He gave the impression that he was constantly looking over his shoulder at his executive which contained some hard and prickly characters.

Eventually, Nathalie makes contact with Mägi, a very prickly character, as it turns out, and coaxes him into letting her take on her father's project.

She called Mr. Seifert a "prickly character" who was "all business."

From what I remember, he was a prickly character.

Rosa pimpinellifolia, for example, a prickly character with cream-colored flowers, aka the Scotch rose, is notable for its shiny black hips.

His prickly, confrontational, individualistic and courageously honest character suited the national temperament, while the standard of his writing did Cambridge proud.

Tara is described as "a prickly character" who rubs other doctors up the wrong way.

Many people have probably met someone like him: neurotic, gifted, always fretting and fussing, defensive and insecure, a prickly but ultimately endearing character.

A notoriously prickly character and a perfectionist, surely Reed was tough to work for?

Mr Griffith is a prickly character, as I'm sure you're aware.