Sentences with phrase «frisson when»

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The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, still experiencing periodic frissons of pleasure when recalling the surprising number of delegates (1,000 +) who attended its AGM last month (we'd...

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

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

I always get a frisson of excitement when I feel the first few whisps of autumn.

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.

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.

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.

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».

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.

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

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).