Sentences with phrase «frisson in»

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.

That caused a frisson in No 10.

There's a frisson in the air.

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Moreover, for a certain kind of writer on the left, ideas must bear a revolutionary panache, and there is a frisson of defiance in taking one's stance with, say, the Druids of old (reinvented and sanitized, to be sure, without, for instance, the burning of human sacrifices).

How strange that in the space of just one week a book reviewer in the New York Times mentions the «frisson - inducing» discovery only nine years ago of a ninth century B.C. stele referring to the «House of David,» thus issuing «a stony rebuff to those who think that David is a mythical figure,» while another...

This frisson was beautifully put by Ambrosius Aupert, Abbot of the monastery in Benevento in the 8th century, when he wrote:

Such blunt words in our society, which has outlawed the death penalty and corporal punishment, cause more than a frisson.

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.

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.

There's a real frisson, too, to the printing - press scenes, as Spielberg drools over the hot - metal mechanics of newspaper production, taking tangible delight in the old - school workings of a Linotype machine.

Since the frisson of conflict is what makes movies work, Just Wright flounders, slick as an NBA commercial, pretty as a Jersey - in - spring postcard.

This is a sports film and a gangster flick in one, teased with the satire of a mockumentary but fueled by the frisson that this all happened pretty much as articulated.

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

Oh, and best of all, Joel Grey (openly gay now but not at the time of winning his Best Supporting Actor award) as that scary Master of Ceremonies who acts as the audience's window into the twisted heart of the rise of Nazi - ism in Germany, and an observer / commenter to the bisexual threesome that gives the film its frisson.

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.

And like that deliciously dark picture, CIRCUS has a rough, lurid edge and trades in cruelty and nasty behavior to provide its frissons.

In place of plot, Hawks and his favorite screenwriter, Jules Furthman, set up a succession of comic and dramatic situations that pop with laughs, thrills, and frissons.

McAvoy and Fassbender, two smart, elegant heartthrobs who are usually more at home in a very different kind of literary adaptation, bring a frisson of intimacy to their scenes together.

It's another thought - provoking, visually arresting offering from Alex Garland, one not just for fans of sci - fi and / or horror but for anybody who likes intelligent, bold movies with more than a frisson of tension in their DNA.

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).

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.

«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.»

She still prizes her «frisson of autonomy,» her belief in herself as a dynamic individual doing meaningful work in the world.

Whether they're picking up Fifty Shades or the next Man Booker winner, I really believe that somewhere in their reading experience, amongst other things, people are seeking out that feeling of 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.

I felt a frisson of excitement as I stepped inside and was greeted by a dining room and sitting area in our very spacious suite.

But there was also a frisson of something distinctly new happening — even in the most off of the off - season, during a trip where I blissfully interacted with next to nobody, I could sense it — and I was curious.

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

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

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».

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.

The Top Ten Art Books of 2016... One gleans in the youthful text how Proust began his perceptual education, translating from art into prose the «brilliant, compelling language» of Chardin and the «gleam and frisson» of Rembrandt.

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 sus - pended in death in blue formaldehyde seas.

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.

«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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 alonIn 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 alonin that meeting we have politics, psychology, sex or domination — all the fraught issues that must be negotiated because we are not alone.

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).

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.

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.