piercingly

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Piercingly tart Riesling, for example, contributes green apple, stone fruit and citrus notes to Sekt, while fragrant Gewurztraminer adds flavors of lychee and spice.

From Salon • Jul. 7, 2022

Piercingly bright red and blue lights lit the Oxia Corporation logo on the ships’ sides.

From The Verge • Sep. 13, 2018

Piercingly blue-eyed and looking not unlike his New York colleague, the 73-year-old Irish Cardinal was whisked uptown to St. Patrick's Cathedral, where the bells tolled and 1,000 schoolgirls waved U. S. and Papal flags.

From Time Magazine Archive

Piercingly sweet, across the fields of blowing clover, came the even song of a feathered chorister, and—what on earth was that noise?

From At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern by Reed, Myrtle

Piercingly white the holy and famous place shines among the olives and the fallows; the sun burns upon the marble; Phoebus salutes his great sister.

From Eleanor by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.