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"prickly" Definitions
  1. covered with prickles
  2. causing you to feel as if your skin is touching something that is covered with prickles
  3. (informal) (of a person) easily annoyed or offended synonym touchy
  4. (of a decision, an issue, etc.) difficult to deal with because people have very different ideas about it synonym thorny

760 Sentences With "prickly"

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A palate cleanser of prickly pear and mezcal — served in a frozen, hollowed out prickly pear of course — came next.
The Berry Prickly Pear Frappuccino Crème is made with a mango crème Frappuccino, which is then poured over a strawberry and prickly pear fruit puree.
In addition to the creamy mango base, the drink features a strawberry and prickly pear puree, and it will have you hooked on the prickly pear flavor.
At the Tortilla Flat General Store, a place on the Apache Trail that was once a stagecoach stop, you can try prickly pear gelato as well as prickly pear barbecue sauce.
Arizona: Prickly Pear Gelato At Tortilla Flat General StoreThe prickly pear cactus grows plentifully across the desert, and once late summer hits, its bulbous, purple-hued ends are ripe for the picking.
Most Americans don't put prickly pear on their shopping lists.
But there were prickly relations with players, notably Roy Keane.
They may be prickly, but hedgehogs have a certain cachet.
Mr. Wilder, still prickly and proud at 85, remains undaunted.
Up close, the harpsichord can be a wild, prickly beast.
Mr. Carlson is too prickly to be assertively for anyone.
Dr. Weed could be a prickly ambassador for his ideas.
Macron and Merkel must not begin with the prickly subjects.
Fair enough, even if he was being a little prickly.
It holds multiple subspecies of cholla and prickly pear cactuses.
Burgess's Titus is irreverent, prickly, and earnest all at once.
Most cues are high frequency, atonal, prickly washes of electronic static.
Both men are prickly, imperious and prone to spreading conspiracy theories.
At most, you'll get the prickly feeling that hits your spine.
TWO vain, prickly, strutting loudmouths hurl colourful threats at each other.
They declared Vanessa's prickly father a hero for questioning Nick's motives.
Unfortunately, Arnold was "prickly and hotheaded" and lived beyond his means.
A pattern of prickly pears swarmed over Tagel's floor-length dress.
He can be prickly and thin-skinned, casually cruel and dismissive.
They each use a prickly gravitas and fearlessness to challenge guests.
She first made her name with prickly social and celebrity reporting.
But just wait till that prickly pear outgrows its elegant crib.
That prickly embrace is how democracy and diversity and cosmopolitanism work.
The titular hedgehog is allegorical and never appears in the prickly flesh.
East Pakistan had a prickly relationship with its counterpart in the West.
He was exactly as you'd imagine: standoffish, prickly, fussy, but OK really.
She's a borderline alcoholic with a prickly personality and terrible relationship skills.
Writers have captured the prickly dynamic between immigration officer and Muslim traveller.
He's outwardly prickly but secretly empathetic, grounding Kit's willful eccentricity and optimism.
Party fraternity cannot easily be revived in an era of prickly nationalisms.
I leave you with two scenes from that wonderfully prickly performance below.
Big, rich countries often have prickly relations with their smaller, poorer neighbours.
Mr. Zhou negotiated Prokofiev's prickly passagework at blistering speeds with immaculate fingering.
Here's how several areas are trying to stick out: Talk about prickly.
She, too, is prickly when criticised by foreigners who once supported her.
His default mode is a kind of prickly joviality, a gregarious misanthropy.
Instead her knitted brow and tight expression communicate her prickly emotional state.
She knows better: a prickly, slightly stinging solution is just the thing.
The Picha Project is trying to solve a prickly issue in Malaysia.
That's a lot easier than squeezing behind a prickly tree every night.
His awkward, prickly, undemonstrative self became the price of a protected vulnerability.
Sometimes her pile-on sentences achieve a prickly, shambolic sort of grace.
For better and for worse, their parenting style matches their prickly relationship.
In Los Angeles, homeowners have installed prickly plants for the same purpose.
"JAZzHOUSE," published by Prickly Pear Publishing, is his sixth book of poetry.
The prickly political situation with Uber is unlikely to get any easier.
"JAZzHOUSE," published by Prickly Pear Publishing, is his sixth book of poetry.
And in true Cleary fashion, she is being charmingly prickly about it.
Buck is the prickly one, high-maintenance and given to political rants.
I fall asleep on my mosquito net atop my prickly gravel bed.
But some people just can't keep their faces away from the prickly mammals.
And then later, when you explained why, I felt so prickly about it!
The formula contains hyaluronate, prickly pear, and other hydrating ingredients that seriously moisturize.
The author comes across as passionate but prickly, with little time for bunglers.
Her character Sam in Before I Fall was just as prickly as Erica.
Below, he talked us through the artist's prickly persona and enduringly challenging images.
Smart plays a therapist, and Keller plays the prickly but street smart Syd.
He came off, by turns, as affable, prickly, charming, abrasive, and borderline abusive.
I hope she's prickly — you've got to be a little cranky in life.
The two flavors, Berry Prickly Pear and Mango Pineapple, debuted today (June 20th).
Want to know how your predecessor dealt with a particularly prickly foreign official?
They turn their faces to the sky and celebrate with prickly pear margaritas.
In Phoenix, for instance, Dan and Tracy found themselves in a prickly situation.
The very prickly question, as the International Tennis Federation gathers in Orlando, Fla.
In 2015, against the prickly cold of Thanksgiving weekend in Palo Alto, Calif.
To connect to his prickly character, Mr. Esparza turned regularly to his notebook.
And Manfred's prickly responses to challenges to the process only exacerbated the conflict.
Some traditional cultures, however, cook parts of the prickly pear cactus into nopales.
I choose prickly pear, strawberry mojito, mixed berry, guava, and raspberry sour ciders.
A cold prickly feeling stole over her and stood her hair on end.
But he is a prickly nationalist who would have been an egghead anywhere.
When I finished, I was out of breath, my face prickly with adrenaline.
Her prickly husband, Edmundo (the suave tenor Joseph Kaiser), is also utterly indignant.
More than 180 press outlets deemed too prickly to the government have been closed.
He and his father had a relationship that might kindly be described as prickly.
As Dez, the compelling Mr. Dirden is prickly, randy, dangerous and a born gentleman.
This is at the root of Pakistan's addiction to aid, despite its prickly nationalism.
My arms were prickly and irritated, and I couldn't help picking at the follicles.
If you have a pet hedgehog, put the prickly guy down and read this.
Clinton addressed prickly topics with each world leader, according to aides in the room.
If he were only worried about climate risk, Sayer said, he'd plant prickly pear.
Kubrick, prickly at the best of times, insisted Sagan never talk to him again.
A porcupine can be a pretty easygoing pet — but it can also be prickly.
It also risks inflaming prickly relations between Airbus and one of its government shareholders.
But the focus here never strays far from the prickly friendship at its center.
Adams was warm and ardent with friends, prickly and argumentative with rivals (and friends).
Occasionally Alicia Florrick, the prickly lead of the original series, is mentioned in passing.
At its best, it's cool, clear and prickly, with a rich taste of minerals.
Beneath its humorous veneer, it is a prickly, confrontational story about identity and belonging.
She isn't afraid to make Alma prickly and weird and sometimes a total jerk.
I wanted to look as barren, independent, and prickly as I felt deep down.
Maybe some of it has to do with Heigl's prickly reputation within Hollywood (definitely possible).
Hey, if you were an alpaca, you'd be wary of the prickly potato creature, too.
But his Russia is more of a prickly, meddling power than a global, transformative one.
There is also a prickly pear cactus, which is native to parts of the Northeast.
One little radio station had become a prickly thorn in the side of the militants.
Liberal Pakistanis like to stress that the country was not always so prickly about faith.
But while public reception was warm, the band had a prickly relationship with many critics.
I loved prickly teen sleuth Veronica, with her hard-as-nails exterior and marshmallow heart.
Or is she a whimpering pretender whose prickly exterior belies a soft, anti-feminist core?
Without being too sweet, the flavor of the prickly pear overpowered any taste of alcohol.
All blanketed in cholla, barrel cacti, other prickly flora, and increasingly reliable cell phone coverage.
People are in a prickly mood today; communication is rough, so think before you speak.
It is never long before the President's communications become prickly and personalized, combatively thin-skinned.
This persistent sense of threatened white identity raises a prickly question about the country's direction.
He seemed utterly unprepared for the prickly questions his team knew were coming his way.
The fat pads of the prickly pear cactuses were practically iridescent in the low light.
And in this new book, Chute seems aware of — and prickly about — these particular signifiers.
"It's no secret that she and Charles have had a prickly relationship at times," Lacey adds.
In one area, they ate all the leaves from blackberry stems but left the prickly bramble.
Well, maybe not that last one—nobody likes a prickly upstart who's overly full of themselves.
Other prickly matters under discussion will include trans-Atlantic trade and tariffs, Russia and climate change.
Draymond Green, Jordan Bell, JaVale McGee, and Kevin Durant were prickly, unafraid of the referee's whistle.
There's a prickly tension to the pairing that gives the whole film a nicely knotty propulsion.
Free from sanctions, Iran is likely to remain prickly, no matter how moderate its parliament appears.
And, yes, the prickly topic of Trump's decision to leave the Paris climate agreement came up.
Yet with regional stars realigning, Indian pride has grown less prickly and American prejudice less smug.
Ordóñez, even before things curdled in New York, was wary and prickly and difficult to know.
Earlier today, we found out that Starbucks is now selling a Prickly Pear Frappuccino Crème beverage.
Starbucks explained in its official press release that prickly pears taste like tropical melon and berries.
It's a gorgeous piece of hazy pop music with simultaneously (often surprising) prickly and aching lyrics.
Just don't raise the prickly question of whether there is a platter in a chicken's future.
Once you passed Rukorera's plot, the path disappeared and you had to walk through prickly scrub.
Like many in these prickly times, my first thoughts about the killer's motive turned to politics.
Instead, we encounter a prickly, shy, arrogant, imaginative, contradictory, curious, confused, melancholic, ambitious and restless heroine.
That resulted in songs like the prickly blast of pop-decomposition "Windows and Walls," premiering here.
Post-punk conventions—brittle bass, prickly leads, foreboding drums—are stretched to almost painfully slow pacing.
It's unrelenting cyberpunk techno trash, all prickly grayscale ambience and blunt electronics, stabbed into cyborgian flesh.
Ms. Friedman had written for "House" and "Sherlock," and likened Hayes to those prickly, flawed leads.
Julia Bullock, her voice warm and her presence daringly prickly, is a richly complex Kitty Oppenheimer.
But Joe is a relief — funny, prickly, human — and the film could use more of him.
The dramedy stars the pair as friends in Los Angeles navigating unaccommodating colleagues and prickly relationships.
And he coaxes Nora, an odd new girl who oozes negativity, into shedding her prickly exterior.
She was prickly and suspicious, upset that I had left her property to visit the Heathens.
Especially in the prickly relationship of Ani and Eddie, it suppresses sentimentality like a lead apron.
Sondheim had a knack for embedding plot in lyrics and a playful, prickly sense of language.
" Morse, Marilyn Stasio wrote, is "the most prickly, conceited and genuinely brilliant detective since Hercule Poirot.
One Eye-PA was brewed with honey and prickly pear at Karbach Brewing Co. in Houston.
His outward demeanor can be prickly, too — he often chides reporters for questions he doesn't like.
At 52, I felt a little prickly about it myself, but also in need of information.
At 52, I felt a little prickly about it myself, but also in need of information.
In Hebrew, the word SABRA also refers to the prickly fruit of a species of cactus.
I made do with the Behmor, which makes incredible coffee but had a prickly relationship with Alexa.
It's the prickly sensation when you hear or see something soothing, without having to physically touch it.
But it's also unfortunately the latest chapter in Serena Williams's tumultuous, prickly history with the US Open.
After all, they are notoriously prickly about outside interference in anything, but particularly about their capital markets.
It's also got prickly pear, a natural brightener, which makes it a workhorse for my acne scars.
There's also the prickly question of whether the companies that investors want most are accessible to Equiam.
Hobsons had brewed a new ale, "Old Prickly", and the village bakery supplied spiky loaves of bread.
The more severe kind of heat rash is called miliaria rubra, or "Prickly Heat," Dr. Rogers says.
But if this comedy is as prickly as a cactus spine, it is also about as thin.
"It might not catch quite a lot of people who feel prickly or private," says Mr Parris.
His foreign policy initially appeared prickly: he blew up neighbours' fishing boats and executed foreign drug dealers.
The Berry Prickly Pear had a similar nostalgia factor, as it too uses mango créme Frapp base.
Wu is forty-three, with short, spiky hair, a strong jaw, and an air of prickly bravado.
The first drink is called the Prickly Pear Frappuccino and the second is the Pineapple Mango Frappuccino.
By embracing identity and its prickly, uncomfortable contours, Americans will become more likely to grow as one.
"China is much more prickly about international interference into domestic affairs than the U.S. is," Himes said.
Though Hardwick is often presented as one of McCarthy's best friends, in reality the bond was prickly.
Historically, the North Koreans have even been prickly with critical benefactors like China and the Soviet Union.
" As for what to expect from North Korea, Clapper said, "They are sensitive, prickly, opaque and unpredictable.
They grew in the middle of the rocky path next to the prickly pear, Tennessee's native cactus.
International efforts to save the neighborhood have been limited, for fear of further offending the prickly Algerians.
"Where I can get prickly, Wray, is if I'm just called a sci-fi writer," she said.
Naïve, stubborn and prickly, she gravitated to animals and the Yorkshire moors, where "Wuthering Heights" is set.
The disciplinary proceedings arising from the Switzerland-Serbia game, however, present a more prickly problem for FIFA.
True to form, her prickly personality was on full display when it was time to say goodbye.
Despite the prickly response, Moon repeatedly cited the birthday messages as evidence that not all is lost.
And the prickly relationship between Trump and many House and Senate members will be the first test.
He tended to come prepared, data at hand, although he could be prickly and awkward at times.
Naïve, stubborn and prickly, she gravitated to animals and the Yorkshire moors where "Wuthering Heights" is set.
Purists may focus on the prickly new orchestrations (by Alexander Gemignani) and iffy singing (by almost everyone).
Maybe Kim Tribbeck, a prickly stand-up comedian whose first-person narration forms parts of the novel.
On the other hand, though, issues around your home and family could make you a little prickly.
The reception to the tower at 2100 Bowery, designed by the architect Peter Poon, has been prickly, however.
Halszkaraptor had a long, thin snout full of short, prickly teeth perfectly suited for holding onto wriggling fish.
It's not surprising that a kinship with such prickly origins could be brokered with Nuytten at the helm.
A shrewd dealmaker, Liew is described by many as prickly and outright abrasive in his critique of entrepreneurs.
"The opening of the sweat glands can also get clogged, causing irritation like prickly heat," Dr. Tanzi says.
If American elites really do act like vampiric idlers, shouldn't the rest of us be a bit "prickly"?
As the name suggests, people might feel itchy or prickly sensations on their skin, and get red bumps.
In recent months a rapprochement has also been brokered with the prickly President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey.
He's a bit of a surly character that would probably get along well with the prickly George Lucas.
The blunt ends made it seem coarse and prickly and having to dig out ingrown hairs became routine.
The D.C.-based sound artist's sole release on Bandcamp is sharp, prickly, and gleams with a surprising beauty.
In part, the Kremlin's prickly response may be precisely because Putin is notoriously secretive about his private life.
All that elucidates the prickly tone of the announcement this week by the ruling Holy Synod in Athens.
A Western public-relations firm, Burson-Marsteller, has been brought on to coach prickly Russian officials in charm.
An Instagram user named disneycalifoodieadventure posted a photo of the prickly pear drink that's available in the park.
It was designed as a pop record, to not be a prickly difficult record like the first two.
On the $5 banknote, these are the Prickly Moses wattle and a native Australian bird, the Eastern Spinebill.
The thorns, unlike the roses from which they came, remain taut, prickly, ready to nip at your skin.
Lupe's cow's-foot soup was made with pieces of stomach, Puya chilies, and dried prickly-pear-cactus fruit.
Prickly pear seed oil is incredibly soothing and healing, which makes it the perfect foe for dry skin.
That definitely overlaps with thinking musically about triangle waves versus sine waves, and prickly sounds versus smooth sounds.
The increased media attention, however, has led to some prickly and opinionated analysis of their style of play.
Working with a Chicago house template, "Pala" conjures a lush atmosphere around its concussive, brittle, and prickly pulse.
Huggable Hedgehog Cooling + Heating Pad, $22This not-so-prickly hedgehog is the perfect companion for a cold day.
Some Russians, the prickly-haired man included, saw Mr. Trump as an American presidential candidate who could help.
Sautéed mushrooms and flecks of prickly jalapeño sheathed in more of that buoyant cheese was one rewarding ensemble.
Mari's own sense of guilt was what fueled a lot of what people perceived as prickly in her.
A bubbling pot of tender fish and ethereal tofu in a prickly chile sauce will stay with you.
My face gets prickly at first and then, depending on the severity of the emotion, full-sunburn red.
Basics Never has there been a better time to appreciate the gritty, bizarre charm of these prickly natives.
This slow build releases the prickly, belly-bloating bubbles of carbon dioxide, leaving a smoother, less filling brew.
The travel-sized Bioderma Hydrabio Brume works well to soothe the prickly itching and lives in my handbag.
But the White House is largely leaving the prickly task of managing the Senate Republican Conference to McConnell.
But some Democratic primary voters are starting to press candidates for answers to some of those prickly questions.
Julia is a prickly protagonist, myopic and judgmental in a manner befitting an intelligent but self-absorbed teenager.
The nominees' missing paperwork comes at a particularly prickly time for relations between ethics office and the incoming administration.
In response to questions from Democratic senators, he was prickly and evasive on the subject of his past drinking.
It's an answer that could be crucial to your relationship, but prickly to bring up on a first date.
Bolivia has natural challenges - too much rain, other chemicals in the mix - as well as a prickly investment environment.
For farmers in northern India there are few affordable alternatives to burning the prickly stubble left after harvesting rice.
Twitch streamers deal with prickly expectations when it comes to disclosing their relationships, whether they're dating someone or not.
A hashtag called #HandsOffSomalia has become popular among Somalis prickly about what they see as infringements of their sovereignty.
But South Sudan, a country still less than a decade old, is especially prickly about threats to its sovereignty.
Madonna and Guy Ritchie's custody battle may stem from their prickly past, but there's some teenage defiance involved, too.
She began lying on the ground, seemingly ejected from a red vehicle, surrounded by smoke and prickly pine leaves.
Poland risks becoming like Turkey, a prickly ally important only because of its strategic location, says a Washington insider.
But there is most definitely a perceived value, which is why rich people can get prickly over these rankings.
"The Bare Necessities" — the unforgettable earworm about chilling out and eating prickly pears — soundtracked the trailer, sung by Murray.
Still, issues such as steel and aluminum dumping and other prickly issues weren't on the table in this round.
And Meg's pain, prickly intelligence and bravery in the face of Camzotz's evil have all made the transition intact.
The drink is finished with another layer of berry prickly pear fruit puree for a beautifully layered blended beverage.
Sibling relationships can be a delicate dance, and when money gets tossed into the equation, they can get prickly.
Kohan has a deep, occasionally prickly aversion to even a hint of censorship, which goes back to her childhood.
Bonds seemed to shed that prickly exterior over time, along with the physical bulk that characterized his steroid use.
Yet Ms. Headley's Shug is also fiercely vulnerable, on prickly guard against those who might discover her soft spots.
A year earlier, the couple had started exporting dried prickly-pear-cactus fruit and other local specialties from Hidalgo.
By the end, however, it seems less urgent, because Stefánie's prickly, particular humanity comes to overshadow concern about categories.
That opening is promising — quick, textured, with a sense of place and a reliably prickly performance from Mr. Thornton.
"Tart, bright prickly pear meets floral hibiscus in this refreshing, spritzy rosé beer," it wrote in a press release.
This film is equally absorbed by its prickly protagonist, but there's a noticeable uptick in warmth this time around.
And a leaderless and rudderless Germany plunges the protracted and prickly EU-UK Brexit negotiations into even deeper uncertainty.
" Squarespace, "Calling John Malkovich": "slated for the first half ... shows a prickly John Malkovich calling the owner of JohnMalkovich.
Teenagers are fascinating and prickly, and movies and TV shows about them are among my favorite fictions out there.
He has detractors, who say that he can be more self-consumed and prickly in private than in public.
So the studio buys the pigment from families who farm the prickly pear cactuses that host the parasitic insects.
With a prickly, attenuated tone, he plays in little diving gestures, often wrapping his phrases around a crooked peg.
That's our Thom, a man who lives to tease with prickly paradoxes and to undermine expectations — his and ours.
Most of all, though, he seemed to relish the controversy that his wealth, power and prickly personality brought him.
The movie, perhaps without intending to, demonstrates that one needn't be a prickly person to be a wonderful artist.
If you're experiencing a prickly feeling of familiarity — of fairy tale scaffolding — along comes Andrea, and right on time.
Earlier in the night, a personified cactus, Prickly Pair, was wheeled into the ring in a giant terracotta pot.
He was a natural alpha dog who burned with ambition; he could be prickly, sarcastic and full of himself.
The troupe of players Hamlet requisitions is accompanied by an onstage accordionist, for a sound appropriately rustic yet prickly.
Perhaps the biggest risk of an escalation lies in the impulsive and prickly natures of Kim and Trump themselves.
Heizer was a decade younger than most of the artists at Max's, and his prickly ambition sometimes rankled them.
Prickly and intense, this Jerome Robbins ballet concerns a female-dominated world where acts of violence are everyday occurrences.
The prickly Hoover had numerous enemies — deserved and undeserved — during his career as director; one that spanned eight presidents.
In the small and prickly world of music journalists, Mr. DeRogatis, 225.8, stands out as especially cantankerous and contrarian.
The limelight, at least in the early hours, was squarely on Mr. Rock and prickly questions of race in Hollywood.
I wouldn't say it was an isolated incident, and there wasn't some prickly moments, but there was a deep respect.
After a color treatment, Baum follows up with a nourishing mask, like Christophe Robin Regenerating Mask With Prickly Pear Oil.
They know that the phenomenon is connected to memory, and they it often comes with that prickly feeling of premonition.
" This New York Post headline takes a jab at the incident, saying "Prickly Don rips below belt jab -- size matters.
PA Romanian business Dacia, giving him experience of working in a former Communist bloc state and dealing with prickly unions.
And it's already feeling prickly about the environmental outcry against fracking for natural gas—the exposés, the documentaries, the protests.
The Berry Prickly Pear and Mango Pineapple Frappuccinos arrive Tuesday, just in time to celebrate the official start of summer.
The plot was weedy and wild, the Sémillon grapes we'd be harvesting sharing space with prickly blackberry bushes and tarweed.
And although Lou had a tough and prickly exterior, she grew close to her boss, who became a lovable mentor.
And she shares what can best be described as a prickly relationship with her college-aged daughter, Brianna (Sophie Skelton).
The Prickly Pear mask seemed to have a cloudier essence than the other masks, but that didn't make a difference.
She earned her spurs as India's commerce minister when she led some prickly negotiations at the World Trade Organization (WTO).
And he commonly felt the cold and tingly or warm and prickly sensation of neuropathy in his hands and arms.
It will be the anxious Albus's first year, and like his dad, he is a proud, prickly and sensitive plant.
Naïve, stubborn and prickly, she gravitated to animals and the Yorkshire moors, above circa 1940, where "Wuthering Heights" is set.
For decades this remarkable writer delivered prickly, sophisticated and somewhat unearthly fiction about good and evil and sex and morality.
"Things are going to get weird," he grins at you, before sluicing some Doom Bar beer past his prickly lips.
John Berger and Susan Sontag once engaged in an affectionate and slightly prickly televised debate on the purpose of fiction.
Anger and fury ran like thick, prickly threads through the rough blanket that covered my father's side of the family.
He exemplifies that prickly bit of our psyche that yells profanities at cars that cut us off on the highway.
Trump's prickly response — firing the FBI director and boasting about it to the Russian ambassador — set the Mueller investigation rolling.
Prickly pear, green ginger and mugwort extracts moisturize, omega-3, 24.95 and 9 fatty acids boost skin's collagen and elastin.
The replacement sparrow nest was prickly, while tree swallow nests are lined with feathers and as soft as a boudoir.
Wonderfully, the bubbles look the way we sometimes feel — that prickly frisson — when we sense we are accessing the uncanny.
Her exegeses are prickly and acute, the Helen Vendler-meets-Patti Smith grad seminar you wanted but never quite got.
As her Thursday day care provider, I was used to her routines and preferences, but not to this prickly behavior.
With a quick rush from the ant, it's all over, and the springtail is pitifully pinned in the ant's prickly jaws.
The stiff denim and heavy leather are basically armor, just like Jessica's prickly attitude, but they're also meant to be functional.
We hosted a prickly debate between the two Democratic contenders, and later, Obama followed up with a visit of his own.
PRICKLY nationalism is trending in the rich world, but in South America's two biggest countries the talk is of partnering up.
His appointment as national-security adviser, retired General Mike Flynn, is a prickly character given to conspiracy theories and Islamophobic rhetoric.
That puts a lot of responsibility on the actors' shoulders, and Mr. Holmes and Mr. Keeso work the prickly dynamic smartly.
Corals are made up of multitudes of tiny polyps, and each one—like their jellyfish cousins—has a prickly, venomous sting.
It's a tough life for a koala during Summer, especially if you happen upon a particularly unfriendly patch of prickly burrs.
Morrissey, for his part, has never made any secret about his prickly nature (he even wrote a song about it, "Unlovable").
However, the tone of the report and some of its assertions struck many people as defensive and a little bit prickly.
In recent years, prickly women have led stories as varied as Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Homeland, Young Adult and Gone Girl.
The car bounced and jittered along the road, sending pale dust and pebbles flying amid scruffs of agave and prickly pear.
The virtual reality film chronicles the story of Henry, a cute little hedgehog that loves to hug despite his prickly spines.
The proposed ban caused outcry among farmers who rely on glyphosate heavily and quickly became a prickly issue for the president.
The machinations of the Jacobite uprising and the prickly dynamics of the Scottish clans have never been interesting on their own.
Yet that prickly view of fatherhood is what I kept coming back to as the fizz of the movie faded away.
Almost a hundred years ago, Virginia Woolf wrote an essay, prickly with barbs and wounded pride, about the latest American fiction.
President Trump's stunning decision to fire James Comey on Tuesday has transformed the Democrats' prickly relationship with the former FBI director.
It was a private company, run by the notoriously prickly billionaire who founded it and ruled as its president and CEO.
But he has also proven to be prickly when asked about personal shortcomings, including the possible affair with the former reporter.
His movies are talky, intimate to the point of claustrophobia, and populated by characters that can be charitably described as prickly.
The surprise is that after they remove its prickly head, it is revealed to be a woman and not a man.
Ms. Kamman thought herself the more authentic French chef and was prickly in her estimation of the American-born Ms. Child.
He endured three years of often prickly collaboration with Mr. Trimble before resigning to care for his ailing wife, Gertrude Mallon.
Over all, Mr. Pettibon's art has the prickly, manic feel of such rants, and like them, it rarely achieves smooth resolution.
A prickly problem CABI estimates that without management, 70% of Kenya's natural pasture will be lost to various invasive plant species.
Like other authoritarian leaders, Mr. Erdogan has been a firm ally of the United States and a prickly critic of it.
I eased my head carefully into a gap in the prickly leaves and, to my surprise, scared up an actual bird.
Well they have some prickly issues to hash out first — specifically Dwight's murder of Tara's girlfriend and past abuse of Daryl.
" Their mother had a vicious, unpredictable temper, and often beat Niki's younger sister, Elizabeth, "with the prickly side of a hairbrush.
This time, no one was stung by the arachnid, but the flight was grounded, making for some prickly passengers, no doubt!
During his prickly hearing, Mr. Mnuchin played down his omissions as innocent errors that were the products of cumbersome government bureaucracy.
When Zelda and Townsend share the news that a Hollywood career is in the cards for her, he becomes prickly and petty.
I want to create objects which slightly disturb with their very existence but make one feel a prickly sensation in the stomach!
She gave us a woman who was prickly and sarcastic and unlikable, and she told us that Jane deserved our respect anyway.
She's a descendant of Gossip Girl's Blair Waldorf and Gilmore Girls' Emily Gilmore, another queen in the canon of intense, prickly perfectionists.
Rajpal, though considered by some to be prickly or difficult to deal with, is one of Goldman's most successful private-equity investors.
Patton Oswalt makes the most of his likably prickly nerd persona as Penn, a pizza guy who's obsessed with solving cold cases.
His skittish, prickly, armed imagery, most evident in "Umbral" (28), prefigures the formal edginess of the weaponized letters in Rammellzee's Gothic Futurism.
They followed the vine-strewn trail, hacking through prickly branches that had sprouted overnight, to emerge at the rim of the pit.
And the violence and gore are mitigated by a prickly sense of humor; one sequence even has Deadpool shot in the butthole.
Jughead and FP definitely make this episode memorable for how they bring such detail to their prickly emotional landscape as a family.
The only notable difference was in slurping up a separate sip of the berry compote portion (made from strawberry and prickly pear).
This new Doctor, prickly on the outside but still as caring as ever, gives us an opportunity to find some common ground.
Osorio's relationship with the Mexican media has been prickly due to his frequent experimentation with the squad since taking charge in 2015.
Finally, the Super Fruits Collection includes Prickly Pear and Watermelon masks with niacinamide for brightening and sodium hyaluronate for added hydration, respectively.
But after Uzbekistan's dictator of almost 30 years died in 2016, his successor, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, abandoned prickly isolationism in favour of engagement.
I just wanted to get it out as fast as possible, because I knew the feelings were prickly and raw and fresh.
In most cases, the allergic response is limited to hives—the pale, prickly rash most often associated with allergic and autoimmune reactions.
Two dozen Afghan women in their early 20s, dressed in camouflage uniforms, trudge through prickly thistle plants under a nearly full moon.
As a "nation of immigrants," one with a relatively modest welfare state, the United States should be safe from these prickly questions.
Ahmed notes that the two concepts are rooted in a primordial tribal impulse to wall off familiar locals from (presumably prickly) outsiders.
She was impressive in the least exciting song of the musical, her solo, "Cooties," and gave Amber a high-pitched, prickly spirit.
Entitled Sonoran Depravation, the nine song album reflects the prickly intermingling of genres and cities, raw with emotion and a pervasive ferocity.
Now Mr. Byford could be on his own, without someone to help him navigate the prickly task of working with Mr. Cuomo.
That has the convenient effect of reconnecting characters who haven't seen one another in ages, some of whom parted under prickly circumstances.
Yet his relations even with Democratic lawmakers were often so prickly it was hard to remember that he was not a Republican.
Like the rose, every woman in the Crellin-Preaker clan has her petals and her thorns: Camille is prickly but psychologically fragile.
Crime Sara Paretsky's prickly private eye, V. I. Warshawski, could make a good living if she'd stick to her specialty, corporate fraud.
The next question, of course, is how this will go over at Winterfell, which is already a pretty prickly place these days.
The approach yields a kind of formal lucidity that is constant from his prickly early music through his more inviting recent works.
It was that kind of whiplash between sports-induced euphoria and the prickly reality of politics that seemed to define this season.
"If Nafta were functioning properly, you wouldn't be having these kinds of very prickly, very unfortunate developments back to back," he said.
The notoriously prickly Steve Jobs accomplished the rare feat of reviving a faltering technology company, but he also was a rare commodity.
Is she the prickly, acerbic, neurotic weirdo, or the girl next door in the sheath black dress and the bland rom-com?
Desierto de la Tatacoa, in southwest Colombia, is a disorienting badland of prickly pear cactuses and wild goats, trenches, crags and bluffs.
SABRAs compare themselves to the fruit, which "has a prickly exterior and a soft interior," as a way of describing that perseverance.
Sometimes these prickly and smooth charmers are ex-cons; on occasion they're soldiers ("The Dirty Dozen") or veterans (the original "Ocean's Eleven").
The scenery in the video alone is a spectacle, a reference to the the short, prickly, cactus-like Joshua trees in southern California.
When asked if the two sides could come together on a bill, Roberts, a Republican from Kansas, used a rather prickly wildlife analogy.
The Clippers, eternal little brothers, may want to be loved, but their style, their history, and their prickly personalities, simply won't allow it.
He says his father -- Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr -- had become too much of a prickly thorn in the side of Saudi Arabia's rulers.
The prickly Dutchman had, two days before, won the FA Cup (England's oldest knock-out competition) after just two years in the job.
Dan Moyer's "Half Moon Bay," for Lesser America, is a sweetly caustic survey of contemporary relationships, pleasantly prickly until it turns unnecessarily serious.
Strong winds, with gusts topping 50 mph, have been blowing the prickly plants into neighborhoods in the High Desert town of Victorville, California.
Mr. Kasich, who has shed his prickly pre-campaign reputation for sunniness on the trail, appeared to enjoy the extra attention on Monday.
The worst of this prickly autocrat may now be unleashed upon Turkey, with America and its allies able to do little about it.
That's according to multiple current Googlers, who would rather not use their names because Google gets prickly about even that sort of stuff.
There's bits that sound like shoegaze, passages that play like misty new age records, and prickly, atonal passages that are straight up noise.
Deerhunter formed in Atlanta in the early years of the 2000s, originally the prickly, punkish product of a collaboration between Cox and friends.
Nourished by freshwater bogs, a carpet of poison ivy, Virginia creeper and prickly cat-brier helps anchor the trees' roots in the sand.
They choose to see Alison's whiplash mania as high-spiritedness, and extend her their friendship—no small thing for this prickly, lonely woman.
The lower elevations look like what most people assume all of Texas looks like: scrubby flatlands light on trees, thick with prickly things.
According to Pongsudhirak, relations with UNHCR are generally stronger with "democratic governments, and more prickly and contentious under authoritarian and junta-led" ones.
He makes 400 Tunisian dinars ($140) a month selling prickly cactus fruit from a wooden barrow he pushes round the streets by hand.
Dreyfuss occasionally tried to play avuncular father figures in the '90s and 2000s, but he's always been a touch too prickly for that.
The colorful illustrations look like retro linocut prints, while the hand-drawn text brings to life the atmosphere of panic in Prickly Valley.
But his continuing search for zénitude does not necessarily jibe with the prickly attitude that has helped propel him to his biggest triumphs.
Her work offers the reassurance that we are all as bad and as good, as prickly and as resilient, as any Evensong attendee.
Rather, it's a white billionaire with a prickly reputation (to put it mildly), whom Diane has a history with: Colin Sweeney (Dylan Baker).
But there was a prickly scorn from some that deserves a response because it reflects an ideology that underlies so many failed policies.
As Leonard is rarely heard, and George — who also is now injured — can be prickly, Rivers takes the role of the lightning rod.
Panera is also offering three drinks with no added sugar — Iced Black Tea, Plum Ginger Hibiscus Tea and Prickly Pear Hibiscus Agua Fresca.
Cactus pear, also known as prickly pear cactus, can grow in the driest and most degraded land where no other crops will grow.
Baltics Journal RIGA, Latvia — In the Baltics, there may be no war on Christmas but there's a pretty prickly one over the tree.
But after her book on Lauder wasn't well received, her career began to fizzle which was also in part due to her prickly personality.
To this end, much of her work features actual pieces of cactus, a symbol of razed villages where nothing remains but the prickly vegetation.
Ms. Coutts writes like she sings, which is to say her tone is not beautiful or especially rich, but prickly and a bit wild.
The prickly cutie is gaining traction on Instagram as her anonymous owner takes her on various road trips and snaps photos everywhere they go.
" For the Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin, Sanders is "prickly," seducing voters with the "rhetoric of an angry populist not actually grounded in reality.
The half-mile to the arch was snow-covered and wound past prickly bushes, boulders, frozen puddles, cactuses and dead-but-still-standing trees.
He has a prickly track record with Clinton, who he accused of instigating December 2011 demonstrations against him while she was secretary of state.
They were Chiang Kai-shek, China's prickly and reserved leader (that page-200 critic) and Zhou Enlai, the urbane but two-faced Communist representative.
But we also cluster together in communities of taste that can be as prickly and polarized as the other tribes with which we identify.
And Gross and his real-life wife Martha Burns play the warring, brilliant, prickly stage veterans whose romance has real pain at its heart.
But this has always been the essence of The Kills and what they do well: cool, prickly indie rock, with a side of menace.
Prickly heat, otherwise known as heat rash, isn't just an excuse that your mom used to lure you into the shade as a child.
Though Twitter is often informal, a president's use of it—particularly the prickly Trump—may thus complicate the line between official and unofficial statements.
The full interview on Jones's website contains barbs for social justice warriors and a prickly defense of free speech involving the Ku Klux Klan.
Both are cities that have been abandoned by Uber after their governments passed laws seen as onerous by the famously prickly ride-hailing service.
Randy Danson is a commanding Alice, Arielle Goldman brings an appropriately prickly angst to Marnie, and Martin Moran is a one-man Greek chorus.
The second thing is they don't like the rule of law, he said, referring to the administration's prickly relationship with the FBI and CIA.
The situation was especially prickly for Yahoo because it is in the midst of selling its core business to Verizon Communications for $4.8 billion.
Managed trade in the United States is mostly a manifestation of crony capitalism (leavened by the prickly and capricious ego of our current president).
Aislinn's counterpart is the novel's narrator, Antoinette Conway, a prickly officer on the Dublin Murder Squad, who becomes personally caught up in the case.
Australian Defense Minister Marise Payne expressed regrets and promised a thorough investigation of the row, which highlighted the sometimes prickly relationship between the neighbors.
Robin's eponymous hair care line relies on ingredients often found in healthy diets and skin care regimens: regenerating prickly pear, antioxidant blueberries, purifying sage.
As much as they'll witness his undeniable talent, they'll also get a taste of his personality, both guarded-unto-prickly and goofy as hell.
Michael Caine plays Ebenezer Scrooge as a prickly, wearied old man parachuting through eras past, present, and future under the guidance of various ghosts.
The ensuing discussion should be an ideal venue for any artist with questions about these prickly issues or with their own story to share.
The opening finds the distracted and prickly Alice (Samantha Bond) eager to cancel the dinner party to which she and her husband, Paul (Mr.
At the same time, from privileging matter and form alone, his sculptures are prickly with ideas, some in the form of perturbing conceptual ambushes.
Reading the flood of public writing about #MeToo in recent years — the op-eds and testimonies — I'd occasionally experience a prickly feeling of recognition.
" Access is a prickly subject as old as Hollywood, or at least as old as the end of the silent era evoked in "Wonderstruck.
Candidates can be prickly about their personal space, particularly at a high-stakes event with the potential to either elevate or diminish their campaigns.
The play had won the Pulitzer Prize in 1990, and Mr. Wilson by then was known for being prickly about interpretations of his work.
The section also had prickly pears, cherimoyas and delicate zucchini blossoms that caught his eye on the way to a pile of green bananas.
His previous album, "Yeezus" (2013), was a brilliant collection of prickly, squelching songs that seemed designed to vet rather than expand his fan base.
I remember July sun pouring down in a prickly meadow, and a garter-snake skin aid out like fairy lingerie on a stone wall.
The core elements of the premise — rogue tentacles, prickly villains, a found family and swoon-worthy romances — are familiar to aficionados of genre entertainment.
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.
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.
It closes offering a challenge to the artist and his listeners to reach out and engage each other in prickly conversations about race and privilege.
The prickly and heated exchange, at the end of an otherwise predictable Sunday talk-show appearance, sparked speculation of some deeper issue between the Conways.
Labor relations are prickly in Argentina, where muscular trade unions routinely butt heads with private companies and the government over the scale of pay rises.
Mr Trump, who is as prickly and ignorant of global affairs as he is admiring of generals, might not find him easy to work with.
The prickly fruit is found throughout the region and is known for its overpoweringly putrid smell, though it is regarded as a delicacy by locals.
Koracick (Greg Germann) is a little prickly with Meredith about being in the hospital after the article she wrote... until he learns why she's there.
When asked by New York Times reporter Carol Vogel whether he was effectively exploiting his museums for commercial gain, the collector gave a prickly response.
This all came to a head over Valentine's Day weekend 2016, when I confronted him about acting prickly about the subjects of engagement and marriage.
So does a long propensity, striking in a state with such a prickly nationalism, to play up its geopolitical importance in return for foreign aid.
She finds her Miranda Priestly in the form of Emma Thompson's Katherine Newbury, brilliant but prickly host of a long-running late-night talk show.
Arya's no longer the prickly, aggressive little girl she was, and she seems to instantly recognize and appreciate the significance of the Red Woman's appearance.
The prickly prizefighter was trying to get into the Voodoo nightclub with his crew Friday night when he was stopped at the door by security.
The more time it spent on prickly coder Cameron (Davis) and frustrated wife turned tech impresario Donna (Bishé), the more the series found its strength.
That jar of brewer's yeast spread, for example, is a nod to Liam Hemsworth's homeland; the prickly fish is for her pet puffer that passed.
Citing sources familiar with the matter, the Journal reported that Apple was extremely prickly about excessive violence, sex, or foul language in its various products.
It arrives as a nicely prickly oblong and sits in the hand as if nothing's there, leaving the barest shimmer of oil on the fingers.
Most of the people who worked with him agreed that, while he could be prickly, he was respected, sociable, and well-liked among his colleagues.
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The fossilized poop also contained evidence of Dasylirion fibers, related to the asparagus family, and Opuntia, a cactus more commonly known as the prickly pear.
Its an hour-plus of prickly feedback, unsettled noise, and cacophonous instrumental breakdowns (a few of the bleak bass drones almost sound kinda doom metally).
Last year the studio won an Emmy for its animated short Henry, a Pixar-esque story about a prickly hedgehog that loves to give hugs.
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.
Meeting in a coffee shop downtown, they are intimate, teasing, comfortable, prickly — people who were once passionately bound and maybe thought they always would be.
While the show has plenty of distinctive characters, it centers to a large extent on the prickly relationship between Mia and Elena Richardson (Reese Witherspoon).
But at the college level, where the mere mention of headgear can ignite an especially prickly debate, headgear sales have been met with more resistance.
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.
It got a little prickly on Capitol Hill during a House panel hearing this week that aimed to tackle how best to regulate autonomous vehicles.
Come early for katsu sando, a deep-fried Berkshire pork cutlet, prickly with panko, sandwiched between slices of shokupan (Pullman-style bread enriched with milk).
Kazianis said that this situation is a major challenge for China, noting the country has always been "in a very prickly position" with North Korea.
But despite a thoroughly engaging and interdependent ensemble, which conveys the prickly intimacy of longtime acquaintance, "Significant Other" ultimately talks too much and too explicitly.
It scratches the itch left by Boardwalk Empire, and by all shows and films about prickly morality and criminal antics that hide in plain sight.
His relationship with the complex and often prickly Mr. Cooper came to an end around 20013, at which time Mr. Richardson went to New York.
For friends, he often cooked mafe, which can be as thin as broth or magnificently creamy, sweet with tomatoes or prickly with Scotch bonnet peppers.
Certainly, there are no dog masterpieces on par with something like Édouard Manet's "Olympia" (1863), which features a very prickly (and symbolically charged) black cat.
Another enigmatic piece is Philemona Williamson's painting "Prickly Pear" (22002), in which two sexually ambiguous young people (both appear to be female by their hair styles, but the figure on the left is dressed boyishly, with a slingshot slipped inside a trouser fold, while the other wears a white bra on the outside of a summer dress and holds a prickly pear gingerly in her right hand.
Head-splitting synthesis and organic instrumentation swirl around one another in pleasantly prickly arrangements, competing for your attention across the big black background silence and void.
Retinols and alpha-hydroxy acid resurfacers didn't make my skin feel prickly or look red — and nearly everything in the line rings in at under $50.
Until now, Maure has been running Renault's Romanian business Dacia, giving him experience of working in a former Communist bloc state and dealing with prickly unions.
Instead, Roseanne's prickly opinions take a backseat to Becky Conner (Alicia Goranson), now a grief-stricken widow, and the close of her shockingly emotional surrogacy storyline.
Mr Trump, who is as prickly and ill-informed about global affairs as he is admiring of generals, may not find him easy to work with.
Remember that it's all about balance — striving for perfection is a nice idea, but it's also an excellent reminder to be comfortable with our prickly areas.
He succeeds Stephen Harper, a prickly Conservative, who in ten years as prime minister conducted an ideologically charged foreign policy at odds with Canada's multilateralist traditions.
Chinese children generally eat the same food as adults with the exception of chilies and prickly things like fish bones, which is how I grew up.
An artillery officer in World War Two, Heath was very private and was widely regarded as an awkward, prickly man with little gift for small talk.
Behind this prickly picture is an A-list actor with a 5 o'clock shadow ... can you guess the Hollywood hottie with the terribly transformed facial features?
He was and is notoriously prickly, but you'd catch him during a match with an unbidden grin on his face over a good move or exchange.
This morning, we woke up to confirmation that the Berry Prickly Pear and the Mango Pineapple Frappuccino Crèmes are now available, just in time for summer.
It turns out that Sierra Nevada flavored the beer with the fruit of the prickly pear cactus, a particularly regional augmentation that we thought worked well.
But Congress's decision to punt the funding fight another two weeks means lawmakers will have to contend with a host of prickly issues right before Christmas.
They may be cute -- if prickly -- but lab tests in an ongoing investigation show that pet hedgehogs are probably to blame for a multistate salmonella outbreak.
The Severn family paid $230,000 for the "Prickly Pear House" that was featured in season 4 of the show and allotted $145,000 for the Gaineses renovations.
In my attempt to image queer kinship I acknowledge the beautiful parts, the prickly parts, the radical parts, and the parts that have long needed fixing.
She is a prickly, defensive, immensely charming narrator, and the story of both her past trauma and her slow recovery in the present is deeply compelling.
The hunger for Ms. Polley's return now, fair or not, may also stem from her engagement in the past with prickly social issues that remain unresolved.
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.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has had a prickly relationship with Mr. Obama, has made clear to associates that he is overjoyed at Mr. Trump's ascension.
By the time the first match began—Sister Patricia Pistolwhip, a devious, bloody nun, versus Prickly Pear, the potted plant—the crowd was dense and rowdy.
An assertive and increasingly nationalistic Indian state has limited patience for the solidarities of the past; the very suggestion of racial intolerance draws a prickly response.
Smart and King have such an instantly prickly chemistry that putting them onscreen together gives the show a whole new set of tools to work with.
A morsel swiped in the dark red sauce, lightly numbing with prickly ash and roaring with fried chiles, finds you speed eating like a cartoon character.
Writer Steve Orlando and artist Fernando Blanco have struck a winning balance between soulful tenderness and prickly wit to create a relationship that aches and breathes.
That the director chooses to rest the prickly heart of his cinematic ambitions in a dark-skinned black woman, Lupita Nyong'o, makes it even more meaningful.
These prickly charms are said to protect seafarers from storms and other perils, but they did not ward off the misfortune that struck the town last spring.
A tweet from the brewery's official account dating back to November 2018 describes the ale as "sticky prickly pear and floral hibiscus with a subtle hop profile."
In the clip above, Dr. Antin walks you through how to calmly and safely cut down your cat's prickly paw points like the brave owner you are.
So prickly is the atmosphere in Birmingham that if a white non-Muslim of any ideological hue were to make that argument, defensive hackles would immediately rise.
Its petrified remains give scientists an unprecedented view of what this prickly dinosaur looked like, which could tell us a lot about the world it lived in.
In the fifth song, the poetic image "a robin will tune his bells" is captured with squalling brass effects, prickly high-pitched sounds and frenetic internal rumblings.
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.
In that film, which is set for theatrical release on November 17th, he plays a sweet small-town local with a crush on Frances McDormand's prickly protagonist.
But when Atkinson began gently brushing the critter's fur with a hairbrush to remove the plethora of prickly burrs stuck on it, the marsupial was won over.
You've got two prickly pears: Hardy, who's always mildly gruff, in Venom, and Cooper, who literally changed his voice for the movie, in A Star is Born.
The situation of Kevin Garratt, a Canadian man who has been jailed in China for the past two years on suspicion of spying, is another prickly matter.
He can still be just as ornery and prickly and demanding about his concepts while playing his stars 34 or 36 minutes a night instead of 40.
Then, as I drove through the night with a prickly awareness of my vacant backseat and my high beams lighting the road, we spoke of the stories.
The apparent reason: Chinese leader Xi Jinping is prickly about comparisons between him and the lovable cartoon character, who has become a symbol of the resistance there.
But Mueller's team is running into trouble; the famously prickly judge in the case, U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III, has been lashing out at the prosecution.
There's squelched songs about miserable come-downs, headrush romances, a whole lot of prickly guitar octaves, and a full-throated cover of a Get Up Kids song.
Coincidently, the afternoon after the introduction of this beverage, we found out that Disneyland has it's own prickly pear drink, and it too is pretty and pink.
Yes, he was flawed (we all are); and true he could get prickly (blame it on the Washington heat), but he genuinely had great hope for us.
In the post, the employee explained that his manager had misplaced the Prickly Pear and Mango Pineapple recipe cards and wondered if someone could share a copy.
Despite being roughly the size of Britain or France, it has often adopted the prickly and unambitious stance of a medium-sized country towards the European Union.
Interviews with more than two dozen current and former colleagues paint a portrait of a meticulous, conservative lawyer with a tightly wound and introverted, sometimes prickly manner.
Its new president, Sebastian Coe, who received Diack's electoral stamp of approval, is back to answering prickly questions about what he knew and when he knew it.
His liberal United National Party (UNP) pursued a range of policies, from post-war justice and reconciliation to fiscal reforms, that angered Mr Sirisena's prickly, nationalist followers.
In the bewilderingly complex consumer world, it can sometimes be hard to see the woods for the trees when picking the prickly centerpiece of the festive season.
He was prickly when his taxi pulled up in front of my apartment building in New York for the trip to J.F.K. and our flight to Athens.
He let me scoop him up with two hands; his belly was warm and soft and his spines weren't any more prickly than, say, Zayn Malik's scruff.
In fact, however, what we have is the inspiration of a lower-watt muse, a muse of prickly heat, a muse of stuffy classrooms and busted thermostats.
Half a mile farther down the road, skirting the fields alongside a stand of prickly pear and acacia trees, Mark W. spotted something out to the right.
The sunflower is the tall, gangly cousin of the complicated, prickly artichoke, and as we all know, she does not even try to disguise her black heart.
For Germany, the aim of this week's state visit in Berlin, officials say, is to normalize prickly relations with an important NATO partner on Europe's southeastern flank.
But Bolsonaro has sparred with global powers over the blazes, which number over 80,000 this year — in particular during a prickly G7 meeting in France this week.
Gamers are viewed as prickly and highly vocal — whether or not that stereotype actually holds, seeing as gaming now attracts such a large and diverse fan base.
It's a peek into the origins of "the queen of hell," a reminder that everyone suffers in their own ways, even those who project a prickly exterior.
When she is prickly, when she is aggressive, when she is reticent, when she is open, when she is distant, he does not police or lecture her.
The U.S. has already removed itself from the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), it is in very prickly negotiations over NAFTA and the ultimate target is clearly China.
But what really made him prickly, I suspect, is something that went unsaid: That you think their schools are lousy, so you left for private, greener pastures.
Once again, it has to do with the Higgs boson being a prickly customer that does not like to make anything easy for the people who study it.
One considerate hedgehog owner, wanting their prickly buddy to be comfortable at all times, bought a piece of aluminium sheeting to cover the floor of the hedgehog's playpen.
At other times, she was written as if her feminism was a kind of false-consciousness alien imposition, making her act belligerent and prickly in spite of herself.
Safer told a CNN interviewer that he and prickly colleague Mike Wallace, who died in April 2012, were sometimes "like scorpions in a bottle" before their relationship mellowed.
Despite successfully confronting her nemesis Kilgrave at the end of season one, Jessica (played by Krysten Ritter) remains as prickly as ever — and just as fond of whiskey.
When speaking to Baier and MacCallum, however — or, in a couple of moments, directly to the Fox News-watcher-in-chief — Sanders was as prickly as you'd expect.
Once again, he has a saintly black character (Murphy, as the titular Mr. Church) devoting decades of his life to caring for a prickly, spoiled, privileged white character.
Indeed, there is no recent historical evidence to suggest that being prickly, insulting or threatening is a good way for presidents of either party to get things done.
" And in more irony, Gingrich then questioned the often prickly Kasich's temperament for the job, saying, "People instinctively want a president to have a certain kind of stability.
In this period, Debussy took up a second career, as a music critic, delivering a stream of prickly, contrarian opinions that seemed almost designed to increase his isolation.
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.
Ireland enlisted the help of a burly guy friend to load the prickly plant into the back of a truck, which eventually made its way to her doorstep.
The news of another royal baby would probably make Anushka Le Charnay (Marthe Keller), the prickly Romanov descendant in Matthew Weiner's new Amazon series The Romanoffs, quite happy.
I had guards breathing down my neck, prisoners demanding free haircuts every five minutes, and I felt disgusting, covered in prickly hair that stuck to my sweaty skin.
It's an area not known for wine, but for wheat, and for the fruit of the prickly pear cactus, which is farmed in rows like any other crop.
Their housemates seem like millennial cartoons, the type most shows would turn into satirical mincemeat: improv comics, a "body-positive Instagram influencer," a prickly Black Lives Matter activist.
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.
For sports media, it was a way to grin in the face of the prickly existential fear they'd lived with ever since social media forever changed their industry.
And in large part, that's thanks to its heroine: prickly, sarcastic, unlikable Jane, who is furious with the world and furious with herself and who nevertheless demands respect.
In a quiet corner of Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, the arrival of a young, beautiful Australian, Naomi (Emily Browning), tests the relationships among two groups of complicated, prickly people.
Hoping to go out with Bianca, new student Cameron James (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) hatches a convoluted plan to get Patrick Verona (Heath Ledger) to date the prickly Kat.
The lusty combination of salt, fat and prickly paprika has yet to make it onto the menu, mostly because Mr. Batista is still working on a clever name.
"I've seen Martha get prickly as many people can, and he has this wonderful ability to defuse the situation," the interior designer David Kleinberg said of Mr. Sharkey.
But some tech companies were prickly when I asked them the same questions I had put to my students about the potential consequences of the companies' education efforts.
Which brings me to a third stool that Mr. Jacobs (who also directed and helped to write the smart, adorably prickly HBO series "Doll & Em") could have claimed.
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.
No matter what your living situation is, there's bound to be some little leafy, prickly or viney creature hearty enough to withstand even the least green of thumbs.
" His Dickinson is "a prickly, funny, freethinking intellectual, whose life is less a chronicle of withdrawal from the world than a series of explosive engagements with the universe.
As portrayed with prickly, self-questioning charm by Ms. Morgan, Dee comes to acknowledge that the rules of those games are more than partly shaped by men's fantasies.
The Secret Place's sweet people-pleaser Stephen eventually finds his match in prickly Antoinette Conway, and The Secret Place becomes the story of the forging of their partnership.
Meanwhile, Kate and Toby are trying to figure out how to be parents to baby Jack, and Kevin is attempting to usher prickly Uncle Nicky into the fold.
He noted, however, that while Bloomberg does not wilt when he comes under attack, he can have the reverse problem, being a bit too prickly in his responses.
In fact, his love of a good time not only has been noted, but is also a source of contention in his prickly relationship with the news media.
Over coffee in the Rio Grande Valley, a nonbinary friend told me that the region's L.G.B.T. people remain as hardy as the prickly pear cactuses of South Texas.
But we're just as likely to associate her name with a prickly, gold-digger recluse with a string of doomed romances, and an unnaturally close relationship with her mother.
With that cheering thought, many a glass of Old Prickly was raised to Major Coles, and to the movement he had started with his egg-pan and his sticks.
"She taught me so much," says Kathryn Sermak, who served as the prickly two-time Oscar winner's personal assistant off-and-on from 1979 until Davis's death in 1989.
In doing so, her work poses prickly questions: Do these creatures exist in order to emerge as something separate to fantasy or reiterate that we are living in one?
President Trump touring the USS Gerald R. Ford in March (Photo: AP)The president's confusing, concerning, and ultimately crazy week continued on Thursday with a prickly Time cover package.
" But "when speaking to Baier and MacCallum, however -- or, in a couple of moments, directly to the Fox News-watcher-in-chief -- Sanders was as prickly as you'd expect.
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Some Democrats say this is just a ploy by Sessions to avoid answering prickly questions about Russia in the open, so they're pushing for him to testify in public.
But where other would-be mentors have failed, Hewitt, Australia's Davis Cup captain, has proved the most successful in coaxing the prickly young talent back into the national fold.
The visage of a prickly testosterone gauntlet where a girl could get seriously hurt if she let her guard down started to melt into something, less nefarious—wholesome even.
Lee's task is to pursue the seemingly irreconcilable objectives of nudging Trump to stay engaged positively with Asia while at the same time avoiding offending an increasingly prickly China.
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.
It leans so hard on the family angle that conversations spin out into stock phrases rather than prickly realities, and whenever we pull back, things go out of focus.
Chancellor Angela Merkel met Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Warsaw to discuss the tensions in their often prickly but strategically important relationship.
We're eight and a half million people crowded into a one-bedroom apartment, so we tend to be prickly about our 12 to 18 inches of personal body space.
The Briton has praised his team mate for bringing a new harmony to the team after a prickly time with Rosberg and emphasized how well the pair get on.
Whereas Durant came off as prickly and unwilling to answer questions in Oklahoma City, he's appeared a lot more transparent and keen to talk after moving to the Bay.
This is all to say, that we don't have a really good grip on the truths of this situation, except for one: Jimmy Butler is...let's call it prickly.
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.
But as was demonstrated last year by her acclaimed "Cost of Living," a cleareyed portrait of two prickly souls with severe physical disabilities, Ms. Majok doesn't host pity parties.
Sichuan peppercorns, the dried seed pods of the prickly ash, are actually not a kind of pepper, but a spice that delivers tongue-tingling heat with a citrus accent.
They seem to skirt the prickly confrontations that come with adolescence — though Anna is, in the way of so many teenagers, a master of casually if affectionately withering condescension.
Much of the students' prickly nationalism gets vented on social media, often anonymously, and then snowballs as it is picked up by news sites and internet users in China.
Ms. Holt and Mr. Joseph both give prickly, believable performances, but they have to spend a lot of time in the early going arguing, explaining and having prophetic visions.
The United States and Canada have been working on a long-term deal to manage the softwood lumber trade, a prolonged prickly trade issue between the two economic partners.
But the rhetoric surrounding his coronation was geared to ratchet up enthusiasm for the governor, who is dealing with an unexpectedly prickly challenge from the left from Cynthia Nixon.
CreditCreditMary Inhea Kang for The New York Times Mention the word "math" and visions of high school arithmetic, thorny trigonometry and those prickly calculus derivatives often come to mind.
For Trump, who has long boasted of his independence from political donors, it's a move that may affect his relationship with the Mercers, a notoriously prickly father-daughter duo.
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.
In the end, they found something subtler — not a homoerotic breakup or compensatory explosions of machismo but a prickly, tender document of a teenage parting, its own small tragedy.
A sitcom can skirt the tough stuff: no Heck ever uses bigoted language, or talks immigration, not even Mike's prickly hermit of a father or his socially awkward brother.
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.
For Casaus, this often involves stacking visually distinct levels of, say, prickly cactuses and wispy flowering bushes, or branchy ornamental trees and soft grasses, against a balustrade or facade.
Strict by-laws for nightlife, high cost of living, and little support for arts and culture have all factored prominently into Vancouver's prickly reputation for artists of all varieties.
She demonstrates how a prickly shrub called Oplopanax horridus, or devil's club, can be used to treat a wide range of ailments, from coughs and colds to stomach ulcers.
The statement concludes with MoviePass acknowledging a "rough patch" in its early enterprising stages, which is entirely valid and much more palatable a fact when not dripping with prickly disdain.
Mr Modi has done nothing to stifle a growing culture of intolerance in India, not just towards Muslims, but towards all critics of the prickly nationalism that the BJP espouses.
This was evident in China's prickly response to a recent documentary made by the BBC and National Geographic, which suggested that China's famous terracotta warriors in Xi'an showed Greek influence.
While I definitely encountered a few prickly personalities, there were only a few people who I felt truly uncomfortable with — one confessed herself to be a psychopath during the interview.
SAN FRANCISCO — Travis Kalanick, the famously combative chief executive of Uber, took the stage at a Vanity Fair conference in San Francisco last October and quickly faced a prickly question.
It's the sort of movie—prickly, outwardly unlikeable, and more than a little mean in ways endearing and less so—that would go out of its way to mention that.
His insistence on separation from the Party may be partly temperamental—though born in Brooklyn, Sanders has the demeanor of a prickly Yankee—but it also reflects his underlying commitments.
Tacos — one of barracuda poached in clarified butter, another of slow-braised short rib — are anointed with sinigang, a tangy tamarind soup, and turned prickly with perforated curls of chicharrones.
It's a climate perfectly suited to the island's primary inhabitants — bright green lizards that scatter over the parched landscape, scampering from one prickly bush to another whenever we walked past.
Although known for her prickly wit, amply displayed here, Wasserstein, who died in 2006, was also deeply interested in how individuals navigate the social and political currents of their times.
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.
Ronan brings life and depth to the prickly title character, and Laurie Metcalfe's portrayal of Lady Bird's sharp-tongued but wounded mother is one of the year's best supporting performances.
Coconuts Jakarta called it a "viral sensation," and reported that people are lining up at the only shopping center where it's sold to take a selfie with the prickly produce.
Among the discoveries were the higo, which usually means fig, which are what you think they are, but can also mean the prickly pear cactus fruit, green and egg-shaped.
She has no interest in cultivars "bred for uniformity and performance," preferring plants with hardscrabble souls, capable of cruelty, such as the prickly species of greenbrier known to draw blood.
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.
Performed outdoors, Nono's usually prickly "La Lontananza" — in which the violinist moves around the playing space, with prerecorded electronics manipulated in real time — became an unexpectedly charming pied-piper spectacle.
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.
He has smoothed prickly attitudes by agreeing to cooperate with the workhorses of the 70-year-old American-dominated Bretton Woods system — the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank.
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.
In a prickly exchange with The Fresno Bee, Mr. Nunes assailed a reporter for asking whether he would be holding any town halls or public forums in the near future.
By that time Mr. Ebert, whose archness felt a bit forced early in the show, has settled into a prickly confidence that's well matched with Mr. Sears's finely tuned petulance.
SAN FRANCISCO — Travis Kalanick, the famously combative chief executive of Uber, took the stage at a Vanity Fair conference in San Francisco last October and quickly faced a prickly question.
Dancing wood sprites (including a singing trio: Hyesang Park, Megan Marino and Cassandra Zoé Velasco) prance around in curiously ornate costumes, with frilly foliage skirts and headdresses of prickly twigs.
In the scripted series, Witherspoon, 43, plays a prickly broadcast reporter committed to uncovering the truth of a network-wide cover-up and an unsafe office culture perpetuated by silence.
Great Hill is hardly the first to flail with this prickly pack of media assets, which were originally part of the Gawker bankruptcy before spending time under the Univision umbrella.
The elder Six, who is 71, is known in cultural circles as both a deeply private man (he declined to be interviewed for this article) and a somewhat prickly one.
Meanwhile, her prickly hostility toward the CIA calls to mind none other than the man who will step into the White House just a few days after season six premieres.
This last aspect drives "Brexit," a snappy if unsubtle first draft of history that centers on Dominic Cummings (Benedict Cumberbatch), the prickly consultant who managed the "Leave" campaign to victory.
The tweet was a reminder of the thin-skinned, prickly version of Trump's character that may be acceptable in a candidate but which infringes the decorum expected of a President-elect.
She was approaching 0003, had made a fortune from co-founding and running VMware for 10 years, suffered through a prickly departure, and was enjoying life working with a few friends.
An encounter at a group therapy session, where even another troubled soul struggles to penetrate her prickly exterior, lays bare both her despair and the more unpleasant aspects of her character.
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Platinum's infamously prickly co-founder Hideki Kamiya wrote on Twitter that working with Taro on Automata "saved" the studio, which had been struggling through the cancellation of Xbox One-exclusive Scalebound.
The film followed a cute Pixar-esque hedgehog who loved hugs despite his prickly spines, something that grew complicated when presented with a crowd of balloon animals at a birthday party.
Her performance alone would be reason enough to embrace the film, and the supporting cast is tremendous— particularly Jenkins, with his prickly fussing, and Michael Stuhlbarg as a sympathetic Russian spy.
People may find you more aggressive than usual at this time, but it's just that you're back to being yourself after weeks of feeling lethargic, overheated, prickly, and just plain irritated.
The meet-and-greet at the Wild Life Sydney Zoo also included a visit with a prickly pet echidna, whose coarse hair and spines resemble those of a hedgehog or porcupine.
Hopefully, another prickly presidential election result tally isn't needed to embrace our election system as a critical national infrastructure, do more to protect it against threats, and make it more participatory.
He shared the lead going into the final round before being undone by a prickly gorse bush he found with his ball at the sixth hole, leading to a double-bogey.
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.
Video But Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team is running into trouble as the famously-prickly judge in the case, U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III, lashed out again at the prosecution.
For Resident Advisor's ongoing mix series, that means moving from a Peter Gabriel hit, through EBM, brittle post-punk, and an acidic mix of "Need You Tonight," among other prickly treats.
When Murphy entered the industry, he sometimes struck his peers as an aloof, prickly figure; he has deep wounds from those years, although he admits that he contributed to this reputation.
I would have come back every day for prickly pear fruits peeled at a roving cart, and avocado-and-milk smoothies at the World of Juices stand just outside the wall.
And so, with every death comes a quick cascade, prickly sound tumbling to the floor, an overture, the scream of your friend and then, as quickly as it began, a silence.
Renault's relations with Nissan have been prickly, to say the least, since November after the Japanese authorities arrested Carlos Ghosn, the longtime chairman of the alliance, on suspicion of financial wrongdoing.
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.
As he walks the halls of the Capitol, often surrounded by reporters — he once famously referred to the news media as "my base" — Mr. McCain is his usual irreverent, prickly self.
"Breath," set in the 1970s, tells an appealing, familiar coming-of-age tale about a boy and his friend who, as innocence gives way to prickly adult complication, take divergent paths.
Hero is difficult and prickly, qualities shared by Roni, who loses a tooth in a scrap at school (to her glee), and Rosalyn, a new friend acquired practically against Hero's will.
Prickly and ready for a fight, he had a turbulent history with Ackman dating back a decade, when a joint investment led to a lawsuit that was resolved in Ackman's favor.
" A prickly observer of language, he notes that "an important class divide falls between those who feel veneration before the term executive and those who feel they want to throw up.
Its combination of slightly cruel humor and affectionate sweetness feels a little like hanging out with a prickly but loving relative — making it destined for many more decades of Christmas viewing.
Prickly, judgmental Jane Eyre, the protagonist of the Charlotte Brontë novel of the same name, is not, perhaps, the most intrinsically lovable heroine of all time, or even of the 19th century.
In the video for their prickly single "Stimulus for Living" the droll Leeds punks elucidated the whens and the whys and the particulars of their formation and their motivation as a band.
A few miles below were thousands of families who had hauled their winterpale bodies across the sea and stripped down to bathing suits, their skin shy and prickly in the first waves.
The prickly and ambitious Mr Uribe, who would run again for president if the constitution allowed him to, is unlikely to have been delighted by the accolade bestowed on his political foe.
The incoming chief of the armed services, General François Lecointre, will have to get to grips with that—after he completes his first job: reaching an understanding with France's prickly young president.
At last I could ingratiate myself with my wife's famously prickly grandfather and uncle, two stoic Midwestern-types who view new technology with the same skepticism they direct toward the mainstream media.
While Dr. Samolitis classifies the sensation of the laser as a prickly heat, Suzy reports straight-up pain — and asks the derm to pause treatment at one point in order to deal.
After Boehner criticized his fellow Republicans' prickly nature while speaking at Stanford University on Wednesday night, The Friendly Atheist blog reached out to the Satanic Temple for their thoughts on the matter.
Antoinette Conway, the wonderfully prickly and hardboiled cop who narrates The Trespasser, has the power of the state behind her, but that power makes her unlikable to many of her male colleagues.
Their negative reactions may affect the therapeutic process, so they have to respond in a way that benefits the patient, managing their own prickly emotions regardless of how hard that this sometimes.
Otra Vez may not be the most faithful representation of a true German gose, achieving its unmistakable briny bite with the aid of the native prickly pear, but who gives a damn?
He's particularly touching during a scene in which a rattled Molly, who's become prickly about Kevin's increasing involvement in Lil's work, reaches a little too enthusiastically for the cocaine he brings out.
To say that Ms. Lloyd's take on "Shrew," the most notoriously prickly of Shakespeare's depictions of love as a battlefield, is not as subtle as those earlier ventures is putting it mildly.
In the latest batch of "Comedians" episodes, he hangs out with Jerry Lewis in an episode taped prior to the prickly star's death last year, Dave Chappelle and Alec Baldwin, among others.
As for the Watermelon mask, it had a more potent scent than the Prickly Pair but my skin was plumper after a half hour, which I attributed to the hydrating sodium hyaluronate.
I've heard the same argument from various other people in my life — my boyfriend, my brother-in-law, and my best friend from college, all get prickly when it comes to subtitles.
Each of the four pieces remains strangely indiscernible — soft, fragile, and sinister, they are made of steel pins edging out from soft silk netting like prickly stubble to form tromp l'oeil creases.
One of the signature cocktails is a prickly-pear drink made from the juice of cactus fruit — known as "tuna" in Spanish — sourced at Mercado Hidalgo, the famed farmers' market in Tijuana.
On Taiwan, the most prickly and potentially dangerous of these, both Congress and the Trump administration demonstrated a renewed, even expanded, American commitment to the security and enhanced status of democratic Taiwan.
In the kitchen, we most often peel back their tough, prickly outer leaves to enjoy the tender heart atop pizzas and pastas, in salads and as additions to so many dip varieties.
But known to be prickly, he resigned the next year after conducting the original version of Prokofiev's opera "The Gambler"; among other issues, he complained of being treated unfairly by Moscow journalists.
On the balcony, to Xi's right, was the politburo's reigning propagandist, Wang Huning, a former professor who once travelled the United States and honed a prickly theory about dealing with its people.
But he was a devoted family member; a reliable friend (the prickly Emerson leaned on him in times of personal crisis); and a favorite of children, with whom he spent much time.
The company seemed hesitant to point the finger at a prickly customer — Lion Air — that had several billion dollars' worth of orders on the table and could withdraw them at any time.
Maps and apps To monitor the success of the insects controlling the plant, Loisaba is using drones to map the spread of the prickly pear in areas inaccessible by foot or vehicle.
Maybe Frankie will grow up to be a writer as well, the reader thinks, and churn her despair into something prickly and profound, a line to walk out of pain and loss.
Rounded barrel cactuses have low surface area, relative to their succulent storage capacity, while columnar cactuses or prickly pears expose only their thin edges at the tops or sides to direct sunlight.
China and the U.S. resume trade talks Thursday in a prickly atmosphere, and strategists say the best outcome could be a postponement of the next round of tariffs but not much else.
With references to childhood television, literary classics and current politics, they have the prickly, manic buzz of interior rants made public, an impression amplified in the artist's tour de force Twitter feed.
From the start of his 2016 presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders was prickly about race, uncomfortable with an outspoken, demanding blackness, resistant to letting go of his preference for discussing class over race.
Despite his notoriously prickly style and hawkish reputation, Kim Yong Chol's visit to New York is ultimately a promising signal that North Korea is serious about the Kim-Trump summit, analysts said.
Shanahan went in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee on June 20 for his confirmation hearing, which included several prickly exchanges with McCain, who at one point threatened to block his nomination.
Immigration remains a prickly subject in Japan, where cultural and ethnic homogeneity remain deeply rooted even as the population shrinks and companies grapple with the worst labor shortages for more than four decades.
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.
D&G's announcement about the collaboration states that each of the new products will be decorated to reflect Sicilian folklore and will include important symbols such as lemons, prickly pears, and acanthus leaves.
While this prickly behavior can wreak havoc at home, it's a child's way to try to gain control over something that they can't control at all: no longer being the center of attention.
It was a revolution we didn't want but maybe needed all along, shaggy bedhead everyman Chris Martin mewling our prickly feelings for us when we're too caught in the moment to articulate them.
"If people are to survive in these ever harsher conditions, their crops need to withstand drought, high temperatures and poor soils," it said, adding that the prickly pear was ideal for such conditions.
But the water heater worked well, and I was able to take a relaxing, warm shower in the drizzly, 50-degree weather, right next to an enormous prickly pear cactus on the hillside.
Canadian officials are in Washington this week with hopes of striking a final updated deal by Friday, even as prickly issues remain, after the United States and Mexico settled their differences last week.
His comments highlighted the resistance that proponents of a closer and deeper EU - notably French President Emmanuel Macron - are likely to face from one of the bloc's most prickly and nationalist-minded members.
Newton, who won the 2015 N.F.L. Most Valuable Player Award, is known for outlandish outfits at news conferences and for having a personality that can go from charming to prickly in an instant.
Yet while I admire campus activism for its commitment to social justice, I also worry that it sometimes becomes infused with a prickly intolerance, embracing every kind of diversity except one: ideological diversity.
The new book contains dishy insights into Latouche's drinking habits and prickly behavior with such cultural eminences as Kelly and the poet John Ashbery, both of whom have died since they were interviewed.
Prickly pear cactus — $80 Philodendron Brasil — $65 Monstera — $150 Hedge cactus — $175 Mojave cactus collection — $80 Fiddle leaf fig — $195 Peperomia watermelon — $35 Dracaena Warneckii — $195 Philodendron Brandi — $35 Ficus little fiddle — $65
Mr. Wuorinen, who won the Pulitzer in music in 1970 at age 21971, composed works for major orchestras including the Boston and San Francisco Symphonies while maintaining a prickly yet charming public persona.
She's as likable as unlikable protagonists get, a prickly loner who never met a person she couldn't quell with a scathingly hilarious insult, but whose judgmental nature is clearly hiding a wounded core.
I took my dog to the emergency room twice in one month thinking she had broken her ankle when in fact a prickly little sweetgum ball had gotten lodged in between her pawpads.
And with Google indicating it has no reluctance to square off against Sonos in court, the case could be a fascinating look into the prickly relationship between gadget maker and an internet giant.
Johnson's prickly interview with DeGeneres is actually an uncomfortable mirror of her 503 appearance on the Ellen show, which she visited while promoting her movies Suspiria and Bad Times at the El Royale.
Hungry City 8 Photos View Slide Show ' 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.
Two of the funds involved, Autonomy Capital and Eaton Vance, vowed to fight on and "pursue all avenues", threatening to extend an already prickly standoff with Iceland that has developed over the last year.
The last two to be released were the Berry Prickly Pear Frappuccino Crème and the Mango Pineapple Frappuccino Crème, both of which were made with a mango crème base and layers of pureed fruit.
His insistence on the pendulum-like nature of European history, swinging back and forth over centuries between prickly tribalism and the craving for co-operation, reassures the fearful that today's disunity may prove temporary.
To kick off the darker beers, Mayorga and Heer serve their Roja con Ayrampo, which is a dark malt beer featuring , the seed of the prickly pear fruit, which also doubles as a digestif.
And the worst part is that once I feel my face get hot and prickly, it only makes me redder and more uncomfortable, because it feels like everyone can tell that I'm panicking internally.
Lost in that kerfuffle were The Meyerowitz Stories' many prickly charms, including a nuanced, moving, awards-worthy performance from — brace yourself — Adam Sandler, as the put-upon son of Dustin Hoffman's frustrated, narcissistic artist.
This is nothing but good for the we-love-to-disrupt crowd of tech, because they don't have to contend with all the prickly regulators that get in the way of a good time.
Of course, the two companies have a prickly history—in 2013, the Wall Street Journal reported that Snapchat turned down a $3 billion acquisition offer from Mark Zuckerberg and his army of Facebook drones.
They transitioned away from the more prickly, vibrant sonics that started their career in favor of glassy-eyed pop platitudes, which, obviously, had a pretty broad appeal even if they were less immediately distinctive.
In three-and-a-half months in office, the 45th President has shown that indignation, impulsiveness and a prickly desire to protect his own self image are at the core of his governing philosophy.
Wringing whatever prickly sounds he could from the electronics at his disposal—and spending his high school years digging into the weirder corners of the Warp catalog—he developed a taste for the absurd.
The show veers back to more familiar terrain with the prickly relationship between Bates' free spirit and her MBA son Travis (Aaron Moten), who has his own ongoing flirtation with a coworker (Elizabeth Alderfer).
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.
For all their long-standing and prickly tensions over Kashmir, including several outbreaks of war, India and Pakistan often manage to find effective walkdowns or choreographed face-saving solutions to avoid more costly escalation.
The brewery described the ale's flavor as "sticky prickly pear and floral hibiscus with a subtle hop profile," but it was the name printed on the label that quickly got Guns N' Roses' attention.
Makonnen's had some experience working in this jaunty pop lane before with his old band Phantom Posse, but Fall Out Boy's prickly melodies and Peep's dewy-eyed fatalism add new dimensions to the sound.
Colin, Mr. Barnett's character, is a mass of prickly contradictions: a son of Yorkshire (and a Thatcher-hating coal miner) who has grown up to be an urbane gay Londoner who advises Tory politicians.
For a very different but no less stellar display of clay, visit Geary Contemporary's booth, where the powerful and prickly totems and tangles of glazed ceramics by Heidi Lau are a delight to behold.
During one prickly back-and-forth, Dubelier accused the judge of favoring the prosecution in the case and of reading pre-written rulings from the bench after pretending to entertain arguments from both sides.
" The references delighted fans in the audience, who instantly recognized her as one of the show's characters: Sarah Lynn, a drug-addicted, former child actress who released a highly sexualized single titled "Prickly Muffin.
Whistle-blowers emerge as "prickly and doctrinaire"—under ordinary circumstances, stubborn to a fault—but this is what enables them to place conscience above institutional pressures, often at great personal cost, legal protections notwithstanding.
Aunt Charlotte, a successful artist and wine-guzzling alcoholic, turns out to be gruff, prickly, good-hearted, concerned about Marcus — and corroded by anger at the terrible things her abusive father did to her.
A former prosecutor in the Manhattan district attorney's office, where he worked for 12 years, Justice Burke is known as a prickly but fair-minded jurist with little tolerance for legal showboating or incompetence.
Hungry City 10 Photos View Slide Show ' I have never seen branzino look quite like this, like some ancient, jewel-encrusted weapon unearthed from volcanic ash, prickly with glistening shards, crushed obsidian and olivine.
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.
Eight Republican senators, enraged by the administration's handling of the strike — including the prickly briefings they received from Mr. Trump's top national security officials afterward — crossed party lines in February to support the measure.
The title track starts with the violins in a tentative, prickly dance, before the tenor saxophonist Jason Rigby alights, playing a repetitive melody — unresolved but deeply satisfying — over a bed of strings and horns.
The tour guide handed raw, prickly cotton to some young black students who were part of a group visiting the oldest operating governor's mansion in the country, one that was built with slave labor.
In Vinegar Girl, Kate is a prickly college dropout stuck at home with her scientist father, Dr. Battista, and her spoiled younger sister, keeping house for them and working part time at a preschool.
In a sneak peek at Sunday's episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Khloé is hanging out with her estranged husband Odom when the prickly topic of Rob's upcoming wedding to Blac Chyna comes up.
Think Noah Baumbach does The Royal Tenenbaums: The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) deals with the three adult children (Ben Stiller, Elizabeth Marvel, and an extremely good Adam Sandler) of a prickly patriarch (Dustin Hoffman).
Along with keeping creepy crawlies on hand, Mathis makes sure she keeps her pets happy by never forcing them to pose when they aren't feeling it and by respecting the prickly pair's nocturnal life style.
They would operate "for more than 200 days per year with sugarcane biomass and forestry biomass, basically marabu scrub," it said, referring to the dense, prickly brush that has overrun much of Cuba's arable land.
Fernando brings out platters full of ingredients—tomatoes, tomatillos, garlic, onion, a variety of dried and fresh chiles, and xoconostle (the sour fruit of a native prickly pear cactus)—all lightly fried in olive oil.
It turns out that his prickly misogynistic exterior is just a taste of the deep hatred of women inside the man (at least part of which stems from the beautiful ex-wife we briefly meet).
There is a post office and a white church with a low steeple, which still rises above the prickly pear cactus, live oak and hackberry trees growing on the edge of the Texas Brush Country.
The group seemed to be building a church in a pastoral field but everyone was apparently wiped out by a rather prickly Brotherhood Without Banners contingent before they could explain what they were up to.
Prickly and erratic, he has perceived enemies everywhere — in the press (whose freedom he has stifled), among former business allies, in the secular Turkey that resists his increasingly unbridled attempts to advance an Islamist agenda.
To keep up the pace, Mr. de Blasio is going to have to make a better case to win over worried New Yorkers in gentrifying neighborhoods and to overcome the objections of prickly Council members.
Melissa McCarthy's performance as the prickly author Lee Israel is further proof of McCarthy's status as a force of nature—to be matched only by Richard E. Grant as her partner in crime, Jack Hock.
Coach Kieran Keddle first approaches the project with a reluctance that makes every prickly martial arts master who's ever been approached by a plucky upstart in every martial arts movie ever look welcoming by comparison.
Investors were picking through Citigroup's 7% profit jump and waiting on what could be a prickly G7 finance chiefs meeting in France later in the week, but there was already plenty to get on with.
When a fanatical recent convert to Islam hacks an off-duty soldier to death in the street (echoing the 2013 murder of Lee Rigby), the young men are startled by a prickly feeling of recognition.
Peggy Kinstler said her husband, though affable in the studio, had been confident in his skills even if the subject was prickly or controlling, as was the case with James Schlesinger, Nixon's secretary of defense.
Contrarian and prickly towards criticism, the two sexagenarians have shown they would rather govern for their core voters than from the center, said Sabino Bastidas, director of Pensar Diferente, a political consultancy in Mexico City.
Contrarian and prickly towards criticism, the two sexagenarians have shown they would rather govern for their core voters than from the center, said Sabino Bastidas, director of Pensar Diferente, a political consultancy in Mexico City.
In one prickly moment toward the end of the argument, Sotomayor went after Francisco for suggesting that removing the citizenship question would allow groups to alter the census by "boycotting" any question they objected to.
Yes, we can be a little in-your-face and get prickly, but that toughness usually protects warm and caring hearts within and make us proud to be New Yorkers, whether by birth or immigration.
The work was filmed from a car, and we're moving too fast to take in the whole landscape — mesquite and green-trunked palo verde, yucca and prickly pear, bleed into residential neighborhoods and telephone wires.
Not only can this cause painful abscesses, but the relentless spread of the cactus here is attracting more elephants closer to human settlements where the prickly pests grow, causing a spike in human-elephant conflict.
With an intimidating 14-and-a-half-hour runtime forming a labyrinthine series of six episodes, each a different genre and lacking traditional plots (or endings), this film nestles itself into a uniquely prickly category.
But it's the layers of dissonant, cold embellishments, like the acidic bass line on "After the Fall," from her 2015 album, "Abyss," that have prickly experimentalists and jet-black metal fans flocking to her sets.
Sure, he turned prickly and even somewhat overbearing at times during the most recent debates, taunting Sanders, talking over him and trying to break through beyond Iowa and New Hampshire as the clock ticked down.
Prickly Renata is tough to warm up to, but as the show progresses, she becomes a relatable example of the subtle digs high-powered working moms endure every day, and we have to admire her tenacity.
The move has been both lauded and met with controversy, raising questions about free speech, censorship, and the slippery slope of moral jurisdiction; even Spotify itself acknowledges that the policy presents prickly, complex territory to navigate.
Just as Democrats were able to block Republican amendments during the first two years of the Obama administration, many of the Democratic amendments -- and some prickly Republican ones -- are tossed out of the NDAA every year.
Also on the drinks menu is the "El Camino," a $45 bowl made with Charanda Uruapan Rum, prickly pear, cinnamon, Xocolatl Mole Bitters, and a splash of pineapple that is meant to be shared with friends.
A plus size friend recently told me that she went to get a cavity filled, and the first thing the dentist said to her was the exact question that my prickly doctor asked me at 13.
Working from Adam Mansbach's script, Mr. Gandhi avoids hagiography and instead offers up a portrait of a recognizably real man who's by turns prickly, arrogant and overeager, and who consistently stumbles during his search for self.
"My mother — who could be prickly, absolutely — lived in accordance with her values, and one of her most firmly held beliefs was that diversity always, always, always makes something better," Ms. Mathias said in an interview.
By far his smartest move was to give Ms. Kendrick and Ms. Lively room to create a prickly intimacy for their characters, a bond that's persuasive enough to push the story through its more forced moments.
Much better handled are the scenes in Mississippi, where Tig is forced to deal with Bill (John Rothman), her prickly, demanding stepfather; and Remy (Noah Harpster), the brother she doesn't know as well as she should.
But with the Trump administration slashing assistance programs in Africa just as the Chinese are ramping up investments, he got as prickly a response in Ethiopia to his China-bashing as he had in South America.
The prickly Abigail Brand can't stand her for some reason, and when Rocket Raccoon makes a cameo he's puzzled as to why Carol isn't zipping through space with the rest of the Guardians of the Galaxy.
Michael Holston, the internet sensation famously known as The Real Tarzann, is being sued over a prickly little critter ... a woman claims he's got her pet porcupine locked in a cage and won't fork it over!!!
Ideally, bristles should be soft enough at the ends to not feel scratchy or prickly on the skin, yet feature good rigidity or "backbone" so that they&aposre not too floppy to work up a lather.
I hiked each morning into a landscape that was far removed from anything I'd seen before, where the red rocks stretched into the distance and yellow evening primroses and prickly pear cacti flowered on the ground.
If Barnette's unusual concoctions, such as prickly pear wine and marigold vinaigrette, give him a reputation among locals as a mad scientist chef, then Lebermann, a Texas native, may well be the creative community's unofficial mayor.
The country's most flagrant transgressor of the code of plausible disclaimability is Vigdis Hjorth, whose prickly, persuasive novel " Will and Testament " came out in Norway in 2016, and has just been published in English, by Verso.
Heard at the level of language and the individual breathing and speaking of Ashley as he colors his prickly text with contrary gusts of thinking and feeling, the music is continuously and rapidly changing its mind.
This prickly nature resurfaced more recently when he attended the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner last October with Hillary Clinton in what was meant to be a lighthearted evening of self-deprecating jokes about campaigning.
But as a piece of cinema, I like it a lot: It's a small moment between two prickly characters that shows how each of them has changed, in ways that are almost imperceptible, throughout the film.

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