Sentence examples for a certain piquancy from inspiring English sources
There's a certain piquancy about that.
"That should add a certain piquancy to the proceedings.
The peculiar air of desolation adds a certain piquancy to the evening meal at Vine.
Watching conservative Republicans tout the views of union bosses — bosses of public-employee unions, no less — has a certain piquancy.
This adds a certain piquancy for the viewer, who must ponder the ramifications of killing off one's own mother onstage.
Last week's announcement by the Home Office minister, Fiona Mactaggart, of a zero-tolerance approach towards street prostitution has added a certain piquancy and immediacy to my research.
"Hope I die before I get old" (a line included in the sixty-second version) has a certain ironic, shamefaced piquancy now that the spokesmusicians for the sixties are in their sixties.
The German instrument (with a tiny reed) survives in Russia; though capable of a certain refinement of tone, it lacks the piquancy and sparkle of the French oboe.
A certain pattern emerged.
