Sentences with phrase «frisson all»

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.

The verbal sparring, the frisson.

And it gives you (me, at least) a strange frisson to see these revered objects cut into stones.

A frisson rippled into the world of common law trusts litigation.

The Atlantic — Torturer's Apprentice — Cullen Murphy — But first, a frisson of the rather more serious kind, because, alas, we need to know.

There's a kind of horrific frisson you get listening to this.

On 30 October 2014 the UK Court of Appeal released a decision that is likely to send a frisson of fear down the spine of governments everywhere.

There is still something of a frisson — a sense of the unusual — about seeing the name Debevoise & Plimpton attached to a notable London appointment.

There is still something of a frisson - a sense of the unusual - about seeing the name Debevoise & Plimpton attached to a notable London appointment.

It still sends a frisson down the spine of certain producers to give airtime to the former chancellor Lord Lawson so that he can chip away at the widespread scientific agreement over the causes and impact of climate change.

Now I can be productive in my car, although often my editor drones on in Skype meetings to the point that I am falling asleep at my standing desk; perhaps the extra frisson of driving my exciting and fast Beemer at the same time would help keep me awake.

There is not much joy for these people in urging common sense measures to forfend readily perceptible hazards, since these don't confer that frisson of «priestly knowledge» that catastrophists find especially rewarding.

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

As a youngster and into my middle years, the exploits of NASA regularly gave me a «frisson» of excitement.

Yes, that very well should give climate change deniers an existential frisson of fear.

So be the first on your block with a signed copy... and the electric frisson of knowing that the proceeds are going towards the first ever cross-examination of Michael E Mann on a courtroom witness stand.

Sharon Butler strikes me as this sort of intellectually curious painter: not having made up her mind, not falling into any one camp, but enjoying the restless frisson of not knowing where she's going, while being pulled in contradictory directions.

When he tells me casually that he didn't much care for the abstract expressionism of Jackson Pollock, his criticism comes with an extra frisson: had he not spent the early 50s in Paris, he might well have run into him at an opening (Kelly's first solo exhibition in the US took place in 1956, the year Pollock died; both were represented by Betty Parsons).

A frisson?

In each painting where she has a body meet another body, we feel an expectant frisson, because in that meeting we have politics, psychology, sex or domination — all the fraught issues that must be negotiated because we are not alone.

Figurative painting's power, to a lesser or greater degree, hinges on the frisson of implied intimacy or its denial.

Fisher has eliminated any reference to the ground — in essence, freeing the sky element of a classic landscape painting from its moorings — and that provides just enough frisson to give the traditionally painted renditions of clouds a contemporary feel.

Owens's talk is a must for those interested in the tension and frisson of intimate performance.

This exhibition can be seen as a continuation of her recent presentation at the Whitechapel Gallery, entitled «the frisson of the togetherness».

The thick, wool carpet and lack of seating forcing the institute's Information Staff to sit on the floor gives the large gallery rooms a hint of domesticity compounded by the frisson of unorthodoxy instilled by the encouragement to move some of the installations around and tear pages from others.

In 2017, he participated in the exhibition «Fábula, frisson, melancolia» at the Institute Tomie Ohtake, in São Paulo.

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.

The Big Blue is completed by, and turns full - circle with, Heaven, a shark preserved in a tank of formaldehyde that follows Hirst's iconic 1991 piece, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living; the sharks have a special frisson, their sleek, forward motion elegantly suspended in death in blue formaldehyde seas.

I don't know many other artists who induce quite the same kind of electric charge — a true frisson.

We do not simply stumble across ruins, we search them out in order to linger amid their tottering, mouldering forms — the great broken rhythm of collapsing vaults, truncated columns, crumbling plinths — and savour the frisson of decline and fall, of wholeness destabilised.

He shape - shifted organisms inside out, releasing a spirit that can still give off a frisson of almost comforting unease.

There are several ways to describe the frisson between the shows with which Galerie Perrotin, of Paris, and Dominique Lévy have inaugurated their galleries, in a former bank.

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.

But there's an unmistakably sexual frisson, a provocative sense of the artist mentally undressing his model, which is all the more troubling as she is his sister.

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.

Banksy and the Problem With Sarcasm (regarding Dismaland): «Banksy asks us to substitute the sensation of recognizing a reference for the frisson of wit.

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.

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

After showing in Dubai, three works involving live animals triggered a frisson that rippled across the Atlantic to unleash a force field of anger threatening chaos and worse.

«Leonor Antunes: the frisson of the togetherness», installation view at the Whitechapel Gallery, London.

You couldn't atomise their style, she said, you couldn't treat it item - by - item; it was all about «how the items are put together and put on... the putting together, the frisson of the togetherness».

Its delicate touch plays on the texture richness that we find between the folds of very modest episodes, evoking a frisson of deep recognition, a sense of primal encounter with the brilliant, elusive world of senses.

It was the latter who coined the phrase «frisson of the togetherness», when she was talking in 1989 about fashionable kids.

«The frisson of the togetherness» takes place in a sparse room of woven nets, strung cables, and freestanding objects; though the materials — leather, wood, rope — are Antunes standards, they also point back to their gallery's past.

The frisson ought to be purely graphic - the top left corner of one just grazing the bottom right corner of the other.

This is the New Yorker's first foray into the London art scene and it has been greeted with a frisson of anticipation.

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.

The subtle texture of her delicately worked surfaces, the fragility of the thin graphite lines and the frisson caused when the two meet, leaves the viewer with a feeling of quiet euphoria.

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.