piquantly
- a word derived from piquant.
Example Sentences
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With the strings often evocatively gauzy, wind solos slicing piquantly through the textures, he and Guerrero conveyed the work’s mercurial swerves of mood without affectation or exaggeration.
From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2021
The effect is both piquantly engaging and dishearteningly synthetic, like a well-turned sound effect—one simulating the thud of a screenplay dropped on a desk.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 8, 2019
You see it time and time again in the splendid film and television adaptations of her piquantly civilized novels.
From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2016
When asked about his influences, Albee once piquantly paired Sophocles and Noël Coward, and his work can be seen as a unique blend of tragic vision and hyper-articulate wit.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2016
It was enough for him that she was piquantly attractive in any character and that he found her marvellously stimulating and uplifting.
From The City of Numbered Days by Lynde, Francis
