Sentence examples for add a frisson of from inspiring English sources

Does that add a frisson of danger?

They use frequent quotations from both "Sunset Boulevard" and "The Talented Mr. Ripley" to add a frisson of exploitative seduction to the Tommy-Greg friendship.

To add a frisson of drama to the proceedings, Mr. Escott and Mr. Mutrux depart from the factual record to suggest that the setting of Sun may be imminent as the boys gather to lay down a few riffs.

Martin Amis brought his cousin Lucy into his memoir, Experience, and was attacked for using her murder by Fred and Rose West to add a frisson of sex-crime-horror.

Ever since Captain Wentworth breezed into the opening pages of Persuasion in 1817, to add a frisson of romantic excitement to Jane Austen's last novel, Jamaica has been adding the thrill of jeopardy to English literary life.

Some French fans of horse meat are hoping that the fuss could add a frisson of excitement to eating horses and help lift the stigma from a fare that, even in France and Belgium, is generally viewed as old-fashioned and uncool.

Which must add a frisson to family gatherings of clan Mohan.

This adds a frisson of excitement to the prospect of getting some really nasty types charged up and in court.

This was a decidedly sexy collection, with black leather and crocodile skins sliced into gowns and body-hugging coats adding a frisson of dominatrix into the mix.

But the dual use added a frisson of paradox — and human nature — to all those empty mirrored halls and gold-encrusted ceilings.

The development has added a frisson of tension to relations between the executive editor and the editor of the editorial page.