spikiness

It was the spikiness that seemed to apply.

The spikiness creates a fractal shape, of dimension approximately two point four.

I found her spikiness of mind very agreeable.

Sphagnum squarrosum plants are green, and have the appearance of spikiness.

Wait for the third, he wrote, for the return of otherness, oddity, spikiness.

Bob Crowley's constructivist design adds spikiness to the action.

The women often face away from the center and toward the rear, and their spikiness contrasts with the frozen passion of the couple.

He was nonetheless a tormented soul who resorted to spikiness as self-protection.

We were warned about your spikiness, your frInginess, what were the words they used?

His straw-coloured ring of cropped hair had an unruly spikiness, recalling the child.

From Indonesia come bronze, copper and silver figurines whose spikiness recalls dancing styles of the region.

Three decades after most of them were written, Sherman's social observations seem mild-mannered compared with the spikiness of much contemporary comedy writing.

The most appealing was "11 Pages" (1983), a resolute solo piano work in a language that edges mildly into jazz with an interesting spikiness.

Ms. Hewitt liked the script for "The Tuxedo" because of her character's spikiness.

She isn't proud of her spikiness: "Her constant unkindness to him did not reflect well upon herself," she reflects.

His early style combined a contemporary rhythmic spikiness with elements of atonality, yet he was never considered an excessively dissonant composer.

For all its spikiness, there are hurdles that "La Petite Lili" cannot overcome.

For sheer emotional spikiness, Paul Brainard's "Coming to Terms" (1991) presented the most distinct profile.

But in the variations, Mr. Krieger decorates his themes with fascinating overlays of dissonance and spikiness.

It wouldn't be too difficult to make the computer select for vague general features like, say, tall-thinness, short-fatness, perhaps curvaceousness, spikiness, even rococo ornamentation.

Atop the stem is the rounded to egg-shaped flower head, which looks superficially like that of a thistle, mainly due to its spikiness and lavender color.

In "Rustles of Spring, 1994," William Albright uses harmonic spikiness in a thoroughly picturesque way.

White, striated, gaseous spikiness, a flickering, rippling presence, at the corners of the old tower's braced galvanized-iron uprights and crossbars.

But there's a spareness and a more pronounced spikiness to the music this time round; it's still immersive stuff, but more edgy...".

It is an affectionate song, alluding to his and Lennon's mismatched temperaments and to Lennon's spikiness, but also to their underlying love.