Similar words: caisson, dissonant, dissonance, kiss-off, lissom, miss out, pass on, lesson. Meaning: [frɪː'sɔ̃ /'frɪːsɔ̃] n. an almost pleasurable sensation of fright.
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1. A frisson of appre-hension rippled round the theatre.
2. A frisson of alarm ran down my spine.
3. A frisson of alarm went through her.
4. As the music stopped, a frisson of excitement ran through the crowd.
5. A frisson of alarm went down my back.
6. Virginia brushed the frisson of pique aside.
7. The frisson that he caused was still sweeping through the gallery when it paused and then redoubled.
8. A frisson went around the crowd: this was more like it.
9. There is a discernible, almost romantic frisson about a sea crossing, nomatterhow short.
10. Up the garden path and a frisson of unease: there is no house, but a vista of a majestic lake.
11. She remembered in the dentist's waiting-room her frisson of fear.
12. This caused a frisson of pure terror, but Hamilton was not to be denied.
13. Each new boyfriend or girlfriend sent a frisson of anxiety through the group that grew into a wave of revulsion.
14. Her breath caught as a strange little frisson of excitement slid from her throat to her toes at the thought.
15. A frisson of surprise shot through him.
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16. Again a frisson of excitement swept through his heart.
17. It was a photo opportunity that delivered more frisson than most, making the transition of power in Washington suddenly vivid, as an older generation met a younger one.
18. All the extra work – the slight cognitive frisson of having to decipher the words – wakes us up.
19. There was the frisson of fear that a genetic helotry would be created, doomed by its DNA to second-class health care, education and employment.
20. I still experience a frisson of excitement whenever I see the gold-plated roof of the National Theatre in Prague, at its brilliant best just after nightfall.
21. Naturally, he wanted to impress his colleagues, set up a little frisson, as he'd have put it.
22. In place of his spirituality and incandescence, Solti offers only the momentary frisson.
23. There is a tingle in the woods around these trees, a frisson of excitement and danger.
24. But it seems a peculiar policy, foreign affairs by tingle, sending young men off to die in a frisson impossible.
25. We are too impertinent with the past, counting on it in this way for a reliable frisson.
26. Until Kubrick's death in 1999, just about the only way you could see it in Britain was on an illicit third-generation video copy, which added a frisson of danger but made for a fuzzy, muffled watch.
27. The discovery of substantial pools of home - grown Islamic terrorists has added a frisson of fear.
28. Getting lost, easy enough during the day, practically inevitable at night, only jacks up the frisson of tension.
29. There's nothing like the anticipation of a new book in your hands, the appeal of a cover, and the smell of ink and paper, not to mention a small frisson of guilt at all those murdered trees.
30. But the prospect of a nocturnal encounter with a vampire does lend a certain frisson to the forthcoming journey.
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