| Numerous studies have shown, however, that prickliness, spinesence or thorniness decreases with increasing height in the crown. |
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| Again, as with much of Mahler, it's not so much a matter of the thorniness of the musical material or the opacity of the form, but the emotional content of the piece. |
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| I think that's the whole reason for the thorniness of the debate here. |
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| Avid moviegoers should be singing the director's praises from the rooftops for daring to thrash out the matter in all its imperfect, dark thorniness. |
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| But the thorniness of that initial question – is experimentation on one child justified if it benefits multitudes? |
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| The relationship between mother and daughter, in all its thorniness and intricacy, is at the heart of Elizabeth Strout's new novel. |
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| Brash dissonances dissolve into invitingly harmonized passages, which then climb back toward thorniness. |
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| So does the thorniness of contemporary questions of racial justice. |
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| A notable tendency in the family is its members' adaptations to dry climates: small and crowded leaves, shortened branches, thorniness or spininess, and a low, shrubby, intricately branched habit. |
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| Dry-eyed and observant, it refuses to pity the aged couple at its center, played by James Cromwell and Geneviève Bujold with a magnificent thorniness. |
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| Initial observations have revealed diversity in several characteristics, including thorniness, ripening time, and picking ease. |
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| If you think about it, it spotlights the messy human goo, the thorniness of human experience in a way. |
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| Although not about the thorniness of race relations as is Monster's Ball, Up grapples with the much less studied but no less important issue of aging. |
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