| But the thorniness of that initial question – is experimentation on one child justified if it benefits multitudes? |
| Again, as with much of Mahler, it's not so much a matter of the thorniness of the musical material or the opacity of the form, but the emotional content of the piece. |
| 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. |
| Brash dissonances dissolve into invitingly harmonized passages, which then climb back toward thorniness. |
| Numerous studies have shown, however, that prickliness, spinesence or thorniness decreases with increasing height in the crown. |
| The relationship between mother and daughter, in all its thorniness and intricacy, is at the heart of Elizabeth Strout's new novel. |
