — could exacerbate an already fraught relationship, one that began as lukewarm, turned frigid and is back to lukewarm, mostly because the administration sees no alternative to working with Mr. Karzai.
The already chilly relationship between Quinn and Walker turned downright frigid, with Quinn saying that Walker "should be ashamed of himself".
He's bored, broke and mired in a frustrating relationship with the chaplain's daughter, who is either sexually frigid or hopelessly uninterested.
And in the central storyline, the good-natured local veterinarian, who lost his wife to cancer, finds himself drawn to Kate (Debbie Brown), the emotionally frigid shelter founder, who is in turn carrying on a self-destructive relationship with a married scoundrel.
