frisson

Definitions

Examples

• He’s not motivated by a bounty hunter’s mentality, he explained in an email — rather, he chases after the frisson of delight that curious counterexamples can give.

• The rhythmic frisson in the music is much better at creating metaphysical side effects than the singer is at describing them, but there’s still mystery and melancholy in that riddle of an album title, “Future Nostalgia.”

• You know, a novel comes not from a decision but a frisson, a sort of shiver that goes through you.

• A farm comes with all sorts of things to add a little frisson to the pursuit of happiness, give it an edge.

• This gives family gatherings a certain frisson of danger under normal circumstances.

• As the crowd sucked down the debate happy-hour specials in the hours before the debate, a worried frisson settled over them.

• A great work of fiction involves a certain frisson that occurs when its various components cohere and then ignite.

• It is here that he communicates to us the nouveau frisson, here that he does what no one else has done.

• Ive managed the frisson (womans touch), some colour-sensations, sublimities, etc.

• I waved my hand, and had soon left rue Robert le Frisson far behind me.

• No purely physical theory can interpret all the mystery of the frisson.

• And the appetite that drove her to ask for more, that was the only sauce–an appetite that was a frisson.