How To Use Frisson In A Sentence
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That's a grey area, but the very uncertainty injects a nice frisson into the comedy.
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I always feel a slight frisson when I cross over to the south.
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However hard a couple may try to import eroticism into the marriage, particularly in these days of sexual liberation, there is very little which can be done by two consenting adults which has the frisson of the forbidden.
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There was a frisson of excitement in the warm air.
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We love the frisson and the excitement of those feelings, the near hysteria and the intensity.
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Getting lost, easy enough during the day, practically inevitable at night, only jacks up the frisson of tension.
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But there was no frisson, no excitement and certainly no butterflies.
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In other circumstances, though, he enjoys the frisson of fear.
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These are not young people seeking a frisson of excitement from some underground activity.
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But behind the on-air enthusiasm and frisson of illegality, the station's founders were hard-headed realists driven by a clear-sighted aims.
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The lottery has added an extra frisson to the preparations for bachelor and bachelor parties and wedding receptions.
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At exactly midday, the cannon is fired and a frisson of excitement runs through the small crowd of tourists gathered on the ramparts.
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This score may function passably within the context of the film, but outside it is meaningless, barely raising even a frisson of fear.
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We get in the car, the frisson slightly dampened.
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Both sections contain a mystery, with the added frisson that past and present mysteries seem to be linked.
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There's a delicious, almost salivatory frisson to the way she discusses them.
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I won't deny there was a certain frisson between us on and off set.
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The first couple of Harry Potters are honourable contributions to the repertory of school-stories of an old fashioned kind, with the added frisson of knowing that the world beyond Hogwarts contains a great deal of unpleasantness.
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He catches the cramped, grotty frisson of the reporters' room, the professionalism instilled by hard-nosed old hands in the game, the lure of the bars in Vulcan Lane when the final edition had been put to bed.
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When Kamal made his entry to the accompaniment of drumbeats, a frisson of excitement shot through the crowds.
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Each new boyfriend or girlfriend sent a frisson of anxiety through the group that grew into a wave of revulsion.
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There may always be a special frisson of excitement when you think of, talk to or see your friend.
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To be fair, a remote control inflatable clownfish does sound pretty special …31 mins A frisson of excitement among the away support as Petrov sprints away on an attempted break, only for Palacios to scythe him down from behind.
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The long, sweeping drive provides an extra frisson of grandeur.
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It ought to be a straightforward match, but there will be a certain frisson in the umpire's room today when the appointments are handed out.
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The pair prefer to stage their show in homes, where there's the added frisson of access to somewhere usually off limits.
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Although they appeared to be hamming it up for the camera, there was definitely a frisson of flirtation.
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The revelation gave a new frisson to such descriptions as that of Silas Wegg, stumping triumphantly over the mounds, his wooden leg puncturing the surface crust, leaving a trail of mephitic vapours behind him.
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But this was going way beyond the seedy frisson of virtual voyeurism.
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For three nights, he performs gigs with comedy chums that promise a pleasingly oddball frisson.
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Presumably they provide some kind of weird added frisson.
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As I put my hand on the sunroom door I felt a sudden frisson of fear.
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There is also a certain frisson between them.
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The threat of salmonella added a frisson of danger and life was good.
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Despite an initial frisson of excitement, it all felt underpowered somehow.
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Meme Kuuchuu Buranko qui reussit a me faire verser une larme sur CD ne m'a pas fait autant vibrer dans ce live mais j'ai quand meme eu plein de frissons partout!!!!
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Clark's talent has always been about paradox, the chaste classical lines of his choreography inflected with a blatant sexual frisson.
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Any kid who ever created fantasies of demolition with their toy cars feels a frisson of delight at the very idea of robot combat.
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What kind of alien friend would you plump for - etiolated, fuzzy, mechanical, friendly or with a frisson of delicious scare?
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The game has an added frisson because of the opposition.
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We get in the car, the frisson slightly dampened.
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One local told me that she cannot now drive through Dornoch without feeling a frisson of fear.
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We are enchanted by Bauby's poesy; we wonder at the courage of a man who can mentally survive his ordeal; and we experience frissons of there-but-for-the-grace-of-God horror down our spines.
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When Kamal made his entry to the accompaniment of drumbeats, a frisson of excitement shot through the crowds.
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Naturally, he wanted to impress his colleagues, set up a little frisson, as he'd have put it.
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He also felt that same frisson of excitement he used to feel before the intelligence forays he had participated in in Paris.
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Hospitals may have a certain erotic frisson, but romance novelists just love an exotic location, preferably some desert land ruled by a dusky tyrant who can give the virginal heroine a rough ride on his camel.
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The discovery of substantial pools of home - grown Islamic terrorists has added a frisson of fear.
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Which all adds extra frisson to the glimpses she offers into her home life.
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He now almost disappears from the story, the rest of which relates, with lachrymose sentiment and many frissons of horror (including a hint of necrophilia), the misfortunes and eventual joys of young Melvil and Monimia.
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For three nights, he performs gigs with comedy chums that promise a pleasingly oddball frisson.
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Talking about uncertainty is risky because the word itself may send a frisson of fear through many listeners.
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The complete lack of a reply or even an acknowledgement sent a frisson of fear sharply through me.
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Salient but unanswered question – for those of us living in drier country, will a toilet tank provide the necessary tidal frisson?
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There is a discernible, almost romantic frisson about a sea crossing, nomatterhow short.
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For fashion folk, there was added frisson in Finney's voluminous white shirt: the lustiness and dégagé elegance of its frills and pleats catching the eye.
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There is an extra frisson with cameras there.
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a frisson of surprise shot through him
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Prize shortlist this week carried its usual genuine frisson of excitement in the world of books.
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There's an added frisson, knowing there is an audience that is hidden but simultaneously present.
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I watched the series five opener with a Thrones ingénue, which added a certain comic frisson.
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His expression sparked a surprising frisson beneath my skin.
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In the early 1970s a frisson of excitement gripped our family home whenever West Ham football matches were shown on television.
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While I don't think it had anything to do with the speed of my passage, it certainly adds a frisson to the ride in retrospect.
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I always suspected that if Poetry is inherently a matter of interconnections (what we Pinoys also call pakikiramdam and what I lately have been calling algebraic as a result of three months of tutoring a 13-year-old boy in four years worth of math), such a book can hold together -- also recall Gertrude Stein's observation (I paraphrase) about how a word arbitrarily placed next to another word will rub together for some unexpected frisson if not generate some meaning.
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The conversation had a surreal frisson, like running into Uday and Qusay at a pro-celeb golf tournament and chitchatting about Tiger as you play a couple of holes.
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When the dead leaves rustle, the wind rattles the skeletons of trees, and ragged clouds scud across a murky moon, there's an ominous frisson in the air.
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Do you ever have a frisson when you look back at your early work?
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Was there some intercouple friction or frisson or flirtation?
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Who wouldn't feel a frisson of pleasure at the idea that all of this agonising activity is in vain?
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For the first ten years at least this added a frisson of secrecy to their friendship.
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In the scene when Jehovah sends flood, fire and earthquakes down on the faithless Israelites there's a lot of smiting, the clattering timps and rasping "natural" brass brought a frisson of terror.
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The frisson that he caused was still sweeping through the gallery when it paused and then redoubled.
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Without the frisson of danger, however, Brown's illusion was about as compelling as a languid afternoon spent bending spoons.
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He nipped her earlobe, sending a frisson of excitement along her nerves.
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It might not cause other motorists to swivel round in their seat, nor will it send a frisson through crowds on the pavement.
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A frisson of alarm ran down my spine.
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We are too impertinent with the past, counting on it in this way for a reliable frisson.
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We get in the car, the frisson slightly dampened.
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When he got his title shot against Ali, at Highbury in 1966, the result was the same, only without the frisson of excitement, and Cooper was the first to admit his moment had already come and gone in a crimson blur.
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There was a frisson of excitement when it seemed they might even complete their circumnavigation by washing up on the beaches of Cornwall they didn't.
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His expression cleared, became serious, and a frisson of fear crawled down my spine.
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It has been argued that the current interest in contemplative prayer is a middle-class luxury for those who wish to experience some kind of spiritual frisson.
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The outcome, as shown here in key Merz pieces from 1966 through to 1977, has been a unique body of work imbued with an exquisitely composed restraint – sculpture that retains its power to catalyse a frisson of unpredictable creative possibility.
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But I still feel a frisson every time I hear the sound of car wheels on gravel.
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Though tempered by comparison, the artist's stylistic extravagance - manifest in expressionistically smeared, splattered, and abraded paint handling - calls to mind Cecily Brown's fluent foregrounding of oil's in-the-flesh immediacy and the cunning ease with which obfuscatory gestures can suggest sexual frisson.
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Fill up the duster drawer and feel a frisson of eco responsibility.
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That would provide the frisson of fear which might otherwise be lacking.
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But whether they choose to brazen it out or humbly confess, sue for libel or live like a recluse, there is little the disgraced can do to stop the frisson of pleasure we feel at their discomfort.
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All this is a bonus for the former BBC royal correspondent, who admits to a frisson of Schadenfreude when watching her replacement shiver outside those crested gates.
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From the moment Walter van Dyk started from the back of the stalls to sing the opening of The Threepenny Opera, I felt a frisson which lasted to the end of the evening.
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That said, it's a great show, mimicking its subject: vibrant, playful, yet betraying a frisson of menace.
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The discovery of substantial pools of home - grown Islamic terrorists has added a frisson of fear.
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Although they appeared to be hamming it up for the camera, there was definitely a frisson of flirtation.
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The spectator will feel its frisson at this Dulwich show.
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Aside from the bizarre frisson the elites enjoy from mixing it with roughnecks, there's also a common bond in seeing lowly workers as ‘mugs’.
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This score may function passably within the context of the film, but outside it is meaningless, barely raising even a frisson of fear.
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He was clearly conscious of the guilty frisson of post-colonial excitement among the British in Iraq.
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When Kamal made his entry to the accompaniment of drum-beats, a frisson of excitement shot through the crowds.
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It might not cause other motorists to swivel round in their seat, nor will it send a frisson through crowds on the pavement.
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I don't know about you, but when I hear the word symposium I experience a certain frisson.
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That said, it's a great show, mimicking its subject: vibrant, playful, yet betraying a frisson of menace.
