prickliness in a sentence

Examples

1. NATO hopes the common threat of terrorism will improve its relations with Moscow, but Russian prickliness was clearly evident at a joint conference Monday in Rome.
2. These guys don't have any influence to move China in a different direction because the American posturing has produced a very nationalistic prickliness throughout the Chinese bureaucracy.
3. Sidney, a wittier-than-thou hothead whose prickliness propels the play, recently has turned away from his rebellious past and is becoming a nascent capitalist.
4. The prickliness of his " Cider House Rules, " in which the subject was at war with the film's caramel polish, stuck with you.
5. Nonetheless, when President George W . Bush and Chirac got together at the Group of Eight summit in Evian on Sunday and Monday, both chose congeniality over prickliness.
6. This royal shrub produces its own kind of yin and yang, a harmony accentuating both the soft elegance of the bloom and the hard-edged prickliness of the stem.
7. The novelist Paul Theroux, a former friend, devoted an entire book " Sir Vidia's Shadow " ( 1998 ), to Naipaul's prickliness.
8. Along with traditional prickliness about a big neighbor, some Scots now have an air of seeing themselves as rather nicer than the English _ politically more compassionate, less materialistic.
9. On the complex Asian political map, at the intersection of euphemism and nationalism, sits the island of Taiwan _ flypaper of terminological prickliness, touchstone of a thousand arguments.
10. The prickliness of Germans was perhaps not surprising, because in this country, the loss of the mark carries a lot more emotional freight than Europeans normally associate with pocketbook issues.