The fact McGinley is from the Republic could have added a certain piquancy.

There was a certain piquancy in travelling alone with this knight-errant.

There was a certain piquancy in saying frank things to this stiff, Madonna-faced woman.

In a place so universally rich, there is even a certain piquancy in being a pauper.

He was not exactly amused at the interpretation, but he could not help detecting in it a certain piquancy.

Frost had never chosen to dispel, gave a certain piquancy to the interest and affection Tom felt for her.

Indeed, the thought that he might really be in danger seemed to give his adventure a certain piquancy and heightened interest.

And your suggestion of Judas Iscariot and Mr. Spencer as the sole inmates of hell is not without a certain piquancy.

His stories about days in Vietnam as a platoon leader added a certain piquancy to his lectures on Vietnam and American Culture.

It was an annoyance, of course, but after all it added a certain piquancy to her trip, it would be an experience.

Even the presence of an enemy, so near, and yet, as it seemed, so little dangerous, added a certain piquancy to his position.

There had been a certain piquancy, a savour added to existence, by the country's peril, and all the public service and sacrifice it demanded.

A certain piquancy is given to the story by a slight trace of nineteenth century malice in the picturing of eighteenth century life and manners.

There is a certain piquancy in these adventures which affords us much delight-sotrue is it that the deprivation of a pleasure enhances its value.