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

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

The unnerving sharp edges of Mariá Portugal’s piercingly dissonant score herald impending trouble.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2023

The effects of colonialism can be piercingly specific.

From New York Times • May 4, 2023

Kali bent forward eagerly, quivering in her excitement, and at that moment as ill luck would have it the child woke, opened his weak, pinkish eyes, yawned and began to yell piercingly.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya