piquancy , also: piquance , also: piquantness

You can see the attraction, the novelty and the piquancy.

It gave considerable piquancy, she felt, to her own male costume.

For writers, that sense of loss gives their works an extra piquancy.

For Clinton, gas prices had a special political piquancy.

To give them piquancy, home cooks should use herbs or spices.

Those things all seem part of fashion's usual piquancy.

The question added piquancy to his visits with her.

Her voice took on a different timbre, enjoying the piquancy of their fear.

The fact that the two heroes of the story could not stand each other only adds piquancy to the tale.

"Visits, I think, have a certain piquancy that is lacking in phone conversations."

But the music's high degree of piquancy could never, in this eager performance, stop its playfulness.

Indeed, the thought that he might really be in danger seemed to give his adventure a certain piquancy and heightened interest.

The outfits of one always graced the other with an odd piquancy.

This gives a slight sweetness and piquancy that is very appealing.

The anger of the Turks has a particular piquancy.

The way the beast is finally snared has a certain architectural piquancy.

He liked the faintly bitter piquancy and took a larger swallow.

At this distance, the event can be viewed with some piquancy and, on occasion, wit.

Still some novelty was necessary, to give to their return the piquancy with which I wished it to be invested.

I also use sprigs of it to add piquancy to soups and sandwiches.

Beautiful as they are, these small images lack the piquancy that bunny ladies would have contributed to the show.

When the illness comes late in life, it adds a touch at once of pathos and piquancy.

What lends this observation particular piquancy however is that remarkably few players sound particularly good.

'There is a certain piquancy, I must say,' said the director of music.

If it wasn't all seamless, there were moments of rare piquancy.