Perhaps most piquant: a bipartisan group of eight former FERC commissioners, including five former chairs, submitted comments to FERC confirming that they, too, hate the NOPR.
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In the most piquant of the film's dozens of allusions, one of the central characters of "Rise and Fall" emerges from the inevitable shipwreck of the Hadley project to present himself for employment at another company, this one called Albatross Films.
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She was subsequently chosen to head its two-member Senate ticket. Robertson mounted a vigorous 40-day campaign targeted at women voters, making a tour of rural areas and giving a series of radio broadcasts. She ultimately defeated Branson for the final Senate seat by about 17,000 votes, aided by Labor and DLP preferences. The Sydney Morning Herald described her re-election as "the most piquant situation produced by the election".
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A reviewer from The New York Times called the novel "a most piquant contrast between civilization and crudity". The writer Thomas Alexander Browne called the titular character of A Bride from the Bush "a libel to Australian womankind". A Punch editor made the opposite claim, arguing that the protagonist of the novel is more kind-hearted and attractive than actual Australians. Hornung's later stories in the A. J. Raffles series achieved much more popularity than A Bride from the Bush.
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He also describes the pleasure of book-hunting through the book stalls of Paris and other cosmopolitan cities. While often written within the language of hyperbole, Lang’s descriptive choice of words paints a picture of the collector’s love of books: > Selling books are nearly as bad as losing friends, than which life has no > worse sorrow. A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing... Books > change like friends, like ourselves, like everything; but they are most > piquant in the contrasts they provoke, when the friend who gave them and > wrote them is a success, though we laughed at him; a failure, though we > believed in him; altered in any case, and estranged from his old self and > old days. The vanished past returns when we look at the pages.
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Later still, she appeared with a scratch Italian company in one of her most piquant roles, that of the flighty Adina in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore, which she had also sung at La Scala and recorded for EMI. Carosio is most often remembered today as the singer whose indisposition in January 1949 led to Maria Callas learning and singing the role of Elvira in Bellini's I puritani in five days, while she was performing Brünnhilde in Wagner's Die Walküre at Teatro La Fenice in Venice. Latterly, she was noted in the more lyrical roles of Mimi and Violetta; her purity of tone and ability to convey vulnerability were very appropriate to these parts. As late as 1954, she returned to La Scala to appear in the house premiere of Menotti's Amelia Goes to the Ball, which she also recorded.
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Of the three (sources this paper is based), he is the most discursive in his narration, the most piquant in his anecdotes, the most amusing in his simplicity. As he traveled for no one particular aim, but to see and to hear, there are few Indian topics, on which he does not give us something. Natural productions, the beasts and the birds, manners, Hindu theology, state maxims, the causes of Portuguese supremacy and degradation, anecdotes of the camp, the convent, and the Harem, accidents by water and land, complaints of personal inconvenience, and remarks on the tendency of Eastern despotism, are scattered plentifully throughout a narrative, which owes very much to the author's own liveliness and observation, but occasionally something, we are compelled to say, to the labours of others who had gone before. His plagiarism is, however, confined to specifications of caste or creed.
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