[ noun ] an almost pleasurable sensation of fright <noun.feeling> a frisson of surprise shot through him
On Saturday, there was a frisson of expectation that the First Couple, in the lion's den, might let it all hang out. Enter their inspired coup de video.
It depends on speed, balance and a perpetual frisson of danger.
The answer is no, for its frisson comes of presentation, not of art. Indeed its status as art is in question from the moment Hirst's pretensions are betrayed by the title: 'The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living'.
Every Kafka frisson is flattened by declamatory literalism; every dark Kafka joke is trapped in the headlights of the film's stagy overemphasis. Boxing Helena is another potentially startling idea boxed into banality by the mise-en-scene.
Susan Jaffe is a fine and menacing Myrtha, and Deane - who has restored a powerful sense of terror to this act - makes us feel a frisson of Romantic horror amid the circlings of vampiric, vengeful wilis.
To enter it is not merely to see it, but actually to feel it, with a palpable frisson of sensibility.
It is a shock of recognition still potent across the centuries, a frisson of shared experience and common humanity.
The frisson of theatre is reduced to the reassurance of the small screen, as familiar faces are promoted, albeit in unfamiliar guise.
For those of us who hero-worship Chanel, thc vitality of the result is clouded by a frisson of lese majeste but as Karl himself said to a packed lecture hall at the Sorbonne, 'My taste is so bad, it is good.'