I thought her prickliness and caustic gruff exterior were defense mechanisms.
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Does it stem from a perhaps understandable prickliness surrounding being taken advantage of?
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How do we grapple with his legacy honestly and without dramatization, in all its prickliness?
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This eventually subsided, although the prickliness still returns for occasional night-time cameos in his feet.
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Their mutual prickliness is a sign of long intimacy, as if they were two cut-to-match pieces of sandpaper.
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For Nixon, the film is an opportunity to demonstrate once again her ability to veer from warmth and vulnerability to prickliness.
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Hannah Beech in the New Yorker likens North Korea's prickliness to a hedgehog's evolutionary strategy of showing its spines to protect its pink underbelly.
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Argo was not acquired by Ford, stressed Salesky, the only time he exhibits even a smidge of prickliness in a long and winding interview.
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Ms. Halvorson's output was multilayered and superserious: Mr. Zorn's compositions brought out the prickliness in her style but also a sense of precarious grace.
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And though the prickliness eventually subsided, and her family came around to the idea of her making a living as an expressive artist, that tumultuous time still had its effects.
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Voters will forgive lots of things -- even affairs and prickliness, as Sanford learned -- but they will not tolerate an interruption of the progress being made under unified Republican control in Washington.
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Sanders's prickliness seems sensible when he's punching up in the polls; but when there's no one to punch up at, a combative attitude can come off as ungenerous or even bullying.
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She is seeking, in these final moments of her own life, the fullest possible understanding of a woman who represented, despite her prickliness and remove, the closest thing she had to a family.
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Yes, apparently Rachel's manipulative skills, desperate competitiveness and romantic prickliness aren't the sharp-edged facets of a complicated person whose worst traits thrive in the "Everlasting" environment; they're just fallout from a sexual assault.
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Anger, prickliness, outrage, wonder, godlike omnipotence, drunken what-the-hell exhilaration, suicidal angst, Zen-like resignation — Mr. Karl turns these different feelings into a replete gallery of self-portraits, drawn with both comic panache and genuine feeling.
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Naturally, some prickliness has emerged between the old guard and Istvan, specifically related to the way he has taken the movement and transformed the idea of Transhumanism into a reflection of his own ideology through his Transhumanist Party.
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As he greeted Putin for the first time since Mueller concluded his investigation and released a final report, there was little to indicate his view of Moscow's influence efforts has changed or that his prickliness on the topic had waned.
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The cleverly executed cameos (Dave Coulier, Macaulay Culkin) and tossed-off lines ("the heir to the Capri-Sun fortune") point toward a welcome prickliness, but the show can't quite stick to those guns — if it did, Jules would realize how vacuous her existence is.
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It is all the things about Meg that are most unlikable, that our culture teaches girls to reject — her anger, her prickliness, her inability to perform social pleasantness — that make her a formidable opponent to IT, ultimately able to defeat IT where her beloved father failed.
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Osama Manzar, the director of the Digital Empowerment Foundation, a New Delhi-based NGO, called the government's prickliness "a clear sign that rather than it wanting to learn how to make Aadhaar a tool of empowerment, it actually wants to use it as a coercive tool of disempowerment".
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Mr. Goerne interwove the Eisler selections with 19th-century songs that traced a lineage going back to the broody Romanticism of Schumann's "The Hermit" and "Loneliness" and the chromatic prickliness of Hugo Wolf's settings of some of the "Harper's Songs" from Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship," with their almost masochistic self pity. Bleak?
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Propagation is by seed, preferably gathered using gloves due to the prickliness of the foliage.
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Hybrids with native holly (L. ilicifolia) have been recorded, the resulting plants having variable hairiness and prickliness. Analysis of chloroplast DNA showed that there is extensive hybridization between the five species (L. arborescens, L. fraseri, L. ilicifolia, L. myricoides and L. silaifolia) of mainland southeastern Australia, though each is distinct enough to warrant species status.
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Blades up to 30 cm long, inrolled or folded. Ligules up to 2mm long, firm with tiny hairs on their margins and backs. Flowering spikelets are broadly ovate to lanceolate, 2–6 flowered, green or purplish, often viviparous. P. constantina and P. fawcettiae can be identified from P. gunnii due to the features of the lemma and the prickliness of the leaves.
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The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 sparked a media firestorm against BP in the United States. The Christian Science Monitor observed that a "rhetorical prickliness" had come about from escalating Obama administration criticism of BP—straining the Special Relationship—particularly the repeated use of the term "British Petroleum" even though the business no longer uses that name. Cameron stated that he did not want to make the president's toughness on BP a U.S.–U.K. issue, and noted that the company was balanced in terms of the number of its American and British shareholders.
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Range map of the Jefferson Salamander The secretive adults tend to hide under stones or logs, or in leaf litter and other underbrush in deciduous forests during damp conditions. They are usually not found in conifer forests, likely due to the dryness and prickliness of some pine and spruce needles, which may injure amphibians with their thin skins. They are found burrowed underground for most of the year during dry or freezing conditions. They must get below the frost line (about 18 inches) in order to survive winter conditions in northern latitudes.
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