Sentence examples for that prick from inspiring English sources

I'm not fully convinced that the material contains within it the stuff of the modern-day Greek tragedy that "Prick Up Your Ears" aspires to be, with a comically dim landlady (Gwen Taylor, ever-agreeable) on hand to lighten the doom-laden load.

Yet it is not just dreams and associations, nostalgic yearnings, that prick my imagination now but hearing of the new achievements of chemistry — a chemistry that, if less personal than the old, has come to embrace the whole world and the universe.

"Hey, if she's collateral in terminating that prick, it'd be no huge loss".

For years, many here and elsewhere have referred to former President George W. Bush as "a dick" or "that prick".

While Richard was already a popular Norman name, that prick Lionheart may have helped put Dick on the map.

What can I do to get this on the right track?" Schmidt: "Get rid of Falco who's a decent guy but knows nothing about the Internet, broom that prick Grant who everyone at AOL and in the business hates, and hire Tim Armstrong.

She encounters sharks, rocks and barnacles that slice, and kelp that pricks like rose thorns.

Khuy comes from the word khvoya, which means "pine-needle," or something that pricks.

But it was photographs of three-year-old Alan Kurdi, drowned on a Turkish beach, that pricked the public conscience.

Now that I am a mother to young children, I recall the encounter with an added perspective that pricks my conscience.

Mr. Singer asks one question, though, that pricks like a cactus: If Duroville is shut down, where will these thousands live?