spiky
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He was dressed casually in a blue, long-sleeved top, jeans and brown boots, and had his distinctive spiky hair and some facial hair.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Santana’s Marisol, likable yet spiky, anchors the revival.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
It’s immersive, character-driven and stylish; a spiky, enjoyable piece of filmmaking that is wholly distinctive and hasn’t had all its personality sanded down, the kind of movie you could recommend to anyone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
The funny, spiky bait went from nowhere to everywhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Ifemelu sensed, between them, the presence of spiky thorns floating in the air.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
So much of his spikier music deserves attention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025
Mulaney’s comedy, however, has become spikier, pricklier, sometimes slower while remaining as funny as ever, like he’s a pitcher who learned to mix up speeds.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
Act 2, “Visitor From Hollywood,” is a spikier, shorter segue into satire.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2022
Her self-titled debut, due in the spring, mingles the spikier and softer sides of her catalogue.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 28, 2018
Desdemona’s hair was long and silky, but I’d gotten Jimmy Zizmo’s spikier variety.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
On set or onstage, she will throw herself into the scrappiest, spikiest, ugliest facets of any part, without ego or undue seriousness.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2021
Shirley, director Josephine Decker’s new film about a few months in the life of the writer Shirley Jackson, aims to resemble a Shirley Jackson story of the very spikiest variety.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2020
But with “Jessica Jones,” which returns March 8 for a second season, she is able to let the spikiest elements of her imagination run amok.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2018
Elegantly observed and hysterically funny, it is Rich's spikiest work to date, sidestepping his usual romantic softness in favour of addressing tensions between Brooklyn's hipster excesses and Herschel's desperate poverty.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 16, 2013
