(noun) a brief moment of emotional excitement; shudder thrill
These girls create a Hollywood frisson by the pool
The pastoral eternity of this view was made poignant, all the same, by a modern frisson
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.
one can't help but experience a puritanical frisson
on Mad Men
there is a certain frisson in seeing a major Hollywood film refusing to unequivocally condemn terrorism
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
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
A frisson of euphoria and disgust
both the emotional credibility of conventional realism and a frisson of postmodern wordply
it gave me an indescribable frisson to cock a snook at the official channels
Being one of three females in the program also gave her a little frisson.
this anticommodification style would lend itself to a commodification that offered an anticommodification frisson among its features
the cold frisson of Franklin morbidly displacing the erotic potential of sexual attraction