thorniness

Example Sentences

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It refuses to reduce Godard’s output to the relatively accessible French New Wave period and tries to deal with him in all his thorniness.

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2023

García's film is about fathers and sons, and it certainly tackles the thorniness that can estrange children and their parents.

From Salon • Oct. 21, 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

The most characteristic feature of the jungle was its thorniness.

From The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 by Wallace, Alfred Russel