Words similar to piquancy

Example sentences for: piquancy

How can you use “piquancy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The way the beast is finally snared has a certain architectural piquancy.
Somehow Brad Pitt doesn't have the same piquancy.
Those things all seem part of fashion's usual 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.
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?