thorniness

The young woman's question illustrated the particular thorniness of parental rights.

Such findings may not spell out the problem as much as help reveal its thorniness.

Many papedas are known for slow growth, small size relative to other citrus species, and thorniness.

Yet within that thorniness there are gracefully mysterious touches, particularly in the central dream sequence.

And 7 would much prefer to hear that dog howl at me than listen to one more word from Your Thorniness."

Atherton raspberry is upright in habit, exhibits low thorniness in comparison to most Rubus species.

Hovhaness's work is notable for its lack of the willful thorniness that defined the work of so many composers of his generation.

But Mr. Hackman's understated performance emphasizes Reigart's thorniness, stubbornness and isolation.

Did Miss Burridge grow roses because they had so many traits in common with her adolescent pupils--softness, dewiness, sweetness, occasional thorniness?

This accomplishment is the more impressive when you contemplate the thorniness of his subject: the veracity of the Bible, the end of days and who will be saved.

Not only did the book have a genuine, lyrical eroticism, his depiction of the thorniness of male-female relations was so accurate it could make you wince in recognition.

The film is a straightforward telling of its subject's story, his thorniness and bisexuality included, conforming in broad outline to the facts as laid out by Kinsey's most recent biographers.

It is said that the solution to all problems may be found by those who visit the resting place of the Sword, no matter the complexity of the problem, no matter its thorniness.

Taken together the three pieces, based on literary works, make an appealing orchestral showpiece, with little of the thorniness that is supposed to be a hallmark of Mr. Carter's larger-scale music.

Nearly a century after the birth of dodecaphony, we're still struggling with 12-tone music's bad reputation with audiences, yet the supposed thorniness of the music is belied, time and again, by powerfully communicative pieces.

Despite its current modishness and eternal thorniness, Mr. Artschwager's art takes as one of its big themes the anonymous and inexorable passing of the American scene, of its people, objects and buildings.

For all his thorniness, Ives was a deeply devout New Englander, something that came through in this tender setting of the psalm, though at times there are elusive and unsettling elements in the wayward choral lines and the curious organ harmonies.

The group provided an immediate antidote in the form of Jonathan Harvey's "Riot" (1993), a trio for flute (and piccolo), bass clarinet and piano that has the energy and harmonic thorniness of the Ferneyhough, but is far more vital and involving.

The best moments were in the exquisite dynamic shaping of the Second Partita's Sinfonia, and in the Gigue of the First Partita, where Bach's chromaticism, pointed up by the piano's timbre, sounds for a moment like a preview of 20th-century thorniness.