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(noun) a brief moment of emotional excitement; shudder thrill

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frisson



These girls create a Hollywood frisson by the pool

—p.214 Ten Notes on Oscar Weekend (212) by Zadie Smith
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7 years, 7 months ago


The pastoral eternity of this view was made poignant, all the same, by a modern frisson

—p.14 Notes on a Suicide (13) missing author
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5 years, 1 month ago


I remember the frisson of excitement I’d felt at her approach, at having been singled out, and the justification that swiftly followed. I told myself that it would be an adventure: something I could write about as I embarked on a career in journalism.

—p.21 For the Love of Losing (21) by Granta
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9 months, 3 weeks ago


one can't help but experience a puritanical frisson

on Mad Men

—p.146 The Perverse Allure of Messy Lives (145) by Katie Roiphe
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7 years, 4 months ago


there is a certain frisson in seeing a major Hollywood film refusing to unequivocally condemn terrorism

—p.165 Dis-identity Politics (165) by Mark Fisher
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6 years ago


Around the table the women of the admin pool talked about the engineers, their primary antagonists as well as the main source of frisson in the office

—p.124 by Lydia Kiesling
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1 year, 1 month ago


Over the years, the rise of the far right had made things a little more interesting. It gave the debates a long-lost frisson of fascism

—p.38 by Michel Houellebecq
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1 year, 5 months ago


A frisson of euphoria and disgust

—p.128 Commodity of Doom (126) missing author
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3 years, 1 month ago


the frisson of the two

—p.39 by Rachel Kushner
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5 years ago


both the emotional credibility of conventional realism and a frisson of postmodern wordply

—p.274 Paul Auster's Shallowness (265) by James Wood
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7 years, 4 months ago


it gave me an indescribable frisson to cock a snook at the official channels

—p.421 by Helen DeWitt
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2 years, 2 months ago


Being one of three females in the program also gave her a little frisson.

—p.146 OLIVIA VANDERGRIFF (145) by Richard Powers
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this anticommodification style would lend itself to a commodification that offered an anticommodification frisson among its features

—p.19 The Accidental Neoliberal (15) by Jedediah Purdy
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4 years ago


the cold frisson of Franklin morbidly displacing the erotic potential of sexual attraction

—p.28 Notes on Trap (25) by n+1
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5 years, 7 months ago