spiky

The stress and uncertainty of these conversations is palpable but, remarkably, so is a spiky sense of humor.

I stumble, and my foot slices against one of the spiky thorns on the thicket wall.

A large swath of the country, from eastern Washington to western Arkansas, is currently facing an avalanche of hard and spiky bouncing beach-balls of the noxious, unpleasant weed.

“My mother thought the company of other children unnecessary and over-stimulating,” writes Jessica Mitford in her spiky and enthralling memoir, “Hons and Rebels.”

The climb had to be done in stages through a rocky moonscape, crossing a sea of spiky ice and then the snow of the domed summit with its staggering views across Central Asia.