| It had a cured smell, the comfortable pungence of a can of pipe tobacco or mink coats in closets. |
| And though the terse plot summaries in Cinema Stories at times recall the ironic pungence of Siegfried Kracauer's Weimar film notices, they spare us ideological insinuations. |
| It is semidry, mildly snappy with a piquant pungence all its own. |
| Similarly, the purging of emotional associations, particularly biblical ones, gives a dry pungence to Amichai's poetry. |
| Animals do not distinguish between us and the other beasts, or between us and the rocks and trees, each with its pungence and relevance to the struggle for existence. |
| The house was over-warm, and there was a musty smell of over-aged furniture, old leather, and the pungence of mothballs. |
