0 a sudden feeling of excitement or fear, especially when you think that something is about to happen:
As the music stopped, a frisson of excitement ran through the crowd.
For those who enjoy the occasional frisson of mindnumbing fear, the ultimate adrenaline rush is a mountain hurtling from the sky.
The viewer feels a frisson of terror as they too become engulfed in the great vortex of the storm.
The frisson that disguise and counter-disguise creates for the audience in plays of the early seventeenth century, where boys playing girls pretend to be boys, is unmistakable and widely discussed.
This can produce what may seem at first a pleasing but slight frisson; but on further acquaintance they reveal great depths to both music and poem.
Corbiau himself seems dubious about it; his direction brings forth only a modest frisson from the on-screen crowd.
That photograph caused a frisson of horror at the time and it was specifically referred to 13 years later in 1925.
The frisson which everyone feels at the possibility of the cloning of human beings is understandable.
The words "federal"and"federalism" cause many people to experience a frisson.
