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- noun Plural form of
frisson .
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Examples
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That he contrives to do so in a narrative crawling with creepy frissons is remarkable.
Never Let Me Go: Summary and book reviews of Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. 2005
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Charlotte Gwinner's production makes the most of some neat plotting – involving sharp edges, a nasty secret pet and some treacherous-looking chairs – which ensures that this domestic dismay is teased out with frissons of alarm.
The Taming of the Shrew; The Trial of Ubu; Our New Girl – review 2012
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As age has caught up with me, too, I no longer pine for those frissons of the cold war, and don't in the least want to be interrogated by armed guards with Kalashnikovs in the interior of Africa.
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Leonardo is the more offensively-oriented manager with frissons of New Age, as you would expect from someone who cites Gandhi.
Inter Gives Hugs and Love Another Chance Gabriele Marcotti 2011
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I'd go so far as to say that, with a couple of exceptions, going all the way back to The Hunger and the ridiculously iconic Top Gun, Tony Scott has never made a movie that wasn't overamped with flashy editing, visual frissons and other trademarks that have nothing to do with storytelling and everything to do with creating a sensation.
Marshall Fine: Annals of the Overrated: Tony Scott and Unstoppable Marshall Fine 2010
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I'd go so far as to say that, with a couple of exceptions, going all the way back to The Hunger and the ridiculously iconic Top Gun, Tony Scott has never made a movie that wasn't overamped with flashy editing, visual frissons and other trademarks that have nothing to do with storytelling and everything to do with creating a sensation.
Marshall Fine: Annals of the Overrated: Tony Scott and Unstoppable Marshall Fine 2010
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What the reader comes away with from the typical Swanwick tale is a set of intellectual frissons akin to those that might emerge from a Greg Egan story, along with the high emotions that one would expect from a Harlan Ellison production.
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I'd go so far as to say that, with a couple of exceptions, going all the way back to The Hunger and the ridiculously iconic Top Gun, Tony Scott has never made a movie that wasn't overamped with flashy editing, visual frissons and other trademarks that have nothing to do with storytelling and everything to do with creating a sensation.
Marshall Fine: Annals of the Overrated: Tony Scott and Unstoppable Marshall Fine 2010
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- Lacked "frissons of fear and panic just beneath the surface humor"
Theatergoers Disdain Neil Simon, Prefer Michael Jackson 2009
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- Lacked "frissons of fear and panic just beneath the surface humor"
Theatergoers Disdain Neil Simon, Prefer Michael Jackson 2009
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