Sentences with phrase «added frisson»

The 36 - year - old already has work in the Tate and is a hotly tipped contender for this year's Turner Prize, factors which lent an added frisson to the sale at Christie's last weekend of her brooding portrait Garnets.

Not that they necessarily need to, as the Kickstarter is up to almost $ 130,000 as I write this, as many backers have opted to pre-order books they might have bought anyway — but with the added frisson of the creator's autograph and the satisfaction of helping a publisher that has built up a lot of loyalty over the years.

There is also a bit of what screenwriters call «sexposition»: that is, if you have a couple of sleazy male characters discussing something important to the plot, they might as well do it in a topless bar for the added frisson.

The Lovestruck app makes rapid dating easier and adds a frisson to the working day when a push notification on vibrate lets you know you've a hot date for lunch.

The chassis has also received some minor adjustments, mainly to cope with the V10 but also to add a frisson of additional grit.

«A new exhaust on the PZ adds a frisson of extra bite to the scream of the Wankel above 7000rpm but it doesn't add more punch, which is what you will really crave by the end of your first trackday in the PZ.»

Imhof built glass partitions between rooms and a raised glass floor throughout, which adds a frisson of danger while allowing voyeuristic scrutiny of the performers crawling among the transparent panes, as if they were another species on view.

Not exact matches

As the man alternately targeting and targeted by her, Pierce Brosnan is cooly effective as a ruthlessly efficient killer and the sight of the former James Bond deploying his own license to kill, this time for money rather than for Queen and country, adds a certain frisson to the proceedings that simply would not have been there had the role been filled by an actor without that background.

Director Stefan Ruzowitzky (The Counterfeiters) gets that when you transplant noir from rain - slicked urban streets to lonely northern snowfields, the change of venue often adds a special frisson to this stylized genre.

That's often the way with these track tests, but it still adds an extra frisson of anxiety to an already pressure - laden drive.

The video shoot added a welcome frisson to Chelsea as the dozy season hit its annual doldrums.

The figures in one such painting seem to be wearing Hazmat suits; the fact that their enigmatic environment has been painted in drippy primaries only adds to the graphic frisson.

The fair itself had a newly curated character, with many stands dedicated to solo exhibitions and the new «Marker» section for experimental projects, and the official announcements of new Arab pavilions for the Venice Biennale added to the frisson.

I went back to the basics and added a little much needed frisson.