Example sentences for: frisson

How can you use “frisson” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But this in turn raises another issue: Does Ofili want us to ask whether he is any good, or does he not short-circuit the evaluative process by making art contrived to raise hell with Catholics and excite a frisson of old-time anticlericalism in the rest of us?

  • (That Richard bears an uncanny resemblance to Anne Heche adds to the frisson .) Zoe doubles as a spokeswoman for the director's aesthetics: American films, she complains, "have too much decoration, too much money"; French films are increasingly impersonal and apolitical.

  • Same with rap: For all it's hailed as the voice of the urban poor, 70 percent of its sales are to suburban whites, for whom Public Enemy's "911 is a Joke" or Niggaz Wit' Attitude's "Fuck tha Police" offer the delicious, voyeuristic frisson of life in Compton or the South Bronx without actually having to live there.

  • No doubt the frisson of history was a plus in Taylor's calculations, but only the call of duty--however unwelcome and however misheard--can really explain why he would even consider giving up what he had for what Starr was offering.

  • Imagine my frisson when, after only a few pages into Chapter 1, I came upon this exchange between characters:


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