There was some spikiness, after the initial breathless plaudits?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellie Goulding's summer of love] Reference

His straw-coloured ring of cropped hair had an unruly spikiness, recalling the child.    From Wordnik.com.  [His Disposition] Reference

But too often these days it is the memory of his spikiness that lingers after contests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cesc Fábregas risking his and Arsenal's reputation with petty battles | Dominic Fifield] Reference

The Yuccas look good – the spikiness provides an excellent contrast to the solid blue of the pots.    From Wordnik.com.  [December Foliage « Fairegarden] Reference

My first impression of Crystal's sharp spikiness had been right only as regarded her outward appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Penalty]

Yuki Numata seemed unfazed by the spikiness and visceral power of its solo line, and she often made it sing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tanglewood Festival: I Hear a Symphony (at Last) - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

However, even the suggestion of spikiness and its definitions sent a charge through me when I read this thread this evening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spikysmooth Clusterchicks | clusterflock] Reference

By contrast, Benjamin Britten's Missa Brevis in D, sung by the women, suggested the quirky-sassy spikiness of the composer's French contemporary, Francis Poulenc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rodney Punt: Bridges to Somewhere: Master Chorale Embraces Worlds in Los Angeles] Reference

From Flickr user TinyTemptations of Tiny Temptations, a custom bakery in the Washington, D.C. metro area chocolate cake dipped in ganache and topped with chocolate buttercream spikiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [All about the piping] Reference

The intelligent, listenable Frostrup is never less than perfectly professional, and she kept the conversation flowing with style – though I must say I like her best when she shows a bit of spikiness, as she did when one expert insisted that there's no difference between being an only child (increasingly common these days) and growing up in a large family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rewind radio: Today; Bringing Up Britain; Radcliffe and Maconie; Front Row] Reference

Morrissey himself talked with wit and grace and occasional spikiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

There was still some spikiness but not as noticeable once they were curled.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Women Stalk] Reference

My comment on weather was just related to the spikiness of the deliveries that we make.    From Wordnik.com.  [Networking Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha] Reference

Plater had an ear for the musicality, spikiness and euphemism of talk in the upper regions of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

This meant ratcheting down the guitar spikiness in exchange for a darker, more varied palette.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lifelounge.com - Daily Goodness | news] Reference

That sounds disparaging, but what I mean by that is that their spikiness made way for boundless sonic sophistication.    From Wordnik.com.  ["xchannel" via Mindfield in Google Reader] Reference

So, once again, Hodgson has found himself pressed onto the defensive, and he has reacted with characteristic spikiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Wingers who played against Hughton say that his game had edge but any spikiness was clearly reserved purely for the pitch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Football news, match reports and fixtures | guardian.co.uk] Reference

But I can tell you that if the U.S. was focused today on solving that problem I just described to you, the spikiness of the oil price.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

But Gavin, I don't think you are addressing his point that the low number of PCs is inapporopriate given the spikiness of the function.    From Wordnik.com.  [RealClimate] Reference

And last night the sky was all a spangle and delicate glitter of stars, the glare of them and spikiness softened off by a young darling of a moon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hortus Inclusus Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston] Reference

Tveitt, who studied in Paris in the 1930s, often stamps his folkloric melodic sources with a Satie-like spikiness or a grand and mournful dignity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

Things did, mercifully, get a little better thereafter and there was more give and take and general spikiness than seemed likely given the absurdly stringent nature of the "rules".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coffee House | Politics and News Discussion Forum] Reference

Yet CarloAncelotti has spoken admiringly of Balotelli, whose Inter contract hasanother 18 months, and his spikiness has to be set against the intenseugliness of the racism he endures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Football.co.uk news feed] Reference

Birgit Minichmayr won the Best Actress prize at Berlin for her superb performance in Maren Ade's sophomore feature, as a vulnerable eccentric whose spikiness makes her duel with introspective architect Lars Eidinger so compelling and excruciating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Situationists appeal, multiple choruses and chants, vocal harmonies and punchy spikiness. “We†™ re plotting lines across a map†¦ we†™ re like the great explorers†makes us think they†™ re getting rather confident.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Is Fake DIY] Reference

Oil spikiness can destroy the U.S. economy?.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Here’s how I see my smooth/spikiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spikysmooth Clusterchicks | clusterflock] Reference

Here’s how I see my smoothness/spikiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spikysmooth Clusterchicks | clusterflock] Reference