| 单词 | prickly |
| 例句 | While Joseph was prickly and hostile, Zeke was all smiles and warmth, the kind of person people liked to be around. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z She had that prickly cold feeling that had followed her in the parking lot right after they’d gotten the first key. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Until he had more information, Farmer was cool and distrustful, even a little prickly, White told me, remembering the moment. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Another time I had a sort of prickly feeling in my back. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Climbing roses covered many of the trees, their prickly vines making the forest look like it was covered in armor. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z When he entered the house, he looked around at the blank-faced walls, the two prickly bushes outside the window—the tan shag carpeting, the lack of books, the tiny stove. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z She skipped and whirled and cartwheeled among the prickly natives. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z It stung her, the rub of Shan’s dismissal, and then it became a prickly resentment directed at Blaine, because she wished he would not agree so heartily with his sister. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Even his fatigue, it felt fine, the stiff muscles and the prickly awareness of his own body, a floating feeling. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry for all the dumb things I’ve said and done. Dad says I’m too prickly. I guess he’s right.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Taylor tried to lead the way, but many of the girls ran scattershot for the forbidding jungle, scrambling over brambles, scraping their tender flesh against the prickly trunks of the palms. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I put out my hand to feel the dark mass before me: I discriminated the rough stones of a low wall—above it, something like palisades, and within, a high and prickly hedge. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I start slamming clothes into my basket, and I have to keep blinking because my eyes feel all prickly with the tears trying to stab their way out. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z She slices a grapefruit and sets each half-moon before us with a special spoon that has prickly edges so we can tear into it. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z A prickly tuft of hair ran down the middle of his head, bisecting it. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as I lifted my arm, I could feel Lu's and Ghost's snickers run down my spine, prickly like ice water. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z Elinor stumbled over a tree root, grabbed at something prickly, and fell to her knees sobbing. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Some feeling was slowly returning to them, mostly a stinging, prickly heat that was like a painful mockery of the soothing warmth I had felt a minute ago when I was drifting off to sleep. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z At once, the prickly vines shot back inside, and the gnarled stump sat there looking like an innocently dead lump of wood. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z "Not very like. He's a bit prickly at times, but not mean-spirited. Best go fetch your brush." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z She displayed a prickly bouquet of thistle blossoms. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Their thick, dark, shabby clothes got all full of prickly things, and since they were much too hot anyhow, they took most of them off. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z We knew there was a lot of water inside a prickly pear, even if Stormy didn’t have a clue. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z As I crested the ridge, a prickly feeling crept over me, and I looked around to see a man watching me from a distant outcropping. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z In 1920 Australian entomologists were sent to North and South America to study insect enemies of the prickly pears in their native habitat. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The air felt all strange and prickly between us. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z My hand reached up to grab my cheek and I felt something creepy and prickly there. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Jam folded her arms across her chest, feeling prickly. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I got a prickly feeling up and down my arms. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Not a blade of grass in the small front yard, but rather barrel and prickly pear cacti and clusters of stones. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z She picked up her phone, and there was a prickly silence in the room. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z It sprang to life at once; long, prickly, bramblelike vines flew out of the top and whipped through the air. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z And then some more stabbing irritant flowed in, sharp and prickly. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever Stormy wasn’t watching, we would cut off a piece of prickly pear cactus, scrape off the spines, and suck out the juice. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now, can you point me in the direction of some prickly poppy?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z They tied my hands together with prickly rope. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z But he hadn't been thinking of doing so at all, and began to get a most uncomfortable prickly feeling in his spine. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Word of the murder rekindled the sense of prickly dread. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “I didn’t hear anything, just a slithery noise. It made me feel strange. All prickly in my tummy. Like something horrible is going to happen.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z The prickly feeling traveled all the way up to my neck and then went skipping down my spine. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z They set his fur on end—that prickly, alert, thrilling sensation, a good feeling—and made his tongue drip. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Shasta looked round eagerly to find the speaker and presently saw a small, prickly person with a dark face who had just come out from among the trees. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z A prickly feeling starts in my stomach, but I push it down as I walk to the back of the building again. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Quickly, I part the prickly brushes, get on all fours, and crawl through. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The air around us all suddenly feels prickly, but I don’t want to miss anything. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Seven years later the last dense growth of the prickly pear had been destroyed and the once uninhabitable areas reopened to settlement and grazing. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The Cactus: “Oh, what a regal cactus, crowned with purple prickly pears.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The prickly poppy had white petals with orange and red in the middle. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z He bought me cheap gifts: a glass figurine, a prickly brooch of cut glass, a silver- colored cigarette lighter. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z We walked through shaggy fields of prickly grasses until we found a clearer path toward the desert. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Then Bryson rolled over, his plush mattress suddenly prickly like a bed of nails against his bruised body. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z Now, under Lewis Strauss, it had become even more security-obsessed than the colonels and generals the scientists had worked with during the war, in purposeful if somewhat prickly companionability. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I glanced quick at the house to make sure no one was watching, then pulled aside the prickly branches of the bush and set the bowl down within it. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Little prickly firs grow out of every crevice and yellow vines with thorns wrapping themselves around the firs’ trunks and you can see and hear yellow razor lizards hissing at us as we pass. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z I pick one the size of a tennis ball and finger the prickly stem end. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Olanna felt a slight irritation, a prickly feeling on her skin. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z A more prickly man might have taken that for a slight, but the Cleftjaw had only laughed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Having crawled through a bramble bush for the prickly poppy, I was feeling a bit prickly myself just then. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I stop to pick a few blackberries from prickly stems of bushes growing between them. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But after I move my feet from side to side a little bit I get used to the prickly cool feeling and it starts feeling softer and more like an okay touch than a tickle. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He lay in the dry wash, about where I’d left it to go running through the prickly pear. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z He bulled his face in close to us, his chin prickly with whiskers. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It has a prickly surface and it has sticky juice. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z A long, high bamboo bridge spanned it, and dense, prickly foliage grew up the high, steep banks on either side. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z He was working up a sweat from scratching his itchy side back and forth against the rough bark on a prickly oak. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “If you want to live in the farmland, haul your sorry hide off to Pennsylvania. If you want to live in the desert, eat prickly pears, not iceberg pansy-assed lettuce.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z But it was just a prickly bush thing....This...this was a whole city of vines and thorns. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z So tall were the spiny thickets that the hobbits could walk upright under them, passing through long dry aisles carpeted with a deep prickly mould. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z That's what I feel like all over—numb and prickly and as light as a balloon. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z We had lots of prickly pear growing close to the house, but they were the big tall ones and their roots were no good. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z We both thought the prickly pear cactus looked like Ping-Pong paddles with whiskers, and that saguaros looked like dinosaur mittens. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z I chased him into a clearing, where he hopped into a prickly bush. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Then came something about her Spanish teacher, whose black button eyes stared from under her prickly gray eyebrows. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z A hot, prickly feeling of shame spread from the top of Harry’s head all the way down his body. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z His touch felt like wearing a prickly old wet wool sweater with no undershirt. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z She played tag and grass ball with them and she pried prickly sea urchins off the rocks, to eat the sweet meat inside. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z At the presentation of his conference paper, Oppenheimer was run through the intellectual wringer by Robert Millikan, the notoriously prickly Caltech president. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It rose steeply and was covered by prickly bushes, vines, and bracken. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z "The direwolf must be a prickly beast," said Little- finger with a sharp twist of his mouth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Surrounding the walls was a ditch filled with those prickly palmetto palms that had sliced them when they ran from Nathan’s house. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Cottonwoods lean gracefully over drifts of flowering prickly pear. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z As if she’d conjured it from her thoughts, another slender gray creature, slimy and covered in what looked like sticky, prickly fur, blocked their path forward. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Her voice in the hall lashes me to my chair with prickly vines. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Being loyal to the one who owned me gave me prickly thoughts, like burrs trapped in my shift, pressing into my skin with every step. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z We never did tell Stormy about prickly pear cactuses. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z If she suspected this, she would have shut up tight, and been more prickly than ever, fortunately she wasn’t thinking about herself, so when the time came, down she dropped. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no real way to figure out what was wrong; Wab was prickly on the best of days. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The green prickly house was surrounded by a dried-out but neatly trimmed lawn. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z So many textures—prickly pines, rough, crackling wood, smooth leaves, velvet brush cover, and weeds and dirt. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z She wanted out of her cold socks, out of the damp wool sweater that was prickly against her skin. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The desert seems to be a brown wasteland of dry, prickly scrub whose only purpose is to serve as a setting for the majestic saguaros. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Not odd in the way Cecile’s green, prickly stucco house was odd in Oakland. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z I’d already found the skeleton weed, spiderwort, and toadflax right where she’d said, but the prickly poppy was nowhere to be found. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z She stood on the cacti, her feet unharmed by the prickly pears and thorns. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z He ran the scent out into a regular forest of prickly pear. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Remembering Amy’s advice, I walked right over and gave him a big hug, wrapping my skinny arms around his compact frame and taking care to avoid the prickly whiskers in his thick beard. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z One morning she had me traipsing out at the crack of dawn for prickly poppy, toadflax, spiderwort, and skeleton weed. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I step out of the bath and onto a prickly object. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Tall elephant grass and prickly, brown brush have replaced Phnom Penh’s blooming flowers and tall trees. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the cold: arms and legs prickly, and finger numbing. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The prince grinned, running a hand over the prickly ends of his black hair, now barely half an inch long. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I feel nauseated, hot, prickly, on the verge of fainting or throwing up. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The perspiration under his arms, dripping down his chest, evaporated and the prickly sensation was delightful. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Wearily, she lay down on the prickly straw. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z As I leaned into the fence to get a better look, I had the sudden prickly sense that someone stood behind me and swiveled around. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z And now, the riots had given teeth to all those prickly feelings of discomfort. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z We just stand there and watch him hobble through the prickly boxwood bushes and disappear in the trees. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “And now,” said Deydey kindly, touching his son’s prickly hair, “what was that I heard you yell before the syrup spilled onto your feet? What about your first kill?” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I went back to Shusgis’ house and reveled in the hot showerbath, which came at one from all sides in a kind of prickly mist. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z It was a thrill to be in such a different world and I’d feel a prickly awareness of how good my shoes were, how clean my white pinafore dress that Constantine had ironed for me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z We had all seen the clumps of prickly pear cactuses that were growing everywhere. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, they make me feel prickly all over. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, we lived on what remained of our salted fish, roots and leaves, the fruit of the prickly pear, and on the plantains from our tree. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Things have been pricklier with Edna since she got in trouble, but I’m trying my best to ignore it and move on. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I mean, sure, things were still pretty prickly between my lead actress and me. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z We looked and looked, climbing over fallen trees and pushing through prickly vines. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “Our false king has a prickly manner,” Melisandre told Jon Snow, “but he will not betray you. We hold his son, remember. And he owes you his very life.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Together the rats crashed into a prickly bush, kicking, biting and pummeling each other. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z My parents said that I was born with a sharp cry and a personality as prickly as an African hedgehog. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z My back feels prickly all the way to the restroom, so I guess Muhammad is sending daggers my way. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Declaration’s note back to me was prickly, bordering on peevish. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I cut down the path to the terrace below, where the ball is caught in the prickly thistle of a blackberry bush. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I have that antsy, prickly feeling like I’m talking too much. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z But their pain bounced off the walls and crawled under my skin, where it settled like prickly bristles. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Kit leaned her bare elbows back on the prickly thatch. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z It was back along the trail through the prickly pear. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z It made me feel like one of the prickly pear cactuses I crunched under my feet: small and unimportant on the prairie near Vida. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z She doesn’t mean it as an insult but a prickly truth. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z After they had dumped water for the sheep, they went to burn the spines from the cholla and prickly pear. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The quarry was on a hillside, not the calm and pleasant Chamundi Hill, but another, lesser hill, bare and rocky, with here and there a few clumps of prickly pear. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the cacti or prickly pears escaped from his gardens and by 1925 about 20 species could be found growing wild. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He shrank back, his skin hot and prickly, like the onset of hives. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But that hooch is mine, not my daddy’s,” Crab clarified, prickly. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Attempts to beat around the bush made her turn prickly. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The rest was gray scrub and tumbleweed and a few prickly pears. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z My skin feels prickly, like the spikes from a dragon fruit are rolling up and down my arm. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Before us stood a giant cactus patch, each pad covered with budding prickly fruit that sparkled in the light, like tanzanites. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Felt kind of prickly in the skin to have Pa talk to me. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Marigold often wondered if it would be possible to smooth out her brother’s prickly personality just by chopping off that hair. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z After three wobbly seconds he landed in the prickly leaves of a rockrose, but he promptly got up, pulled a few thorns out of his foot, and tried again. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The silence he left was heavy but comfortable, like a well-worn, prickly cardigan on a bitter morning. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Having to duck and dodge around in those prickly pear, he was bound to come out bristling with more pear spines than the hogs had in their faces. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z I fidget and shift, exchanging one prickly branch for another. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The next day the saguaros and prickly pears were fat from drinking as much as they could, because they knew it might be a long, long time until the next rain. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z His manner, which had become prickly, turned cordial again. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z In front of her, on the table, was a small piece of prickly pear cactus, just a corner of a tiny lobe, big enough to have a couple of spines sticking out of it. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Furious at being blindsided by the appointment, Bush dodged Groves’s brusque queries about the state of the project and dashed off a prickly letter to Stimson’s assistant, Harvey Bundy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The air in the room turned prickly, they told their families, quickened by an unseen power. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She yanked some paper off a prickly holly that didn’t seem to want to give it up, threw the pile of paper to the grass. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The Dead Sea water was so prickly with salt, it stung Liyana’s eyes. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The new floor was streaked with water stain, and a clutter of old papers and darkened nail bags with their nails rusted to prickly balls filled the corner of the room. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z My mother would order me to nip their prickly wings while she cooked pap. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I glanced at him, wondering if things would still be prickly between us after what had happened with Lewis. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I rest my forehead against the prickly stucco. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Sara shows me the cutest little baby green pumpkins growing on a prickly vine. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Then I took out through the forest of prickly pear. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The episode began with a prickly remark by Columbia’s Harold Urey, a chemist who maintained a lively skepticism about the cyclotron’s usefulness. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I didn’t like the clothes, or the prickly Christmas tree, and am usually shown bursting dramatically into tears . Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The days their legs itched from the graft, from their leg hairs getting caught in the bandages, a prickly irritation that never stopped. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I roll my tomato between my hands, the prickly stem poking into my palm. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z They are grubby and stinking of sweat and urine and filth, and prickly with beards, like cactus—except the women and children—but I do not care. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z I let my hands travel up the frigid railing of the hospital bed towards my father’s face, which when my fingertips grazed it felt as prickly and haggard as it looked and just as dead. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z There were gullies full of shrubs, and Lina and Doon crawled among the leaves and prickly branches, but found no openings. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Now, her mother would be testy and prickly. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I felt the blood drain from my face, leaving behind a prickly chill. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It was true that prickly heat was common during the rainy season. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I withstood the urge to scratch my increasingly prickly rash, and instead dug some soft mud from the riverbed and wiped it on my ankles and wrists. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I straighten his lapel and try not to pay attention to my prickly nerves as we head inside. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z That seems a stretch, though Wright’s ego was monstrous and he grew more prickly and irascible as he aged into his 90s. ‘Architecture’s Odd Couple’: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Much of the dialogue is prickly and intimate—so intimate that, at times, one has the impression that Haggis is unloading personal obsessions into his narratives, as Bergman and Fellini did. David Denby: “Third Person” and “22 Jump Street” Reviews 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Another is the leatherleaf mahonia, a formidable hollylike shrub whose prickly foliage is leavened by sprays of golden blossoms, small and cupped and fragrant. Grab those pruners — there’s seasonal work to be done in the garden 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Mr. Segal expertly captures the note of serious aggression that simmers under Jesse’s slacker-dude surface, without sacrificing any of the character’s prickly humor. Theater Review: ‘The Bad Guys’ by Alena Smith at McGinn/Cazale Theater 2012-06-06T21:13:07Z The approach yields a kind of formal lucidity that is constant from his prickly early music through his more inviting recent works. He Has Fans, Fame and an Acclaimed ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Opera. So Why Is Charles Wuorinen So Cranky? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z The numbers are “And They’re Off” and “Gordo’s Law of Genetics,” and they deal with the prickly legacy of being part of a family. Review: ‘A New Brain’ Gambols Tunefully Through a Vale of Death 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Over the years, though, Ms. Lee developed a somewhat prickly relationship with residents, particularly those who seemed eager to cash in on her fame. Harper Lee Lawyer Offers More Details on Discovery of New Book 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z Seshadri’s prickly inventiveness serves him especially well when he writes about gender. A Poet Who Mesmerizes by Zigs and Zags, Hopping From Idea to Idea 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Americans everywhere had flipped on Netflix, watched the seven-episode fictional transformation of a prickly orphan into an unstoppable grandmaster and decided, yes, it was finally time to learn to play chess. Perspective | ‘The Queen’s Gambit,’ a period drama that erases sexism from 1960, is the best fantasy show of the year 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z A yearlong pandemic diary embedded in a prickly domestic negotiation, the movie is essentially a two-person play set in the upscale kitchen of the couple’s comfortable middle-class home. ‘Together’ Review: Love and Loathing in London 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z In an interview with Billboard earlier this summer, Love seemed a little prickly on the subject of Gurls – distinguishing between the "creative" part and the more, er, "classic" aspects. Beach Boys publisher pursues Katy Perry over California Gurls 2010-08-06T11:03:00Z One of them, the Alejandro Adams, based in California’s Bay Area, produced work during this period that was too prickly and individual to categorize under any rubric. Spike Lee’s ‘Pass Over,’ an Offbeat Melding of Cinema and Theater 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z The scruff, scrub and brush are prickly and persistent, just like certain denizens of New Jersey. Still Life: Still Life: Gallery of the Meadowlands 2012-07-10T16:24:06Z There was a deliberate, almost prickly quality to Fisher’s writing and thinking that is rare nowadays, when criticism is more likely to involve open-minded rationalizing than steadfast refusal. Mark Fisher’s “K-Punk” and the Futures That Have Never Arrived 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Fathers have always been prickly territory for me. "Dear Father" letters and DNA tests 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z Sometimes you have to grab them with your hand, which can be prickly. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z Chris’s prickly presence, rendered with funny, agitated intensity by Mr. Shamos, comes to seem a device by which to stoke what little drama the play musters. Review: In ‘The Qualms,’ a Sex Party Winds Up Being All Talk 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z A prickly superintendent, a surprise guest and a monkey that loots their hotel room provide the usual mystery, entertainment and one-liners that are as old as the combined ages of the characters. TV highlights 30/07/2013 2013-07-30T06:00:36Z To connect to his prickly character, Mr. Esparza turned regularly to his notebook. For Sondheim, Raúl Esparza Protects His Voice. For ‘Seared,’ His Fingers. 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z At 14 prickly minutes, it remains a classic of ballet horror. Review: Witching Up ‘Giselle.’ (The Horror, oh the Horror.) 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z They have to sell that view to 80 often-difficult and prickly skeptics, get them to agree and then keep them together. Elim Chan’s Flick Conducting Prize Is Rare Win for a Woman 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Tyner Gray, a prickly and proud man confined to a wheelchair for many years, needs to be needed. 'Hush Hush' speaks volumes about dark domestic impulses 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Unpeel the wax paper and there is a fat, charred wedge of rice, prickly with bacon shards, its nori sleeve puckered from a bout on the grill. At Kichin in Brooklyn, Korean Fried Chicken and Mighty Rice Balls 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z I tell her that I read he had described the young Charlotte as “prickly”. Charlotte Rampling: ‘I am prickly. People who are prickly can’t be hurt any more’ 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z It’s a testament to the prickly and gratifying intelligence of this strong and singular work that neither of the stories it tells ends with the sense of obstacles overcome unconditionally. Theater Review: ‘Ganesh Versus the Third Reich,’ at Under the Radar 2013-01-10T22:16:35Z If I think hard, I might imagine that the chilli heat is a little bit sharper, pricklier, than the jalapeño. Feel the burn: why do we love chilli? 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Their prickly partnership only lasts for the eight episodes of the first season. McConaughey, Harrelson take on grisly murder in 'True Detective' 2014-01-08T13:07:13Z “Results” allows its story to emerge from the idiosyncrasies of the characters, who are prickly and odd and a bit lost in their own personalities. Review: ‘Results’ Tracks Exertions in Matters of the Cardio 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z This season, one of the show’s least impressive, marked the emergence of the normally prickly Mr. Cowell as an unexpected father figure. ?American Idol? Crowns Its 9th Winner 2010-05-27T16:16:00Z Zen, Venetian by birth, is "wry, ethical, prickly, perceptive, politically incorrect, not especially lovable and forever bedeviled by bureaucratic incompetence," wrote Woog in a 2007 appreciation. Readers on the case: favorite mysteries set in Europe 2010-12-23T00:50:29Z Not so much broken Britain as recognisably prickly Britain. Mayday; Story of Music – TV review 2013-03-04T07:00:00Z Rose, the prickly beauty, and Mary, the enigmatic saint: I wonder, is there a better name to remember all our mothers with? What a mother should be 2013-05-12T10:00:00Z Adler is portrayed as a complicatedly charismatic force of nature, a prickly beauty who worshipped her father to the detriment of her relationships with men. 'Stella!' is a backstage portrait of acting guru Stella Adler 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Judging the photographs of an artist who is not primarily a photographer raises a prickly question. How Ralph Ellison’s World Became Visible 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z Yet every time he visited extended family in nearby towns like Tlaxcala, Tellez got to witness firsthand the formidable task of harvesting these prickly succulents. A primer on cooking with cactus 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z The poem reads as both a feminist statement and a defense for her own powerfully prickly syllabics, unusual rhymes, and often strange music. The Marianne Moore Revival 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z But her subtly funny dialogue and the vivid, truthful characters keep the play grounded in prickly emotional authenticity. | 'Tigers Be Still': Escaped Predator? What Else Is New? 2010-10-07T02:01:00Z At the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday, two documentaries debuted about famously prickly pop-cultural figures, but despite that promising first scene, “Val” would rather recontextualize the actor as a misunderstood softy. Cannes Film Festival: ‘Val,’ ‘The Velvet Underground’ and Famous Jerks 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, relationships with her Morris Minor-loving stepfather and her prickly grandmother are also proving problematic. The Flask by Nicky Singer - review 2012-06-01T21:55:01Z But that prickly personality and its discontents ring awfully true, and Brunstetter uses the game frame to her wry advantage, switching it off at will. The game of life, learned on ‘The Oregon Trail’ 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z Over 14 tracks, they address the pitfalls and pratfalls of growing up in modern Britain - from talent shows to the prickly business of telling a friend you don't like their girlfriend. Alternative Mercury Prize 2013-09-14T00:21:58Z His reputation was prickly and, as a hero of mine, I was more than a little apprehensive. John Barry: The composer who was as pop as the Beatles 2011-01-31T12:49:27Z His guitar style is rhythmic, prickly, biting: “That’s why I play now with that heavy staccato style like I’m playing drums,” he told the Miami New Times, in 2018. Dick Dale, the Inventor of Surf Rock, Was a Lebanese-American Kid from Boston 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z His mother, imbued with a prickly uncertainty about her place in the world by Ms. Ireland, must deal with a similarly tricky relationship at work. Review: ‘Kill Floor,’ a Drama About the Beef Dividing a Mother and Son 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z She also adds Dijon mustard — "another prickly ingredient," she told me — and lemon zest, a freebie with the juice, for even more brightness. The best chicken caesar salad I've ever had 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Kelman has given some notoriously prickly interviews to journalists up from London, and I'm keen to avoid this being another one. James Kelman 2012-07-29T19:00:01Z The Plot: You may have already seen or heard about this portrait of a prickly old busybody still in mourning for his wife. A Quick Guide to the Foreign-Language Oscar Nominees 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z The first suit, with its prickly skin of twigs and branches, was a remedy both to racial profiling and bodily vulnerability — armor as protest. A Nick Cave Survey With Plenty of Bells but No Whistles 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z It’s just that Jaclyn’s prickly demeanour disrupts the “teamwork atmosphere” he wants for his office. Grey area 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z The rougher themes of the honky-tonk era, the feminist strains heard in songs by pioneers Kitty Wells and Loretta Lynn, and the prickly political conscience that existed in the Vietnam era are today largely gone. Nashville: the country show that's larger than life 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z For better and for worse, their parenting style matches their prickly relationship. Review: A Child Adds a Layer to Gay Couple’s ‘Ideal Home’ 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Other than the prickly relationship between mom and daughter in “Lady Bird,” the closest thing I found to accuracy was in a surprising place: The raunchy animated Netflix comedy “Big Mouth.” When you’re pregnant, movies and TV constantly remind you of the worst-case scenario 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Things seem better for modern women as Churchill pivots to the 1980s, but then you get an earful of the prickly interviews at the London job placement agency. Review | Churchill’s 1982 ‘Top Girls’ still stings in the Trump era 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Diffident and prickly, Kele personified Bloc Party's fraught music, which dealt chiefly with yearning and unease. Kele Okereke 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z The winding trail, barely wide enough for one person, is overgrown on both sides with brush and prickly bushes. On Long Island, skip the beach and take a hike I’ve interviewed directors defending films before: they tend to be prickly or guns blazing. 'I have the right to tell this story': Lukas Dhont defends his trans film Girl 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Talk about the ending of any acclaimed show is rife with prickly issues. ?Mad Men? Creator Says 7 Seasons Will Be Enough 2011-04-01T23:45:02Z The common denominator is that saisons are effervescent and crisp, full of prickly spice and fruit flavors, often fermented to near bone-dryness. The surprise about saisons The land, rugged and craggy; the soil, arid and sparse; the vegetation, scrubby and prickly; all conspire to turn Anguilla into goat heaven. Goats Rule on the Island of Anguilla 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z A world championship was at stake, and so were cold war bragging rights, as Fischer, a prickly individualist from Brooklyn, took on Mr. Spassky, a product of the great totalitarian Soviet chess machine. Movie Review: ?Bobby Fischer Against the World,? Documentary - Review 2011-09-08T23:43:53Z Most of all, though, he seemed to relish the controversy that his wealth, power and prickly personality brought him. Pierre Bergé, Transformative Fashion Executive, Dies at 86 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Predictably, their relationship softens up, but the film nevertheless maintains some of its prickly charm, in no small part because of the feisty Rampling, whose ice-queen persona here straddles bone-dry humor and withering tragedy. ‘Juniper’ Review: Bad Grandma 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z It brings up the prickly issue of a grown-up child’s responsibility for his aging parents, one of many themes that percolate through the film. Review: ‘Growing Up and Other Lies’ Stares Down the Advent of Adulthood 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z As it is, I feel a prickly heat in case I see someone I know. Why I put 400 condoms in the kitchen drawer for my sons 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z This slow build releases the prickly, belly-bloating bubbles of carbon dioxide, leaving a smoother, less filling brew. Now Rising to the Top of the Beer World: Foam 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z The movie’s namesake, she is prickly on the outside but refined and vulnerable underneath, and Ms. Balasko’s wonderful performance captures every layer. | 'The Hedgehog': Behind the Prickliness Lies a Generous Heart 2011-08-18T23:17:46Z The dramedy stars the pair as friends in Los Angeles navigating unaccommodating colleagues and prickly relationships. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘This Close’ and ‘When We First Met’ 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z She first made her name with prickly social and celebrity reporting. The Life of Oriana Fallaci, Guerrilla Journalist 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z The titular hedgehog is allegorical and never appears in the prickly flesh. For Muriel Barbery, It’s Elves Who Are Elegant Now 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Then there are the laughably unconvincing armed bizzies from the 1985 siege episode, the one in which psychiatric nurse Kate was killed by a deranged gunman with mother issues and a prickly demeanour. Your next box set: Brookside: Most Memorable Moments 2012-12-13T18:45:02Z When I mention this, Brown's prickly reaction is to put it down to "lazy journalism", based on their similar backgrounds. 'I had an early lesson in manipulation' 2010-12-23T22:33:00Z Safflower oil is extracted from seeds of the prickly safflower, the petals of which are sometimes used as imitation saffron. What are the best substitutes for vegetable oil? 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Look, read the labels, mull over the prickly unanswered questions many of the pieces leave you with. Charles Ray: Radical Conservative 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z The ingredient called prickly ash in the article is more commonly known as Sichuan pepper and was, for a time, prohibited from importing to the USA because of fears it was contaminated. At Happy Stony Noodle, a Childhood Favorite Anchors the Menu 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z He avoids the celebrity circuit and is wary of the media; he has a reputation as a prickly interviewee. Tim Roth: ‘If you neglect the working class for so long they will rebel against you’ 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z It will be the anxious Albus’s first year, and like his dad, he is a proud, prickly and sensitive plant. Review: ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Casts a Spell Onstage 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z In a colorfully prickly portrayal by Emily Townley, she seems particularly peeved that Molly’s unending string of mishaps is once again hijacking her time. At Olney, addiction tale ‘Bad Dog’ wags and snaps 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z But their exchange goes from prickly to something warmer and at times winning — which is an apt description of this interracial, interfaith, bigotry-teasing comedy, directed by Kenya Barris and written by Hill and Barris. ‘You People’ Review: Guess Who’s Going to Roscoe’s 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z “Danny was quite a prickly character, and it took me a long time to win his trust,” the English broadcaster and music writer Alyn Shipton, who edited “A Life in Jazz,” said. Giving a Great Jazz Storyteller His Due 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z Dan Moyer’s “Half Moon Bay,” for Lesser America, is a sweetly caustic survey of contemporary relationships, pleasantly prickly until it turns unnecessarily serious. Review: ‘Half Moon Bay’ Shows the Hook Up and the Aftermath 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z She takes him to see a venerated copy in an art gallery, but their prickly, quarrelsome relationship takes a strange turn when he is mistaken by a cafe owner for Binoche's husband. Cannes film festival: Kiarostami's scenes from a fake marriage 2010-05-18T21:00:00Z They refer to George’s transformation of furniture into animal companions, but possess a prickly life of their own as weird, intriguing objects. It's a jungle inside this room at Hannah Hoffman Gallery 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z His patriarch is a prickly martinet who so intimidates his family of overachievers that they all lie to him rather than upset his notion of family. Meet the ‘Peeples’ in formulaic, funny comedy 2013-05-09T22:25:13Z I loved the way that the mostly one-line paragraphs marched down the page in prickly self-containment, with a lot of white space that demands a certain kind of attention from the reader. This Week in Fiction: Lauren Groff on the Gravity of Friendships 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z The deciduous trees of the North Rim are replaced by prickly pear cactus and aromatic sagebrush, providing home to lizards, and hawk moths after dark. How to hike the Grand Canyon 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z Trump was alternately prickly, crude, menacing and proudly sexist as he took center stage at the first GOP debate. Fox News tries to expel Donald Trump — but last night’s debate didn’t finish him 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Science fiction, fantasy, horror, the stories are as brilliant, prickly, humane and sometimes problematic as the man himself. Celeste Ng, Ann Patchett, Min Jin Lee and Others on the Books That Bring Them Comfort 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z “Artists can be very prickly when it’s implied that they’re influenced by someone,” said Ms. Siegel, a professor of art history at Stony Brook University in New York. A Pioneering Artist and Her Nemesis, Side by Side 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Sometimes her pile-on sentences achieve a prickly, shambolic sort of grace. ‘Milkman’ Slogs Through Political and Cultural Tensions in Northern Ireland 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Most dramatically, extending down the garden’s center are columns of organ pipe cactuses, planted as if to guard the prickly pear cactus gathered nearby. Critic’s Notebook: Oaxaca, Mexico, Shows History Unvarnished 2012-06-15T23:47:51Z You can't root for Fincher's Zuckerberg in any usual way because he's difficult, prickly, complex and has the obsessive, sociopathic quality of the serial killers the director has created in the past. The Social Network should block The King's Speech in Golden Globes clash 2010-12-15T16:56:48Z But at 100 minutes or so, it feels uncomfortably like a long one-act, an extended pas de deux about a prickly friendship. In ‘Chinese Coffee,’ Louise Lasser Directs Austin Pendleton 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z The rough-cut wood, the asymmetrical stacking, create an inner tension; while the work suggests architecture, its prickly irregularity communicates unreason and rage. The best of Louise Bourgeois 2010-06-01T14:06:00Z Later he would be fitted with a wig and false eyebrows, but the constant, fidgety adjustment and telltale stink of acetone fed a prickly sense of self-consciousness and outcast condition. Mike Nichols’s Brilliant Career 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z The prickly personality of Mary, with her bulging, needy blue eyes and pendulous breasts, is brought to life by Mr. Russo with funny-sad precision. Review: ‘Made in China,’ With Romance, Polemics and Puppets 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z Like their subject, the remembrances were both moving and prickly. Kim Fowley's Hollywood funeral draws stars, L.A. music insiders 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Manhattan his prickliest; Crimes and Misdemeanors the one in which the dumping has the direst fallout. Casablanca to Starship Troopers: the movie breakups that hit our writers hardest 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Johnson writes crisp conversational dialogue, and the prickly relationship between the central characters is enacted with persuasive sensitivity by Ms. Pinkins and Ms. Wiest. Review: ‘Rasheeda Speaking’ Finds a Chilling Place to Work 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Two celebrations of the sometimes prickly solidarity among women. The Best Movies of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z This fall a steak house with dramatic views debuts in one of the added structures; the other houses a 25,000-square-foot spa, which offers treatments with prickly pear, lavender, and other indigenous plants. The Ritz-Carlton Redesigns Rancho Mirage 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Each chapter takes on a different prickly, stinky, tricky, troublesome fruit — its history and usage in herbalism, its flavor and appeal, its dangers and difficulties — and ends with recipes. Pick Your Poison: The Sweet, Sometimes Lethal Sides of Your Produce 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z Despite the low alcohol by volume at 4.5 percent, the beer’s golden body is full, with a prickly, almost champagne-light effervescence followed by a pleasing dryness. Beer of the Week: Thiriez Extra 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z It’s full of his highly composed, prickly and powerfully condensed writing, descended as much from Iannis Xenakis as from Andrew Hill. Fall Pop Music Preview: An Abundance of Rhythms and Styles 2013-09-09T16:03:09Z Krieps and Roth have exactly the right handle on their characters and their prickly dynamics, as the two of them love, stimulate and annoy each other, all at once. The Best Movies and Shows on Hulu Right Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z We are heavily invested in Spock and his fascinatingly tense, prickly, and sometimes antagonistic relationship with Kirk. Star Trek Into Darkness – review 2013-05-09T14:35:00Z He’s the high-powered professional who has sidelined his career to support his wife’s sky-high aspirations — even as his work life is creating a prickly conundrum over possible conflicts of interest if Harris takes office. Doug Emhoff paused his career for his wife Kamala Harris’s aspirations — and became the campaign’s ‘secret weapon’ 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z I found him to be remarkably, and at times delightfully, prickly about anything having to do with the nationalistic implications of sport, in spite of his stated mission to use sport to strengthen patriotism. Cold War Puck: The Beauties of Russian Hockey 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z There were unexpected examples of traditional craft, like a red column pleated in an old-fashioned Japanese technique that left the surface as prickly as a cactus. On the Runway Blog: Dior: Letting Loose 2013-07-01T20:50:19Z And there was the art, a lifetime’s worth, prickly and complicated but also, some of it, deeply, influentially and habit-formingly beautiful. Art Review: The Self-Invented Artist 2011-02-24T22:33:10Z She was prickly and suspicious, upset that I had left her property to visit the Heathens. How to Prepare Now for the Complete End of the World 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z “Whistler was famous for making enemies and being very prickly,” she says. Is that paint on the gallery rug? New show marks major shift at the Sackler. 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z And though every relationship here is in jeopardy, it’s the survival of this unlikely, prickly bromance that most concerns us. Review: ‘The Spoils’ Stars Jesse Eisenberg as Narcissist 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z But if a saving wit shines through them, so does a prickly intellect. Review: ‘A Manual for Cleaning Women,’ Lucia Berlin’s Soul-Baring Stories 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z As soon as we hear of the prickly antipathy between these two life-battered souls, we can settle back in our chairs comfortably and await a satisfying final clinch. Theater Review: ‘Outside Mullingar,’ by John Patrick Shanley, Opens 2014-01-24T03:00:03Z It includes testimonials from French architects and experts who lent support to what Goodyear, with prickly self-deprecation, called “my heresies.” Washington National Cathedral goes under the microscope It lacks wit, and by that I don’t mean humor — I mean prickly, penetrating sentences, texture and insight. Books of The Times: Want a New Life? Wait Here 2011-03-17T14:45:49Z Mr. Merchant’s comedy routine is gentler, less spiky and less meant to provoke or spread uneasiness than that of his prickly, controversialist friend. Stephen Merchant Moves From Gervais?s Shadow to Stand-Up 2011-12-14T17:41:07Z The character is prickly, slightly perverse and definitely an oddball, which puts him pretty squarely in Hart's wheelhouse. Kevin Hart: Five movie roles you probably forgot about 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z He was with a weary Frank Sinatra in a recording studio at 3 a.m., quietly earning the trust of the notoriously prickly singer-actor. Phil Stern, photographer of stars during Hollywood’s golden age, dies at 95 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Her performance — vulnerable, prickly, anguished — garnered critical raves and suggested the arrival of a major new talent. Vicky Krieps Gave Hollywood One More Try. It Wasn’t So Bad. 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z The dangling string appears so real that it looks as if it might blow off the surface of the print, the prickly bamboo like it might splinter. Innovative printmaker Mixografia to premiere new gallery space 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Naming is often a prickly issue for an institution, since it links it to a person in the public’s mind. Jorge M. P?rez?s Name on Miami Museum Roils Board 2011-12-06T23:33:51Z Daphne comes across as a bit primly Victorian, prickly and unyielding. In This New Caper Novel, a Yearbook Reveals Family Secrets 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z "One thing in his favour is that he was narcissistic but not prickly or vain," he said. Christopher Hitchens faces posthumous 'prosecution' in new book 2013-01-16T11:43:48Z Mr. LaChiusa is an old hand at finding prickly neurotic dissonance within pretty, old-fashioned melodiousness. | 'Queen of the Mist' : ?Queen of the Mist? at the Gym at Judson - Review 2011-11-07T03:01:01Z “Because I so picked up on that word, too. It’s a key word for me. Because I am prickly. Dad so got it.” Charlotte Rampling: ‘I am prickly. People who are prickly can’t be hurt any more’ 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z Window Seat would fit perfectly there, Agitation smooths over its prickly jazz piano riff by reprising the "What a day, what a day" lyrical motif from that album's hit On and On. Erykah Badu: New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh | CD review 2010-04-01T14:35:00Z The story cracked open when he came up with Victor, who seems like a classic character from hard-boiled detective fiction: a prickly, cynical loner with a dark past. In His New Novel, Ben Winters Dares to Mix Slavery and Sci-Fi 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z The soaring vocal line ennobles this prickly character and pulls in the audience’s sympathies. In ‘Don Carlo’ Productions, Singers Tease Out a King’s Humanity 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z The restaurant, called Dinner, opened at the end of January to largely rave reviews in the prickly British press. Critic?s Notebook: In London, Stalking the New 2011-05-25T04:14:30Z But Lombardi, still smarting from a recent hatchet job in Esquire, proves a prickly subject. Larger than life character, small-scale 'Lombardi' 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z At its best, it’s cool, clear and prickly, with a rich taste of minerals. Romania’s Springs Tap a Region’s Deep History 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Broad alluded to his own reputation as being sometimes prickly, saying he found being a business executive much less challenging than working in philanthropy or dealing with political figures. Eli Broad, Foremost Patron of Los Angeles, to Step Down From His Philanthropy 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Lexington, North CarolinaA prickly, red slaw tops the pork shoulder at Jimmy's, a Lexington mainstay that specializes in chewy, hickory-scented meat. The South's Best Butt: Top 20 Barbecue Joints & 'Cue-pons 2012-05-23T20:50:07.077Z But she admires his prickly humor and unflagging activism, from his pacifism in World War I to his support for nuclear disarmament in the 1970s. For Sarah Bakewell, Nothing Human is Alien 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z She was happy to discuss her work, saying she didn’t get why the staff acted so “prickly.” He’s got a ‘Downton Abbey’-inspired office, but Rep. Aaron Schock won’t talk about it. 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z “Lee was in some ways bigger than life, so challenging and brilliant and incredibly funny and talented but also very difficult and prickly and unapologetic,” McCarthy said. Melissa McCarthy transforms for 'Can You Ever Forgive Me?' 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z Then there was the prickly question of what "preservation" should properly involve. Men from the Ministry by Simon Thurley – review 2013-06-20T10:01:01Z Yes, we pound along after prickly DS Gibson as she quietly humiliates stupefied subordinates and draws important red circles around photos with her big Met-issued marker pen. The Fall is one of the best BBC dramas in years 2013-05-11T05:00:00Z Martin positions Morris precisely: You see how Morris’s calm, steady focus on Catherine wins her, and how the young man’s prickly haste puts the doctor off. Review | Rich acting pays off in ‘The Heiress,’ a surprisingly timely classic at Arena Stage 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z And she homes in on a prickly subject. Inside the Minds of the Women Who Joined ISIS 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z There’s no disputing that Maier was peculiar and prickly, and that her interests spanned the benign and the morbid. Vivian Maier and the Problem of Difficult Women 2014-05-10T04:00:00Z Traditionally, there’s more of an edge to after-hours talk shows, be it Leno’s monologue or David Letterman’s prickly persona. James Corden and the new niceness of late night 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z Not that the First is deficient, but it represents Prokofiev at his prickliest, with slashing dissonances and abrupt shifts. Review: Steven Osborne Is Joined by 2 Collaborators at Kaplan Penthouse 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z An adjustment was made: The accompaniment shifted from light, shimmering glissandi to something pricklier and more percussive. Music Review: Wadada Leo Smith at Roulette in Brooklyn - Review 2011-12-18T22:47:39Z Kolirin's new work, The Exchange, rejects the ingratiating air of its predecessor for a mood of prickly disassociation. Postcards from Venice: 10 for the Show 2011-09-09T02:50:00Z The solemn, prickly, often lovely “Mr. M” muses on loss and love, distance and connection, as the strings swell sympathetically and the band channels smooth soul and florid countrypolitan. 2012′s best — so far 2012-07-04T14:00:00Z Won Over: Monetizing a prickly relationship would be extremely satisfying. Perspective | Ask Amy: Mom finds out that daughter’s close friend wears mask that’s just for show 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z And if he is as jaw-droppingly good at his job as his subject is at music, Heylin can also be just as prickly. Review | ‘The Double Life of Bob Dylan’ is the definitive account of a shape-shifting genius’s early years 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z Waterfalls of prickly pear cacti, some with yellow blooms, cascade down them. Circumnavigating Italy’s storied Lake Como by paddle and pedal 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z But it's hard to take your eyes off Hoffman as he turns the seemingly mundane, unsympathetic and rather prickly character of Bachmann into a complex individual who struggles with his own empathy. No one wears a white hat in the uncomfortably real 'A Most Wanted Man' 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Both reported a strange, prickly feeling in their muscles. No justice, no feast: How hunger strikers are keeping the protest over Breonna Taylor's death alive 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z In matters both personal and professional, he could be prickly, prone to take offense, unreasonably demanding, but also unreasonably generous. Beholder of Beauty 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z There were some weird additions, like the prickly pins, which resembled the spikes on a hedgehog, running down a sleeve. Special Report: Fashion: Leaving the Big Country 2011-02-17T19:00:58Z But even if the intentions are pure, once race enters the game — especially when it's a white artist conjuring the identity of a marginalized group — the territory can quickly get prickly. Art and race at the Whitney: Rethinking the Donelle Woolford piece 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z But while Alex is happy to indulge her son’s affinities at home, she feels a prickly unease at the idea of exposing them to public scrutiny. Theater Review: In ‘A Kid Like Jake,’ the Title Character Worries His Mother 2013-06-18T02:00:15Z The prickly characters in “The Surrendered” — selfish, tempestuous, shortsighted, but also persevering and resilient — evince a similar detachment, but in their cases it is rooted in formative events that happened to them during the war. Books of The Times: Lives Scarred by Horrors of Korean War 2010-03-08T22:25:00Z Though appearing prickly at first, Will is smart and he sees Noah — like Darcy sees Elizabeth — for who he is: also brilliant, beautiful and special. How "Fire Island" does Jane Austen 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z The idea is also that these prickly, old pals are really playing their frivolous winner-take-all game. Character assassination among friends in ‘Winners and Losers’ 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Instead he wrote music of majestic despair in an achingly tonal harmonic language spiked with prickly dissonance. Music Review: A Third Season Begins After a Busy Preseason 2011-09-22T13:22:45Z It’s been 20 years since Griffin has given the prickly, stereotype-riddled “Merchant of Venice” a fresh spin, though. The quiet impresario: Pulling the right strings at the Folger 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z In the hours after his death was announced, some musicians described him on social media as warm and encouraging, others as prickly and sometimes troubling. Igor Levit on Frederic Rzewski: ‘The People’s Composer’ 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Sherman instructed one group of his attendants to roll minced rabbit meat in big purple amaranth leaves, and another to blanch prickly nettle so it would be easier to handle. The Movement to Define Native American Cuisine 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z The text, recited by Mr. Ehrlich, is wisely spare, lamenting what people don’t understand, prickly toward advertising and those who believe in fixes less than a change in “the scale of the human enterprise.” Review: ‘On the Nature of Things,’ Karole Armitage’s New Dance Work 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z She later made headlines with a prickly statement referring to her uncle not by name, but as the “junior senator from Utah,” while criticizing him for taking on the president. RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel is trying to hold together a party that Donald Trump might want to tear up 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z An orphan of uncertain parentage, Ben is single, amiable but prickly and rapidly going broke. New life for the underground hit ‘The Never-Open Desert Diner’ 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z As someone in the latter category I recognise a prickly soul when I see one. My wealthy daughter-in-law always treats us very rudely 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z Her very sensitive nature gets hidden under a shell, so she's like a sea urchin: prickly on the outside but soft and sweet underneath. Perspective | Our 15-year-old daughter is mostly friendless. Should we help her? 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z It was smart of the museum to leaven its prickly, concept-driven group show with this accessible career overview, and with another readily appealing exhibition, “Ulrike Müller and Amy Zion: The Conference of the Animals.” At the Queens Museum, Home and the World 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z They wanted changes, but Stevens, whom some describe as prickly, did not want to relinquish any control. Producer George Stevens Jr. announces the 37th KenCen Honors was his last 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z But just wait till that prickly pear outgrows its elegant crib. The Great Outdoors: From Your Backyard to a Garden in Japan 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z I still love Invisible Man, but after Arnold Rampersad’s 2007 biography of Ralph Ellison, in which Ellison comes off as proud and prickly, I no longer fantasize about having dinner with him. I Was a Teenage Samuel Beckett: Or, My Literary Biography Problem 2012-01-11T17:47:41Z The good news about “The Silence” is that it’s engrossing and that, at 83, DeLillo’s syntax is as prickly as ever. Don DeLillo, an Old Hand at Paranoia and Dread, Meets Us Where We Are 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z But the focus here never strays far from the prickly friendship at its center. ‘Stan & Ollie’ Review: Laurel and Hardy, a Double Act as Romance 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Next: a letter to “a blackberry abatement specialist” from a stingy, sanctimonious crank named Audrey Griffin, who wants her yard cleared of prickly blackberry bushes in time for the school’s fund-raising party. Books of The Times: ‘Where’d You Go, Bernadette,’ a Maria Semple Novel 2012-08-06T18:53:15Z Funny, prickly lyrics, such as the first line of his first hit—“Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street”—have at times been misinterpreted as rage. Joe Jackson, Past, Present, and Fast Forward 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Call it a clash of uptown and downtown, when such a dichotomy existed: Wuorinen, a prickly modernist of the academy, versus Russell, a post-Cagean thinker from Allen Ginsberg’s circle who was into Indian classical music. His Music Spanned Classical and Disco. Now a ‘Lost’ Work Sounds Again. 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z I’ve had two characters with him who you wouldn’t want to go on a mini-break with, but it’s so delicious to see his real enjoyment of a prickly woman. Kate Beckinsale: ‘Austen’s Lady Susan is like Emma on steroids’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z There’s also a prickly kinship of great minds, one dispassionate, the other deranged, in the emotional chess match waged by Holmes and Moriarty. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows: Frenzied With Benefits 2011-12-15T16:58:57Z He persuaded Frank Sinatra to indulge him for three months in 1965 while he went inside his prickly circle of friends, family, drivers and body men to photograph his life. John Dominis, a Star Life Magazine Photographer, Dies 2013-12-31T16:17:10Z A pioneer of the insufferable culture of argument, Ebert was known as “the fat one,” as he bluntly notes, offering prickly dueling movie reviews on TV with “the thin one,” Gene Siskel. Life Itself - A Memoir - By Roger Ebert - Book Review 2011-09-25T04:13:02Z We see it briefly, in the delicious moment during the psychic conference call as she "disgracefully" turns the tea into champagne, and the prickly moment between her and Clara is superb. Doctor Who recap: The Name of the Doctor – series 33, episode 13 2013-05-18T18:45:00Z Beneath its humorous veneer, it is a prickly, confrontational story about identity and belonging. ‘Insecure’ Season 1, Episode 7: Who’s Daniel? 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z As she lowered herself to the ground, a prickly shrub grazed her thigh, and she jumped like a shot to her feet. A Stroll Through Wyeth?s Giverny 2011-08-11T18:32:30Z Across from a donkey stable, a pile of trash had rafted up against a prickly pear cactus, which got Kamal started again. In Morocco, 44 hours of lingering in a small village leaves a big impression 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z With comedy that’s an acidic stew of prickly hostility, elaborately articulated self-loathing and righteous anger, Mr. Stanhope, 46, has earned his cult status. Critic’s Notebook: Doug Stanhope’s ‘Beer Hall Putsch,’ a Stand-Up Album 2013-09-06T22:34:31Z That puts a lot of responsibility on the actors’ shoulders, and Mr. Holmes and Mr. Keeso work the prickly dynamic smartly. Review: ‘19-2,’ a Police Drama on Acorn TV, Is a Slow Burn 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z They each use a prickly gravitas and fearlessness to challenge guests. What’s on TV Thursday: N.B.A. Finals and ‘A Bronx Tale’ 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Elizabeth Olsen’s portrayal of a young widow is prickly and real, and the characters around her are all dealing with their own lives in addition to supporting her through her trauma. The Best TV Shows of 2018 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z She was a secretive, often prickly woman who remained a cipher even to her friends and lovers, and a trailblazer who wrote one of the first mainstream novels depicting two women in love. The Talented Patricia Highsmith’s Private Diaries Are Going Public 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Whatever fundamental charm Ben has isn’t shining through yet in Sticklin’s prickly turn. Review | Swipe right on the dating comedy ‘Other Life Forms’ 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z The tapes include the distortions of a do-it-yourself recording project, with its prickly static and wandering amplification. Review: ‘Dana H.’ Maps a Harrowing Journey Into Hell 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z While the ballet mirrors the music’s pulse with a prickly vibrancy in the group sections, each duet deepens to show the interior of two relationships. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Ranges From Donizetti to Jazz 2010-05-26T21:43:00Z We are edging towards the prickly subject of Godard's alleged antisemitism, a subject that reared its head again last year when he got an honorary Oscar. Jean-Luc Godard: 'Film is over. What to do?' 2011-07-12T20:30:03Z Mr. Gerstein began with the “Chromatic Invention” from Volume 6, essentially a slightly prickly sounding two-part invention in flowing style. Review: Kirill Gerstein Plays Liszt’s ‘Transcendental Études’ 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Members of the band wore doctors’ scrubs and surgical masks onstage and played claustrophobic tunes with prickly, repetitive guitars and whiffs of scary organ and melodica. Week Ahead: Aug. 15 ? 21 2010-08-12T14:23:00Z The core elements of the premise — rogue tentacles, prickly villains, a found family and swoon-worthy romances — are familiar to aficionados of genre entertainment. A Cult Show’s Recipe for Success: Whiskey, Twitter and Complex Women 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Old prickly me is finding better things in herself. Charlotte Rampling: ‘I am prickly. People who are prickly can’t be hurt any more’ 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z What sounds like a recipe for trouble — what about the human who’s the canvas? — is exactly where the movie lives, spinning a prickly cautionary tale of exploitation and commodification. ‘The Man Who Sold His Skin’ Review: The Artwork Has Legs 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Dickens found time to explore the country with his family and friends, and recounted his impressions in a ream of private letters, many of them prickly, that nonetheless indicated his unabashed love for Switzerland. Footsteps: Following Dickens Through Switzerland 2012-07-06T16:19:17Z Bach's chromatic harmonies, so prickly when heard on a delicately plucked string, became monumental and modern. Originality enlivens the birthday party for Hurricane Mama 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z Brennan insisted that coach Sylvester's attitude is not based on a real person, but conceded, after some pressing, that the prickly Murphy is sometimes a muse. The nice guy who puts the mean into 'Glee' 2010-10-23T00:12:00Z I was parting company with a prickly teacher at a local riding school. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Traveling alone, you learn to follow your own star 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Mulaney’s comedy, however, has become spikier, pricklier, sometimes slower while remaining as funny as ever, like he’s a pitcher who learned to mix up speeds. John Mulaney Punctures His Persona in ‘Baby J’ 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z It was the perfect Harmony Korine answer: confrontational, slightly prickly, and utterly on point. The most hated man in art-house cinema 2010-05-07T20:15:00Z A wise move — only the most virtuosic dancers could make it through that prickly footwork alive — though the production felt as long as it ever did. At New York City Ballet, Swans Use Grit to Find Glory 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z The giant boulders stuck out like warts among the prickly barrel cactuses and the sun-haloed cholla plants. ‘The Place Where Shamans Dream’: Safeguarding Spirit Mountain 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Sprinkled with the appropriate bits of Shakespeare, “Hamlet in Bed” follows the relationship between Michael and Anna as they grow more friendly, if sometimes prickly, during preparation for the play. Review: ‘Hamlet in Bed’ Is Michael Laurence’s Shakespearean Take 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Her body, prickly and birdlike, came alive in fast footwork and spins, but it was her more still and quiet moments, especially those shared with Soto, that carried the most weight. Review: A ‘Punk Ballerina’ Turns to Film and Fashion 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z But the film’s most fascinating thread tracks his prickly, protean relationship with Nelson Mandela and how the two became “uncomfortable partners” in abolishing almost a half-century of official oppression. ‘The Other Man,’ F. W. de Klerk’s Role in Ending Apartheid 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z It’s sometimes easy to chalk it up to a high-pressure business or a prickly supervisory style, to suffer in silence and chalk it up to the nature of the industry. Dharun Ravi says he’s sorry 2012-05-30T15:30:00Z “O’Connor herself was kind of a prickly character, and the estate helps you remember that,” Mr. Gooch said. University Acquires Flannery O’Connor’s Papers and Effects 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Suffusing each scene with an insinuating, prickly tension, she remains ruthlessly committed to her screw-tightening tone, offering the viewer no comforting moral escape hatch. Review: The Disturbing Obsession of ‘The Kindergarten Teacher’ 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Ms. Oglesby’s title is intriguing and funny, even prickly, depending where in your life you happen to be. 2010-02-10T05:33:00Z He is a button-down American electrical engineer in Rochester, N.Y., with a prickly extended family. 'The Newlyweds': an American-Bangladeshi coupling 2012-05-31T20:12:03Z The beer is highly carbonated — my bottle was a gusher — with funky citrus and pepper on both the nose and tongue, and a prickly mouthfeel that works well with the flavors. Beer of the Week: Logsdon Szech ’n Brett 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z I can just see it: FX throws over the infantalizing “Anger Management” and gives “Louie” the partner it deserves, another show about a prickly curmudgeon given to doing uncomfortable, surreal, too honest, sometimes horrible things. Was Louie date-raped? 2012-07-06T13:56:00Z “It’s prickly. You have to be tough to live here.” On Alcatraz, the island’s prison gardens are in full flower 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z In Yamamoto’s black-and-white images, I sense a gentle but prickly anti-Kondo spirit, a Japanese world far more dynamic than Kondo’s bourgeois one of bare white walls and tidy, unpeopled floors. A Japanese Photographer’s View of Life in His Family’s One-Room Home 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z The cochineal insect, a small parasite that feeds on the prickly pear cactus, was cultivated domestically in Mexico and Peru in pre-Hispanic times. An Insect’s Colorful Gift, Treasured by Kings and Artists 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z This openness is at odds with Cave’s reputation as a prickly, wild-eyed, indefatigable bandleader, armed with the verve of a hellfire-spitting preacher. The Brutality and Tenderness of Nick Cave’s Newsletters 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Ali Smith’s new novel is the concluding volume in her immersive, prickly and politically ardent seasonal quartet. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Flowering prickly pear lined the road, and yellow-headed collared lizards dodged our wheels as we climbed and gaped. A Bicycle Tour Through Remote Southwest Canyon Country 2010-07-31T04:30:00Z The film that made him a household name has long been a prickly subject, less for its Pollyanna appeal than for his character. The Carpetbagger: Christopher Plummer Gets Oscar Buzz 2011-12-21T22:58:47Z In two ghostly outer movements and one prickly, briefly cheeky centerpiece, Mr. Shepherd neatly and poetically explores the piano’s aural resources. Music Review: Taka Kigawa, Playing Carter and Zorn at Le Poisson Rouge 2013-08-28T21:38:52Z Elly’s arrested development and her deep anomie arrive with a side order of brooding narcissism, one that can feel like a prickly assessment of the author’s generation. Catherine Lacey’s ‘Nobody Is Ever Missing’ 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z Yet in a performance built around watching, listening and contemplating, Mr. Sparks injects laconic Ray with sly touches of prickly humor. Paul Sparks Hones Tragic Persona in ?Dusk Rings a Bell? 2010-06-19T06:39:00Z There were prickly, modernist shards familiar from other Rzewski pieces, though also darts of disarming warmth. Rzewski for Lovers? A Pianist Mines a Prickly Modernist’s Gentler Side 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z And Ms. Lipez is particularly insightful about the sometimes prickly nature of friendship, felt so keenly in the college and post-collegiate years. Theater Review: ‘The Tutors,’ by Erica Lipez, at McGinn/Cazale Theater 2013-06-06T02:00:13Z “Well, what do you think? If you say prickly, what do you think of?” Charlotte Rampling: ‘I am prickly. People who are prickly can’t be hurt any more’ 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z Kritzer becomes more openly irritable as her character wearies of her mother's impaired thought processes and prickly barbs. Review: 'Memory Show' is poignant musical on loss 2013-05-01T00:33:15Z In addition to his love for men with mighty swords, Scott has an affinity for tough women, women who are prickly and difficult and thinking, not bodacious cartoons. ‘The Last Duel’ Review: A Medieval Epic in the Age of #MeToo 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z The body catches the eye of a prickly vivisectionist who instantly perks up at the sight of the bizarre find. ArtsBeat: ‘Penny Dreadful’ Recap: Up and Down the Ladder of Wealth 2014-05-12T03:05:43Z Ian Thomson’s book “The Dead Yard,” a bleak and prickly survey of Jamaica’s past and present, takes its title from one of that country’s funeral practices. Books of The Times: Paradise Is Only Half the Story in a Complex Caribbean Nation 2011-04-14T21:52:13Z He was prickly and exacting, and did not suffer fools gladly. Christoph Waltz: 'Try as you might, you can never break free from your past' 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z His new, pricklier show deconstructs that persona, telling the audience right from the start how he ingratiates himself, before asking them how they want their takes delivered. Stand-Up Sets Where You Can Choose Your Own Adventure 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z But when the rumpled, balding, bespectacled, jeans-clad performer stalked onto the stage one evening last week, he made an immediate, slightly prickly connection with his audience. Review | Comedian Daniel Kitson rants about the joy — and tyranny — of stuff 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z A notoriously prickly character and a perfectionist, surely Reed was tough to work for? Clem Cattini, Britain's record chart topper, keeps that backbeat going strong at 72 2010-03-28T00:06:00Z The most notable involves prickly issues surrounding the patent for the snowboard that turned Burton, both the man and the company, into something of a pariah within the sport they created. Jake Burton alive and bristling in ‘Dear Rider’ documentary 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Just consider the hours of prickly pleasure provided by those nasty Macbeths, or Edward Albee’s George and Martha, or the squabbling spouses in Strindberg, Ibsen and O’Neill. Theater Review: ‘Stockholm,’ by Bryony Lavery, Dissects a Marriage 2014-03-13T02:00:01Z He emerges as prickly, shy, acute, a canny borrower of past art, sought after and self-contained. Watteau: The Drawings; Esprit et V?rit?: Watteau and His Circle ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:24Z Even the prickly interdependence of the spinster and her mulish employee has less drama than the relationship of the two to the grim grandeur of their environment. The Wild West in the South of France 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z These warming, even sentimental additions do not detract from the intellectual integrity of Kennedy’s conception any more than McDonald’s astonishing access to tragic feeling diminishes the prickly oddness of the characters. Review: Who Committed the ‘Ohio State Murders’? Who Didn’t? 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z When Michèle flirts with that neighbor, her businesslike mien dissolves–but even then, her face shows not softness but prickly radiance. Elle’s Belle: Huppert Resounds In Verhoeven's Latest 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Gawker had modelled plenty of schadenfreude throughout its fourteen years of existence—it had done a great deal to shape the prickly, punchy, intimate sensibility of the Internet that gleefully watched it go. Gawker’s Essential Unevenness 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z Add to that the focused, charismatic performances by the film’s mostly unknown actors, and what at first seems a predictable story becomes surprising — lively with the energy of fresh talent and a prickly modern style. ‘Ladyworld’ Review: Fresh Talents Prove Themselves in a Twist on ‘Lord of the Flies’ 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z And Mr. Garnon is delightful as a cannily crazy king, a prickly outsize eccentric given to both tics and trances. London Theater Journal: Pomp and Circumstance 2010-08-03T19:04:00Z Where “The Hot Zone” briefly excels, however, is in its attention to prickly paranoia. Review | What Nat Geo’s ‘Hot Zone’ lacks in action, it makes up for in contagious paranoia 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z They are potted succulents, prickly desert cactuses and rainforest rubber plants. A chilling portrait of Germany's Weimar era emerges in 'New Objectivity' at LACMA 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z And might I put in a word for the prickly comic abrasiveness of Tracy Letts’s “Linda Vista,” a lacerating anatomy of toxic masculinity disguised as brooding charm? Who Says You Can’t Give Tony Awards in an Abbreviated Season? 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z In the game, the rider tries to pick up 100 letters while outrunning low-down dirty bandits and facing such obstacles as boulders and prickly cactus plants. Take a virtual ride on the Pony Express with video-game ‘Doodle’ 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z She continues, as if speaking for the entirety of this book, “there where it is soft and prickly, where you may rub your nose against the grainy sands of illusion and come up bleeding.” Kathleen Collins’s ‘Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?’ 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Given that kind of ecozone overlap, there are plants here that you’d normally expect to find in the Southwest — one species of prickly pear cactus is a native plant here, Labovitz says. Visiting the nation’s newest national park: Indiana Dunes 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z I'm also pleased that somebody is making very personal, very popular movies dealing with the contemporary middle- and working-class blacks, and the prickly suspicions between the two groups. Madea's Big Happy Family: Tyler Perry's Drag Ball 2011-04-24T14:05:00Z He could be prickly and bullying with colleagues, clashing over how the curriculum should be taught and refusing to budge over timetable disputes. How did one of the worst paedophiles in history get away with his crimes? | Robert Booth 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z There are pieces that feel prickly with dissonance, but by and large Mr. Jarrett reaches for soulfulness, even at the expense of precision. Music: Jazz Records Inspired by Paul Motian 2011-12-04T04:03:06Z The lower elevations look like what most people assume all of Texas looks like: scrubby flatlands light on trees, thick with prickly things. There Are No Real Roads in Guadalupe Park. You Earn the Incredible Views. 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Nettles, medicinally beneficial but disliked as prickly weeds, are clustered throughout an earthy landscape indoors. Review: ‘The Mutes’ Gives Voice to Musical Outsiders 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Her near life-size ceramic figures of animals, sprites and fairy-tale heroines in moments of frozen intimacy are prickly and emotional in a way that’s hard to get over. Upstate Art Weekend Is Bigger Than It’s Ever Been 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Julia Bullock, her voice warm and her presence daringly prickly, is a richly complex Kitty Oppenheimer. Review: ‘Doctor Atomic’ Brings the Bomb Home to New Mexico 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z A progenitor of punk with an intractable public image, Patti Smith is a prickly icon. Patti Smith – review 2013-06-23T17:41:32Z Bagge’s willingness to “go there” with prickly topics has influenced a whole new generation of cartoonists. Alt comics artists take us to our rough edges 2014-03-12T22:48:22Z A likely leading contender in this year’s foreign-language Oscar race, “Force Majeure” is a prickly moral comedy for grown-ups, full of sharply observed moments, spectacular scenery and masterfully manipulated atmosphere. “Force Majeure”: Gripping tale of a near-disaster and an imploding marriage 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z The troupe of players Hamlet requisitions is accompanied by an onstage accordionist, for a sound appropriately rustic yet prickly. ‘Hamlet,’ a New Opera, Makes Shakespeare Strange 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z But despite this — and the pleasurable, prickly chemistry between the two lawmen — “The Hollow Point” limps to a close without fully rewarding the effort expended on its making. Review: Matter-of-Fact Mayhem Strikes in ‘The Hollow Point’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Generally, he prefers technique to narrative, slipping into double-time patterns or elongating syllables until they become thin and prickly. Review: ASAP Rocky Returns to a Haze in ‘At.Long.Last.ASAP’ 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Whether she would so stoically survive the contemporary music industry that engulfs Celeste, the prickly heroine of Brady Corbet’s Vox Lux, is another matter. Pop goes the fantasy: how Vox Lux shows the darker side of music 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Her characters tend to be resentful, intelligent, picky, prickly and disdainful of weakness. ‘Vladimir,’ a Debut That Celebrates Transgression — Up to a Point 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z It’s a prickly kind of funny with corkscrew punch lines that tickled the mind and bothered the conscience. When Jewish Artists Wrestle With Antisemitism 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z The result is yet another prickly psychedelic folk classic from the Byrds, with airtight harmonies and riffs that unfurl with delicious, blurry tension. Revisiting The Byrds' "So You Want to Be a Rock N Roll Star" 55 years later, from the Monkees to REM 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z Maria’s German-language skills are rudimentary, so the couple speak to each other in English, summoning prickly power dynamics in the moments the older woman reverts to her native tongue. ‘Bliss’ Review: Working Girls 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z The writer-director Jared Moshé takes his time in “Lefty Brown,” which meanders here and there for close to two hours, ranging over picturesque, Big Sky landscapes while rambling deeper into prickly narrative complications. Review: The Sidekick as Hero in ‘The Ballad of Lefty Brown’ 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z The two men were friends, rivals and sometimes prickly antagonists. Lost script reveals what Orson Welles really thought about Ernest Hemingway 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z The novel ends with Vidya in a prickly peace with her new selfhood as it soars to the kind of epiphany that is so crucial to warding off despair, and yet so hard to sustain. Women Seeking Intimacy Through Food, Mathematics and Rhythm 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z Brenner understands that she has been prickly when confronted by critics. From Dallas’s top kitchens, reviewer Leslie Brenner is feeling the heat Its prickly leaves are in sharp focus, a hint of tawny age is at its base. Perspective | What does Vogue do in a pandemic? It shows medical workers as heroic — but also human 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z That prickly sense of disorientation only increases as Mr. Eno’s play, which seemed to be stuck in an arid groove, begins to acquire intriguing new meanings. Theater Review: In Will Eno’s ‘The Open House,’ Dysfunctional Dynamics 2014-03-04T03:00:03Z Mr. Zhou negotiated Prokofiev’s prickly passagework at blistering speeds with immaculate fingering. Review: Young Concert Artists Gala Offers Stars in the Making 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Williams’s glowing field is prickly with barbed wire; he fled America, which he experienced as a hostile homeland, to live abroad. Bill Cosby’s Art Collection Joins African Art at Smithsonian 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z "I felt something was missing from pop," he explains of The Messenger's prickly energy and epic, romantic soundscapes, which handily coincide with the widely predicted return of the guitar to pop's forefront in 2013. Johnny Marr on the Smiths, Morrissey and putting politics back in pop 2013-01-11T07:00:00Z So, while people might get a little prickly seeing the transformation of it all, when they learn that it's steeped in such Indigenous lore and collaboration directly with tribes, it feels different. "We are the original stewards of this land": "Spirit Rangers" boss on imagining Native park rangers 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Wonderfully, the bubbles look the way we sometimes feel — that prickly frisson — when we sense we are accessing the uncanny. Review: In ‘While I Was Waiting,’ a Man and a Country in Limbo 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Evans has been solid as Morse, conveying the character’s intelligence and prickly alienation. ‘Endeavour’ Review: Farewell to the Morse Cinematic Universe 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z But we also know, on the irrefutable evidence of our own eyes, and the prickly sensation of our skin, that she is. The Oscars: Natalie Portman Embraces Monster and Victim 2010-12-31T20:48:10Z Mr. Kent’s production was, for me, the star of the National Theater’s Chekhov triptych, a rich and expansive portrait of an entire, prickly social order in czarist Russia. Cate Blanchett and Chekhov, Together on Broadway 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z That opening is promising — quick, textured, with a sense of place and a reliably prickly performance from Mr. Thornton. Review: In ‘Goliath,’ Billy Bob Thornton Plays a Down-and-Out David 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z And in Southern California, you are as likely to see dragon fruit, prickly pears and star fruit in your morning breakfast fruit bowl as you are raspberries and blueberries. 7 Instagram accounts for learning about tropical fruit 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z The performance has only grown more prickly, funny and moving with age. | 'Krapp?s Last Tape': ?Krapp?s Last Tape,? With John Hurt, at BAM - Review 2011-12-09T03:01:00Z He’s uncomfortable, this interlocutor, and his guest is understandably prickly. ‘Lippy,’ a Chilly Play From Ireland's Dead Centre 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z Although the staff members are extremely knowledgeable, they also have a reputation for being a bit prickly with those they deem less informed. Spotlight: City Lights Bookstore 2010-03-24T21:00:00Z You can literally see this by examining the Mexican flag, which depicts a prickly pear cactus atop which an eagle perches as it devours a serpent. A primer on cooking with cactus 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z Both siblings are prickly about their life choices and concerned about their mother's reaction to bereavement. Not-so-secret weapon in 'A Permanent Image': Anne Gee Byrd 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Tillman, a New York critic borne of the downtown scene, is known for her prickly integrity and charm. The best in criticism: National Book Critics Circle Award finalists 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z Blair says he felt that the prickly Brown "was going to be a disaster" as leader. Tony Blair: 'I cried for Iraq war victims' 2010-09-01T18:06:00Z Having played those other prickly geniuses – Vincent van Gogh and Stephen Hawking – Cumberbatch seems totally at ease in the role. Sherlock: finally a repeat we want to see 2011-07-20T11:19:42Z But the coercive tension in the tune, such as it was, had as much to do with the prickly, playful give-and-take as the specifics of the language. Holiday Tunes That Soothe, Provoke and Share a Joke 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z This ugliness was memorialized in Bob Dylan’s prickly folk ballad “Oxford Town.” Faulkner and Football in Oxford, Miss. 2011-10-14T18:55:01Z And if Davis’s push to reach a young black audience is one point of solidarity for Mr. Glasper, his prickly relationship with the jazz establishment suggests another. What Would Miles Davis Do? Robert Glasper Has an Idea 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z And what Martin’s narrator does with them raises prickly questions of ownership, artistic license and ethical responsibility. This Year Is Complicated. Three New Novels Remind Us the Past Was No Picnic Either. 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z These include yuccas, agaves and, yes, prickly pears. This unusual garden style could be a sustainable solution for urban landscapes 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Additionally, it’s important to not force her to “cheer up,” or “be less of a prickly pear.” Middle child is a pain. She doesn’t have to be. 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z But if this comedy is as prickly as a cactus spine, it is also about as thin. Review: In ‘Monsoon Season,’ a Marital Squall Turns Ugly 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z He crisscrossed the globe multiple times while reporting this prickly book, traveling some 93,000 miles, he estimates. Books Of the Times: ‘The Dictator’s Learning Curve,’ by William J. Dobson 2012-06-10T20:56:47Z The lineup of now nine flavors in cheerful, candy-colored cans includes mango chili, tamarind citrus, orange turmeric, ginger manzana, cactus prickly pear and watermelon jalapeño. De La Calle wants to make tepache a household name in the US 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z Martin brings the saying to mind after flying hundreds of miles to attend his father's funeral, only to be greeted rudely by his prickly, suspicious stepmother. Review: Examining anger, empathy in 'All The Rage' 2013-01-31T01:19:07Z It’s no secret that in matters of intimate relations, the prickly question of who’s in charge will eventually arise. Two-Character Plays Are Highlights of Theater Season 2010-05-08T02:40:00Z The lachrymose British drama “Lilting” pivots on the prickly relationship between two people who are mourning a third. ‘Lilting,’ About a Divide Between Bereaved Strangers 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z A fanatic, an addict, sure, but also brilliant, dogged, brave, funny, prickly, radically informed and just as radically nonjudgmental. An Oil Boom, a Missing Body and a Native Woman’s Quest to Find It 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z One of the reasons that Diana is a little prickly is because she is not comfortable. "Lost Girls" star Miriam Shor: "I was enraged about how these women had been treated" 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z However complicated, or prickly, or neurotic - I am attracted to those who live life completely. 9/11 film explores divided loyalties 2013-05-10T05:36:38Z Tonight, things get prickly between Richmond and his increasingly loose cannon of an adviser Gwen as they prepare for a big debate with the mayor. TV highlights 28/07/11 2011-07-27T20:59:01Z Her second chance performance allowed her to earn some praise from notoriously prickly Cowell, who told her, “the girl who sang yesterday was horrible and then the girl who sang tonight was fantastic.” X Factor Contestants Get A Re-Do After Voting Glitch 2013-11-08T13:51:14Z The final pages of “The Lost Man” are somewhat predictable, but Harper is skillful enough, a prickly, smart, effective storyteller, that it doesn’t matter. Murderous Husbands, Flapper-Era Gun Molls and Korean Assassins: The Best Winter Thrillers 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z This may be consistent with the lack of personal emotion in his work and his prickly Yankeeness and sense of privacy. Winslow Homer: Radical Impressionist 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z He sounds as kinetic but prickly as a millennial David Byrne, while the music tries its best to cheer him up. Fall Brings a Bounty of New Albums. Watch for These 3. 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z But even though he’s bound, mummy-like, in cloth, and beneath that, strips of Saran Wrap, you can still sense his prickly power. Review: Dressed Up in Saran Wrap and Ready to Dance 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z The Disney movie musical “Enchanted” made charming, hilarious sport of the disjunction between the conventions of classic fairy tales and the prickly realities of the urban landscape. | 'Sleeping Beauty Wakes': A Fairy Tale, Updated Without Ambien 2011-05-23T21:11:06Z There's a kind of prickly playfulness that exists between them that captures something ephemeral and carries it through the intervening decades since they've been gone. Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto give voice to the prickly friendship of authors "Truman & Tennessee" 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z On “Songs for Women,” from his debut mixtape “nostalgia, Ultra,” he sings wistfully over prickly, bubbly space-soul about a woman who loved him for his music until he loved his music too much. Music Review: Frank Ocean at the Bowery Ballroom - Review 2011-11-29T22:17:45Z A little bit more prickly, a little bit off center. Kate Beaton: How to Make It as a Cartoonist 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z And, Kosman observes, Thomson tends not, despite his vast knowledge, to analyze works in any particular depth or justify his pricklier opinions. Virgil Thomson’s Enduring Critique of Classical Music in America 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z There were no celebrities atop the Wright Brothers memorial on its fortified dune, only wind, sand, silence and prickly pear cactus. Cruising the Past, from Baltimore to Charleston 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z His eyes were wide and watery and the prickly hairs on his scalp stood straight up in the air. Books of The Times: ?Elliot Allagash,? Tale of a Bully, by Simon Rich 2010-06-14T23:08:00Z The portentous, politically prickly Russian drama Leviathan reeved the Screenplay award. The Cannes Palme d'Or: Who Won and Who Was Robbed 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z A middle-school math teacher in small-town Maine, she has little tolerance for "saps" and "dopes" — no matter their age or relation to her; to call her "prickly" is to vastly understate the case. Frances McDormand embraces abrasive 'Olive Kitteridge' 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z Ms. Lawrence seems to nail QZ’s prickly defensiveness without any visible effort. Theater Review: In ‘The Few,’ a Man’s Return Stirs Emotions 2014-05-11T20:04:03Z Gagosian is a strong — somewhat opaque and occasionally prickly — personality with clear opinions. Without Heirs, Larry Gagosian Finally Plans for Succession 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z And so after Edna delivers her loving but prickly eulogy — she and Uncle Jimmy were estranged during his last years — she waves up to the podium an apparently unexpected guest. Review: In ‘Master,’ the Flip Side of a Masterpiece 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z The prickly relationship between fame and art runs through the entire series. ‘Call My Agent!’ Puts a Human Spin on Show Business 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z James Franco goes on "Colbert Report" to defend all his degrees James Franco is one prickly pear. James Franco goes on "Colbert Report" to defend all his degrees 2011-04-06T12:49:00Z That said, Redmayne – who remains little known on this side of the Atlantic – never surrenders to stereotype, capturing not just the nuances of Hawking’s physical disability but also his puckish humor and sometimes prickly personality. “The Theory of Everything”: This sepia-toned Oscar bait could have been so much more powerful 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z “Running With Beto” touches lightly on O’Rourke’s strained relationship with his father, which went through a prickly phase of overbearingness matched by teen rebellion. Perspective | ‘Running With Beto’ catches the candidate at his most golden, before his mojo ran off the road 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z As this story of family secrets opens, Lily is 25 and a depressed, prickly Cambridge dropout who has not yet entirely recovered from a suicide attempt. The Quest for Identity and Independence 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z You get the winning rapport between the sisters, the prickly arguments that melt into simple images of bonding as scenes pivot. Review | Motherhood isn’t all it’s cracked up to be in ‘Pramkicker’ 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Her work offers the reassurance that we are all as bad and as good, as prickly and as resilient, as any Evensong attendee. In Praise of Barbara Pym 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z Tyson has the curious ability to be simultaneously charming and generous with his time and humor yet prickly, especially about how he might be perceived. Star talker: Neil deGrasse Tyson on fame, education and tweets 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Though authoritarian and often prickly, both men articulated and fought for crucially important cultural values in the face of creeping neoliberalism. Letters: Richard Hoggart and Roy Shaw – moral giants 2012-05-22T20:00:05Z Mr. Jones makes his best case, and dumps his prickliest facts, early on. Books of The Times: Get Your Bling and Adidas Tracksuit, Wayne, a British Class War Is Raging 2011-07-12T20:59:50Z The prickly but flowing piece just before intermission and the gem of rapturous romanticism just after it were also standouts. Review: Keith Jarrett at Carnegie Hall, Precise and Aglow 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z It tasted as superficially indigestible, if ultimately nutritious, as the prickly pears our hero hacks off the desert cacti in a frenzy of impotent rage. Cannes 2013: Heli – review 2013-05-16T13:24:08Z The two actors play off each other with comic relish, pointing up their physical differences, and demonstrating through their prickly, odd-couple relationship that South Africa's women have been waiting patiently for far too long. And the Girls in Their Sunday Dresses – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-22T17:30:01Z Buck is the prickly one, high-maintenance and given to political rants. Exponential Festival: Unexpected Theater in Unfamiliar Real Estate 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Old and new commingle in the Phadke house, where three generations of the family live in noisy, prickly coexistence. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z The result is an enjoyable entertainment that mostly glosses lightly over the many prickly issues it raises. Theater Review | 'Equivocation': If He Can, Above All, to His Own Self Be True 2010-03-03T03:00:00Z And he coaxes Nora, an odd new girl who oozes negativity, into shedding her prickly exterior. Great New Children’s Books About Animals 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Melting into a distant dark-blue sky, the prickly spires of trees and a smoke-belching chimney hint at an unlovely city. ‘Rules of Summer,’ by Shaun Tan We know that Fonda was far and away the pricklier of the two: a cold, coiled and reticent man given to deep silences and, in the words of daughter Jane, “Protestant rages.” Review | What kept Henry Fonda and James Stewart friends for 50 years? 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z Watch for dwarf monkey flowers growing on the cinder cones, and red, orange and yellow prickly pear cactus between cracks in the lava. Cultured Traveler: Herding Sheep in Basque Country (Idaho) 2012-08-24T19:19:51Z Because she was a pip, I realized, a strong, stubborn, sometimes prickly woman who would have it her way as much and as long as she could. Cultural Studies: Why Gerry Ferraro Mattered 2011-04-01T23:37:02Z There is also a prickly pear cactus, which is native to parts of the Northeast. Kurimanzutto Expands (Way) North 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Our reviewer, Charles Finch, called Harper “a prickly, smart, effective storyteller.” New in Paperback: ‘The Schoolhouse Gate’ and ‘Ghost Wall’ 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z “Don’t turn your back on the mainland,” Segarra sings here, on a tuneful but defiantly prickly chorus. Spring Forward: Songs for a New Season 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z Ms. Coutts writes like she sings, which is to say her tone is not beautiful or especially rich, but prickly and a bit wild. Review: A Widow Documents Her Loss in ‘The Iceberg’ 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z And yet for a long minute or two of silence, you see on her face all the things she’s feeling, or really, all the things she is: grieving yet resolute, prickly yet proud. Review: In ‘What Happened?,’ a Questioning Farewell to Rhinebeck 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z It holds multiple subspecies of cholla and prickly pear cactuses. In Gold Butte in Nevada, Ancient Rock Art and Rugged Beauty 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z At least the cyclorama of prickly peaks will distract you from the lactic-acid overload. A Bicycle Tour Through Remote Southwest Canyon Country 2010-07-31T04:30:00Z Stravinsky could be prickly and selfish, but he also had a generous streak. Music Review: Manhattan School of Music in ‘King David’ and Stravinsky’s Mass 2014-04-07T20:32:11Z Like its subject, it’s somber, yet it’s also prickly and strange, sometimes all at once. Colm Toibin’s ‘The Magician’ Intimately Recaptures a Literary Giant 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z In Season 2, the show is richer and pricklier, keyed in to the nuances of self-destruction. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Since she’s already prickly about this — and prickly in general — how do I bring this up? Mom seeks balance in checking on teen 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z Most intriguing is the film’s take on the prickly subject of “negotiating with terrorists” when Daniel’s family is denied assistance from the Danish government, which maintains a zero-tolerance policy. ‘Held for Ransom’ Review: Negotiating With Terrorists 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z The setting, the atmosphere, and the character of Kearney – prickly and keen to prove herself – as well as a nice twist at the end, add up to a compelling read. Laura Wilson's crime fiction roundup – reviews 2013-03-22T12:00:02Z The brothers have a chafing relationship that flares with animosity whenever Paul’s behavior escalates from prickly to nasty. ‘Bungalow’ Review: Young, Restless, Drifting 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Spanish rule brought tomatoes and chocolate to Sicilian pantries, while shipments of prickly pear cactus from the New World began a tradition of eating the fruit raw after meals that continues in Sicily today. Why do I cook like a Sicilian? 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z It’s unsurprising; despite being friendly and warm in person, he is often characterised as a somewhat prickly character. Steve McQueen on the Oscars whitewash: ‘I’m hoping we can look back and say this was a watershed moment’ 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z What matters is not just what is said but also the prickly sting of what is left unstated. Review: ‘American Crime,’ a Series Where Justice Is Far From Black or White 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Last fall’s Green Flash Treasure Chest, an annual limited release benefiting breast cancer charities, was an IPA brewed with grapefruit, prickly pears and hibiscus. Why the hottest trend in beer is an IPA that tastes like pineapple or mango 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z Later, I rowed Clea in the dinghy to Ithaca’s parched shore, and we hiked amid prickly plants to the highest summit. In the Greek islands, a ‘slow travel’ sailing odyssey to the far Ionians 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Like its subject, it’s somber, yet it’s also prickly and strange, sometimes all at once.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Van Sant’s style of directing, watchful and low-key, puts character ahead of story, and the script invites the actors to be warm, funny and prickly. Movie Review: ‘Promised Land,’ With Matt Damon, Directed by Gus Van Sant 2012-12-27T23:24:39Z It also shares an honorable refusal to provide conclusive answers to the complicated questions it poses, or to tilt its sympathies heavily toward any one of its four prickly characters. Review: In ‘Relevance,’ a Titan of Feminism Confronts a New Generation 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z Still, it’s fair to say that the family hug at the film’s end probably will not resolve all of the prickly issues the film raises. Movie Review: For One Young Muslim the Path to Faith Is Rocky 2011-02-27T23:03:15Z Their friendship, prickly at first, grows warmer over the first half of the novel. They’re Political Adversaries, and They’re in Love 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z The reluctant pair keeps recalibrating in response, and trade prickly banter. ‘Next Exit’ Review: End of the Road 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Just don’t raise the prickly question of whether there is a platter in a chicken’s future. Review: ‘Chicken People,’ Pampering Royalty That Clucks 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z He loved and lost a con artist, survived being sold out by his superiors, and was still viewed by his coworkers as a prickly eccentric. As "Endeavour" enters its final run we bit a sober farewell to the detective who isn't yet bitter 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z The movie, perhaps without intending to, demonstrates that one needn’t be a prickly person to be a wonderful artist. Review: ‘Everybody Knows ... Elizabeth Murray’ and Now You Will Too 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z But she’s also prickly, known to abruptly end interviews when questions displease her. Patti Smith, an accidental rock legend, has finally become the artist she always wanted to be 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z The finished film – a prickly, surly, poignant, yet oddly amusing caper – was cobbled together with just about every form of financing one could imagine. ‘It has to be hot. It has to be creative’: Don Cheadle on his 10-year quest to play Miles Davis 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z Moments like these — rendered subtly, without poster-size messaging — are when “Green” is at its most prickly and compelling. Bridging the Racial Divide in a Middle School Friendship 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z Over the course of four series, this blurring of reality has coloured how people respond to them in real life: seeing them as the clubbable Brydon and the prickly Coogan. Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan: 'Work-wise, Steve's terrific. On a personal level, appalling' 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z And it’s on the second, slower look that some of the prickly contradictions that underlie Mr. McQueen’s work, and fashion as a genre, start to emerge. Art Review: The Shock of Fashion, When It Turns Into Something Else 2011-05-04T23:32:08Z After many readers sped through “Gone Girl,” with its prickly story of a marriage gone awry, they wanted something else like it. The Novel ‘Silent Wife’ Benefits From Success of ‘Gone Girl’ 2013-08-04T21:53:54Z Ms. Hammond’s art has beauty too, but of a prickly, irritant kind: it’s burlap — sometimes sandpaper — as opposed to silk. Harmony Hammond’s Art Is Bold and Prickly as Ever 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Ted, whose brain runs on its own operating system, and his older sister Kat, overcome their prickly relationship to become sleuthing partners. The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd - review 2012-12-20T09:00:00Z And the Rzewski premiere — “Amoramaro,” subtitled “Love Has No Laws” — was bittersweet: an alternately seductive and prickly reminder of all the music of his that can no longer be written. As Bang on a Can Returns, a New Generation Rises 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z Her exegeses are prickly and acute, the Helen Vendler-meets-Patti Smith grad seminar you wanted but never quite got. From Camille Paglia, ‘Free Women, Free Men’ and No Sacred Cows 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z At the start, impending tensions are suggested in the orchestra by rumbling percussion, cries from scraped piano strings, and prickly chords that accumulate pitches and linger in the air. Review: Police Violence Reaches Opera in ‘Blue’ 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z To that end, the linchpin was Ms. Halvorson, a guitarist of prickly proficiency, whose chordal accompaniment felt exactingly off-kilter, useful in its unpredictability. Music Review: Tomas Fujiwara and the Hook Up at Jazz Gallery 2010-04-30T20:54:00Z One day we indulged in a “Carefree Morning Suggestion,” as the menu puts it: a Desert Bloom — sparkling wine with prickly pear purée — and a Road Runner — rum, orange juice and strawberry purée. Old and New Wests Meet in Arizona Desert Foothills 2010-05-20T21:49:00Z Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett is known for taking prickly offense at the term “Rust Belt.” Milwaukee is the new Portland 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Not to be prickly, but I can’t bring myself to participate in the intrinsically sexist, racist and classist endeavor of canon formation. The Classic Novel That Makes Percival Everett Cringe 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z Migliaccio and Smith shared very grown-up turns last season, prickly in “Threepenny Opera” and suave in the Stephen Sondheim revue “Simply Sondheim.” Donna Migliaccio hits her stride 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z The first lady ended the Obama's appearance by exhorting famously prickly judge Simon Cowell to "be nice." Tim Urban out as "Idol" raises millions for charity 2010-04-22T03:35:00Z Arguelles introduced me to three local weavers the foundation sponsors and we joined them on a walk through prickly forests to gather the palm fronds they use to weave their baskets. Argentina's Impenetrable forest opens up 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z One wishes at times for more of her: her childhood, her trips to Sri Lanka, her prickly complicated mother, her irrepressible grandmother. Two Memoirists Explore Abuse and Survival 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z This prickly relationship is at the center of the movie, as dad drives his son to college. ‘Insidious: The Red Door’ Review: The Ghost of Jump Scares Past 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z Mosaic hops and the prickly pear provide a lot of tropical fruit and floral notes in the nose. Beer of the Week goes pink: Green Flash Treasure Chest 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z And as for what might be called the classical and romantic “main course” between appetizer and dessert, we were given a relatively understated Beethoven sonata and one of Stravinsky’s least prickly, least aggressively “modern” pieces. Lightness and sparkle in Joshua Bell recital 2014-02-06T18:54:54Z She didn’t win an Emmy last year as a fantastically prickly Queen Elizabeth II — a most unfortunate oversight, I dare say — but must this year. AP Emmy pundits favor ‘The Crown,’ ‘Ted Lasso’ for honors 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Ms. Maxwell has the juicier role, since Hellman was famous for her foul mouth, prickly personality and inflated sense of self-righteousness, all of which Mr. Mori effectively conveys. Theater Review: ‘Hellman v. McCarthy’ at Abingdon Theater Company 2014-03-27T02:00:18Z The drink was elegant and stealthily boozy — a quiet symphony of botanical gin, prickly fizz and bright lemon softened with simple syrup. The unfailing elegance of a French 75 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z The gardener is ambivalent about mahonias — they are prickly and coarse to a point where drama touches ugliness — and they get leggy and open. Mild weather brings unusual activity to the January garden, both distressing and delightful 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z It boasts a fine performance from Thompson, who starts the movie in eccentric groove like a prickly version of Joyce Grenfell's Miss Gossage, but slowly and subtly reveals her character's vulnerabilities and complexities. Saving Mr Banks: the critics' view 2013-10-21T10:26:27Z Wallace knows this and acquiesces to it — “you agreed to the interview” is Lipsky’s fallback when his subject gets prickly — and generally handles himself with grace and forbearance. Review: ‘The End of the Tour’ Offers a Tale of Two Davids 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z The story’s romantic idyll is shot through with a prickly visual style and a biting candor — all in a film that pointedly couldn’t happen in the United States. The Film That Made ‘Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song’ Possible 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z But Mr. Solis, a veteran of the LAByrinth Theater Company, brings Joe to marvelous life, ranging restlessly through his character’s limitations so as to tease out their prickly contours. Theater Review: ‘Basilica,’ by Mando Alvarado, at the Cherry Lane Theater 2013-05-24T02:00:01Z Especially in picking Best Picture winners, the Academy generally favors the warm over the prickly, the smooth over the spiky, the sweeping over the eccentrically particular. Rooting for “Boyhood” 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z They also may have recognized a few personality Easter eggs insinuated in images such as the backbiting bird on the card listing Aubrey Plaza's credit, corresponding to the mood of her prickly vacationer Harper. Salon's picks for the best TV title sequences of 2022 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z He was furious about the decision, saying his prickly dealings with the Philharmonic reminded him of his earlier experiences with the East German secret police. Kurt Masur, conductor who was a unifying force in a divided Germany, dies at 88 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z Sautéed mushrooms and flecks of prickly jalapeño sheathed in more of that buoyant cheese was one rewarding ensemble. Eat Pupusas by Hand, Salvadoran Style, in Queens 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z So how does Mr. Attenborough approach this most famously prickly and knotted of Shakespeare “problem plays?” Review: Judi Dench Brings Titania to Life Again 2010-02-23T11:35:00Z The ensemble members, who also include Matthew Marsh as a local doctor who appears to be in love with the whole Haussman family, bring a wonderful, prickly interconnectedness to their characters. Critic’s Notebook: On British Stage, Baby Boomers Fare Poorly 2012-06-22T23:54:12Z Over all, Mr. Pettibon’s art has the prickly, manic feel of such rants, and like them, it rarely achieves smooth resolution. Raymond Pettibon, Wielding an Art Mightier Than the Sword 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z But have these months working on two prickly satires about critics shifted his views in any way? The wrath of Michael Kahn in comedies about critics 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Joe Biden is a decent, honest, loyal man who Obama senses “might get prickly if he thought he wasn’t given his due — a quality that might flare up when dealing with a much younger boss.” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Barack Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’ 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z More touching than riotous, “Definition Please” proves to be impressively nuanced once it begins revealing why Monica is so prickly around Sonny: He has bipolar disorder. ‘Definition Please’ Review: What Does It All Mean? 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z Kirkus Reviews noted “hints of Pynchon” in Mr. Hill’s prickly social satire, which takes aim at academia, politics, publishing and social media. Nathan Hill Is Compared to John Irving. Irving Compares Him to Dickens. 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z McLean, who has frequently been portrayed as a prickly figure, and worse, puts on his most ingratiating mien here. ‘The Day the Music Died’ Review: ‘American Pie,’ the Life of a Hit 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z But as Mr. Godard’s work became increasingly politicized, and as his always uncompromising and prickly personality grew even more so, a schism emerged that would become irreparable in 1973. | 'Two in the Wave': Truffaut and Godard?s Roles in Creating the New Wave 2010-05-18T23:55:00Z Mr. Wilder, still prickly and proud at 85, remains undaunted. Who Will Tell the Story of Slavery? 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z It was winter — minus 22 degrees — and I was wrapped from head to toe, with only my eyes visible through a small rectangle of prickly scarf. When my birth mother found me 2013-09-16T23:30:00Z Colella slays her performance in one such song, the prickly “This Girl.” ‘Suffs’ Review: Young, Scrappy and Hungry for the Right to Vote 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Technically a thistle, an artichoke looks like a pine cone, prickly, jagged, and ready to ward off predators. Your handy guide to every spring vegetable 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z “The performance has only grown more prickly, funny and moving with age.” John Hurt, British Actor Hailed for His Shape-Shifting Roles, Dies at 77 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Fans of Perry’s pessimistic, prickly tempered films “The Color Wheel” and “Listen Up Philip” were alternately amazed and amused. It’s become too facile to pit big summer movies against integrity-filled indies 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Poetry was pushing into prickly new territory, while art was revisiting old ground, although with some new moves. Art Review: When Art Dallied With Poetry on 53rd Street 2011-01-20T22:51:36Z Mr. Brennan insisted that Coach Sylvester’s attitude is not based on a real person, but conceded, after some pressing, that the prickly Mr. Murphy is sometimes a muse. The Nice Guy Who Puts the Mean Into ?Glee? 2010-10-22T08:06:00Z We took our time, stopping for dangerous-looking fireworks in South Carolina and fragrant baskets of peaches and bags of prickly okra in Georgia. Best New Southern Author: Belle Boggs 2011-01-02T07:20:04.257Z Made by Argentina-born Italian artist Silvia Levenson, the pastel-hued objects in “Tea Room: The Better to See You” include Cinderella slippers pierced with nails and a pink teapot and cups made prickly with green thorns. Review | In the galleries: Exploring the many perspectives of terricide 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z Her conversation is businesslike to the point of seeming abrupt, prickly even, and more than once she fixes me with a sharp piercing stare that makes me wonder if I've just said something profoundly stupid. Rumer: 'If Burt Bacharach says you're good, it's time to start believing in yourself' 2010-08-28T23:05:00Z The prickly tone is a difficult balancing act, and “Diamond Tongues” may settle for being a softer-hearted film than its most cynical scenes portend. Review: In ‘Diamond Tongues,’ Leah Goldstein Plays a Flawed Actress 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Didn’t really think about it much — I just wanted to make a statement about the over-the-top state of war between the media and our prickly, combative commander in tweet. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: That time I challenged the president to a duel 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Llamas have another strange quirk that comes in handy out here in this rough country: They eat prickly pears. Driving Through the Heart of Texas 2010-03-24T20:56:00Z That slow, prickly walk through the fear was a revelation for me. All my wasted New Year’s 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z In these prickly missives, Burns vamps and camps merrily, elsewhere referring to homosexual figures in whimsical religious terms, as abbots and abbesses. Books of The Times: David Margolick’s ‘Dreadful’ Explores a Gay Novelist’s Anguish 2013-07-31T21:30:19Z “Saving Mr. Banks,” the self-congratulatory 2013 movie, paints the studio as the patient, longtime victim of a prickly and demanding author. ‘Mary Poppins’ creator P.L. Travers is even more fascinating than her fiction 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Not about the prickly pear margaritas, delicious and neon though they are. Tucson Becomes an Unlikely Food Star 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z For 50 years, he played some aspect of prickly, macho Ben Gazzara. Requiem for Mr. Tough Guy 2012-02-06T17:01:31Z But if the likes of Sherlock, War Horse and the new Star Trek sequel make Cumberbatch the Beatles of modern British acting, D'Arcy is something altogether pricklier and more enigmatic: he is the Kinks. James D'Arcy: 'I delivered my first line and Anthony Hopkins burst out laughing' 2013-02-01T07:00:09Z His sister is more outgoing, and one of the offhand delights of “Nope” is how credibly Kaluuya and Palmer convey the prickly understanding that holds siblings together and sometimes threatens to drive them apart. ‘Nope’ Review: Hell Yes 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z It was prickly, personal and seemed to reflect an eagerness to engage — even when the issues were esoteric and the other candidates, and , were left to chime in from the sidelines. Romney, Santorum clash in testy debate 2012-02-23T06:03:00Z Though she has a prickly relationship with her two sons, her husband seems to adore her. Patricia Clarkson wraps up three films, turns to Broadway 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z At first defensive and prickly, Gus and Benny gradually, over the course of a year, bond through sport, entrepreneurship and especially music. Making Black Lives, Not Just Black Deaths, Matter Onstage 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z While I’m told the character is wittier and more sarcastic in the books, on the show, I kind of love how dry and prickly he is. Stannis “The Mannis” Baratheon: Why he’s the best “Game of Thrones” character — and rightful king of Westeros 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z Rachel Shteir quotes Kerouac’s sentence prominently in “The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting,” her new book, which is prickly and intelligent in its first half before collapsing, like a heat-stricken marathoner, in its second. Books of The Times: Sticky Fingers, Used in Service of a Covetous Nature 2011-06-28T21:45:44Z Instead her knitted brow and tight expression communicate her prickly emotional state. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 9: ‘A Dragonfly in Amber’ 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z What makes these stories radiant, rather than merely prickly, is how invested Mr. Jackson is in peeling off the rind of life, in getting to the juice. Review: ‘Prodigals’ by Greg Jackson Skewers the Elite 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z I took the hour-long hiking loop at Hidden Valley: a cattle rustling site in the 1870s, it is rich with Mojave yucca, pinyon pine and prickly pear cactus, and ends in a box canyon. Joshua Tree national park: music, myths and art in the desert 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z A prickly electric guitar adds some fresh texture to the standard Sheeran sound on the song’s verses, as his relentless vocal cadence mimics the feel of racing thoughts. Bush Tetras’ Defiant Return, and 10 More New Songs 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z The particulars of this experience will make parents break out in a prickly rash. ‘Excellent Sheep,’ William Deresiewicz’s Manifesto 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z Few franchises' fans are pricklier about canon than Trekkers unless the contradictions or violations in question occur on a show deemed nearly beyond reproach — like "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds." "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" shows how war muddles the moral compass of two of its crew 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z But I’m going with this prickly 1960 evergreen in which two hired assassins wait for orders to kill in a clammy basement room. Finding the Sweet, Stinging Salt in Plays of Confinement 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z With a prickly, attenuated tone, he plays in little diving gestures, often wrapping his phrases around a crooked peg. Ambrose Akinmusire’s Trumpet Takes a Back Seat to His Pen on ‘Origami Harvest’ 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Seems insane, but I came around: Neuwirth’s Nadine, the secretary’s chief of staff, was prickly and imperfect, with an unsavory romantic history, and she was estranged from her adult son. ‘Madam Secretary’ Proved TV Didn’t Have to Be Hip to be Great 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z For the next two decades, however, Mr. Albee produced more prickly puzzles. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The journey consists of a series of adventures in the broiling temperatures, culminating in a stifling encounter that could be the cinematic equivalent of prickly heat. The 10 hottest, sweatiest, most humid summer movies ever made 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z To give a prickly spine to an otherwise pleasant book? ‘Fallout,’ by Sadie Jones, a tale of passion and imperfect love in 1970s London theater world I’d like to ask him to keep his voice down, but he’s prickly. Social Q’s: Take It to the Grave 2012-09-15T00:35:24Z Pressed about how she prepares for such a role, Mara grows prickly. Rooney Mara: 'I've been guarded since I was three years old' 2013-03-02T06:00:00Z In 2005 they were mordant, the prickly new boss’s response to the battered, naked body of the show’s first murder victim. A Series Romance Comes Full Circle 2012-08-10T17:09:14Z In high school, she worked with the Seattle Repertory Playhouse, learning early that politics and theater could be powerful but prickly bedfellows. Megan Terry, Feminist Playwright and Rock Musical Innovator, Dies at 90 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z It was a pricklier, lawless, more decadent time — perfect escapism for contemporary minds in search of more chaotic pastures. Review | St. Vincent gets trapped in ’70s revivalism on ‘Daddy’s Home’ 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Especially in the prickly relationship of Ani and Eddie, it suppresses sentimentality like a lead apron. Review: In ‘Cost of Living,’ a Familiar Alienation 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z With a sensitive lead turn by Minujín, “The Substitute” remains elusive and prickly all the way through, mimicking the messiness of reality more so than the neat arcs of stories. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Both the Boston and Washington critics groups anointed the prickly Brit their supporting actor of the year and he goes up against Rush for the Globe and the SAG award. Sibling rivalry: Paramount bets on True Grit but The Fighter is winning 2010-12-20T14:19:09Z Do the prickly post-punk guitar and harmony vocals in “The Mall & Misery” allude to Gang of Four and Talking Heads or to Yeasayer? Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-03-08T07:40:00Z His solo, at around three minutes, is full of angles and prickly jumps — essentially, nonstop. Dream Logic Mixed With ‘a Catalog of My Interests Back in 1996’ 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Rie was famously generous as a hostess, baking her own Viennese cakes and pastries, but sometimes prickly with reporters and trainees. Antiques: Classic Vehicle Auctions and a Lucie Rie Biography 2012-07-26T21:17:22Z But there was also Enid and Carl sharing authentically prickly adolescent company in the woods. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6, Episode 10: Rick and Michonne Meet a Mysterious Visitor 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z The charged give-and-take between Langs’s good-hearted but sometimes prickly May and Van Meter’s affable Raleigh is the heart of the story. Review | The familial irritation in ‘Gulf View Drive’ is likely to strike a chord with every viewer 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z “Sight” offers a kaleidoscope of colorful blooms like hydrangea and roses, while “Touch” has soft, furry lamb’s ear, prickly Golden Sword yucca and spiny Rosy Glow barberry. Public Gardens Turn on the Charm 2011-06-17T01:45:45Z The Vulture is a mess of prickly contradictions, only some of which seem intentional. Review: Spider-Man (Again) and All That Sticky Kid Stuff 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Jones is all prickly intellect, all fuming righteousness, as Thaddeus Stevens, who pushed the Thirteenth Amendment through Congress for President Lincoln. 2013 Oscar Nominations: Who Will Win? 2013-01-10T16:37:58Z It’s Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” — a cynic, or a Williams character, might think — meets Mike White’s prickly, resort-themed “The White Lotus.” After a Cataclysm, the Nature Lovers in ‘Harrow’ Struggle to Stay Sane 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z That not all the films are worthy of an A is an indication of how prickly the process can be. Biopics find new life at the Oscars and beyond 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z Even as Reed has become part of the canon himself, he has remained prickly, resisting attempts to assimilate his work into any story that flatters American progress. In “The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda,” Ishmael Reed Revives an Old Debate 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z The patriarch is a former CIA operative who, despite his prickly exterior, is a decent enough fella— just don’t mention his son-in-law. Hello, Neighbor: Ranking Our 10 Favorite Movie Families 2013-09-19T17:03:15Z He is a lonely, prickly and arrogant plutocrat who resembles a middle-aged spoilt child. Cannes 2014: Foxcatcher review - Steve Carell gets to grips with his dark side 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z But until relatively recently, when classical players and composers began to embrace the instrument’s full patrimony — popular and classical — musicians intent on establishing the guitar’s classical bona fides often showed a prickly defensiveness. Critic?s Notebook: Marathon at 92nd St. Y to Wrap Up Guitar Festival 2012-01-26T23:38:46Z Saint-Saëns was on speaking terms with practically all of them, even if his prickly temperament and caustic wit tended to discourage close friendships. ‘Saint-Saëns and His World’ at Bard 2012-07-20T17:08:16Z But in traveling from my heart to my tongue, my feelings drift, mutating into grotesque, prickly shapes. Criticism Is My Love Language 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z When “Foundations” came out, its prickly, evocatively personal storytelling established her as a bracing new voice. Kate Nash Keeps Getting Back Up. This Time, Off Broadway. 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Moreno’s Donald, with whom Paul establishes a prickly rapport born of their mutual hard luck in loving Angela, exudes his own affecting air of being not quite ready for full adulthood. Theater Review: Ethan Lipton’s ‘Red-Handed Otter,’ at the Cherry Lane Theater 2012-09-21T02:00:00Z They're a little prickly, with a woody stem and a bitter exterior layer. Artichokes 101: How to pick, clean and prepare this amazing spring produce 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z There was an unusual, prickly hair, and I pinched it between my thumb and pointer finger, then tugged. I was a secret hair puller 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z That turnout provoked criticism, with viewers chiding Mrs. Romney as insensitive to the economic struggles of ordinary Americans and, for that matter, to the prickly issue of her husband’s personal wealth. Ann Romney Is Writing Her Own Dress Code 2012-06-13T21:02:43Z Compared to non-nitro ales, Coventry Cream Ale is smoother and less prickly; brewer Stephen Jones says the nitrogen takes the beer in the direction of a traditional cask-conditioned ale, which is poured without extraneous carbonation. Beer of the Week: A creamy English ale in a can, without the plastic widget 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z Printed in 1903, the pamphlet clearly features a Sherlock Holmes story, complete with prickly dialog between Holmes and Watson. 'Lost' Sherlock Holmes tale probably isn't Arthur Conan Doyle's, expert says 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z In Italy, it’s harvested from the sap of ash trees, and Giulio’s stone farmhouse is surrounded by hundreds of these trees, oozing strings of white syrup into little cups made from prickly pear leaves. Journeys: In Sicily, a Step Back in Time 2010-09-25T04:45:00Z The plants — which include a palm and a prickly pear cactus — evoke nature’s power of transformation and regeneration. Abraham Cruzvillegas' buoyant assemblages toy with cars, sex and the culture of waste 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z The moral is clear, yet while everyone deserves a second chance, it is debatable whether Nicholson's prickly, self-absorbed Jack warrants the seventh, eighth and ninth chances he is presented with. No Wise Men ? review 2010-12-10T22:30:00Z As we finished talking, a tall slender man in his late 20s, prickly beard poking out from his face mask, pulled us aside. Road trip to Powder Keg City: The collapse of Seattle's autonomous zone 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z With a uniformly excellent American cast that wears its roles like confining and prickly skins, and on a smaller stage, “Girl” feels far more convincingly of a piece. Review: ‘Girl From the North Country’ Sets the Darkness Aglow 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Without tearing the proud, prickly surfaces of their characters, this Benedick and Beatrice addressed their soliloquies directly to the audience. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Shakespeare as Cover Boy 2011-07-19T14:30:50Z But never before have I felt such a prickly sense of dread as the three acts unfolded in all their symphonic discord. Theater Review: Tracy Letts in ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ 2012-10-14T21:52:14Z Hollywood and Leith also frequently remind prickly viewers and contestants that they are the ultimate authority. Bake fails: Is this the worst season of "The Great British Baking Show"? 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z In the last year of the diaries, with Sedaris a now-established best-selling author and world traveler, the prickly Southern wit is still intact and sparkling: David Sedaris’s Diaries Track a Path From Struggle to Success 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z This is the kind of thing that could get Grisham into trouble if he had a pricklier following, but in “Camino Winds” it just adds to the gossipy atmosphere that hovers over the dinner party. John Grisham Returns to Camino Island, This Time in Hurricane Season 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z I leave it to you, prickly commentariat of the Guardian, to indicate where to stray off the beaten path. My theatrical busman's holiday in London: what am I missing? 2010-08-16T08:35:00Z Keough is able, for long stretches, to overcome the script’s banalities; she gets Daisy’s mix of swagger covering for uncertainty, and she gives her a prickly, genuine personality. ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ Review: Between Rock and a Soft Place 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z The two Brits who appear on the show are outstanding, appealing, prickly, and, most rarely of all, intelligent-seeming. “Episodes’” Matt LeBlanc: Oversexed, over-entitled, eternally on “Friends” 2012-07-02T15:58:00Z Much of that delayed reception has to do with the prickly feelings his work generates institutionally, where the artist’s acid-colored output is regarded as the ultimate triumph of bad taste. A Coming-Out Party for KAWS at the Brooklyn Museum 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Though freshly rendered with lively interviews and concert video clips full of prickly, lo-fi energy, the film’s portrayal is more idolizing than truly reflective. Movie Listings for Dec. 6-12 2013-12-06T01:00:08Z Each song got a mento treatment, with its own swaying, ambling beat and prickly banjo counterpoint. Music Review: With Island Spice, and Years of Seasoning, Old is New Again 2011-02-25T23:54:45Z The troupe’s expert “Clybourne Park” — Bruce Norris’s prickly, Pulitzer-winning “Raisin in the Sun” update — warranted a return engagement and a brief national tour. Perspective | How Howard Shalwitz led Woolly Mammoth’s stampede 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z It was an uncharacteristically prickly remark from Trump, whose Twitter account mostly keeps things upbeat, promoting the causes she champions, including women’s empowerment, in her role as senior adviser to President Trump. Perspective | The performance piece ‘Ivanka Vacuuming’ seems to irk the first daughter even more than ‘fake news’ 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Our popular conception of theatrical geniuses — prickly, arrogant and contemptuous of newfangled ideas — makes it a bit surprising that Sondheim responded to the last proposal with enthusiasm. Sondheim on 'Sondheim on Sondheim' at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z I picked up the striped pot, holding a wood-painted prickly pear sprouting soft pink leather blossoms. Thank you, Kate Spade, for making women feel “quick and curious and playful and strong” 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z It takes in the dried-up soil, the prickly pear, the palm tree and the distant mountain, but it always misses the peasant hoeing at his patch. Creating a spectacle of slaughter at the movies: Ambush at Kamikaze Pass 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z Of course, the mistake also served to shed light on Pope and "Mr. Turner," Mike Leigh's film about a prickly naturalist painter struggling on both personal and professional fronts. Oscars 2015: Dick 'Poop' is just happy to be nominated 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Thankfully my friend, typically prickly when slighted, was just back from isolating in his native Canada, and barely noticed my thoughtless gaffe. Feeling Socially Awkward? Even Extroverts Are a Little Rusty 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z Ms. Mastroianni deftly goes through the psychological contortions of a woman under siege by parents, siblings, an ex-husband, a former boyfriend and a prickly new employer. | 'Making Plans for L?na': Chiara Mastroianni in Christophe Honor??s Drama 2010-08-19T23:10:00Z In his special, Mr. Burnham adopts a prickly persona, establishing a tense relationship with his audience members, alternating between making them laugh and baiting, even insulting them. Bo Burnham, Discovered on the Internet, Now Challenges It 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Bennett also seems more drawn to the Motown glitz of “Dreamgirls,” while Fosse gravitated to the sinister, historically prickly eras of the 1920s “Chicago” and 1930s “Cabaret.” Donna McKechnie on Fosse and Bennett, ‘Chicago’ and ‘A Chorus Line’ 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z There is the prickly wit and delicious complication of “Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer,” Joseph Cedar’s ebullient Israeli-American comedy, with Richard Gere in the title role. Cinema Is Dead? Telluride Says Not Yet 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z Ali Smith’s new novel, “Summer,” is the concluding volume in her immersive, prickly and politically ardent seasonal quartet. Ali Smith’s ‘Summer’ Ends a Funny, Political, Very Up-to-Date Quartet 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z It’s hard not to root for Nina, even if this prickly, intriguingly difficult character becomes considerably less interesting as the story progresses and the dialogue veers toward the therapeutic. Review: ‘All About Nina,’ a Funny Lady (With Issues) 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Ema is the pair’s most challenging collaboration, populated largely by destructive and dislikable characters; only gradually do their prickly exteriors peel away to reveal the wounded souls within. Gael García Bernal: 'The pandemic has taught me that I need something to say' 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z The concierge is, notes this wise child, like a hedgehog — "prickly on the outside, a real fortress," and yet "terribly elegant," if you look past the spikes. 'The Hedgehog' ? wistful, magical, elegant 2011-09-08T20:33:21Z The other actors have less to work with, but Susan Ferrara nonetheless delivers a textured and moving performance as the family’s prickly matriarch. | 'Bridesburg': ?Bridesburg? at Gene Frankel Theater - Review 2012-01-23T22:55:31Z Conservative mom Eileen is prickly and judgmental, but always puts her kids first. The Real O’Neals: gay Catholic sitcom has more than a prayer 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z They are prickly, oddly cold, highly intelligent and take a fierce pride in their work. Mother and Child: The Heartache of Adoption 2010-05-07T18:00:00Z Off-trail, the views are densely wooded in every direction, tangled in Virginia creeper and prickly greenbrier. The spirits of Shenandoah National Park 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z This book “allows us to meet this prickly poet fresh and entire,” our critic Dwight Garner writes. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z A seasoned literary biographer is tasked with writing the life story of a prickly, reclusive and renowned novelist whose work revels in alter-egos and funhouse transformations of his personal history. Review | ‘Philip Roth,’ by Blake Bailey, is a colorful, confident and uncompromising biographical triumph 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z Get an audience in London and he is prickly, defensive. Tim Roth: who's the daddy? 2012-05-20T19:00:12Z “In Utero” was a pricklier album than its predecessor. Alternative rock lives, self-doubt intact 2013-09-13T16:54:00Z Cycling at predictable intervals between Keith’s long, interior harangues and his brief, prickly interactions with the director, the play acquires a ticktock rhythm that prevents the buildup of momentum. Review: In ‘American Moor,’ an Insider’s Guide to ‘Othello’ 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z Dawkins’s bracing asperities are now routinely met in kind: ‘Puffed up, self-regarding, vain, prickly and militant’ was one columnist’s string of adjectives for him. Richard Dawkins’ moralizing atheism: Science, self-righteousness and militant belief — and disbelief 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z The issue is a prickly one in the television industry. CBS offers streaming service, a day after HBO's action 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z As for the prickly interviews that Stewart made famous on Comedy Central, you can now see them on his Apple TV+ series or, more likely, social media, where they go viral. What if ‘The Daily Show’ Used Guest Hosts Permanently? 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z But with ideas as sprawling and as prickly as Baldwin’s, there is more power in brevity. Dance Review: ‘Baldwin Through Dance’ Adapts a Poem and a Novel 2014-04-27T21:15:38Z But this film he knew would live and die on its main character, Angela Childs, a prickly, agoraphobic analyst with her own personal traumas who the camera is on most of the time. In ‘KIMI,’ Soderbergh, Kravitz build a classic tech thriller 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z And in this new book, Chute seems aware of — and prickly about — these particular signifiers. Giving Voice to the Victims of Growth 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z But his work had greater overall shape and more prickly energy on this night than in years past. Music Review: In ?Wozzeck? at the Met, the Night Belonged to Levine 2011-04-07T12:58:54Z “Creep” shivers with Squarepusher-style noise bursts levied with genuinely pretty pianos; “My Pet Coelacanth” starts as a wall of white noise, then unravels into a prickly after-hours banger. Tiesto and Deadmau5 make full albums, stretch attention spans 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z As we passed juniper, pinyon pine and prickly pear, Carl rattled off the culinary and medicinal properties of each. In New Mexico, on the Cowboy Trail of Jack Thorp 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Perhaps the infamously prickly singer would accept no publishing contract that allowed a comma to be changed. Morrissey’s ‘Autobiography’ sets out to settle scores 2013-12-26T20:46:06Z A prickly buddy comedy unfolds between Joel and his unruly charge, and Pascal’s laconic gunslinger appeal translates well to this bleaker universe. Review: ‘The Last of Us’ Is a Zombie Thriller About Single Parenting 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Ian’s attention was fixated on the prickly pear cactus lining the path. Weekend getaways: With Legoland, grizzly-watching and other kid-friendly delights, parents can’t lose in San Diego 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z |
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