thorniness

Example Sentences

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There’s a jet-black comedy of grief fidgeting in the wings, but the movie has neither the thorniness nor the emotional restlessness to access it.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2023

Mickey has some predictable thorniness with his tween daughter, but it's fleeting.

From Salon • May 21, 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 Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)