Word: piquantly
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...piquant item dealt with sex among Communist bigwigs-particularly buxom Nilde Jotti, who is currently Togliatti's mistress, but had a long career in Red-style amore before that. The article made instructive reading at a time when the Communists, exploiting the Montesi scandal, have been rending the air with their own pretensions to morality...
...when Husband Willy's production line was flagging, he said to his wife, who was sprawled on the divan with the cat: "You ought to put your school memories onto paper. Don't be frightened of piquant details . . . Funds are low." Ever obedient, Colette bought school exercise books and jotted down neatly her adolescent story. Claudine at School (signed "Willy") appeared in 1900, sold 50,000 copies in the first year and is still selling in 1954. Almost as successful was the first sequel, in which Heroine Claudine "[receives her] first lessons in seduction, meets her perverted second...
...with a figure to please even the most myopic in the second balcony. With comic relish, she joins Drake in the slaughter of a little horrer called "Oasis of Delightful Imaginings." ("The breeze that cools the dunes there has an opposite effect on the pantaloons there."). Doretta Morrow is piquant as Kismet's sole ingenue, particularly in "Stranger in Paradise," the most successful hybrid of Borodin and tin Pan Alley...
...figure to please even the most myopic in the second balcony. With comic relish, she joins Drake in the slaughter of a smutty little horror called "Oasis of Delightful Imaginings" ("The breeze that cools the dunes there has an opposite effect on the pantaloons there."). Doretta Morrow is piquant as Kismet's sole ingenue, particularly in "Stranger in Paradise," the most successful hybrid of Borodin and Tin Pan Alley...
...fellow students, Musicologist Slonimsky has catalogued his findings in a 30-page "Invecticon," listing the strongest and most piquant critical epithets alphabetically, with composers to whom they have been applied. Samples: advanced cat music (Wagner), belly-rumbling (Bela Bartok), bestial outcries (Alban Berg), bleary-eyed paresis (Tchaikovsky), chaos (Bartok, Berg, Berlioz, Brahms, Liszt, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, Scriabin, Strauss, Wagner), intoxicated woodpecker (Edgar Varèse), lewd caterwauling (Wagner), mass-snoring (Bartok), nasty little noise (Debussy), spring fever in a zoo (Stravinsky...