piercingly

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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

The one concern I had about a Yiddish “Fiddler” was the loss of Harnick’s piercingly simple lyrics.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2025

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

Nights, however, continue to be freezing, and have become piercingly cold amid the dry weather.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 12, 2024

Dumbledore’s long silver hair and beard, the piercingly blue eyes behind half-moon spectacles, the crooked nose: Everything was as he had remembered it.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling