American relations with Mexico, though much warmer than a generation ago, are still prickly.
He could be prickly, too -- and thoughtful, and bitter, and expansive, and wistful.
The prickly issue of voting reform has proved to be a key stumbling block.
For my garden Adrian recommends planting a pyrocantha, a prickly bush with orange berries.
His smoothness under congressional fire contrasted glaringly with the prickly way Gates handled himself in 1998.
No one knows what's going to happen, because South Carolina takes pride in being prickly.
But as Oscar Wilde reminds us, friendship mixed with human nature can be a prickly business.
Augusta's chairman dodged the prickly issue of women's membership Wednesday, saying it was a private matter.
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Mint julep invoked scorching heat, distant thunder, and the stridulation of crickets in prickly grass.
The local governor, a formidable and prickly man named Yevgeny Nazdratenko, is up for election.
It may sound provocative enough to alienate prickly Americans, without giving Europeans any serious extra firepower.
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It was difficult to warm to a person who was often very prickly in post-match interviews.
This is no hagiography: she could be prickly, stubborn and unsentimental to the point of coldness.
Sasha saw the prickly shape of the bonsai silhouetted against the window near her head.
Through a fug of cigarette smoke, her hosts found her intense, charming, stubborn and prickly.
But this film, with its prickly characters and its complicated plot, rips along with tension and power.
Juniper, a prickly evergreen shrub that grows throughout the northern hemisphere, is the primary flavoring in gin.
Sure, comparing paychecks can be prickly, but staying silent is hurting us where it counts: our pocketbooks.
Will they find it a prickly and defensive place, or an alluring one, full of mysterious surprises?
The reason this time is not the sleaze and cronyism of the 1990s, but Slovakia's prickly principles.
Kritzer becomes more openly irritable as her character wearies of her mother's impaired thought processes and prickly barbs.
Whereas Mr Ramadan comes across as prickly and humourless, Ms Hirsi Ali plays up her glamorous feminine side.
The prickly Mr Arzalluz, whose leadership could now be called into question, says he is merely reconsidering matters.
But the glasses raise another prickly problem beyond price in the drive to get consumers to buy 3-D TVs.
De Villiers warned pre-match that Wales would find their visitors were "prickly pears" and not so easy to pick.
He is humble and not humble, charming and prickly, unruffled and deeply sensitive.
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There, a prickly instability, characteristic of his childhood, re-emerged, perhaps brought on by a rebuff from his landlady's daughter.
Maduro alluded to the United States, with whom Chavez had had prickly relations.
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Reports routinely emerged of prickly relations between Allen and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who did not attend the ceremony.
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Such a compromise would leave other prickly issues unresolved, such as Iran's support for other groups America deems terrorist.
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