frisson
IPA: frˈɪsʌn
noun
- A sudden surge of excitement.
- A shiver; a thrill.
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Examples of "frisson" in Sentences
- She might enjoy the moral frisson .
- It adds that extra frisson to travel.
- To give offense is necessary for the frisson.
- I, for one, experience a frisson in so doing.
- His approach to writing is the frisson of writing.
- The frisson of blasphemy has resulted in an overflowing house.
- You either wrap up the storyline or you keep the frisson going.
- I think that 'frisson' is on the boundary of common and uncommon.
- I think you can have male friends but the frisson is always there.
- And I bet the death sentence can give a certain frisson to thrill-seeking girls.
- But what gives the novel its considerable frisson is the intrusion of Peter's impossibly seductive, much younger brother-in-law.
- Not knowing what to expect when you put on a new album delivers a certain frisson, but I think we can all recall times when the final result was a bit of a disappointment.
- I've been thinking about the tears of joy, that feeling of choking up, the chill up the back of the neck (called a frisson, by some,) of sympathy and empathy for a few decades.
- I've been thinking about the tears of joy, that feeling of choking up, the chill up the back of the neck -- (called a frisson, by some) -- of sympathy and empathy for a few decades.
- It's the casual conversation of people who know one another well, charged with the certain frisson of two men who have lately spent more time in one another's company than they would normally wish.
- My only guess is that maybe the type of quasi-anonymous, quasi-engaged interaction enabled by remote video chat actually hits a psychological sweet spot of sorts: It’s intimate or proximate enough that you get the kind of visceral frisson from a hostile exchange, that fight-or-flight adrenal rush, that isn’t going to emerge in some Usenet debate on the relative merits of Windows, Linux, and OSX, however hairy the “holy war” gets.
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