How To Use Piquant In A Sentence

Steve maintains that the peppers give the bland turkey a piquant flavour.
The Blonde had the doracha seekh, a combination of chicken and crab flakes chargrilled in the tandoor oven and served with a piquant mango and avocado chutney, at £7.50.
So, without preconceptions, this is a brisk, well-balanced, fruit forward, but still avowedly savoury wine, that would be a piquant pairing with the crisp, dry snap of well grilled salmon cutlets - a texture lost in pan frying.
Assorted breads, piquant sauces and fine African wines accompany it.
The salmon came with finely chopped egg and a sharp piquant sauce with horseradish base and was simply excellent.

All in all, this is a good middle of the road recording whose flavoring is more sweet than piquant, and whose intention is more to please than to inspire.
He doesn't need to go far to find his ingredients since Palma's Olivar food market is just around the corner, providing a sensory assault course with its halls filled with a bewildering variety of locally caught fish, kaleidoscopes of seasonal fruit and veg, plus charcuterie counters laden with piquant botifarron blood puddings and varia negra Mapping Mallorca
Salads are piquantly dressed, potatoes sautéed in duck fat are copiously served and the house wine, a young Cotes du Rhone, is more than adequate.
This cheese usually has tangy, piquant, spicy and peppery flavor.
Perhaps the most piquant recent occult comparisons have come in more subtle and complex (and sometimes unintentional) shades.
The danger being that while the audience accepts when is on stage, his offensiveness is a parody of other people's prejudices (made more piquant by our worry that, at some level, we battle with equally unattractive knee-jerk reactions), that comic tension doesn't always come across in interviews. Ricky Gervais in His Most 'Postmodern' Interview Ever
I would never have thought of deep-frying an avocado, but the result was certainly good, and the chilli jam was perfectly piquant without frazzling the tastebuds.
It consists of large, wall-painted versions of his witty or piquant statements, realised in a variety of typefaces and colours.
I have often found that triangle an irritant and tend to avoid this concerto, but here it gives a delicate and piquant touch to the orchestral sonority, instead of asserting itself as an obbligato second soloist.
Mind-tangling, but the most piquant of pomo sequels. Times, Sunday Times
Ms. Reusing said cooking the vegetables à la grecque a piquant technique that calls for simmering vegetables in wine or vinegar and olive oil makes bitter rhubarb less bracing and mild fennel more assertive. Chicken With Rhubarb and Fennel
There were lush slabs of slow-roasted pork belly and meltingly tender duck legs, a piquant escabeche of red mullet and a truly remarkable lemon tart to finish.
They brought back piquantly appropriate or delusive answers, piquant enough to condemn the stories.
‘The toast was overdone, but the chicken had a piquant flavour,’ he said.
Who is there to replace that perilously piquant _diseur_ Harry Fragson? Nights in London
However, despite the pain and fearful reactions by some, it is possible to create and balance flavors in piquant foods.
The duck was lovely and the pork, apricot and Stilton stuffing gave a piquant twist to the flavour.
You can taste it in that piquant and smoky flavour. Times, Sunday Times
I liked the Manchego very much, and it reminded me a little of the French cantal: same off-white color, a little peppery and piquant, with a soft texture that has a tendency to flake.
I think French is right to explain (which is not to condone) some of Naipaul's more provocative views as a form of mischief, which Trinidadians call picong, from the French piquant, a type of sharp talk where, in French's words, "the boundary between good and bad taste is deliberately blurred, and the listener sent reeling. The Lessons of the Master
Naquet, "which used to" deave "all of us who minded such things many years ago), and the situation is (at least intentionally) made more piquant by the fact that Teissier, who is a prominent statesman and gives up not merely his wife but his political position for this new love of his, starts as an actual supporter of the repeal of the divorce laws. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
The New England clam chowder is pleasantly piquant and peppery.
Stocking four flavours of dishy, piquant womanhood, it treated the audience to one tasty conundrum after another.
Both cheeses deliver a rich, piquant taste, and each is also offered in a variety of sizes and forms.
Building on Comden and Green's piquant words, Bernstein has given us an immortal score, making all others on today's Broadway calling themselves musicals look like the pygmies they are.
An occupation of Wall Street to monumentalize the already very imposing (at 6'8) Paul Volcker, and to adopt the tax suggestions of one of Wall Street's most ruthless and accomplished sharks, good old Uncle Warren in his viyella shirt and corduroy trousers, (who paid less than $7 million on income of $63 million last year), is a piquant confession of the innocence of the occupiers once they get south of Canal Street. Conrad Black: My Manifesto For the Occupy Movement
The spinach soup had a deep, dark colour, and was flavoured with the strong, piquant, earthy spices of Kerala.
Mezzaluna ravioli hosts the piquant gaminess of braised rabbit, unhistrionically set against roasted parsnips, a quick blast of mint, and tomato.
Nora was a woman to laugh and chat with; Nora was kind and gracious, and gentle too; Nora was amiable as well as witty; charming in manner, piquant in expression, inimitable at an anecdote, with never-failing resources, a first-rate lady-conversationist, if I may use so formidable a word -- in fact, a thoroughly fascinating woman; but Marion! The Lady of the Ice A Novel
They add a sharp, pungent flavour to dishes with a piquant base.
There was nothing in the least melodramatic about him; he never posed or attitudinized -- it would have required too much patience; but he was always piquant. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
Mr. James Jennings has favoured us with a copy of his _Ornithologia; or the Birds_, a poem; with copious _Notes; _ &c. The latter portion is to us the most interesting, especially as it contains an immense body of valuable research into the history and economy of birds, in a pleasant, piquant, anecdotical style, without any of the quaintness or crabbedness of scientific technicality. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 360, March 14, 1829
For local flavours, the piquant sauce called mojo is important.
This cheese usually has tangy, piquant, spicy and peppery flavor.
There's lush slabs of slow-roasted pork belly and meltingly tender duck legs, a piquant escabeche of red mullet and a truly remarkable lemon tart to finish.
The taste of the public has, of late years, been accustomed to very high stimulants: no plain wholesome food will go down; and every thing must be hashed and stewed with some "sauce piquante," which however delicious to one palate, may be very offensive and disgusting to another. Periodical Indigestion
The first movement's Impressionistic landscape featured a piquant, upward soaring melody with a series of falling thirds from a protagonist oboe, flitting above a feather-bed of sustained string harmonies and bass piano, and punctuated with a walking-like figuration in the piano's treble register, all becoming more urgent toward its close. Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades
A few moments of faulty tuning and uneven articulation aside (not to be confused with the pungent harmonies and piquant effects written into this music), the ensemble's two instrumentalists -- medieval-harpist Constance Whiteside (the group's artistic director) and violinist Craig Resta, who played here on the arrestingly throaty precursor to the violin, the medieval vielle -- both did sterling and vividly atmospheric work. Armonia Nova's arresting concert of early music at St. Mark's, Capitol Hill
Mr. French traces this propensity to a particular aspect of Caribbean parlance: "It was what Trinidadians call 'picong,' from the French 'piquant,' meaning sharp or cutting, where the boundary between good and bad taste is deliberately blurred, and the listener sent reeling. The Man Behind the Man of Letters
It may be of piquant interest that The Fourth Wall uses the conceit of a parallel between the heroine and Shaw's Saint Joan, a device currently put to infinitely better use in Lanford Wilson's Book of Days.
WORD CORRECT PRONUNCIATION bivouac _biv'wak_ chargé d'affaires _shar zha'daffar'_ connoisseur _connissur_ dishabille _dis'abil_ ennui _onwe_, not _ongwe_ finale _finah'le_ foyer _fwaya'_ massage _masahzh_ naïve _nah'ev_ papier maché _papya mahsha_ piquant _pe'kant_ prima facie _prima fa'shie_ pro tempore _pro tem'pore_ régime _razhem'_ Practical Grammar and Composition
Face to face with the piquant personality that had charmed de Gaulle, he was charmed as well.
Stocking four flavours of dishy, piquant womanhood, it treated the audience to one tasty conundrum after another.
But in every semifinal and piquant regret for a man who did not deserve to lose.
Madame judged her fish as excellent and the potato salad was piquant and very tasty.
As could be expected, Newman editorialized in NewsNotes with characteristically tangy opinions, sharp observations, and piquant commentary.
An uncomplicated salad of arugula and manchego shimmers in its piquant quince dressing.
It's a timeless conceit, but in "The Rules of Civility," Amor Towles sets it convincingly in a late-1930s milieu where the limousines and cocktail parties of the haut monde contrast piquantly with the wider context of the Great Depression. The Best Fiction of 2011
The duck was very pleasant and the sauce piquant, as orange sauces should be.
They had pasta to start, delicious home-made shells served with a piquant wild mushroom sauce.
And pot smoke lends a piquant tinge to the smell of fetid sweat.
The danger being that while the audience accepts when is on stage, his offensiveness is a parody of other people's prejudices made more piquant by our worry that, at some level, we battle with equally unattractive knee-jerk reactions, that comic tension doesn't always come across in interviews. Ginny Dougary: Ricky Gervais in His Most 'Postmodern' Interview Ever
They had pasta to start, delicious home-made shells served with a piquant wild mushroom sauce.
I've had this several times before and it has always been superb, a tasty combination of sweet and piquant flavours.
The fact that this migrant is greatly honoured in Britain made her anger all the more piquant. Times, Sunday Times
Which is in itself a parting blow of piquant irony. Times, Sunday Times
Not only is the flavouring piquant but the structure of the movements and the material in development sturdy and, for us, rewarding to absorb.
Compact and slightly piquant, this cheese has assertive smoky aroma and flavor with a pleasant butteriness on the finish.
It is an indelible part of his CV, a blot on a distinguished public career, a piquant episode for the more mischievous obituarists eventually to recount.
The salmon came with finely chopped egg and a sharp piquant sauce with horseradish base and was simply excellent.
Forager charges fairly hefty prices for its wares: a flat rate of £15 per kilogram box, whether it be full of grey field blewit mushrooms, or a spicy and piquant selection of wood sorrel, wild chervil and dandelion leaves.
With his sharp eye for human traits and foibles, his comments about people were delightfully piquant. Times, Sunday Times
It was superb: marshmallow-soft pastry and a glorious melange of fish within, the salsa adding a sweet but piquant edge.
But day-boat cod in soy ginger, filet mignon in a piquant soy, and velvety skate in ponzu and brown butter are elegantly simple, while roasted chili-spiked lobster is magnificently sloppy.
And when the boy playing Raoul began to romance me - or, at least, my character - I focussed on his piquant, if somewhat annoying, courting and pushed the problem out of my mind.
Delivering six full songs and other song fragments, her penetrating chest voice and her haunting ornaments in piquant modes were simply stunning.
The idea of word limits with inbuilt and unpleasing penalties is particularly piquant to a print critic. The Times Literary Supplement
a piquant face with large appealing eyes
A piece of dazzlingly fresh fish, rubbed with a little olive oil and sea salt and roasted until its flesh is snowily opaque often needs little more than a piece of lemon to be at its best, or maybe just some piquant capers and parsley.
The fact that this migrant is greatly honoured in Britain made her anger all the more piquant. Times, Sunday Times
Bushes weigh their meted dollops, and the boxy clapboard churches are drenched and cleansed by a piquant light from the east.
a piquant wit
So elegant foie gras is offset by the spartan clarity of white asparagus one night, and more glamorously contrasted with piquant papaya, mango, and peppers the next.
Meanwhile, revisit Couchwarmer and taste the original piquant recipe.
Bland vegetables are often served with a piquant sauce.
These cookies may look down-home, but with a kick of pungent molasses and piquant ginger, they're really very sophisticated.
The Spaniard insists on only being occasionally surprised by a piquant bite of hot pepper.
On the High Line, the incongruous delight of strolling through a leafy glade three stories above the roaring traffic's boom is made more piquant by the omnipresence of buildings crowded close to both sides of the walkway, especially at those points where it passes beneath a towering new structure and shoots straight through a cavernous old one, recalling the fanciful multilayered Manhattan imagined by illustrators for the turn-of-the-twentieth-century journal King's Views of New York. Up in the Park
His cilantro-laced sauteed shrimp, piquant goat-cheese salad and tender smoked salmon fettuccine are heavenly enough.
In the other characters she was the true French girl, full of grace and a mixture of _naïveté_ and cunning, sentiment and frivolity, that is winning and _piquant_, if not satisfying. At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe
This was a divine combination, the piquant, smoky butter oozing into the juices, the dish nicely finished off with some thin root vegetables crisps and crunchy chard.
As with other great conductors this young maestro senses, seizes on and communicates every scintilla of its pastoral joy, lugubrious shtetl memory, piquant nostalgia and sky-touching exhilaration, which is not to say that he slights delicacy or subtlety. Donna Perlmutter: Dudamel Begins New Era at L.A. Philharmonic
The salted eggs added a lovely, piquant flavour.
Slenderly penciled, a little darker than her light brown hair, they just fitted her irregular nose that was feminine but not weak, that if anything was piquant and that picturesquely might be declared impudent. CHAPTER XVIII
The blue was creamy with a piquant white pepper kick, the washed rind's scent dissipated when unwrapped and was luxuriously silky, and the dome of chevre was fresh and sweet, with a little touch of acid from the bloomy rind. Adventures With the Stinky Cheese Man: Andrew From Andrew's Cheese Shop
It had a piquant flavour all its own and really made the dish.
Considered in themselves, in their style and sentiment, the little digressions, the long conversations, the carefully wrought side-scenes are so rich in a certain tender religious wisdom, yet crisp and piquant withal, and so full of living thought on the great questions of the day, that we dwell in them with enjoyment, though with a compunctious half-consciousness that they ought not to be there. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866
The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy was given a piquant performance, proving itself a wonderful display piece for a grand pipe organ.
It will give a delightfully piquant flavour, with just enough onion to taste pleasant. The Sun
One might expect McQuade to render a piquant gendered fiction, a story of aesthetically pluralistic feminist intervention, a ‘swerving’ into the genealogies of our fathers.
This sauce, usually made with herbs and peppercorns, isn't spicy but loans a piquant, peppery flavour to the tender morsels of chicken.
Admiral Keppell spoke, and so did Sir E. Dering, drunk, sicut suus mos est; but he says in that ivresse des verites vertes et piquantes. George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life
Herbs and spices add a piquant taste that ketchup can't match.
With his sharp eye for human traits and foibles, his comments about people were delightfully piquant. Times, Sunday Times
Milton Hatoum transports us to a magical boomtown, full of shimmering light, tropical colour and piquant incident.
Les Noces is one of the Ballets Russes’ most piquant works.
We also liked the gator croquettes, crunchy golf-ball-size fritters that are described on the menu thus: "House-made bacon, bechamel, sauce piquante. Candy Sagon on Mokomandy: Unusual partners make a nice team
This experience was on display in a lithe, nicely proportioned performance of the Overture to Rossini's L' Italiana in Algeri (with a piquant oboe solo by Melanie Feld).
A bracing fusion of austere synth-rock and piquant pottymouth, The Teaches of Peaches resonated with punks, gays, electroclash devotees, indie kids, feminists and anyone who got off on really raunchy beats.
Astonishing action set pieces serve as punctuation marks for a piquant romantic melodrama in Zhang Yimou's second effort in the wuxia genre.
The album begins promisingly with ‘Built for Sin,’ a short instrumental with menacing, skulking riffs, and Carcass-style piquant harmonies.
This sauce, usually made with herbs and peppercorns, isn't spicy but loans a piquant, peppery flavour to the tender morsels of chicken.
Because self-improvement tastes best with a piquant little sprinkle of something self-defeating on top.
The piquant champignons had large mushroom caps stuffed with crumbled country sausage and topped with bread crumbs.
Mind-tangling, but the most piquant of pomo sequels. Times, Sunday Times
The fresh pesto sauce added a lovely piquant flavour.
These days, between posting his piquant views on the latest toonery, he rails against the aspersions still being spittled on the medium.
These are among the reasons, along with its powerful punch and piquant flavor, why the chiltepin is so prized among chileheads, and also why you are unlikely to find them in the typical grocery store produce section. Kurt Michael Friese: Chasing Chiles: A Hot Pepper Primer (And a recipe for Iowa City Chili)
The word saunter, like many others, can't be traced back very far (AHD: Probably from Middle English santren, to muse), but of course that doesn't stop people from trying, and this word has a particularly enjoyable pseudo-etymology, discussed in the following typically piquant passage from one of the stories in Kim Stanley Robinson's The Martians (a book I recommend to anyone who likes thoughtful, human-oriented science fiction):Long walks around Odessa at the end of the day. Languagehat.com: SAUNTER.
Or to put the point more piquantly, one person's minuteman is another person's mujahideen. Balkinization
"The toast was overdone, but the chicken had a piquant flavour, " he said.

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