Sentences with word «frisson»

Hodder Education m.d. Lis Tribe said the political arena would «provide an extra frisson of excitement for educational publishers in 2015», as planned A-level reform changes, passed by the current government, could be put on hold if the Labour Party gets into power.

There was a certain frisson between Dembele and Gerrard (sexual or not, I can't determine) but the Belgian undoubtedly wins the ball with the slide - tackle.

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.

For tourists, the contest has an extra frisson of danger, as even though bulls are tied up and handled by attendants, they sometimes break free and have been known to charge spectators.

There's a real frisson in these early scenes — you'd be hard pressed to find a more charged use of a lie - detector test — particularly with regards to the two women's anxiety and excitement about the transgression of their mutual desire.

Like many others, we've long nursed a crush on ol' blue eyes — his steely jaw and growly, steamrollerly demeanor induced a certain frisson.

I thought it was going to be a bit naff, but the view is spectacular and you get a real frisson of being in London.

Like punk, Burgin's work is similarly patchwork in its sources and in its aggressive relationship to history, but by contrast it appears virtually seamless as an image; the work's frisson comes from how closely it approaches advertising's codes, its asymptotic proximity to photojournalism, without touching either one precisely.

Even her ankles are covered in this very Harrison Bergeron outfit, where she now exhibits the sexual frisson of a Bioware character model.

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Perhaps there is still an adolescent frisson provided by the image of the Roman inquisitor saying, «Fr.

Jay wonders whether there is a «political frisson» when it comes to business deals.

A small Nottingham museum offers a big frisson for fossils fans, with a world - exclusive showing of key finds that proved birds evolved from dinosaurs

The very fact of a handsome five - story vernacular surveillance tower and of a huge, sultry swimming pool produces frissons, given the unexpectedness of the first and the almost ridiculous improbability of the second.

Edwards does generate a real sci - fi frisson when he depicts Imperial Walkers, over 20 meters high, striding across sandy shores.

For Department of Neighborhood Services, Murphy erodes and alters his own photographs of blighted neighborhoods, jerry - rigged architecture, and graffiti vandals in action by photocopying images and mounting them to plexiglass — an interesting frisson of the decrepit and the slick.

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

The Church of Joy has something for everyone, even slickly packaging Bob Dylan and Jim Wallis for baby boomers and baby busters who enjoy the occasional frisson of feeling radical.

At age 37, Ginobili can't do this every night, but that makes his random outbursts of frisson all the more enjoyable.

The presence on the flight over of Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam, produced a heady frisson of Afrocentrism, but Marley remained spiritually steadfast.

Once the weekly clash is over, aides check their phones and there is a brief frisson of excitement because the New Statesman's political editor George Eaton has declared on Twitter that it was Corbyn's best PMQs yet.

11:44 - Labour's deputy leader is a little frustrated by constant questioning about «culture» as we have the first frisson of disagreement.

The whole arrangement sputters, throws pebbles in its own path, while sending out frissons of jolie - laide beauty that pull you in to observe the breakdown: no small trick.

Taking the film on its own material terms, there's a perverse frisson of pleasure — of sweet, egregiously unequal justice — to be had in watching two people this immaculately beautiful finally unite in quite such accordingly beautiful fashion, and it's here where James (once more acting as producer) and the filmmakers have us right where they want us.

Johnnie Burn's sound design — one jagged, anxious frisson stretched to the point of collapse — is in itself well worthy of an Oscar nod.

Glossy but blandly directed stalker thriller The Perfect Guy fails to do anything interesting with its stock set - up and there's no erotic frisson between the characters.

There's an instant frisson and in the space of a few days, they fall in love, eager to see more of each other once they return.

Periodically, Theron resurfaces to inject the movie with her icy frisson.

The erotic hovers but never plays out, giving the film a subtler frisson than the strenuously literal (if beautiful) rendering of lesbianism in Todd Haynes's Carol (2015).

On DVD you'll relish especially the intimacy of Turner's relationships with his fellow artists, with his strange, psoriasis - ridden housekeeper (Dorothy Atkison) and with Bailey's Mrs Sophia Cobb of Margate (Bailey and Spall pictured above): the love scene in which Spall's Turner compares her to Aphrodite has an extra real - life frisson given Bailey's connection to Leigh.

Even when you're watching a superhero movie, though, you've got to believe at some point that the man in tights might be in danger, and Captain America lacks that essential frisson.

The soundtrack album to «Fifty Shades Freed,» the finale of the soft - core BDSM romance trilogy based on the novels by E.L. James, arrives with its goal clearly designated: getting a song on the radio with enough of a sultry frisson to sell tickets for the movie.

Sutherland's Coriolanus Snow has one last moment of fiery frisson with Lawrence's Katniss Everdeen, but it is too brief to really resonate.

That initial frisson of excitement from having 10,000 credits with which to buy your first vehicle?

As a devoted reader of e-books and an early adopter of consumer technology, I felt a visceral frisson of anticipation in April, when Amazon announced its newest, gaudiest Kindle e-reader.

The place seemed to be more bustling than usual: it had the unmistakable frisson of a small company preparing a big launch.

Since the pair's first encounter in Resident Evil 2, the romantic frisson between the two has been palpable.

Something about knowing an actual human being was flying the helicopter that plunged in a fiery wreck into the trees in front of you just makes you to want to use the word frisson in a game review.

You can dismantle the Rewind command, lumber your car with a severe weight surge or lock the camera to a specific viewpoint, and using them to test your mettle always adds a riveting frisson.

There's no doubt whatsoever that Shadow Fall will be, by some considerable distance, the best Killzone game ever — playing it induced far more frissons of excitement than any of its predecessors.

Not titillation, not arousal, but shock as in a punch to the gut, as in hair stood on end, as in rendered speechless by a fearsome frisson.

With less pressure to hit sales targets, more established gallerists, curators, and artists circulate booze - fueled openings to celebrate and let loose with a post-grad generation of art folks who are just getting their start — and the resulting frisson can be infectious.

For the majority of the museum's visitors who rarely set foot in commercial galleries, the show may hold surprises and even mild frissons of shock.

This kind of psychosexual frisson has become something of a cultural commonplace — consider Rick Moody's 1994 novel The Ice Storm, for instance, or the artist Steve McQueen's 2011 film Shame — though no one quite reaches Fischl's heights, and in contemporary art the theme still belongs to him.

Nowadays the proto - surreal weirdness of Alfred Kubin's early 20th - century animal - human hybrids wouldn't look out of place on the bedsit walls of any teenage goth dreamer.Despite their age his improvised graphic nightmares seemed still capable of catalysing a distinct frisson of unease at Nottingham Contemporary, which was the most inspiring gallery of the year.

Flies and ants (screenprints again, 1972), though reproduced faithfully and to scale against faux - woodgrain backdrops, are displayed in gorgeous golden ambience for no apparent reason, spread out in an irregular allover scattering and producing a surreal frisson.

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.