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Examples of frisson
frisson
As tourists, we experienced the frisson of dictatorship without any of the fear.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Among the women's entries, Emma Desjardins's slow, weighty one causes a frisson.
From the nytimes.com
Cramming musicians into their little studio, Cooper hoped, would create frisson.
From the guardian.co.uk
Instead, Deering talked of the frisson he felt when he was aboard Lucas Cranach.
From the smh.com.au
That frisson derived from a detachment from the domestic scene never goes away.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Whatever frisson it might once have delivered was used up in its first display.
From the online.wsj.com
Small wonder that there was an extra frisson of tension in the air on Saturday.
From the nytimes.com
That's what provides their tension, and gives us our frisson, our nostalgic kick.
From the independent.co.uk
To say that the World Cup draw now has an additional frisson is to put it mildly.
From the guardian.co.uk
- An almost pleasurable sensation of fright; "a frisson of surprise shot through him"
- A cold chill (also known as frisson, or simply thrills or cold chills) is described by David Huron as, "a pleasant tingling feeling, associated with the flexing of hair follicles resulting in goose bumps (technically called piloerection), accompanied by a cold sensation, and sometimes producing ...
- A sudden surge of excitement; A shiver
- An emotional thrill; a shudder of emotion.
