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Of course, it is common these days for corporate CEOs to enjoy the perks, status, gratitude, and frisson of generosity that comes from giving away the stockholders' money.
Corseting has stopped looking dishonorable and started looking chic again, both as a feature of recent ball gowns and wedding gowns and as a costume component that can give a modern frisson to movies set in ancient days.
(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.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels a frisson when a forecaster announces that a cold front is "descending" from Canada--as if some malevolent Arctic god were coming to exact revenge for the sins of Washington.
But whereas Borges at his best elicits from readers a shudder of metaphysical terror, and Calvino stimulates a spasm of epistemological ecstasy, Stoppard consistently induces in his audiences a frisson of self-congratulatory pleasure.