Example sentences for: frisson

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • All were advertised on Pages 2-4 of last Sunday's New York Times . But, benefit of the doubt, presumably some of the ads are not intended to sell products so much as to instill a frisson of imaginary consumption, the sort of shopping pornography that makes all of us so moist each December.


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