How to Use frisson in a Sentence

frisson

noun

• There is a frisson to seeing Tetiaroa for the first time from the air.
  — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 20 Sep. 2017
• For swearing to work, there has to be a frisson of taboo about it.
  — Emma Byrne, Time, 23 Jan. 2018
• The same movie made with grade-Z actors wouldn’t have the same frisson.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Nov. 2022
• The Bowery still had this frisson of being a scary place.
  — Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 6 June 2018
• But there’s just not enough frisson to that question to drive the movie forward.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2019
• Nowhere in the film is there a momentary thrill, nor any frisson of fear.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2022
• Do composers try to cause frisson in the film scores you research?
  — Zoë Madonna, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2018
• Looking for just the smallest frisson of spice, or none at all?
  — Beth Segal, cleveland.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• There’s a sense of calm, all right, spiked with a tiny frisson of adventure.
  — Brian J. Cantwell, The Seattle Times, 21 Sep. 2017
• Perhaps, this year there will be just a little more frisson from the game.
  — Eric Fuller, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• For those who crave the ladylike feel of a dress but long for the frisson of something new, fear not.
  — Natasha Silva-Jelly, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Nov. 2014
• The piece brought with it pianist Jonathan Biss, with his usual frisson as a bonus.
  — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 22 Feb. 2018
• Africa Without Walls Trade in the four-posters and clawfoot tubs for the frisson of fly tents and true wilderness.
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 13 Mar. 2018
• Church, or at least First Parish, was not the place where a person in Concord could find this kind of frisson.
  — Sarah Blackwood, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2022
• Without the frisson of face-to-face confrontation, what’s the point of this town-hall showdown?
  — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2020
• There’s also the frisson of danger that lurks and is very real.
  — Beth Segal, cleveland, 1 Oct. 2021
• But the play has a grim frisson of fresh resonance today.
  — Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2023
• And in the perfect chiaroscuro, this is a woman who thrives on the frisson of impossible love.
  — Soraya Roberts, Longreads, 8 June 2019
• Lockdown was scary from the get go, but those initial weeks had the frisson of disruption.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 17 Sep. 2020
• Beyond the railing, water (ocean, sea or lake) surges and, with a bird, gives the image a frisson of drama.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
• There aren’t many characters besides Chloé and the twins, which adds to the frisson late in the movie when the great Jacqueline Bisset makes her entrance.
  — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2018
• What the monarchy’s younger set offered readers was that frisson of glamour, wealth, and blinding fame that they had been starved of.
  — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2022
• These messages from the past can cause a frisson when read by visitors today.
  — National Geographic, 3 Sep. 2019
• But throughout the drama, the deal elicited a frisson of excitement from a wide swath of people for a range of reasons.
  — Erin Griffith, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2022
• This gives the movie an extra frisson, adding to its portrait of a self-destructive woman.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2016
• There’s a frisson, but little other value to the encounter.
  — Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2022
• The more strenuous the Soviet efforts to suppress a work, the greater its frisson of the forbidden.
  — Sophie Pinkham, The New Republic, 27 Aug. 2019
• The casting of Taylor and Burton, who could squabble with the best of them (and who married and divorced each other twice), only adds to the frisson.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• The frisson lies in the touches: duck wings instead of chicken, served jerk-style with cilantro pesto; a za’atar crust for the rack of lamb; harissa glaze on a Kurobuta pork chop special.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2022
• At various points, their interest in me as a young gay man was conditioned on a frisson, a charge between us.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 31 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024