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?

  • 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.

  • The frisson of blasphemy has resulted in an overflowing house.

  • 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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