Frisson

I’d be lying if I said I didn’t sometimes get a little frisson of excitement when I see a handsome man carrying a horse whip.

The Glenwood Springs Community Concert Association presents the Frisson Ensemble Monday evening, which performs a wide variety of genres and is made up of cello, violin, viola, oboe, clarinet and piano.

While earlier seasons hinted at a secret attraction between the two, the first frisson of romance only came about because Jackie and Hyde were stuck sitting on the couch together with no one else around and nothing else to do.

Any kind of frisson around that?’ he asked.

The film's joyful tone invites us to join in on the lovefest, though there is a frisson of drama that threatens to overshadow everything else.

We feel the frisson of mortality.

Frisson’s Cropped Becca Sweater is a likely choice for both dress up dinners for a very small group or a low-key type of Christmas spend at home.

The narrative itself is nothing new, but there’s an undeniable frisson in watching events unfold in real time, with Forbes there to capture ministers’ gloriously unguarded reactions as votes fail and colleagues defect.

Editors get a frisson of excitement from worrying their readers.

However, there’s a frisson of excitement, an erotic charge even, in knowing there are boundaries that cannot be crossed, and for artists to tiptoe as close to the line as possible.

In France the stock figure that in English is called the "noble savage" has always been simply "le bon sauvage", "the good wild man", a term without any of the paradoxical frisson of the English one.