Sentence examples for she's thorny from inspiring English sources

She's thorny in attitude, often miss-know-it-all, prejudiced against Klingons, and can seem like an impulsive maverick at the expense of lives.

Simone Dinnerstein's recital at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Sunday afternoon was something of a marathon: She began with Copland's thorny Piano Variations, moved with apparent ease through Bach's French Suite No. 5 in G and Schumann's "Scenes From Childhood," and closed with Beethoven's Sonata No. 32 in C minor, all without an intermission.

Though deeply gratified to have these new documents of Kapell's artistry, Dr. Dehavenon cherishes memories of many performances that, she assumes, were never recorded, including accounts of Schubert's A major Sonata, Mozart's Concerto in G (K. 453), Chopin's First Piano Concerto and Copland's thorny Piano Variations, a work both she and her husband loved.

Margaret Thatcher coined the phrase TINA because she was convinced that the demise of the Soviet Union meant that she and Ronald Reagan had solved all of human history's thorny questions.

It's safe to say that when the Metropolitan Opera presented its premiere production of Arnold Schoenberg's thorny opera "Moses und Aron" in February 1999 the company was not responding to a groundswell of public demand for a staging of the work.

Lasting relief came with Balanchine's thorny, sexy "Stravinsky Violin Concerto".

Hagar's thorny tenacity is a key to her longevity.

Jennifer Chu gave a powerful performance of Leon Kirchner's thorny, torrential Piano Sonata (1948).

But the "plot" is no more than the men's thorny emotional connection and their mutual fixation on death.

Experts believe Taiwan's thorny relationship with Beijing may also prove a severe challenge for its new leader.

The heroine of Shakespeare's thorny play is a convent novitiate, the rigidly principled Isabella, dressed in austere bridal white.