Word: piquant
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...incorrigibles, notably James Cabell, endeavor with some small degree of success, to hoist their less agile following to their own high places of the spirit. But even Cabell permits himself a not infrequent glance at the dwellers in the piquant values of material dalliance...
Alexander Woollcott: "Dainty . . . charming . . . piquant . . . rather more than ordinarily amusing...
Admitting no insubordination to Premier Mussolini, he continues: "It is better to recognize our own bad points ourselves rather than see them served up in piquant sauce by our adversaries...
...great importance as some of his others. The last pages are weak and had to be rearranged by Mr. Monteux, who besides made many cuts to good advantage. The scoring is curiously complex and difficult. The coloring and rhythms, however, are marvelous, and we are constantly hearing novel and piquant effects as in the trilling and warbling of the wind instrucments in the Cleopatra episode. It is interesting to note that the Rondo Infernale is a direct forerunner of the Katschei dance in Strawinsky's "Oiseau de Feu", and a good instance of the influence of master over pupil. Little...
...stardom by Mr. Griffith in "The Love Footer" which was show in Boston some time ago was can as "Gypsy Fair"--the only woman character in the play Her smaller lie body was admirably adapted the role of music-hall dancer; her thin, your pretty face, with its slightly piquant nose and Chile, fitted her part absolutely; her ability to control both her face and body movement, so as to indicate the slightest shade of feeling made her characterization of the part one of the high lights in a production in which all the characterizations were well-night perfect...