'There is a certain piquancy, I must say,' said the director of music.

THE mayor took control of the public school system yesterday, adding a certain piquancy to the search for a new chancellor.

Indeed, the thought that he might really be in danger seemed to give his adventure a certain piquancy and heightened interest.

There must therefore have been a certain piquancy for him in now extending hospitality to the fallen monarch.

The peculiar air of desolation adds a certain piquancy to the evening meal at Vine.

Sometimes I fancied it gave a certain piquancy to my relations with his daughter, but I could never believe that the laugh was on my side.

The fact that the Finnish word aalto means 'wave' doubtless added certain piquancy to his attraction to the motif.

The way the beast is finally snared has a certain architectural piquancy.

"Visits, I think, have a certain piquancy that is lacking in phone conversations."

A number of reproduction gargoyles mounted on the walls lent a certain piquancy to the whole.