thorniness
Example Sentences
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Mickey has some predictable thorniness with his tween daughter, but it's fleeting.
From Salon ● May 21, 2022
He does away with “Trouble in Tahiti,” whose bitter effervescence collided ungracefully with the thorniness of “A Quiet Place,” and reduced some characters while expanding others, reinstating some arias that had been cut.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2022
The thorniness of those issues contrasted with the uplifting simplicity of what Sui said of competitors Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov, who stand in second after a smashing 84.25.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2022
Biden illustrated the thorniness of the debate recently when he gave a short answer to a question about Americans’ ability to worship during the pandemic: That it should happen “safely.”
From Washington Times ● Dec. 18, 2020
Even Corsica had often changed its owners; Greeks from Marseilles had first lived there, then Ligurians and Spaniards, then some Roman colonists, whom the aridity and thorniness of the rock had not kept away.
From Seekers after God by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
