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Перевод: piquancy

[существительное]
пикантность ; острота

Тезаурус:

1. His own contributions have added piquancy.
2. These conditions, difficult to sustain, led occasionally to a great deal of embarrassment, mixed always with a compensationary dose of fun and good humour, and sometimes followed by the communication of useful information which was none the less pleasant because of the piquancy incident to a little merriment and unexpected light of knowledge."
3. Enid Bagnold's creepy comedy is dated in more subtle ways as well - "She's behind the escallonia hedge," sounds like a line dropped from a Beatrice Lillie sketch - but, in this strongly cast production, it also retains much of its original charm and piquancy.
4. One version of the story has Massaccio losing all of his clothes as well, which not only adds a new possibility to the origin of the saying "to lose your shirt", but also a certain piquancy to the vision of the gambler outside the church.
5. The piquancy and paradoxes of this dilemma were illustrated when the victim of the matricide was hauled out, praised, sent into battle like a version of El Cid, and then, with mingled relief and regret, seen off to the New World.
6. On this occasion, as an added piquancy, the festival promised to have a distinctly radical flavour.
7. Their tart flavour adds piquancy and the bright colour looks stunning.
8. There are just hints of Balthus's influence in her interiors; enough to add a piquancy to a supremely-decorative style.
9. Under this new dispensation things foreign and far removed from our own polluted urban world acquire all exotic piquancy, an exciting glamour, which causes them to be approached with a mixture of reverence and hope.
10. But there is a certain piquancy in Kingfisher now trying to turn the tables on a company from whose clutches its escaped by a whisker only three years ago.
11. When forced to do so, the president's action was greeted by applause: the fact that the president was Alfrink of Utrecht added piquancy to the event.
12. What lends this observation particular piquancy however is that remarkably few players sound particularly good.
13. Although still some months short of his fifteenth birthday, Richard had already discovered from experience that there is a critical relationship between the piquancy of a secret and the number of people who can keep it.