spiky
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It’s immersive, character-driven and stylish; a spiky, enjoyable piece of filmmaking that is wholly distinctive and hasn’t had all its personality sanded down, the kind of movie you could recommend to anyone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Maybe the only way to justify a magnetic attraction to wanting my bags, shoes and belts to be studded, spiky, pierced and heavy is by connecting the dots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
"He knows quite a lot of the plants and when he had a friend round a little while ago, he did a danger tour of all the poisonous or spiky plants," Gemma said.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
At the summit is a streamlined nickel-chromium spire whose concentric curves and spiky windows quote the crown of the Statue of Liberty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
Laura’s unhappiness was different, spiky, she wished that everyone around her were unhappy because she had convinced herself that she would always be.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
So much of his spikier music deserves attention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025
Cendrars’s verse is Whitmanesque in its expansiveness and flamboyance, but sharper, spikier.
From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
Act 2, “Visitor From Hollywood,” is a spikier, shorter segue into satire.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2022
At Edgbaston on Thursday the sledging is bound to have a spikier edge.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2019
So maybe Petey was a little spikier during the day.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
On set or onstage, she will throw herself into the scrappiest, spikiest, ugliest facets of any part, without ego or undue seriousness.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2021
Shirley, director Josephine Decker’s new film about a few months in the life of the writer Shirley Jackson, aims to resemble a Shirley Jackson story of the very spikiest variety.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2020
But with “Jessica Jones,” which returns March 8 for a second season, she is able to let the spikiest elements of her imagination run amok.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2018
Elegantly observed and hysterically funny, it is Rich's spikiest work to date, sidestepping his usual romantic softness in favour of addressing tensions between Brooklyn's hipster excesses and Herschel's desperate poverty.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 16, 2013
