After a short drive up the hill and a wearying search for a parking space (a thorny fact of life in San Francisco, as certain as fog off the bay), we wandered down into the cacophony of Stockton Street.
Taking action by finding and using public space sidesteps the thorny, and frankly depressing, issue of what has been lost.
Restaurants, universities and other public spaces, increasingly conscious of thorny issues around gender and bathrooms, are also more likely to have unisex toilets.
This raises a thorny question: Does the collection deserve so much space?
But the rose has a thorny personality, so the Prince flies through outer space, where he realizes there are millions of roses on Earth.
Leibniz's argument is clever at the outset: he bypasses the thorny problem of determining whether Newton's idea of absolute space commits him to thinking of space as a substance a view, incidentally, which Newton explicitly considers and rejects in De Gravitatione (Newton 2004: 21 2)—by presupposing only that Newton thinks of space as existing independently of objects and their relations.
But if the man can be as thorny as the brambles in England, where he has a farm, his spaces, often designed in collaboration with the people who will use them, can be eddies of calm.
It has a spreading habit with slightly pendulous thorny branches, but you can slowly prune it into a shape that fits your space.
To judge from their program at the Thalia Theater at Symphony Space on Monday evening, they seem drawn mainly (though not exclusively) to the thorny, post-tonal side of the repertory.
It would be open for a while, and then there'd be sections so thick with thorny vines tearing at our clothes that we couldn't see each other, even though we were spaced no farther apart than you and I are, right here in this room".
