prickliness in a sentence
Examples
- Amid the pleasantries that surrounded Thursday's agreement, both sides displayed the prickliness that has made engineering a rapprochement so difficult.
- Penny Fuller, as Schwinn's mother, and Christopher Innvar, as his lover, are appropriate mixtures of prickliness and comfort.
- "Given the prickliness of this relationship, I felt that to wait a whole year was risky, " he said.
- Redford makes it look easy, inscribing the never-quite-jaded vet with economy and the ability to project an oddly ingratiating prickliness.
- Hybrids with native holly ( " L . ilicifolia " ) have been recorded, the resulting plants having variable hairiness and prickliness.
- I guess ACOG is more interested in squeezing the last dime out of its ticket customers than worrying about Visa's prickliness toward American Express.
- There was banter about sardines and the Japanese subway system, but no prickliness, N-Judah rage or much resentment of the Municipal Railway.
- When longtime rivals Taiwan and China have to deal with each other, simple issues often become extremely complex, and protocol gives way to prickliness.
- Lott has proved slow to adjust in this decade to the New Prickliness and could be vulnerable to a challenge within his own caucus if things unravel.
- This prickliness, this deep suspicion of the motives of foreign troops, is very widespread and will complicate the mission of the American forces in Yemen.