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  • noun The condition of being punchy

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  • For all the 'punchiness' of my comments, Newmania, I accept that we are at a curious juncture in our history ...

    Ellee -gaic Musings Newmania 2007

  • Note: The Audi Drive Select system allows you to ratchet up the steering response, the punchiness of the gear changes and the dynamics intervention; however, the U.S.-spec A7 does not, as yet, offer adjustable air suspension like that of the A8.

    Audi's Brilliant A7: Fastback to the Future Dan Neil 2011

  • While there is a certain admitted punchiness to this piece, there is embedded within that a number of very important and pertinent considerations and criticisms and I have determined to simply repost it in full.

    On "Gnostic Traditionalism" 2009

  • I like dialog where there's punchiness or directness, where characters challenge each other or they're lying.

    Erica Abeel: IN "MOTHER AND CHILD" RODRIGO GARCIA DELIVERS THE GOODS 2010

  • Grayling's one of the Tories 'best attacks dogs and should bring a bit of Davis-style punchiness to the shadow Home Secretary role.

    More reshuffle news 2009

  • The semi-documentary racing sequences have all the verve and high-octane punchiness missing from the rest of the film: Hawks cuts between high angle overviews of the track and closer views that capture a few cars jockeying for position.

    The Crowd Roars Ed Howard 2009

  • The article'smore noteworthy for it's punchiness thanforitsideas (althoughClegg does recommend that non-doms should be banned from "taking a position inParliament").

    Clegg Watch 2008

  • The comments, now typically, as with Afghanistan, seem to attract all manor of idiots with their 8 beer logic and tequila shot punchiness about climate science, ice science, the behavioural biology of Arctic mammals, and the giant international conspiracy that is apparently peer review because scientists all want to get rich or something.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Dana 2008

  • The article'smore noteworthy for it's punchiness thanforitsideas (althoughClegg does recommend that non-doms should be banned from "taking a position inParliament").

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2008

  • It’s edited together in such a way that a very simple message Buy less †and educate yourself about the things you do buy becomes too fleshed out, in such a way that it loses a bit of its punchiness.

    Cherie Priest » Blog Archive » “I don’t know, probably nothing from Staples, I guess …” 2007

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