There is Lamb, desperately anxious about his sister Mary, whose spells of piercing madness disrupt their gentle life together.
He prepares us to accept the moments of piercing, almost miraculous clarity that arise, as if by accident, at the end of his best films.
Nevertheless, during the Gulf war in 1991 the American air force found that its 2, 000lb (about a tonne) bunker-busters were incapable of piercing some Iraqi bunkers.
That inkling of practicality is sent into exile with bits of joyously piercing electric guitar and puffs of airy close harmonies.
Now that we have been apprised of this piercing insight, are we supposed to seek out and rectify all instances of greed?
By the Mendocino County line you are surrounded by tan, wide-open cowboy country, which gives way to the gentle green vineyards of Anderson Valley, then to dark corridors of redwoods, with shafts of sunshine piercing the gloom like smoky spotlights.
As Matthews explains it, the piercing of the skin actually helps improve its appearance.
But amid the dregs are shards of brilliant, piercing writing.
Cochrane is the author of a bible of finance called Asset Pricing but in recent times has been piercing the pieties of macroeconomics.
The instructor, who was supposed to be this well-known writer, even though Aviad had never heard of him, told her that there was something soul-piercing about the banality of the ending, or some other piece of crap.
She'll never make it into any hall of fame, but like the other writers on this list, she has a real gift for piercing the heart of something, revealing instead of telling and wrapping it all up in inspired melodies.
And with the last move of the game a piercing run from Keogh rubbed salt in Ulster's gaping wounds.
The piercing sounds of that old drill sent my heart into palpitations.
If he did not have that electrified halo of hair and those piercing eyes, would he still have become science's preeminent poster boy?
As music blared over the piercing squawks of unruly monkeys and the chaotic shouts of a group of Moroccan tribespeople, Christian Santelices froze in his tracks and considered his next move.
In his first single, "Just Ain't Gonna Work Out, " he draws on traditional soul, though he favors the deep, emotive arrangements and piercing lyrics of love and loss that provided a bluesy alternative to the sparkling gloss of Motown's incandescent hits.
With the 2010 World Cup, the vuvuzela joins the ticking stopwatch on "60 Minutes" and the piercing signal of the Emergency Broadcast System in the pantheon of nonmusical sounds that instantly tell you what is on TV even before you've entered the room.
By simply piercing the surface of the water, you set off an energy force within the body of water that extends outward, impacting anything it touches.
Piercing the bubble of corporate Hollywood isn't the most original endeavor, but Mamet's trademark pugilistic style makes this exercise in industry deflation feel new and invigorating.
From the valley below, each pier and mast merge to look like a single needle with an elongated eye: Foster's drawings, in fact, depict a thread piercing the eye of a needle.
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Ultimately, after a lengthy survey of previous Maryland appellate opinions on the topic, the Court concluded that there can be no veil piercing in Maryland in the absence of fraud.
In attack, the Reds had a brief sight of goal early on when Milan Jovanovic slid a piercing ball to Babel only for the Dutchman's touch to let him down and the chance of a shot at goal quickly evaporated.
They are parasitic, roving bits of genetic material wrapped in membrane-piercing proteins.
He is a bon vivant with a young wife, a big man with a ruddy face, piercing blue eyes and a fluff of grey hair.
Although no scholars have commented on this, the girl, with her dark curls, piercing gaze and long nose bears more of a resemblance to Titian than to her mother.
Like Tahiti, its drilling involved piercing an 11, 000-foot layer of sedimentary salt.
Other proposals call for a ban on armor-piercing ammunition and for setting a minimum age of 21 to possess a pistol and 18 for rifles or shotguns.
In later life, Mr Walker enjoyed recounting the story of how, as a surgeon prised the armour-piercing bullet from his ankle at the RAF Hospital, it shot out and hit the ceiling.
Singing too has evolved, and soprano singers reach their piercing high notes by precisely controlling the shape of their vocal tract to match its natural, resonant frequency with multiples of the one being produced by their vocal folds.
The tall, handsome explorer certainly looked the part, with his piercing blue eyes, Mannlicher rifle and a belt of shells flung over his chest.
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