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The psychiatrist’s penetrating knowledge of Göring’s character is supposed to be critical to the prosecution, but though the movie keeps telling us this happened, it does not convince.

The Institute for the Study of War believes Russia has no means of "rapidly enveloping or penetrating the fortress belt" and says it would likely take several years.

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With his strong jaw and penetrating stare, he went on to play in dozens of films of all kinds, often in hard man roles.

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The approach, known as a penetrating thermometer, integrates emissions across the QGP's entire lifetime to produce an average thermal profile.

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The Nobel committee praised "their penetrating investigation... which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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