| Brash dissonances dissolve into invitingly harmonized passages, which then climb back toward thorniness. |
| So does the thorniness of contemporary questions of racial justice. |
| I think that's the whole reason for the thorniness of the debate here. |
| Avid moviegoers should be singing the director's praises from the rooftops for daring to thrash out the matter in all its imperfect, dark thorniness. |
| Numerous studies have shown, however, that prickliness, spinesence or thorniness decreases with increasing height in the crown. |
| Dry-eyed and observant, it refuses to pity the aged couple at its center, played by James Cromwell and Geneviève Bujold with a magnificent thorniness. |
