Words similar to piquancy

Example sentences for: piquancy

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Too many semicolons, said the purists, while the more pragmatic marveled at the piquancy of the single (unopened or unclosed?) quotation marks.
The way the beast is finally snared has a certain architectural piquancy.
That the actor has condemned so many killers to death with his .44-caliber Magnum gives the liberal thrust of True Crime a certain piquancy: Only Eastwood can go to San Quentin.
Somehow Brad Pitt doesn't have the same piquancy.
The daft charm of Edgar Rice Burroughs' protagonist--a little boy raised by gorillas whose animal and human languages are constantly vying for supremacy--doesn't have the same piquancy when the gorillas talk like characters from Leave It to Beaver . If we're all the same under the skin (or fur), then what's the point of the story?