Directions in the book were good, but vague enough to offer a frisson of explorer excitement.
Eventually, the lens is turned on Salazar himself, when he's kidnapped off the street by jihadis and then beheaded, on camera, to cries of "Allahu Akbar!" So "Redacted" doesn't merely offer a frisson of Godardian self-consciousness; this is irony with a revolutionary point, a return to De Palma's origins in the New Left cinema of the late sixties.
The interest now is in something at once more oblique and more close-focused, something that offers a brief frisson of historical intimacy rather than a grand funeral oration.
They provide a frisson of moral satisfaction.
In New York's developer-driven world of compliant architecture, Muschamp's columns offered a countercultural frisson, a streak of fuchsia in a gray coiffure.
For those of us watching, it offered a glimpse into the realities of any kitchen (and added a frisson of excitement).
There was definitely a frisson of excitement at the start at being offered a chance to interact with the work, but also, I felt, a relief at realising the audience's role could be simply observing and absorbing.
The culture of the great Grey Lady has always felt off limits to civilians, so Rossi offers a certain frisson in his capture of reporters' cross-cubicle debates, their tenacious jockeying for on-the-record quotes, and the twice-daily meetings to determine the makeup of page one.
These former Mafia villas offer guests a chance to soak up the island's most beautiful landscapes — and, perhaps, get a frisson of horror and excitement overnighting in places filled with ghosts from Sicily's criminal past.
