piercingly

Example Sentences

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There, he earned a reputation as a piercingly thorough interviewer of victims and witnesses—but also an uncommonly gentle and sympathetic one.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

“Fred looked directly and piercingly at me with words I would never forget,” Khachigian writes.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2024

Her works achieve the difficult feat of synthesizing a coma-inducing dullness with piercingly shrill extended diatribes to create reverse masterpieces worthy of the most risible North Korean propaganda.

From Salon • Sep. 7, 2024

Few movies capture the surreal comedy and engulfing horror of the money-driven world as piercingly as “Stonewalling.”

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2023

His father looked at him piercingly until he dropped his eyes.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks