piquancy
- n a tart spicy quality
- n the quality of being agreeably stimulating or mentally exciting
- What gives Speed Tribes its piquancy is the way these very modern problems play off against the vestiges of tradition.
- The date of the speech added further piquancy: Evans addressed his audience on Guy Fawkes' Day, the anniversary of one of the earliest terror conspiracies in Britain, the failed .
- To add piquancy to the situation, Sayuri is played by Ziyi Zhang, who followed Gong Li as Zhang Yimou's leading lady in the rapturous rural love story The Road Home and the martial .