Sentences with phrase «frisson comes»

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.

Though we now know the outcome of the operation, the frissons come thick and fast as one chopper loses power and sinks to the ground while the other, supposedly with a «silencer» attached to the rotary blades but making plenty of noise, lands in front of the compound.

Not exact matches

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

Maybe it's the frisson that comes from leaving the mainland — and your everyday cares — behind as you cross that watery barrier, a physical reminder that you are, indeed, cut off from the rest of the world.

Mass Effect had a grand total of three backgrounds you could pick for your Shepard at the start, but I always had a smidge of a thrill when it came up in any of the subsequent sequels, a frisson of, «hey, that's MY Shepard they're talking about».

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).