thorniness

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Mickey has some predictable thorniness with his tween daughter, but it's fleeting.

From Salon • May 21, 2022

He does away with “Trouble in Tahiti,” whose bitter effervescence collided ungracefully with the thorniness of “A Quiet Place,” and reduced some characters while expanding others, reinstating some arias that had been cut.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2022

The thorniness of those issues contrasted with the uplifting simplicity of what Sui said of competitors Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov, who stand in second after a smashing 84.25.

From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2022

Biden illustrated the thorniness of the debate recently when he gave a short answer to a question about Americans’ ability to worship during the pandemic: That it should happen “safely.”

From Washington Times • Dec. 18, 2020

Meanwhile her own position was certainly very difficult, and she acknowledged its thorniness with a little sigh.

From Comedies of Courtship by Hope, Anthony