| 单词 | piercing |
| 例句 | She’s a tiny thin lady, but her eyes are forceful, piercing, so I simply nod because I always do what my elders ask of me. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A piercing pain rushed up my spine from my waist to the back of my neck. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z They ignore me, or hurry past, because maybe they can see the steel spike of terror piercing my skull, driving all the way down into my soul. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The piercing look she had given him had made Fadi wince. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z The desire to not die had never been so piercing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Now we were the same height, and those piercing blue eyes started making me tingle all the time. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The man was wrinkled, and his eyes, though piercing in their unusual lightness, seemed tired. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Asher throws his head back, lets out a piercing whoop, and raise his fist in the air. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The screams ripped jagged and piercing from the throats of hundreds of kids. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I worried these questions the way Mr. Whiskers worried the mice he caught; worried so, in fact, that I barely felt the piercing wind the whole ride home. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He has MacGyver’s eyes, piercing and intelligent, and the same strong jaw and gentle lips. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The unmistakable sound of an engine came piercing through the night from far away. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Half their size, it dove through the scribble of their ragged, stinking wings, driving them back with its piercing cry. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z On the third night, as we were sleeping, some of us sitting, huddled against each other, some of us standing, a piercing cry broke the silence: “Fire! I see a fire! I see a fire!” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I heard a clear, piercing sound: the call of a hunting horn blowing in the woods. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Bloody Miles stood at the end of the bed, blue eyes wide and piercing, blood oozing from his freckles. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z He gripped the soap bar and his pain reawakened with piercing stings. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z A woman with curly green hair and another with a shaved head and a cheek piercing that hurts to look at are heading to me and Mom. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z It is one of those works from which the cold lance of criticism glances without piercing ... The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Pet’s wings came off its shoulders and neck, and light poured down its throat, piercing in strength. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “Come ’ere, boy!” a man called, giving a loud piercing whistle. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z We are a chorus of silent tears, tiny whimpers, deep guttural wails, and sharp piercing shrieks. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Now that there was no longer the sound of my soggy footsteps, the silence was piercing. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “Stuff I used to see back at protests before you were born. Tasers. Devices that would send out loud, piercing sounds.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Without hesitating, she plunges the blade into the back of her hand, piercing through skin and flesh and cards and into the felt underneath. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Henry’s looking at him in the piercing way he has sometimes that makes Alex feel like a bug stuck under a shadowbox with a pushpin. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z A buzz fills the air, along with a piercing scream. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Professor McGonagall gave him a piercing look, but he was sure she had almost smiled. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z He has a broad, ruddy face, thin lips, piercing eyes behind eyeglasses, and broad cheekbones. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Jed let out a piercing, horrific sound that cut off all the new ones coming from the forest around them. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z His thin, piercing wails rose and fell, just like the noon whistle that sounded every day at the Snapfinger Volunteer Fire Department. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He doubted he had the strength left to win, but, before he could attack them, Will let out a piercing taxicab whistle. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The copper sun and the piercing paleness of the sky, which were so welcome in the captives’ homeland, imprisoned them each hour. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Sigurd swiped for it, and Anya felt the subtle crunch of the dagger’s sharp tip piercing Sigurd’s palm. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Ben screamed then, without pause, a sound so piercing that Thomas covered his ears. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z These earmuffs have saved me from screechy subway brakes, piercing flutes, gross Noah sounds, trick or treat yells, wishy-washy Deb, and mean Kiki. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Once the music starts he goes right into the Jimmy-verse, banging against his washboard and letting it all hang out in a piercing falsetto that’s surprisingly on key. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z I would always remember that judge and his huge, piercing dark eyes. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Two swallows were making passes over the fountain, and a chiffchaffs song was piercing the air from within the sinewy gloom of the giant cedar of Lebanon. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It’s okay to wear earmuffs when sirens are piercing. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z We continued eating, chatting merrily away, when suddenly we heard a piercing whistle. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z His red lips were moist and his black eyes bold and piercing. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Then all of a sudden, the manly lover let out a piercing scream and his whole body shot four feet into the air. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The knife flies once again, this time piercing the word “stage.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The goose gave Lyra another of his piercing looks. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z But then with a piercing shriek that rent the evening air, the powerful locomotive set its brakes. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Even when I was standing at attention with my eyes to the front, their piercing gazes felt like they were burning a hole through me. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z She must have been about Percy’s age, with dark, piercing eyes and long black hair. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Every cadet possessed a burning desire to be recognized, but never noticed, as his piercing blue eyes evaluated his corps. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z She flinched, but one pair of eyes fixed a gaze so piercing upon her that she could not look away. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Behind the dirty lenses, the eyes were a piercing, brilliant blue. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He paused, his eyes fierce, his voice piercing. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z But Edward Cullen’s back stiffened, and he turned slowly to glare at me — his face was absurdly handsome — with piercing, hate-filled eyes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z When he told them of the spear piercing Odin’s side, the bard shrieked in pain, as the all-father himself had called out in his agony, and all the men shivered, imagining his pain. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Soft, soft, but how piercing! boring and drilling into reason, tunnelling through resolution. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z When Harry told of Wormtail piercing his arm with the dagger, however, Sirius let out a vehement exclamation and Dumbledore stood up so quickly that Harry started. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Each voice has a unique tone color that is described using adjectives or metaphors such as “nasally,” “resonant,” “vibrant,” “strident,” “high,” “low,” “breathy,” “piercing,” “ringing,” “rounded,” “warm,” “mellow,” “dark,” “bright,” “heavy,” “light,” “vibrato.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The head of my new block was a German Jew, small with piercing eyes. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The gaslight shone upon the heavy, leonine lines of his features—a mane of sandy-brown hair, eyes the piercing blue of gas flames, a firm mouth shaped around the stem of a briar pipe. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She had piercing green eyes and she wore a silky black dress with shapes that seemed to move in the fabric animal shadows, black upon black, like deer running through a forest at night. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z She had white hair and a sharp nose and piercing gray eyes. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z There is a foot of snow on the ground, and the sky is a piercing blue. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Esperanza was locked in the house, both Armijos were gone, and so the trapped dog wailed in pain all day, each of its woeful howls like an arrow piercing Herbie’s sensitive breast. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z So clear and piercing was the note that the others stood amazed to hear such a sound come from those old bearded lips. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Newt had barely finished his sentence when a sudden, piercing scream ripped through the air. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The snow goose called again, a piercing whoop that filled the sky, and then wheeled and turned an inch away from the boy in the striped T-shirt. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Every few minutes the insects' piercing whine is supplanted by the boom of distant thunder, rumbling over the taiga from a wall of thunderheads rearing darkly on the horizon. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She had a strong nose and a fierce, piercing look, like a bird of prey. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Hang in there. You are not dying from a stupid body piercing.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Cole cowered on the ground, pain piercing his shoulder. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z He had a disquieting new habit of boring into my eyes with his look as if actually bent on piercing my head, the better to analyze what went on inside it. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z He looks at me, same piercing glance as before. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Frodo thought that he heard a faint hiss as of venomous breath and felt a thin piercing chill. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Outside, the crickets shrieked with rhythmic, piercing monotony. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Even in the darkness of the woods, the intensity of her gaze was piercing. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z To it was added the high, piercing squeal of a fife. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z Then the baby would wail, suddenly, a thin, high, piercing sound. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z In my heart I’d hoped for manslaughter, and hearing the word murder sent a frozen rod piercing right through the top of my head down into my toes. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z The wrinkles on her forehead are like ocean waves, her eyes are deeper and piercing, and her thin lips stretch into a weak smile when she sees me. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z As evening became definite the street lamps flashed on and the lights of moving cars squared my world in a piercing probing. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Please answer the following question in detail: on the day of our meeting at the post office, what type of piercing did the postal employee have? What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z In response the President looked up to the sky, put his hands to his mouth, and uttered a piercing yell. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Now, where were you born, Panchito?” he asked in a firm tone, giving me a piercing look. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z "It's coming from her scalp. Look where the bald patches are. They're oozing. The comb's been piercing her." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I struck the beginning chord of Savien’s verse and I heard a piercing sound that pulled me out of the music like a fish dragged from deep water. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But I’d also seen pictures of handsome men with symmetrical faces and proper noses—the kind of man girls found attractive, with a strong chin, chiseled jaw, and piercing eyes. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The outburst of confused, distressed noises that erupted from the lines was shushed with a piercing buzzer. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I turn, and a pair of piercing brown eyes stares back at me. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z He looked up at me, his gaze once again piercing into mine. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Trina yelled in a loud, piercing voice, “Stop it! Everyone stop and listen to me!” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The old flatbed ferryboat had been functional just the day before, the commerçant claimed, but now it bobbed listlessly on the opposite shore in spite of his piercing whistles and waving arms. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The baby starts to cry, a thin, piercing wail, but the sound provides enough cover that I can mutter instructions to Mirjam. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z And as the shock wore off, I did feel a piercing pain in my arm as if someone were driving a chisel through the bone. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I’ve stopped talking because there’s really nothing left to say and there’s this piercing sort of pain where my heart is. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I didn’t know a quiet voice could be that piercing. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Each word struck like an arrow, piercing all the soft parts of his ego. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z A shriek tore through the night sky, loud and high and piercing. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z There was only himself and the goddess with her piercing gaze and nectar scent and...gravity. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It was the first thing she had noticed about him: the piercing blue eyes, and the way he had of seeming to see beyond what was obvious. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z There was a piercing squeal, an alarm, and from the ceiling the safety sprinklers sprung to life, showering water down the entire length of the floor. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Their piercing cries were drowned in the roaring of the river as it carried them away. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Luna focused, the keenness of her eye boring inward, piercing the shine of the pearl. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “I thought I heard my sister but—” The piercing shriek cuts me off. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I hear a piercing voice shout from behind me. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The crowd started whistling, piercing whistles that upset his concentration. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z They were interrupted by Bitter’s voice, carrying down the hall and through the bedroom door, piercing into their small, secret world. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z A hand closes on my wrist, and piercing cold numbs my arm to the shoulder. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The sound of giggling, soft and piercing, simmers low from the seats. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Citra chilled when her piercing gray eyes zeroed in on her. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z I keep seeing Rue speared, my arrow piercing the boy's neck. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z My eyes were blue before, but a dull, grayish blue—the eyeliner makes them piercing. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z I watch my words as they hit, piercing his eyes and ears and cheeks like porcupine quills. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He matched gazes with the disfigured stranger, staring into those piercing, wounded eyes. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z It has mouth parts adapted for piercing and sucking, and a prodigious appetite for the chlorophyll that makes the world green. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z As she hesitated, the dragon turned his head toward her, his impenetrable black eyes piercing her. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z As the car hurtled toward the boardwalk, Harry let out a piercing scream that could be heard over the shrieks of our fellow passengers—and probably across the whole island. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Fat Tom's blade dropped from nerveless fingers as the wet red point burst out through his ribs, piercing leather and mail. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z A tall, athletic teenager with piercing eyes and raven-black hair, she was much older—and bolder—than most of the students, and had a reputation as the leader among Messengers. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z And with a piercing cry out of the dim sky fell the winged shadows, the Nazgûl stooping to the kill. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z To my surprise, as soon as I entered the room, her piercing eyes fixed upon me. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z He was young, and he looked up often as he read the gospel, his brown eyes piercing the congregation. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z She kept climbing, but she imagined him watching her with those piercing blue eyes, his jaw set with confidence. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z By night—when it was too dark for the piercing gaze of the adversary—we formed and took up our line of march. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z She seems nice—light skinned, brown eyes, brown hair, a nose piercing, and a big smile. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z In the room he could hear the woman dragging herself about and the cry of the child was incessant and piercing. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z With a piercing scream, Taylor jumped forward, circling the blow dryer over her head by its cord. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Then, from some kind of mouth that Thomas couldn’t see, the Griever let out a long, piercing shriek and pulled back again; the spikes disappeared. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z But thinking of Tariq was treacherous because, before she could stop, she saw him lying on a bed, far from home, tubes piercing his burned body. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z With a piercing wail of agony the rat fell from the top of the platform. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z On the fringe of the little group stood a stranger—a man of middle height, black-haired, with a hooked nose, full red lips, eyes very piercing and dark. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Once I looked over, he plopped back onto the carpet into a regal sitting position, his lime-green eyes piercing into mine. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z A piercing cry from somewhere close, in the grass. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z It was piercing and raw, ripping its way along the street like a living thing. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Her voice is like tiny knives piercing me. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z He could hear the hollow boom-boom-boom-boom of the flak pounding all around him in overlapping measures of four, the sharp, piercing crack! of a single shell exploding suddenly very close by. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z As her fingers gripped the rim, she felt a piercing pain beneath her arm. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Reverend Finney was tall and intimidating: His voice boomed, his face grimaced and frowned, and his eyes stared, piercing and cold. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Her eyes had lost their vagueness now and looked at Hazel with piercing clarity. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z His agony was terrifying, the piercing, unearthly howl with which he split the moonlit dark vibrating in its own impact for seconds afterward like a devastating shock. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He cried for his mother in the most painfully piercing voice that I had ever heard. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I had never seen his arm move this way, never seen this piercing light in his eyes that appeared when he was in Aunty Ifeoma’s garden. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “Thirty to forty group!” yapped a piercing female voice. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “Did you expect a present, Miss Eyre? Are you fond of presents?” and he searched my face with eyes that I saw were dark, irate, and piercing. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The alcohol smell is on my fingers, cold and remote, piercing, like a steel pin going in. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z But there is another piercing cry, then another, and soon the forest is ringing with the noise, as if all of the demons in hell have entered our camp. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “Who dat? Who dat?” said Poppy in her small, piercing voice. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Two were dark, and had high aquiline noses, like the Count, and great dark, piercing eyes that seemed to be almost red when contrasted with the pale yellow moon. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z They were naked, but she felt naked in front of their glance, it was so piercing and went so deep. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z All she saw were the emperor’s piercing black eyes. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z His round, piercing brown eyes remind me of an owl. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z His hair was white as snow in the sunshine; and gleaming white was his robe; the eyes under his deep brows were bright, piercing as the rays of the sun; power was in his hand. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Alighting as gently as thisdedown, she curled under her toes to keep her talons from piercing his bare hand. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z For a moment, perfectly balanced between their piercing points, he writhed, tormented. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Many of the picnickers had eaten to excess and now sat heavy and dulled in the sun, which poured over the scene a clear, clean radiance, a piercing island summer light. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Then he reached his thumb and finger into his mouth, issued a piercing whistle, and motioned to the bulldozer, which lumbered to life. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z He gave her a piercing look and said, "Don't say that." The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Gaunt, intense, and excitable, with Rasputin’s piercing eyes and a beard that rivaled Darwin's, de Vries already looked like a younger version of his idol. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The music began: a breath of strings, then a whisper of voices, chanting, soft as silk, but somehow piercing. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I recited the times tables myself, until finally Red looked away from the tree and turned his piercing blue eyes on me. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Right at the bottom of the stairs, right before she started to climb, Raymie was struck with a sudden, piercing moment of disbelief. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z Afterward, as I wiped my mouth on the hem of my shirt, I heard a sound break through the darkness, a cry so piercing it made the bottom of my heart drop. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Ignoring me, he addressed his sister in a piercing treble: “Miss Megley said you must come and finish your tea!” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Then it threw back its head, opened its jagged maw, and let out a piercing metallic roar. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z We heard noise approaching rapidly as men descended on the camp by foot, gunshots piercing the night. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He puts his hands on my shoulders and looks into my soul-ish innards, it seems, with those piercing baby blues. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z First, there’s this piercing two-toned shriek that makes me feel like I’m being stabbed in the eyeballs from the inside. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z An old man with dark brown skin, piercing eyes, and slick gray hair had been watching them from the back of the room. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z First a rumbling roar, followed by a humming, and then a softer sort of whistling noise, piercing enough to make Thor’s head ache and his teeth hurt each time he heard it. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z But the setting sun emerged from the trees behind them, and her breath caught in her throat as a spire, then three, then six more appeared, piercing the sky. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer is more unexpected: he’s handsome, with piercing eyes. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z And Morgan would look up from the TV or a book or a game to watch him, as though she saw through him, while Don pretended not to squirm under her piercing eyes. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z There were a few more thunks, and then a last, long, piercing scream that ended in a wet, gurgly burst. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “I hope you find success,” he said, and stood on his doorstep in the piercing cold to watch them up the little street. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Count Rugen was a bit surprised that his point had been deflected, but there was nothing wrong with piercing a helpless man’s shoulder. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z A diamond, two arrows piercing its side, then a vertical line through its middle... Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He was having trouble piercing the blood bag with the dull point and, growing angry, he thrust harder than was necessary and without the necessary control. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z But then the noise came again—a harsh, piercing cry from behind him out of the desert. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The horse and the young man swam through the piercing cold water. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The anger coursed over her features, twisted her mouth, and her eyes were piercing. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z His eyes are like that too, a piercing, slightly fanatical blue. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It was impossible to escape the terrible sound, even after Thomas finally talked the Med-jacks into letting him go—weary, sore, bandaged, but tired of the piercing, agonized wails of their leader. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Pagan drums, ethereal choirs, tribal chanting, wailing lamentations, guttural snarls, unnatural howls, and piercing screams united in relentless disharmony. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z One is a sharp mountain piercing the sky, with stormcloud round the peak dissolving never, not in the brightest summer, to show heaven’s azure there, nor in the fall. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt he was one of the creatures electronically inserted between the slots of the phono-colour walls, speaking, but the speech not piercing the crystal barrier. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z And right across the river are hundreds of tall buildings, some shooting straight, piercing the clouds. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Small, piercing lights come at me from all angles. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z It felt as if his eyes were piercing me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Before him stood a tall, lean, and muscular boy around his age with neatly combed brown hair, piercing eyes, and a serious look about him. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z The others crumbled around me, shriveling at the first piercing shriek. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The mom’s piercing wails seem to echo through the camp and into the mountains far in the distance. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z White-hot knives were piercing every inch of his skin, his head was surely going to burst with pain, he was screaming more loudly than he’d ever screamed in his life — And then it stopped. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z My dress is too tight and too short and I don’t want Dray’s piercing eyes on me, not even the blue-cap boy’s, Kasim. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Hideo gives me the same piercing stare that I remember from our first meeting. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The sun came up, as it always does in space, with a fierce burst of piercing white light. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She hit something and let out ear- piercing screams: “Mama! Mama! I’m on fire!” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She heard the song of the white throated sparrow, and was soothed by the piercing refrain. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Olanna reached out and grasped Odenigbo’s arm and the screams came out of her, screeching, piercing screams, because something in her head was stretched taut. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I don't know that I've ever seen such a clear sky, blue and piercing, sharp in a way I didn't know the sky could be. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I went over to congratulate him, and he shook my hand warmly, his eyes dark and piercing. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The goddess met his gaze directly, eyes piercing. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z There’s a single piercing shriek—I have no idea from where—then pandemonium. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z He looks up to see, there in the sky and blocking out the sun completely, the long-lost Lazarus woodpecker, with its wings outspread and its beak pointing upward, nearly piercing the blue of the sky. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z After the anklet was on, another machine clamped a small electronic device onto my left ear, piercing it in two locations. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She is a sprightly, spidery woman, with a narrow nose and piercing hazel eyes as bright and sharp as a bird’s. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z That sharp, piercing love pain stabbed her right between the ribs. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The only human sound Turner heard, piercing the din of engines, was the crying of babies. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Speaking of looks, Raj has a new piercing: a silver ball under his lower lip. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z A piercing blue eye had looked out of the mirror fragment, and then help had come. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z These ballistic missiles followed an arcing trajectory, piercing the earth's atmosphere and falling to earth with the force of gravity; once launched, they could not be stopped. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She removes a needle from the silver tray and shows it to me before piercing my arm. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z You wouldn’t think a cricket’s tiny chirp could carry so far, but when all is silence, the piercing notes can be heard for miles. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the same tone, the same piercing depth, that I heard sometimes in Abba when mourners danced past our house, holding the photograph of a dead family member, shouting. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z They were dark brown with spotted wings, whitish throats, and piercing amber eyes. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Those piercing blue eyes dart around the room like they’re watching everything at once. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z We are both lying to each other, she thought, a great needle piercing her heart. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z It brought with it amorphous longings, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, that over the months melded into a piercing homesickness. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z As if on cue, Jay lets out a piercing "Right, right, riiight!" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Alys, toothless and wrinkled though with piercing eyes and a sharp tongue, told the men roughly: “Leave us be!” when they carried the trembling creature in to her. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z His gaze found his uncle’s again, a pin that would not stop piercing. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He smelled of old sweat, and she felt a sudden piercing longing for that Old Spice left behind in Nsukka. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Do you truly believe that you care more for me than I do for you?” he murmured, leaning closer to me as he spoke, his dark golden eyes piercing. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Under the doors of the castle the piercing blasts tortured the flapping rushes of the floors. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He ran from the barracks into the hallway, piercing the darkness with his flashlight as he headed straight for the cockpit. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z A video overtook my screen, piercing strobe lights. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z As Thor watched, the giant opened his eyes: they were a piercing icy blue. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Pain flared again, like nails were piercing her foot. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z But it's one second too late because, by that time, my arrow is piercing his hand. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z And now, clear, shrill, exultant the song of brass was piercing the room itself. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m daydreaming, staring out the open door at the sky when the brakes start their piercing shriek and everything lurches forward. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z But his cries were lost in the piercing screech of the fire alarm, and he knew it was useless. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Tally met his piercing eyes, struggling to think of what to say. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He thought of Nok, her piercing blackbird eyes and the vengeful way she'd looked at him before he leaped from the cliff into the water. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The exhaust clouds up around us like steam, the fuel smell piercing the predawn blackness. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I was about to intervene when the brothers came apart and let out a doubled scream so loud and piercing I feared my head would break. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Even though I’m inside Mrs. Walton’s car, I can feel people’s eyes piercing me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z It was not enough; I saw the blank windows; and that was more terrible than the specters of memory with their piercing gaze; that absence; those sheets of glass that held no image but transmission. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Within seconds, Katie’s piercing screams had died away and the only sound was the roar of the wind. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z This violin had a piercing, insistent sweetness of tone, almost like a baby crying. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But I do remember the piercing look she gave me as if she were actually going inside my head. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Behind us, the stadium lets out another piercing round of shrieks as the giant screens show a montage of Team Phoenix Riders’ best plays from last year. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z His toe nudged my broken leg and I heard a piercing scream. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z When Zora spoke you were aware of the skin stretching over these cheekbones and hollowing out between her jaws, the tight mask it made, banshee-like, with her blue eyes piercing through above. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Don Joaquín’s voice rose in timbre and pitch, until he seemed to disappear and only his words remained, reverberating against the cement walls, piercing the assembled into delirious convulsions and ecstatic trances. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z That serpent’s gaze, cool and piercing, felt unnatural, like everything else in this jungle. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z A piercing, bloodcurdling shriek split the silence — the book was screaming! Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Everywhere you looked there was something startling: a stuffed squirrel, a kite in the shape of a dragon, a wooden cow with a spear piercing its side. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z I stared at him, piercing holes through the dark. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z As soon as he was made comfortable enough to drift off, Robert would stiffen and jolt awake with a piercing scream. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly I heard a shrill piercing whistle from above me. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Consider a small pin driven into your skull, the agony of the piercing. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Strange piercing screams came from the area of the kitchen. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z In such a place lived the hermits of the early church piercing to infinity with unlittered minds. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The cheers from across the gym were like volleys of arrows piercing our grand delusion. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z The Old Man of the Moon looked at Haiyi, his black eyes piercing. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Ethyne gave the old man a piercing look. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z He was too perfect, I realized with a piercing stab of despair. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Her mouth opened wide and she let out a piercing shriek. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z It was a large heart with lots of hearts growing smaller inside, and piercing from the outside rim to the smallest heart was an arrow. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It rose and fell, and ended on a high piercing note. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z A man dressed in black appeared, a long-haired fellow, whose piercing eyes looked down upon me out of an intense and friendly face. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z We were having a whistling contest, and Dedd had just won with a piercing trill. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I heard a piercing shriek that sounded like rending metal. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Images flash through my mind: the spear piercing Rue’s body in the arena, Gale hanging senseless from the whipping post, the corpse-littered wasteland of my home. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “An iced coffee, please,” she told the cute male barista with the septum piercing. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Once, aeons ago, the Appalachians were of a scale and majesty to rival the Himalayas—piercing, snow-peaked, pushing breathtakingly through the clouds to heights of four miles or more. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z A violent scream filled the air, a piercing, horrible sound, and suddenly every last person there was charging forward, rushing at the two men with their death-dealing weapons. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z My mom spins around to look at me, her blue eyes piercing, voice biting. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z His paw hung in midair, and his lime-green eyes were wide, piercing into my thoughts. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The air was filled with the buzz of a hundred students at recess, punctuated by yells, laughter, and, occasionally, Mrs. Fields’s piercing whistle. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Someone taps me on the shoulder then and I turn around and find myself staring at this unspeakably hot twenty-something girl with a labret piercing, flaming red hair, and boots up her calves. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z There was a blanket draped over the open door, and light from the fireplace was piercing the evening night. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z There was the deep sigh again and an even more piercing chill. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z But I can feel her eyes staring at me, piercing through walls and doors and bedding. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z She closes her eyes and speaks to her granddaughter, imagines her words as slivers of light piercing the murky night. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Octavian’s face looked almost ghoulish under his white mantle - his eyes too piercing, his cheeks too gaunt, his lips too thin and colourless. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The piercing beam of a flashlight caught him squarely in the eyes, and he turned away. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Lady Constance’s sarcastic laugh was so piercing, Penelope wanted to cover her ears. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Her last words ripped out of her in a wail, plaintive and piercing. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Sarai uncovered her eyes and found Great Ellen restored to human form, the excoriating hawk gaze replaced by a piercing but compassionate human one. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Whispers ride the air, and I think I hear the piercing staccato of wild laughter. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “In order! In order!” came the Corporal’s piercing cry. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z It had been the piercing, compelling scents of the countryside outside the villa. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z An employee had said in a magazine interview that you were qualified to work at Henka Games only if you could withstand the scrutiny of his piercing stare while giving him a presentation. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Cole pinched his eyes closed against the piercing rain. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z We walked awhile more, and then he let loose of the arrow, and it screamed forward, piercing its mark cleanly. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z She always had a string of hot skater boyfriends, an adorable nose piercing, and a shoe rack full of Doc Marten boots. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Dimple glanced at him sideways, in that sneaky yet piercing way she had. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Her nose piercing and acne scars are hidden under the foundation plastered on her skin. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z And it was absolutely impossible not to answer her long, piercing shriek with a piercing shriek of his own. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z A quiet, tense woman with piercing eyes, she had been a frequent guest in our house. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Stanley stamped down on the back of the blade of the shovel, piercing the hard, dry earth. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z The woman seated next to Aunty Ifeoma had piercing academic eyes and humorless lips and wore no makeup. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The doctor had few treatments for Sopha’s tumors, but he tried piercing her skin to drain off fluid. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Over the past few years, Hideo has transformed from a lanky teenage genius into an elegant young man with piercing eyes. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The stake went into his right eye, piercing through his glowering red eyeball. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z They heard Bull give a piercing wolf whistle from his vantage point on the sofa and they knew that Mary Anne was coming down the stairs. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why would anyone want a belly piercing?” he asked, genuinely appalled. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z A piercing tragedy with Kafkaesque political overtones, it addressed the universal plight of stateless refugees from repressive regimes. 5 things to know about Seattle Opera’s ‘The Consul’ 2014-02-12T20:32:09Z She went punk, bleaching her hair and piercing herself and, she says, drinking whatever the guys were drinking. Noomi Rapace Arrives in Hollywood, by Way of Outer Space 2012-05-27T14:10:42Z It began as a dull ache and matured into a piercing pain. Down on luck diva faces surgery, mounting bills 2010-12-04T17:37:00Z Leisurely eating lets a diner appreciate, say, the contrast between sweet white scallops and their piercing base of salsa verde. Sally’s Middle Name review: A way with the seasons, if not the service 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Luisi seemed in his element too, drawing nice spiky tones from the violins during a jaunty section in which the high strings match the clarinet’s piercing lines. Music Review: Luisi Crosses Border To American Territory 2012-01-16T22:54:23Z Eastern time on Wednesday, during the first nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System, all television channels and radio stations in the United States were supposed to be interrupted by piercing emergency tones. Some Glitches in First Nationwide Emergency Alert Broadcast 2011-11-10T03:14:47Z He had the looks of a film star: blond hair, piercing eyes and a chiseled jawline. Actor. Lawyer. Lover of the arts. Her uncle defied category. 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Ms. Dvorovenko is somewhat unrecognizable in the role: Sallow and drawn, her usually glittering sapphire eyes disappear into the camera with piercing melancholy. I Don’t Miss ‘Swan Lake’: A Ballerina’s Role on ‘The Americans’ 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z The closeup of Holiday at 9:30 is a majestic moment of cinema; it’s close enough to catch, in her facial expressions, an intimacy as piercing as that of her voice. Cultural Clicks: Benjamin Britten, Billie Holiday, and Bill Murray 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z With her piercing blue eyes and gamine appearance, she quickly found work. Susannah York obituary 2011-01-16T10:38:03Z The track’s popular music video, featuring a close-up of O’Connor’s shaved head and piercing gaze, was itself nominated for a Grammy. Sinead O’Connor, Prince and the Thrill of ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z The piercing eyes stare out intently from the cover of “American Prometheus,” a biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist who spearheaded the development of the atomic bomb. The Eyes of Cillian Murphy 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z She sees every part in retrospect, no longer piercing, hardly even dramatic, but as another logical cycle of fulfilment in the story of woman's life. From the Observer archive, 6 October 1935: Greta Garbo in her element as Anna Karenina 2012-09-29T23:05:46Z It includes brilliant evaluations of the writings of Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, as well as other less famous figures, about whom Wilson is just as piercing. Reading About the Confederacy 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z She took a friend along to get the piercing. Piercings Are Back, Subtle and Sophisticated 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z It is a thematic film about marriage and the deception of social media, as well as a piercing examination of domestic violence constructed with care and undeniable craft. ‘American Murder: The Family Next Door’ Review: Tragedy Reconstructed 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z “The flatly sung vocals are slightly off-putting but quite minimal and as the piercing, insinuating instrumental intensifies, it draws you in like quicksand. Coldly spacey, but fascinating,” he wrote. The First Days of Disco 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Drugs and death whisper on the sidelines, never piercing a charmingly buoyant tone that belies the characters’ deprivations. Review: In ‘Sweaty Betty,’ Two Single Dads and Their Pals Getting Through the Day 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z They continued on together, Mr. Amotz playing with piercing focus at the top of the instrument’s range and alluring smokiness in his low notes. Music Review: Meitar Ensemble at Roulette 2013-04-19T21:24:58Z Writing this all down, I feel silly about my extreme reaction, and I’m still asking myself why the piercing bothers me so. My daughter’s piercing 2013-09-05T23:00:00Z After a few minutes the Roots’ guitarist Kirk Douglas stepped to the fore, saving Mr. Legend, and the song, with plaintive, piercing phrases that connoted desperation and agony. Music Review: Putting Ballads Aside for Soul That?s More Soothing Than Sweaty 2010-09-24T22:07:00Z But an even more piercing moment came during a much quieter song. At Billie Eilish’s Arena Show, the Only Spectacle Is Herself 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z But they weren’t the only piercing part of this scene from a movement-theater piece called “The Resilience Project.” Combat veterans speak of pain, healing in ‘The Resilience Project’ 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z She took her time with it here, showing off the piercing thickness in her voice, even as seemingly each of the few thousand people in attendance was trying to outsing her. Olivia Rodrigo’s Punky Heartbreak Revue 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z And they have all sought out J. Colby Smith at New York Adorned in the East Village, who has become a kind of guru of the fashion piercing. Piercings Are Back, Subtle and Sophisticated 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z As he did in “Marble Season,” Hernandez writes of being young with piercing truth and nonjudgmental clarity. The top 10 graphic novels of 2014 Most people think it is because of his piercing blue eyes and his intense gaze. Udo Kier, master of creepy and camp, looks back on a wild career: “I’ve made 200 films. 100 a... 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z In whole stretches, the orchestra almost hugs each word with some piercing harmony, or doubles a vocal line with instruments. Review: Matthew Aucoin’s ‘Crossing’ Is a Taut, Inspired Opera 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z A few high notes had an unpleasant piercing quality, but these were less obtrusive than when she sang the role here last year. Dalayman's rapturous Immolation caps `Ring' 2013-05-03T15:38:08Z In later years, Williams would recall that night often, describing a horrific scene with his trademark blend of emotion and piercing detail. ‘Brian being Brian’: A unique storytelling ability connected Brian Williams with viewers, but it also led to his downfall 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z But it is her “piercing understanding of modern humiliation” that makes her debut story collection “vibrate with life.” New in Paperback: ‘Transcendent Kingdom’ and ‘Agent Sonya’ 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z It’s one of the great and piercing funerary moments in Godard’s films, an utterly unironic, tender testament of love. Godard’s Revolutionary 3-D Film 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z But Ms. Jones’s talent for bringing alive voices of such piercing specificity helped me overlook the main problem that I had with the show. Review: ‘Sell/Buy/Date,’ Sarah Jones’s Futuristic Look at Sex Workers 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z It gets all the way through, piercing me like a gunshot, stopping me cold. I wasn’t supposed to get breast cancer 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z Partly that’s because her piercing voice breaks in just the right places when her mood grows downcast, and explodes into colorful curlicues when she’s enthused, or peeved. Review: Miranda Lambert Sings of What Comes After the Heartbreak 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z In the manner of Ligeti, sustained, mostly subdued chords kept going out of focus, with pitches slipping into piercing clusters, then slipping back into shimmering tonal harmonies. Review: Berlin Radio Choir Honors Bach and Those He Influenced 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z In the writer-director's hands, what would seem to be an agreeably quirky slacker comedy about a shiftless small-time scam artist subtly morphs into a darkly piercing study of alienation. Watchful 'Buzzard' keeps you guessing 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Tattooing and high-visibility piercing, resurgent in the early 1990s as the seditious insignia of proud outliers, are now being revisited in unlikely quarters. Piercings and Eye-Popping Tattoos: Fashion’s Latest Canvas Is the Skin You’re In 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z It would be a piercing indictment of online cancel culture, if calling oneself a “crazy stalker” counted as a feminist act of “owning it.” Bully or the Bullied? Kathleen Hale Is Both 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z The family resemblance to photographs of Darrow is unmistakable, from the piercing eyes, barrel chest and roguish cowlick, to the signature rumpled suit that proclaimed his lifelong populist allegiance. Before Black Lives Matter there was Clarence Darrow, brought to life onstage in Ventura 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z "It took forever for my navel piercing to heal." The Soska sisters are the new faces of horror 2013-01-11T14:00:00Z Befitting his early studies in engineering as well as his piercing mad-genius gaze and unruly nimbus of hair, Varèse cited a scientific phenomenon in a 1931 letter to the harpist and composer Carlos Salzedo. Into The Music: The Clout of Edgard Var?se?s ?Ionisation? 2010-07-16T14:55:00Z But the play is distinguished most of all by the incisive characterizations of the Guildhall three, their contrasting outlooks elucidated in the piercing monologues that herald their deaths. Theater Review: Brian Friel’s ‘Freedom of the City,’ at Irish Repertory Theater 2012-10-16T22:01:00Z I rolled my eyes but felt a piercing affection for them. After giving birth to my first child, I wondered: would I ever want sex again? 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z There is the exquisite lyricism and deep feeling of “Moonlight,” Barry Jenkins’s astonishing second feature, about a young black man’s coming of age in three piercing chapters. Cinema Is Dead? Telluride Says Not Yet 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z The first movement begins with an Adagio introduction, flickering with piercing chords and sustained sonorities; this leads to a bustling, densely contrapuntal Allegro. A Symphony With Powerful Champions, but Often Overlooked 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z He also paints piercing images of himself and his family, though he calls all of these figurative pieces self-portraits. Crossing Borders 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z The bright, clean guitars on “In My Blood” are piercing, and when the song swells midway and Mr. Mendes finds the scratched-up outer limits of his voice, it’s bracing. Shawn Mendes Loses His Edge (Yes, He Had Edge) 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z His piercing green eyes and jet-black hair are striking against his white tux. How anal sex ruined my relationship 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z During the Pantoum, the Ravel was more sensation than sound: the deep cello rasp of hair against gut; shimmers of glissando from the piano; piercing intrusions by a worried violin. Review: Chamber-fest concert nourished body, mind and soul 2010-07-15T20:56:00Z At dusk, there were celebratory firecrackers and, in the morning, the cloudless sky was a piercing aquamarine. Overnighter: Tlaxcala, an Old-World Escape Near Mexico City 2011-11-23T20:01:52Z Then again, Ms. Wohl — whose best-known play, the quiet, piercing ensemble piece “Small Mouth Sounds,” also tested theatrical conventions — isn’t interested in letting nostalgia cloud her vision. Review: ‘Make Believe’ Has a Cast of Children, but No Fairy Tales 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Soon after, Mr. le Carré published “The Pigeon Tunnel,” a vignette-filled sort-of memoir in which he assiduously avoided subjecting himself to the same piercing scrutiny he applied to his fictional characters. John le Carré, Best-Selling Author of Cold War Thrillers, Dies at 89 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z While exhaustive, it's a bit different this time around; there is a piercing sense of hope that we're getting somewhere. New doc "John Lewis: Good Trouble" gives nuance to a relentless freedom fighter 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z The stupefying heat at times meant the works for toy piano took on a particularly surreal quality, with the whistles of Jorge Torres Sáenz’s “Toy Symphony” piercing the heavy air with startling force. Music Review: Margaret Leng Tan on Toy Piano at Washington Square Park 2013-07-17T20:27:22Z But her striking looks and piercing voice command the screen like few actresses this side of Marlene Dietrich. Tilda Swinton, rock star of the art house 2010-06-19T18:01:00Z The period's leading artist is the incomparable Max Beckmann, a hinge between Expressionism and New Objectivity, whose eye for piercing social insight is displayed in eight canvases. A chilling portrait of Germany's Weimar era emerges in 'New Objectivity' at LACMA 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Over a period of seven years, Wang filmed her parents, siblings and relatives from within the emotional thicket of their lives, capturing moments of piercing, private intimacy. ‘All About My Sisters’ Review: Family Matters 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Contrary to popular belief, television is full of very smart people, but Denton always stood out for his piercing intelligence and refusal to compromise. Andrew Denton: his final farewell? 2013-06-26T04:16:27Z The film is “serious, beautiful, wise to the absurdity of life and in the embrace of a piercing longing,” Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times in November. Lionel Rogosin?s ?On the Bowery? on Blu-ray 2012-02-24T20:10:52Z This is ruthless writing, sharp and piercing, a story that pivots on its final sentence, revealing that friendships we thought were substantial are really just a set of shallow roots. Edith Pearlman has a fine eye for the intimate in 'Honeydew' 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z “Ain’t No Mo’,” an uproarious and piercing comedy that imagines a moment in which the United States offers to relocate Black people to Africa, will be staged on Broadway this fall. Imagining an Exodus: ‘Ain’t No Mo’’ to Take Flight on Broadway 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z “He began to follow his own piercing moral and intellectual insights looking for answers to problems of injustice, poverty and war.” ‘One small act of compassion in Tommy’s honor’: Kind deeds follow the death of Rep. Raskin’s son 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z Rihanna came in for a nipple piercing and walked out with several lines of Sanskrit inked on her hip. You Want This Tattoo? Get in Line. 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z His singing is clear and piercing, often wonderfully expressive. Playlist: New Albums: Neil Young, Thelonious Monk and Shelby Lynne 2013-12-06T21:53:11Z Fortunately, this graceful production captures more than enough of this challengingly frolicsome yet ultimately piercing play to win us over. Shakespeare's 'Love's Labor's Lost': Kathleen Marshall directs a winner at the Old Globe 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z So what we see are various ways the soul highlights the body, through piercing and decoration and dance, to keep the body central, to keep it center stage. Punk, dance music and drugs 2013-05-20T00:00:00Z Andrei Popov, in his Met debut, had fun with the high tenor role of the sneering Police Inspector, singing with piercing, nasal comic intensity. Music Review | ?The Nose?: Picture This: A Nose Goes Missing 2010-03-07T00:53:00Z And those were the true highlights: the late-night clarity of “Sister Song,” the unflinching “Mr. Peterson” and the piercing “No Good.” Perfume Genius, intensely personal and enthralling Plotting a girlish prank on him one day, she was exposed to a piercing glimpse of his profound despair and loneliness. | 'We?re Gonna Die': Amid Catchy Choruses, Personal Tales of Life?s Brutal Verities 2011-04-10T21:32:33Z Beefheart was striking, he dominated a room and had huge presence; I was struck by his piercing eyes and dreadful skin. The night Captain Beefheart drove me into the hills in a red Corvette 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The New York Times that the movie is “serious, beautiful, wise to the absurdity of life and in the embrace of a piercing longing.” What’s on TV Friday: ‘The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind’ and ‘The Widow’ 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z But Mr. Little’s piercing, misty music makes it work. Review: ‘JFK’ Puts a Very Dark Day in an Operatic Light 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z He was a role model, confidant and mentor who supported and challenged me, talking me through problems and piercing through any of my self-deceptions with scientific precision. Long aftermath of a mass shooting: Remembering my father, killed in 1991 at the University of Iowa 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z Traditional industrial piercing I got when I was 19. What 8 Thirsty Scenesters Wore to the Broken Shaker Bar 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z “Emergency Declaration,” a piercing thriller from the South Korean writer-director Han Jae-rim, manages to deliver excitement and melodrama out of a ludicrous story line. ‘Emergency Declaration’ Review: Midair Contagion 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z As ever, the key to his performance was the absolute seriousness he brought to it – particularly in that piercing, commanding gaze. A great actor who grew into his gravitas: Martin Landau remembered 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Feden accused Bliss of “character assassination” because of the piercing cross-examination of women who took the stand to testify against Cosby. After a volcanic day of closing arguments, Bill Cosby’s retrial is in the hands of the jury 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z Maguire’s descriptions of her dark moods, bursts of anger and fear that she will end up like her father are piercing and sensitively written. New Middle Grade Fiction From the Authors of ‘Wicked’ and ‘Knights vs. Dinosaurs’ 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Has This Hit features two separate but simultaneous guitar parts: a piercing, Edge-style one-note riff and some aching, jazzy chords, each played with greater vigour as the song goes on. New band of the day ? No 916: Zoo Kid 2010-11-24T16:48:00Z Eventually short, abrupt phrases break out into passages that sound like fractured jazz piercing through fog. Music Review: San Francisco Symphony Plays Mahler and Samuel Carl Adams 2012-09-30T21:54:38Z The result, with backlighting piercing inky blackness, lends his work the quality of moonlight. Herman Leonard, Photographer, Dies at 87 2010-08-18T03:45:00Z Perhaps most captivating is the sheer range of strange, delicate and piercing sounds the brilliant Bjarke Mogensen draws from the accordion; who needs synthesizers when you have this virtuoso in your ensemble? 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z I find it hard to resist piercing the flaxen yolk over the plump pulses. 20 best vegetarian recipes: part 1 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z The atrocity of Boko Haram’s kidnapping of Nigerian schoolgirls is described with piercing clarity in “The Chibok Girls: Our Story,” which is getting a brief U.S. premiere this week at Georgetown University. Review | ‘Nobody wants this story told’: Nigeria’s Renegade Theatre makes U.S. debut with ‘Chibok Girls’ 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z It is Mr. Druid, though, who temporarily rescues the film from its own carefulness, piercing its bubble of high-minded complacency with his slow-burning anger and deadpan humor. Review: In ‘Louder Than Bombs,’ a Father and Sons Grieving 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z And like the others he was instantly recognizable: the jutting jaw, the dimpled chin, the piercing gaze and the breaking voice, the last making him irresistible fodder for comedians who specialized in impressions. Kirk Douglas, a Star of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Dies at 103 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Alone, he builds to a broken explosion along with D’Angelo’s gospel scream, a piercing expression of the love inside and all that blocks it. Review: Kyle Abraham’s Theatrical Love Letter to Social Dance 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Poetic instinct was a Cortot characteristic and in the second half Hough brought piercing insight to Chopin, the ultimate poet of the piano. Stephen Hough 2010-06-02T21:31:00Z “Get Out” contains some of the most piercing, painful point-of-view shots in the recent cinema. “Get Out”: Jordan Peele’s Radical Cinematic Vision of the World Through Black Eyes 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z A piercing siren goes off on the corner of Leopold Street and Barker's Pool and nobody reacts. Wigan Pier 2011-02-20T00:04:14Z But he tells us little about who she actually is, beyond her “frank declaration and piercing facial expressions.” Critic at Large Rebecca Carroll on Wesley Lowery's 'They Can't Kill Us All' 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z “I’m not particularly proud of all that happened and yet ... it was my shining moment,” Ruth says, and Ms. Lavin invests the words with a piercing truth. | 'Collected Stories': Linda Lavin as Donald Margulies?s Vision of Faded Fame 2010-04-28T23:01:00Z Dramatic work must insist on delivering current issues in a form that is more piercing, profound and personal than the hit-and-run approach that the media embrace in order to deliver the news as it happens. Letters: The Role of Drama 2010-02-26T15:27:00Z But such animating sparks of piercing feeling too rarely cut through Mr. Farr’s capable but superficial production. | 'King Lear' : The Old, Inexorable Story of a King?s Disintegration 2011-07-17T21:53:11Z The store hopes to draw a mix of stylish younger customers and those like her, who, she said, “have kept their main ear hole and want at least one more additional piercing.” Piercings and Eye-Popping Tattoos: Fashion’s Latest Canvas Is the Skin You’re In 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z A piercing shot captures white men performing minstrel music in blackface, laying out a stark truth about appropriation and racism. 'The Birth of Rock and Roll': Book of found photos tells vivid history 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z And a piercing modern clarity is attained when Karl Johnson’s Gloucester totters across the stage with a walker, a bandage across his eyes and a disposable plastic rain poncho. A tale of two Lears: Glenda Jackson and Antony Sher scale Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z But Ms. Fischer, alluringly plump with short black hair and a nose piercing, does not fit the background-singer stereotype. Backup Singers Are the Focus of ’20 Feet From Stardom’ 2013-06-07T12:00:01Z Which is why it was a shame that Mr. Polenzani was forced to stop between songs early on when some soft, but piercing and very audible electronic sounds filled the hall. Music Review: A Swagger and Some Bluster for the Sake of Telling Stories 2011-04-04T21:28:36Z Love and loss go hand in hand in “20th Century Women,” a funny, emotionally piercing story about a teenager and the women who raise him. Review: 1 Teenage Boy and 3 Mothers in ‘20th Century Women’ 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z One observer in this unsettling, piercing film likens the company to a rubbish heap crawling with rats. ‘Bolshoi Babylon’: Ballet’s dark side meets Kremlin politics 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z Mr Wolf’s contribution is comprehensiveness and a piercing logic in piecing the disparate elements together. How to fix a broken system 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z It’s been 20 years since Candice Bergen’s piercing gaze appeared on television in the role of the investigative journalist Murphy Brown. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘The Good Place’ and ‘Norsemen’ 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Higher voices intrude, until there is a pileup of parts, and the music heaves with Expressionistic harmonies reminiscent of Berg, yet spiked with jazzy chords and piercing dissonance that somehow seem American and fresh. Music Review: Yefim Bronfman Plays Works by Living Composers 2014-01-14T22:34:57Z As she demonstrates in her episode of the Netflix showcase series “The Characters,” she is capable of both embodying and piercing the sometimes pretentious worlds of art and culture. Comedy in NYC This Week 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Instead, the anachronistic flourishes in the editing along with the saucy performances make it piercing. In a TV landscape full of serious monarchs "The Serpent Queen" has bite, along with a good time 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z “For a moment, I thought those high-pitched, piercing shrieks were coming from a gaggle of schoolgirls,” says Mr. McKellen’s character, a veteran actor named Freddie. ‘Vicious’ on PBS Follows Two Gay Characters 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Clear and piercing, his justified indignation is as defined as his singular singing voice and flashy fashion. Review | Billy Porter bares his soul in ‘Unprotected’ 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z In his piercing blue eyes and his versatile voice, we can see and hear the full panoply of Marvin’s emotions: irritation and insecurity, adoration and ambivalence, and, yes, a large stock of neuroses. Review: ‘Falsettos,’ a Perfect Musical, an Imperfect Family 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Each chapter of her beautiful and urgent follow-up offers a piercing psychological portrait of a character affected by the Gwangju massacre in South Korea in 1980. Six New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Destruction and construction are prevalent themes in the exhibition, understandably, given that the medium is often manipulated through hammering, piercing, melting and fusing. Transforming metal: ‘Metalmorphosis’ exhibit at BAM shows new possibilities 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Regardless, by aiming the long, piercing gaze of this metaphor at the aftereffects of European imperialism in Africa, Bulawayo is really out-Orwelling Orwell. NoViolet Bulawayo Allegorizes the Aftermath of Robert Mugabe 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z In bursts of color reminiscent of Michael Mann films — lush greens and gunmetal grays, rusty reds and piercing yellows — the films opened windows into worlds rarely seen from such majestic angles. Film festival showcases the soaring power of drone cinematography 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z It captures with a piercing intensity that moment in life when everything seems possible, and nothing seems worth doing, or maybe it’s the other way around. | 'American Idiot': A Musical Inspired by a Green Day Album Opens 2010-04-21T03:16:00Z As the hoofers trade turns in the spotlight, each yields songs from the ground, scraping and stroking and piercing the floor in ways that confound the eye and ear with their intricacy. Review: Mourning in Tap Shoes at Jacob’s Pillow 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z By contrast, the trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith came to his closing remarks out of a strangely inert dirge with the guitarist Kaki King, piercing the sudden quiet with terse phrases full of coiled tension. Pairings Fulfill ‘A Night of Improvised Round Robin Duets’ 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z She said that feigning acceptance of the piercing was a milquetoast response. My daughter’s piercing 2013-09-05T23:00:00Z Emmie is Caroline’s adolescent daughter, who has conflicted feelings about her mother’s job and a piercing hunger for change. Topple a Confederate Statue? This Broadway Musical Already Did. 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z Together, the voices created hazy sounds and lingering harmonies, with both wide-spaced chords and piercing clusters. Sprawling Across New York, a Solstice Music Marathon 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z The fact that my arm and pelvis bore the brunt of the impact prevented the shark from piercing major organs. Experience: I was bitten by a shark 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z It seems I need a sudden, piercing alarm, which rather defeats the object of the sunrise. Therapy lamps tested: ‘The optical equivalent of freezing cold shower' 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z The chord for light is so piercing and bright you almost want to squint. Stephen Sondheim, as Great a Composer as He Was a Lyricist 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z The piercing whimper of a dog — an alarming interruption — drowns out her voice. Review: A Fierce Clarity of Vision in ‘J’ai Pleuré Avec les Chiens’ 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Then he soared off on the unexpected fast-bop theme that the band burst into, with the gifted Will Vinson's piercing alto-sax leading. Jonathan Kreisberg – review 2013-03-13T18:21:20Z Harper moved to New York in 1966, when he was 23, and began turning heads with the piercing and songful cry of his saxophone. At 80, Billy Harper’s Rhapsodic Saxophone Is Still a Towering Force 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z With his wide Slavic cheekbones and piercing eyes, Mr. Fetisov is still a little intimidating. ‘Red Army’ Charts Rise and Fall of a Soviet Hockey Team 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z When the music advances towards its inexorable conclusion, White's movements becomes distorted and hobbled, a piercing parallel of Nijinsky's retreat into madness. The Oracle – review 2013-06-02T15:30:01Z With the help of 200 volunteers, Law spent the past weekend snipping, piercing, and tying stems before hanging each bloom from a length of burnished copper wire. Artist Rebecca Louise Law Brings Flowers to Times Square 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Antique paintings of Cairo hung on flocked wallpaper in the front hall, and bronzes of all kinds—a Mannerist nude by Giambologna, columns modeled after the one piercing Paris’s Place Vendôme—occupied polished tabletops. AD Remembers Fashion and Design Icon Oscar de la Renta 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z She has a knack for refocusing a conversation, particularly for those who might underestimate her, with a piercing stare or a sharp comment. Fox's Newman and Walden one of Hollywood's most lucrative partnerships 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z During a taut early episode, as hazy chords and piercing orchestral bursts sounded over an obsessively repeated walking line in the low strings, the effect was at once alluring and terrifying. Review: Yannick Nézet-Séguin Offers a Glimpse of the Met Opera’s Future 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z It is also among the most piercing and plangent of cinematic self-portraits. Terence Davies’s Truthful Fictions About Emily Dickinson 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z The harmonic language shifts from sustained passages of holistic harmonies to piercing, grating, dissonant eruptions. Review: At Salzburg Festival, a Story of Sex and Conquest 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Harry declares to Sally with a vulnerable, piercing and bleeding heart all the ways he loves and sees her for the person that she is — not just some consolation prize: "When Harry Met Sally" is the perfect fall movie that we need now more than ever 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z Like the other tales nested in the play, it is written and performed with piercing economy. Review: In ‘Oh My Sweet Land,’ Dinner Is Served. Don’t Come Hungry. 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z After days and nights of rain puddling on the red carpet and grim tidings darkening the screens, the Coens delivered both much-needed levity and an expressive, piercing story about artistic struggle. Critic’s Notebook: Coen Brothers’ ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ Is Popular at Cannes 2013-05-19T20:30:52Z Barb’s physical characteristics — silky blond hair, large breasts, slender waist, “piercing aqua” eyes — are presented as essentially valuable, rather than as fluctuating currency in a complex, prejudicial system of class, race and economics. ‘Unfortunate Importance of Beauty,’ by Amanda Filipacchi 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z The Metropolitan Opera, one of the co-producers of this seething and psychologically piercing staging, presented it in April with a matchless cast headed by the gleaming soprano Nina Stemme in the title role. The Best Classical Music of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Melody Moore took admirable risks with a voice I might have thought a little light for the part, expertly navigating the role with small piercing top notes, deep low ones and solid dramatic comprehension. Glimmerglass season shines with vibrant vocal performances 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z Speaking of fearlessness: the six performers are naked as the day they were born throughout the work’s hourlong running time, excepting the myriad tattoos sprouting across various body parts, and the occasional piercing. | 'Young Jean Lee?s ?Untitled Feminist Show': Young Jean Lee?s ?Untitled Feminist Show? ? Review 2012-01-16T23:03:34Z It’s serious, beautiful, wise to the absurdity of life and in the embrace of a piercing longing. | 'Hugo': Martin Scorsese?s ?Hugo,? With Ben Kingsley and Sacha Baron Cohen - Review 2011-11-22T22:17:26Z The biggest compliment I can pay “Hemingway” is that it made me pull my “Collected Short Stories” off the shelf after years, to read his piercing, full-feeling work in a new light. Review: ‘Hemingway’ Is a Big Two-Hearted Reconsideration 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z It was part of Hitchcock's provocative primness that, after this meticulous outrage, he declared with wide eyes and wider vowels that you couldn't actually see a knife-point piercing flesh. Psycho: Anatomy of a scene 2010-10-22T10:54:00Z All of which seem to be missing from “Showing Up,” which finds piercing drama and wry comedy in the struggle to do anything at all. The New York Film Festival: Movies for Art’s Sake 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Given his reputation for piercing characters on the mandibles of his superior intellect, a praying Franzen doesn’t feel much more sanctified than a praying mantis. Review | Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Crossroads’ represents a marked evolution in a dazzling career 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z His piercing pain and comic bravura were as fine as any acted performance in any medium I've ever seen. 'Opera has never been more alive' 2011-08-19T23:19:01Z She uses these two virtuosos’ lives to generate piercing insights about ambition, ego, creativity and the life-changing, world-altering repercussions of a momentous choice. ‘Dietrich & Riefenstahl’ review: Two women who made fateful choices 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z But he sang with piercing intensity and terror during the cycle’s tumultuous episodes, when Jan becomes unhinged. Review: A Tenor Offers a Subtle Model of Adventurousness 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z The weight of these millstone flaws isn’t enough to drown “The Wanderer,” but it is enough to keep the production from streaming to the sky or piercing the heart. Jessica Lang’s ‘The Wanderer,’ a Premiere at BAM 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z Depending on what you order, this may include a bowl of crystalline brine, delicate and piercing, like a memory of kimchi. At HanYang BunSik, Snacking Is Encouraged 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z They arrive tumbled, like fish and chips, on a sheet of vellum printed with 19th-century British classified ads, with flat wooden sticks for piercing. House of Inasal in Woodside, Queens 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Suddenly the woman emits a long, piercing wail, to which her companion pays no attention. Cao Fei Captures Modern Malaise in a Series of Inventive Videos 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z And, just like that, the title of “No Home Movie” takes on piercing meaning. Review: ‘No Home Movie,’ of Love and Melancholy 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z It's a pretty unsettling scene that doesn't stop there — Vader's chest piece is then installed and each sharp pin is seen piercing into his torso. From Darth Vader to an insectoid bounty hunter, here are 7 teases in the "Obi-Wan Kenobi" trailer 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z In this piece, synthesizer and saxophone create piercing dissonances that are sustained to the point where sonic boundaries blur, throb and flicker. Review: Either/Or, at University Settlement, Is Inspired by Boredom and Writer’s Block 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Fidgety stirrings in the violin hovered over plush orchestra chords, until those chords splintered into clusters of piercing high tones. Review: The New York Philharmonic Plays a Piece Inspired by Night 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z The second movement opened on a whisper, whose calm was soon shattered by piercing jolts from the winds. Music Review: Spiral Form and Other Compositional Modes of Fred Lerdahl 2010-11-21T22:53:00Z Her voice is piercing, her lyrics are striking, and the beats are both familiar and refreshing. AP’s top albums of 2020: Toni Braxton, Teyana Taylor, JoJo 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z I am not a squeamish person, but at the sight of this piercing it was all I could do to keep myself from shrieking and running out of the room. The eye surgery I never should have seen 2014-01-28T00:00:00Z Mostly, what unites them is how each wrenches great feeling from stories about everyday life; here, lives abruptly change and even shatter in a single moment, a piercing absence, a sublime kiss. ‘Paris, 13th District’ Review: Groping Toward Happiness 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z And although his character always wears a mask, he arrived without one, revealing his piercing blue eyes and chiseled features. Orville Peck, a Masked Gay Country Star, Rides Into Brooklyn 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z His voice is as piercing as ever, with vowels fired off like tiny firecrackers. The Playlist: Selena Gomez Chides an Ex, and Remy Ma Stomps on a Foe 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z His piercing blue eyes and messy dark hair made me bite the inside of my lip. Modern Love: Bitten in the Virtual Zoo ? Modern Love 2011-10-13T21:10:45Z I’m getting lost in those piercing eyes again. Was ESPN announcer Brent Musberger being a creep? 2013-01-09T20:45:00Z From the first strains, you hear isolated two-note intervals and softly piercing clusters played in haunting repetition. Incidental Music in ?Winter?s Tale? and ?Merchant of Venice? 2010-07-19T21:26:00Z I was really hoping to put off that feeling until she made an unfortunate piercing choice in her teen years. Breast-feeding is hell 2013-05-27T01:00:00Z Some of the best of this material is collected in a piercing book titled “Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990-2005.” How New York City Got Its Fresh Water 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z The tone is affectionate but candid, and Mannix also provides instructions on how to perform many stunts, whether it be swallowing a neon tube or piercing your flesh with long needles. Step right up for carny classics 2010-10-21T09:25:00Z What’s appealing about this rare chance to see “Incident at Vichy” is the opportunity that it affords to hear Miller’s ethical insights and piercing intelligence resounding with such unbridled forthright eloquence. Review: ‘Incident at Vichy,’ an Arthur Miller Tale Set in World War II 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z Instead, it is an emotionally intelligent action flick with as many soul searching scenes as piercing bullets. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Toibin lets Nora’s solace lie in the piercing, abstract beauty of music and in a quotidian generosity that always eluded her. ‘Nora Webster,’ by Colm Toibin 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z He has short hair, a subtle ear piercing that looks like a staple, and the healthy tan of someone who works and surfs several months a year in Latin America — which he does. Fast-changing Boise offers plenty of adventure, day or night. Here’s a list to choose from. 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z The players commanded an expressive arsenal of sounds, from the hoarse sustained drones that open and end the work’s single movement to thumping rubbery plucked notes and piercing bowed accents. Review: JACK Quartet and Anthony McGill Perform a Menu of American Delicacies 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z “Blue Stratagem” showed off the layered textures — sometimes mellow, sometimes piercing — of the American Brass Quintet; in “Candlemas Eve,” flute lines darted around the shimmering aura of the vibraharp. A John Zorn Weekend — 10-Hour Marathon Concert Included 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z One piercing image shows Ms. Stafford hanging cruciform from Mr. Fairchild’s arms, her face turned up to the sky; the other couple seem to have reached a comparable impasse. City Ballet Revives ‘Davidsbündlertänze’ and ‘Union Jack’ 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z “She radiates both kindness and warmth while also transmitting a definite toughness and a definite sternness, and beneath that you have this really piercing intellect working at the same time,” Pizzolatto said. Michelle Monaghan at the heart of ‘True Detective’ 2014-03-06T20:41:09Z The voice is at once piercing and broken, as if a call from a Greek warrior across the centuries. Blood, sand and tears: A foreign correspondent's view of the opera 'Fallujah' 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Symptoms typically include piercing screaming and violent thrashing of the bed, giving the air of someone in a terrible panic. Eyes wide shut: how to cope with night terrors 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Both these roles were new to her this festival; she made them newly piercing. Vail International Dance Festival Sets Itself Apart With an Enchanting Lineup 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z I recall an industrial port and a parking lot with hazy yellow street lights weakly piercing the dark cloak of night. Ferry-camping in Alaska’s Inside Passage Bagpipes are famously loud and piercing; gamelans are known to take up lots of space. Review: Matthew Welch Offers Ethereal Chamber Music at the Stone 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z The work isn’t easy to spot while marching in the High Line parade, but it sounds a piercing, lingering alarm. 3 Outdoor Art Shows and One Trusty Dog (With Tricks!) 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z As the lurid story unfolded, Mr. Nelsons summoned enveloping swaths of sound and piercing climaxes. Music Review: Vienna State Opera Presents ‘Wozzeck’ and ‘Salome’ 2014-03-02T17:51:50Z But beneath its mild staginess and intermittent mania lies a cynical, piercing parable about China’s past and perhaps its present. Review: In ‘Mr. Donkey,’ a Village School’s Ruse Farcically Backfires 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z The second movement seems to evoke a harmonically piercing, elusive folk song. Music Review: A Beethoven Warm-Up and a Liszt Workout 2010-11-21T22:53:00Z As my brother and I went through his things, it was the many stacks of letters from parents and students that were the most piercing. Motherlode: Missing Dad 2011-06-15T15:47:38Z The doubt that slowly begins tugging away the foundations of Juliana’s confidence can almost be seen gathering in her piercing brown eyes. | 'The Other Place': Confronting an Illness and a Life in Shambles 2011-03-29T08:30:23Z The movie opens on a day seemingly like any other, although there’s a pronounced elegiac cast to the instrumental music and the piercing violin notes. ‘Revoir Paris’ Review: Recovering Fragments of Memory 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z This is still a looking glass city when it comes to race and class and even poetry, which makes Coleman’s work as piercing, as relevant, as it ever was. Should L.A. have a Wanda Coleman Memorial Library? 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z The aromatic filling of chicken in gravy, the nicely browned pastry lid, the ritual of piercing the crust: The whole experience is memorable. A Chicken Potpie Fit for a Party 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z Though the songs flow together and make an overall composition, they are written in varied styles: folkloric anthems; impressionistic ruminations with wistful, piercing cluster chords; stomp-and-shout romps; and more. Bryce Dessner Debuts 'Black Mountain Songs' at BAM 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z The band leader sang in a high, sometimes piercing tenor, but most of the vocals were unison or call-and-response, the latter another sign of Caribbean music’s African legacy. Rumba artist Pedrito Martinez gets the party started at Kennedy Center Jazz Club And this is a perfect example of soft boy misogyny because its insidiousness is incredibly nonchalant but still piercing. Jonah Hill's brand of soft boy misogyny is still misogyny 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z The daylight just streams in, and especially in the winter it’s quite piercing, which is not great for painting, but it’s very lovely. Mapping Oliver Jeffers’s World 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z During removals, he sometimes finds the devices in a “chicken wing” position with the implant swivelled so the tip is almost piercing the fallopian tube. Contraceptive implant surgically removed from thousands of women 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z But in passage after passage, Mr. Storgards emphasized the discontinuities and jarring turns of the music, as well as the piercing shards of dissonance that Sibelius folds into his deceptively sonorous harmonic language. Review: John Storgards’s Debut With the New York Philharmonic 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Dead center: The founder of Venice, pictured under an Italian-style archway with piercing eyes, bushy mustache and grim expression, dares anyone to defy his idyllic vision for a small, upscale resort town by the sea. Restored 'Abbot Kinney' mural anchors exhibit on Venice history 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Rumer's gentle tones run through his series of piercing domestic questions. Rumer: Boys Don't Cry – review 2012-05-26T23:10:01Z She amused the coaches -- and the rest of us -- with her unconventional stage moves and turned in some piercing vocals to boot. 'The Voice' recap: Tough calls as knockouts roll on 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z New York is banning pet tattoos and piercing under a state law aimed at curbing the trendy practice of inking or even maiming animals to make fashion statements. New York state bans pet tattooing, piercing 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z The notes of “Eidelweiss” are piercing as commuters file on and off trains. The Ephemeral Soundtrack of a New York Summer 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z After a moment, I identified it as an element coming from Annie Gosfield’s laptop — and the piercing coloratura motif as a sample from her own recent operatic adaptation of “The War of the Worlds.” Review: A Tour Through the Hyperactive World of John Zorn 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z If her piercing was a way to claim her body as her own territory, then I was a Viking laying my opinions and values on her. My daughter’s piercing 2013-09-05T23:00:00Z “How to Dance in Ohio,” a piercing documentary Monday night on HBO, might from its pocket description seem to be a variation on this evening-news staple. Review: ‘How to Dance in Ohio,’ a Documentary on HBO, Follows Three Women on the Autism Spectrum 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Her piercing became a line of demarcation between us. My daughter’s piercing 2013-09-05T23:00:00Z But the Einstein photo was a harbinger of what would become her specialty: piercing the celebrity armor of Hollywood stars, fashionistas and even world leaders and find a narrative behind the image. Marilyn Stafford, a Photojournalist Rediscovered, Dies at 97 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z This is provided by Mary Steenburgen’s schoolmistress, a fellow admirer of Jules Verne who likes the old boy’s piercing eyes but thinks he’s telling fibs. Back to the Future day: live! Enjoy 21 October 2015 around the world 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z I didn't like the skanky look of the young guy – long-haired, whippet thin, crudely tattooed, a piercing beneath his lower lip – who took the chair next to ours. Beach holiday tragedy 2011-08-05T22:01:58Z Breast milk soaks my t-shirt, along with drool created by tiny, jagged teeth piercing his gums. Miseries of a stay-at-home dad 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z She uses the melodramatic tropes of soap opera to tell a cracking good story, all the while smuggling in piercing observations, like a file baked in a cake. Ties that bind 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z I hear the 15th bone snap … a razored stem piercing my mottled skin. Poetry calls out from the screen at Silent River Film Fest 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z His piercing and sharp raps helped him become the voice of the generation, and easily ascend as the leader in hip-hop and cross over to audiences outside of rap, from rock to pop to jazz. Commercial and critical darling Kendrick Lamar wins Pulitzer 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z She was a talking head, a prosecutorial brain, a sharp tongue and piercing eyes. Perspective | Kamala Harris embraced black. That was both unremarkable and theatrically powerful. 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z Compared to the piercing Vivian-Emma relationship, however, the rest of the female campers feel extraneous. A Thriller Set at a Summer Camp Where Bad Things Happened 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Favignana is a particularly weird little archipelago off Sicily; the island appears as a stark stone iceberg piercing the azure Mediterranean. T Magazine: Stone Soul Picnic 2011-05-20T16:28:24Z The images are elegiac, lush even, but the beauty of ruins carries a truly piercing chill. This week's new exhibitions 2011-07-15T23:07:37Z That it doesn’t always work that way is a piercing reminder that there really is no natural order to life, although that very unpredictability can bring joy as well as sorrow. Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher Had an Unbreakable Bond 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z To find carvers in town, just listen for the piercing nails-on-a-blackboard sounds. Making Art on Top of the World 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z What about that mysterious crone with a crutch whose eyes are “as piercing as thorns”? Review | From the author of ‘Morning Has Broken,’ magical tales perfect for Valentine’s Day 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z Guitar feedback is involved almost continuously, at some level, but it isn’t piercing and doesn’t create fractures in another entity: it’s the main event, the thing itself. New Albums by NRBQ and Oren Ambarchi and Jim O?Rourke 2011-07-18T23:08:35Z It is also a brilliant, piercing examination of the way capitalism forces black Americans to choose between being their authentic selves and the people that corporate America wants them to be. The Most Important Decade for Movies About Black Lives 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z In “Inferno,” he follows the path of Dante’s text — beginning, in the section “Abandon Hope,” with piercing darkness and a downward plunge reminiscent of the “Dante” Symphony. Review: Thomas Adès Charts a Journey Through Hell and Heaven 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z And the rest of Capaldi’s album has similar emotion, hitting you in the gut with piercing lyrics anchored by his gravelly voice, which he honed by imitating Joe Cocker for years and years. Someone to love: Rising Scottish singer Lewis Capaldi 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, songs such as “Timeless” began as a pulse and swelled with piercing complexity that felt tailor-made with this moment in mind. James Blake awes Lincoln Theatre crowd with exercise in subtlety and space 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z With "The Pale King," the reader is off the hook, and free to take each part of this funny, shrewd, suspenseful, piercing, smart, terrifying and profound book as it comes. 2011's best -- so far! 2011-07-04T15:01:00Z It was left to the lighting and scenic designer Joe Levasseur to organize the space, piercing the vapor with precise beams and more diffuse panels. Dance Review: Fog Blurs Vision, and Lines, Between Performer and Audience 2011-06-26T22:17:56Z On the ride home with her recruiter to Belton, Tex., about an hour north of Austin, she listened in disbelief to news of planes piercing skyscrapers. She says she was harassed by superiors. Now she protests outside the TSA for hours. 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z The shots would have to be administered to the belly, piercing her in that psychically tender place. Rereading Paula Fox’s “Desperate Characters” 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z The album is really Carey’s version of a contemporary gospel record, complete with a powerhouse choir, showy modulations, and piercing organ solos. Mariah Carey’s Christmas Miracle 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Dramatically, his “Company” had a similar sense of purpose, along with a piercing psychological clarity buoyed by his comic appreciation of human frailty. Music Review: A Bachelor, Five Couples and All Their Tuneful Discontents 2011-04-08T23:21:13Z Although it rambles off into a pointless anecdote about his father’s youthful piccolo playing, it’s a tender and touching sequence, rendered with piercing honesty by Mr. Simpson. 2010-01-15T04:13:00Z The program emphasized the Crossing’s gift for lending social activism poetic form, as well as its uncanny array of sounds, from mere fumes to piercing, feral cries. Review: In a Gilded Space, a Choir Reflects on War and Peace 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Chekhov often contributed to a literary journal called “Oskolki” — the title translates to “Splinters,” which is a fair description of his contributions: jagged, piercing pieces, some little more than intricate jokes. A ‘Full Deck’ of Chekhov, With the Translators as the Wild Cards 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z From the air I had squinted through the piercing glare of Lake Skadar, a national park, to absorb the terrifying peaks of the 8,000-foot-high Prokletije mountains that marked the Albanian border. Next Stop: Uncovering Charms in Montenegro’s Capital 2013-09-05T13:01:37Z Last week at the Brooklyn Academy the drone was more like a rumble; the voices were clear and piercing. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Einstein on the Beach’ Tries to Recapture a New York Era 2012-09-21T22:25:18Z Vogel’s script creates its own piercing language for assault, harassment and all the ways our society reinforces regressive ideas about gender, sex and consent. ‘How I Learned to Drive’ Review: Many Miles to Go Before a Reckoning 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z He’s also apparently got a piercing and a penchant for going commando. Lenny Kravitz accidentally “frees the bacon” — and has the perfect response to #penisgate 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z The first shivers of the day didn't just come courtesy of the piercing wind but the multi-ethnic, age-blind Hackney Empire Community Choir, backing Lewis up on Run. Radio 1's Hackney Weekend offers an urban alternative to the Olympics 2012-06-23T18:00:01Z There’s the coven-like mommy clique piercing your soul with their judgmental stares. In ‘The Baby,’ Killing With Cuteness 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Her face is softer and she exudes a worldly wisdom, yet her piercing eyes reveal a childlike wonderment at everything around her. From the Big Issue: Annie Lennox gets festive 2010-12-17T11:22:03Z Shafak demonstrates with piercing insight how young Muslim women in Turkey are caught between religious ideals of purity and male fantasies of debasement. Review | Elif Shafak continues to resist Turkey’s repressive government with brilliant fiction 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Even the fierce spike from A Peace Treaty needs no piercing at all. Fine Points: Danger: Earrings Ahead! 2013-08-28T20:28:24Z Mr. Sutherland infuses Dan’s soul-searching soliloquies with a believable sense of aching anxiety, his piercing eyes often clouded over with doubt. Theater Review: In ‘A Second Chance,’ Singing New York Lovers 2014-03-31T02:00:01Z Athey’s performances are not for the squeamish, involving piercing, bloodletting and the sorts of torture implements that might have been employed during the Inquisition. Has former NEA target Ron Athey bled enough for his art? He's back with a new happening at the Broad 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z “Strike Your Heart” is a finely honed, piercing novel. Review | Amélie Nothomb is a must-read author in France. ‘Strike Your Heart’ shows why. 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z His piercing gray eyes soften for a moment as he contemplates the pint of Guinness that’s been set in front of him at just the right temperature. Clive Owen, Suave and Roguish, on Making His Broadway Debut in ‘Old Times’ 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Jones is a thickly constructed 42-year-old with bright piercing eyes and a retreating hairline. How Alex Jones, conspiracy theorist extraordinaire, got Donald Trump’s ear 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z If “The Mandibles” takes the tone of a piercing alarm rather than a reflective family chronicle, that may be a feature, not a bug, as we say these days. Lionel Shriver Imagines Imminent Economic Collapse, With Cabbage at $20 a Head 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z As the Boy and First Angel, the countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo adroitly navigates the luminous and piercing, the gentle and chilly sides of his two-sided character. Review: ‘Written on Skin,’ an Opera of Love, Betrayal and a Little Cannibalism 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z “Moshfegh’s sentences are piercing and vixenish, each one a kind of orphan. She plays interestingly with substance and illusion, with dread and solace on the installment plan.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z On Monday, he threw himself into his songs with renewed vigor, but the voice was unerring in piercing all the notes, his melodies swooping and soaring. Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum returns with his songs and their durability intact 2012-02-08T06:00:00Z The monitors aren't needed to hear the piercing hoot that is 's laugh. Ricky Gervais's ballad of Reading jail 2010-04-08T21:00:00Z The throbbing pain of a knife piercing through my back. Your stories: The House at number 3 by sapphirebooklover 2012-12-12T09:00:00Z The driver, Cissy McNickle, was about 40, with long blonde hair, small tattoos on her arms and a nose piercing. The evangelical women who visit strippers to 'show God loves them' 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z With such strong decorative elements and Burgess’s piercing distillation of movement, this piece is a great step forward for the company. Dana Tai Soon Burgess dancers cosmically intertwine art and science 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z Her confusion at the end of the mirror scene of “Brief Encounters” is delicately shown but piercing. Dance Review: Revealing New Facets of a Choreographer?s Gemstones 2010-03-01T23:06:00Z The ambivalence that accompanies change has rarely felt so piercing. 8 Cannes Film Festival Prizewinners We Love (and 3 We Don’t) 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z His voice — crisp and articulate, just a tad piercing, cagily pitched to the subject matter and inflected with a precisely calibrated measure of enthusiasm — was as recognizable as a theme song. Art Gilmore, the Voice of Coming Attractions, Dies at 98 2010-10-03T03:50:00Z Through various episodes the music erupts with aborted melodic turns, piercing chords and wailing lines that thread through the overall busyness. Music Review: JACK Quartet in Pop Up! Concert at Miller Theater 2012-02-08T22:51:09Z But elsewhere, the repressed past keeps on piercing through. Seoul searching: how politics plays out in South Korean cinema 2012-11-07T13:31:27Z The bird was undoubtedly aware of us — the eyes are yellow and piercing — but unfazed. A special reunion at the National Arboretum 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z He remembers the incident bitterly; Dianne, in a piercing moment, remembers that this dog she loved was put down afterwards. Drugstore Cowboy at 30: is this the best film ever made about addiction? 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z The music pulses with searing power, frenetic breathlessness and an astringent harmonic language spiked with thick, piercing chords, though pensive, dreamy episodes provide welcome relief. Review: In This Opera, You Can Depart, but You Can Never Leave 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z It was at that moment that a small but piercing little voice came from inside the stall. Gene Weingarten: That awkward moment when you take your kid to the restroom 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z In both cases, the Edge rolled through his distinctively piercing guitar lines with the ease of an expert who long ago transcended the skill-set limitations of his early work. U2 is still a can-do band, as its first Forum show amply proves 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Her conversation is businesslike to the point of seeming abrupt, prickly even, and more than once she fixes me with a sharp piercing stare that makes me wonder if I've just said something profoundly stupid. Rumer: 'If Burt Bacharach says you're good, it's time to start believing in yourself' 2010-08-28T23:05:00Z But apart from the piercing beauty of the singing, the show seldom really touches the heart or soul. Cart Macabre ? review 2010-12-05T22:46:00Z These are spare, full of suspenseful silences, piercing melody and intermittent rhythmic drive, and Mr. Marriott responds sensitively to their moods although the movement never deepens the musical experience. Alastair Marriott’s ‘Connectome’ opens in London 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z At first glance a standard crime story, the novel is “a more piercing tale of investigation, one revealing how the mind drives on its own ‘wheels within wheels,’” wrote our reviewer. Read It Before You See It 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z A few turns felt rushed, but over all the writing is clear and sharp, with piercing moments of wisdom and insight that drive toward a pitch-perfect ending. A Novel Asks: What if Women Were Forbidden From Doing It All? 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z She has large, piercing eyes, a high, aristocratic forehead and alabaster skin. | 'A Streetcar Named Desire': Small Space, Big Egos: Something Will Explode 2010-06-18T23:18:00Z The metallic edge is so piercing that the first act closer, “This Joint Is Jumpin,’ ” makes the singers sound like emergency sirens even before the police car effects in the sound design. Review | Signature’s ‘Ain’t Misbehavin’ ’ takes a while to get jazzed up 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z The next two hours follow the entwined, contrapuntal progress of their relationship and their careers, punctuated by more songs and ending in a swirl of piercing and complex emotion. Cinema Is Dead? Telluride Says Not Yet 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z Ms. Saariaho establishes the mystical mood of the story at the start with suspenseful orchestral murmurings, over which rising pitches stack up to form piercing, sustained chords. Review: A Newly Relevant ‘L’Amour de Loin’ at the Met 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Not even a dozen miles away, revelers reclined on the sand, sipping languidly from straws piercing coconuts while they meditated on the color of the ocean. In Mauritius, Secluded Beaches, Verdant Hills and Harmony 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z In particular, you become conscious of a prescient feminist streak in “Streetcar,” a piercing awareness of a society that values its women according to youth and attractiveness. Review: A Darwinian ‘Streetcar’ With a Feminist Streak 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z But he seemed to find his calling as a piercing interviewer when he hosted a program called “Night Beat” in the 1950s. How Mike Wallace created ‘a revolution’ in journalism — while battling depression 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z The woodwinds gave much aural delight, from the jaunty bassoon duo to the piercing high piccolo. CSO goes to the mat for sub conductor 2011-01-21T17:34:13Z Every time I wanted a little more urgency from Mr. Luisotti, he drew my attention to the textural richness and piercing harmonic complexities of the music. Music Review: Puccini?s Western Seeks Lyrical Gold 2010-12-07T17:10:00Z They were so potent and so piercing, I told her, but they just weren’t ready yet. Perspective | Elizabeth Wurtzel was right all along 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z It is our information source and our escape, and will increasingly be so as the weather grows colder and the political noise surrounding the election grows more piercing and dangerous. "Utopia" shows the disheartening problems of pandemic TV 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z But Smith stopped them all short with a series of piercing, painful shrieks. Wadada Leo Smith’s jazz is demanding, but emotionally cathartic 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z This time Goggin is fretting about piercing strip lights and a rusty metal table, and preparing for a tetanus jab. New band of the day (Vlks No 1,485) 2013-04-04T14:04:35Z Nearby a half-length painting of Saint Sebastian reimagines its subject as an almost foppish youth with auburn hair and a single arrow piercing his smooth torso. For the Medici, the Last Great Picture Show 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z He pulls in an equally sizable crowd, however, as does Detroit's Danny Brown whose piercing delivery inspires someone to attempt the audacious trick of crowd surfing in a wheelchair during Blunt After Blunt. Coachella festival 2013 day two: Phoenix, Hot Chip and Savages 2013-04-14T12:11:14Z In person, Demings has piercing brown eyes and a tendency to embark on spirited monologues. Val Demings has an American dream. The impeachment trial is testing it. 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z But he minimizes the gore, piercing the soul with mood and compelling human conflict. Review: ‘I Remember You’ Is a Piercing Horror Film From Iceland 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Pretty soon, he began playing with the form by scratching, piercing and drawing all over his negatives. Geraldo de Barros: master of montage 2013-01-18T18:29:55Z Mr. Suzuki drew focused sound and clear textures from the ensemble, allowing Bach’s piercing harmonies to penetrate without expressive excess. In a Mass, a Cradle of Consolation for Japan 2011-03-23T22:27:34Z What we end up with isn’t just a nutty and inventive depiction Gartner’s home base but a piercing exploration of human ethics, ambition and folly. ‘Better Living Through Plastic Explosives’: a gleefully twisted take on Vancouver, B.C. 2013-01-25T00:50:30Z Check the corn by piercing the kernels to see if they are cooked. Raise the steaks with this recipe for a barbecued feast | Feasting 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Marble Season is a treat: beady, nostalgic and sometimes unexpectedly piercing. Marble Season by Gilbert Hernández – review 2013-06-15T14:00:00Z Each set sees him producing a stream of high-quality gags, most of them based in simple but piercing observation or delightful leaps of logic, and delivered in a slow-paced, distinctive drawl. Comedy picks of the week 2010-04-23T23:11:00Z It consists of a long fluorescent light fixture piercing, at an angle, the seat of a metal folding chair. Review | The acclaimed, exasperating sculptures of Rachel Harrison get a star turn at the Whitney Museum 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z He wields both whisper and sword with piercing accuracy and is at the point in his career where craft trumps commerce. 'Calvary' could mark a signature role in Brendan Gleeson's career 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z I like everything on the record, but Eldridge’s piercing singing is best, I think, on “Things in Life” and “Sleeping By Myself.” Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge and Their New Record, “Mount Royal” 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z Mr. Hammons looks directly into the camera, his gaze piercing the surface, implicating the viewer. When Dawoud Bey Met David Hammons 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z Sometimes scabrous and always irreverent, his cartoons swipe gleefully at disability and other sensitive topics, piercing the movie’s one-day-at-a-time orthodoxy. Review: Joaquin Phoenix Treks the Long Road to Sobriety in ‘Don’t Worry’ 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Some quick, large arabesques taken with the support of the prince’s arm were piercing; the rapid quivers of one foot at the end of the main duet were softly enchanting. Review: In ‘Swan Lake,’ the Drama Depends on the Dancers 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z He was still startlingly handsome with his piercing eyes, shaggy eyebrows, straight nose and downturned mouth which was constantly turning up in a smile. Christopher Isherwood's Liberation 2012-06-01T21:55:14Z It is extraordinarily unusual for a grown person ever to make sounds that piercing, although babies and small, angry children can sometimes get themselves there without much help. Mariah Carey’s Rather Perfect Farewell to 2016 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Their father-daughter discussion in the film about that discovery offers one of the most powerful moments in what is both a piercing personal memoir and a work of scrupulous and even generous social history. "Roy Cohn" filmmaker Ivy Meeropol on her new HBO doc about the man who killed her grandparents 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z These same objects were once, like much religious art in every culture, intensely alive, hot to the touch, piercing to the eye. Art Review: ‘Illuminating Faith’ at the Morgan: Images of the Eucharist 2013-07-04T20:22:28Z Glaring fluorescent bars bathe the space in an antiseptic glow that’s also disturbing: Bare metal and piercing light seem a threat in themselves. Ayad Akhtar’s ‘The Invisible Hand,’ a Play About Terrorism 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Aphids are insects that “use their piercing, sucking mouthparts to feed on plant sap,” the University of Kentucky’s Department of Entomology says online. Fresh Christmas trees can be crawling with spiders, mites and other bugs: What you need to know 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z The mustard I could get didn’t have the same piercing bite. Leeks and Fish Get a Lift From a Tangy Salsa Verde 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z And the next time he interviews a good-looking celebrity, we should insist that he open with, "Given that I, myself, am a dashingly handsome hottie with piercing blue eyes ..." Anderson Cooper, world's oddest gay advocate 2010-10-12T16:35:00Z The result is arguably Mr. Cunningham’s most original and emotionally piercing book to date. Books of The Times: ‘The Snow Queen,’ by Michael Cunningham 2014-04-27T21:00:17Z She has a breastplate of roses with – argh! – a piercing on the bone between her breasts. Bria Vinaite: from Instagram entrepreneur to starring opposite Willem Dafoe 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Kaufmann, so natural at playing outsiders, is, with his gloomy croon, a foil for Ms. Yoncheva’s mix of girlish clarity and haunted vibration, her acute tone piercing his smoky one. Review: A Starry ‘Don Carlos’ Brings Verdi, in French, to Paris 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z He used a tense, shaking, sobbing voice; he shouted in long tones, and the sounds retreated into a kind of nasal whining — a lonely and piercing sound. Music Review: Manuel Agujetas at Elebash Recital Hall 2012-05-23T22:02:03Z The high, piercing bleats of vocals over capricious electro beats are fail-safe crowd pleasers. Pop Music Choices for New Year?s Eve 2011-12-29T23:59:04Z More Horace than Juvenal, her insightful humor is arch rather than piercing. Pippa Garner at Redling Fine Art: Vehicles for clever satire 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z Outside a Genoa bakery one day he spotted a strapping, mustachioed man with craggy features and a piercing stare. Finding Poetry in a Couple?s Pain 2011-07-29T20:01:01Z Setting a new text by the poet Tracy K. Smith, Thompson also reveled in sumptuous, worried strings, and gave Costanzo mellow, narrative vocal lines that surge into piercing climaxes. Review: Philip Glass and the Bangles, Mashed at the Symphony 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z The profoundly influential choreographer, who died in 2018, was a masterful creator of taut, piercing short stories in dance. Review | Paul Taylor Dance Company makes a triumphant return to Kennedy Center 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z “I’m not sure,” he said, with a glance piercing enough that made me, for an instant, turn away. You Are Getting Sleepy. When You Wake Up, You Will Be an Improv Star. 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z From the first measures of this live recording of the premiere at Minnesota Opera, conducted with impressive cohesion by Lidiya Yankovskaya, the swarming strings and piercing winds affirm that there will be no coddling. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z Flanked by a baby-grand piano and a computer stacked on a synthesizer, Mr. Brittelle still looks like a chic rock star with his piercing gaze, casual bed-head coif and neatly managed stubble. William Brittelle?s Return to His Voice and Vision 2010-08-01T02:00:00Z You can hear it in the piercing meows that emanate from one of the artworks at “The Cat Show,” a no-claws-barred group exhibition at the nonprofit White Columns gallery. | Cats, the New Rulers of the Art World 2013-07-09T22:50:00Z I fixate on verse eighteen: “There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.” My day at Westboro Baptist: “Yes, Jesus hates you” 2013-03-24T11:00:00Z But his plays have a piercing emotionalism that can be a gift to actors who know the difference between genuine feeling and sentimentality. Character development counts in bringing plays to life onstage 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z The wheedling and needling are honed to a piercing, at times claustrophobic pitch. | 'Haunted': A Longtime Marriage, Threatened Inside and Out 2010-12-09T04:30:00Z Its imagery suggests the urban crowd of the machine-age city: piercing strokes of amazing grandeur, excitement and wit occur. It Was a Happy Month, Mostly, for Modernists 2011-04-01T21:14:26Z Craig Rodriguez, the owner of the End Is Near and Hand of Glory, both in Brooklyn, spoke in a radio interview in the early ’90s of just how common piercing had become. Piercings and Eye-Popping Tattoos: Fashion’s Latest Canvas Is the Skin You’re In 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Ms. Soper’s audaciously eclectic score deftly blends hints of everything from Renaissance vocal music to churchly chorales to sassy show songs to piercing modernism. Opera/Classical Music Listings for Sept. 12-18 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z “Wamariya is piercing about her alienation in America and her effort to combat the perception that she is an exotic figure, to be pitied or dismissed,” Alexis Okeowo writes in her review. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z There's a decent ratio of historical context to fast edits of arrows piercing flesh, but the story of the castle is at least as interesting an engineering tale as it is a military one. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 8-12 October 2012-10-08T08:00:00Z When it threatens to, something piercing or traumatic brings it back to earth, where any account of art belongs. Review: ‘Around the World in 50 Concerts,’ a Documentary, Follows an Orchestra 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z He can jolt chords with piercing dissonances or tame them into modal calm. Music Review: ?Dark Sisters,? by Nico Muhly - Review 2011-11-10T22:46:08Z Savages reclaimed the frenetic, dissonant drones and crescendos of bands like Siouxsie and the Banshees, with the ascending wail and piercing glare of its lead singer, Jehnny Beth. Critic’s Notebook: Cacophonous Declarations of Independents 2012-10-22T03:57:17Z Lucy is tall and slim - like me - with wavy auburn hair and piercing grey eyes. Your stories: Never Had Time by Ellathebookworm 2013-02-22T08:00:00Z In his piercing high register, he sings suitably cosmic tidings: “I’ll be the earth with the disease/And you the human inside of me,” he promises. Drake Clears His Throat With DJ Khaled, and 10 More New Songs 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z Certainly there are plenty of suspects behaving badly, chief among them Carlo herself, a freelance snark machine with a hole in her heart and an alcohol-fueled taste for the piercing aperçu. ‘At the Wedding’ Review: Cocktails, Dancing and an Albatross 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z Just as rap music at its glossiest was piercing the American pop mainstream, a purist wing emerged, initially as a rejoinder. Run the Jewels, Still Insisting on Old Hip-Hop Values 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z My piercing high pitched voice breaks through the crowd of deeper voices and for only a second a celebrity looks at me. PHOTOS: AP photographer turns the lens on herself at Cannes 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z She wore a bright pink fishnet dress with pink underwear and no bra, exposing her nipple piercing. The evangelical women who visit strippers to 'show God loves them' 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Most piercing of all, perhaps, is the tiny 1942 “Prologue,” by Simone Weil, in which Jesus is both brusque and loving, completely immediate and utterly, cruelly absent — all in the span of two pages. A Norwegian Novel Complicates the Canon of New Testament Fiction 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z His tenor is white-hot, piercing through the orchestra, threatening to burst into flames as Hades, in his sleazy green leisure suit, leers at Eurydice and stretches the syllables of her name into a sinister design. Review | At Met premiere, ‘Eurydice’ offers a beguiling visit to the underworld 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Melmoth, with her piercing gaze, is never far away, and that is scary enough. A Dark Cavalcade of New Horror Fiction 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Has Madam Memory really such a piercing eye for detail, are her powers of recall so comprehensive? John Banville on the birth of his dark twin, Benjamin Black 2011-07-22T21:55:11Z For the next few hours it was all pounding rain, bobbing umbrellas, furious windshield wipers, car headlights piercing the rain and murk. At the Writing Academy 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Ms. Bullock sang with burning focus, as she did the whole set, which brought her mellow, dusky voice from melancholy earthiness to piercing crows. Review: Good Music, but Julia Bullock Makes It Great 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z All of this comes through with piercing vitality in Mr. Posner’s adaptation, which moves between fidelity to the original and spasms of self-conscious theatricality with the ease of a competitive skateboarder. ‘Stupid _______ Bird’ Returns to Woolly Mammoth Theater 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Mormons are told not to “disfigure” themselves “with tattoos or body piercing.” Young Mormons Find Ways to Be Hip 2011-10-27T21:17:20Z The precipitous runs and piercing high notes of Lucia’s mad scene were here used more for conscientious technical display than as an evocation of mental instability. Review: In ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’ at the Met, Singing Through Sickness 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z However, does ample justice to his giant reputation: it's richly enigmatic, with regular flashes of Coetzee's piercing intelligence. The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee – review 2013-02-27T10:00:01Z George Crumb’s “Pastoral Drone,” despite its title, dealt primarily in discord; piercing fanfares from the manuals erupted and writhed over continuous pedal tones. Music Review: Kent Tritle at St. John the Divine - Review 2011-11-24T22:09:11Z You can get lost in these pictorial reveries as you trace the rays of light piercing the trees, brightening the dark waters and the reality-softening haze. Review: ‘Legend of the Mountain,’ a Magical Mystery Marathon in Ancient China 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z A piercing essay collection, packed with a fierce and refreshing ambivalence, about being an Asian man in America. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z The doctor, all but yanking at his starched collar like Rodney Dangerfield, launches into a speech about shedding all this pomp and focusing instead on “piercing the tissue that separates life from death.” ArtsBeat: ‘Penny Dreadful’ Recap: Up and Down the Ladder of Wealth 2014-05-12T03:05:43Z They look a little silly, but anything spider-like gets audiences gasping, especially when they are piercing and slicing young people to their doom. The Maze Runner review – the acting's great. Shame about the rest of it 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z A piercing squawk ricochets around the theater, followed by bright peals of girlish giggling. | 'Born Yesterday': Daffy Blonde Gets Wise to Washington 2011-04-25T02:01:07Z Either way, the works are meticulous but piercing, like a carefully released primal scream. 5 Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z When Johnson suggests this book might be his swan song and that he’s ready to “fade into oblivion,” the audience lets out a piercing cry of “Noooooooo” in unison. Sun, Sea and Books Make This Festival an Enticing Destination 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z She spends 10 minutes applying a perfect swoop of black eyeliner and commutes through the piercing pre-dawn cold to her desk in a hot, windowless office at Bell Media Studios in Toronto’s Entertainment District. Gossip explains our culture. And nobody explains it like Lainey Gossip. 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z He also can’t shake off his past life— he longs for it with a piercing single-mindedness. David Bowie: A Starman Not Just in Music, But in the Movies Too 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Harlequin is mostly played by the charismatic flutist Tim Munro, a lanky, physically agile performer who dispatches the gnarly, alluring and frenzied music, but also sings in a piercing falsetto and struts about the stage. Eighth Blackbird Performs ‘Colombine’s Paradise Theater’ 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z With his physicality, rugged looks and gallery of piercing stares, he excels as tough, brutish characters with an underlying vulnerability. Daniel Craig: a reluctant Bond who has made the role his own 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z In Ms. Mahwash’s singing, words, expression, ornamentation and piercing plaintive sound combined with mesmerizing naturalness. Music Review: Afghanistan Veteran, Afghan Sounds 2011-06-19T22:09:51Z I could only express it in terms of musical instruments: there’s “piccolo pain”, which is shrill and piercing, usually from the plastic surgery. How Comrade Ilizarov saved my leg 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z There are darts, bear traps, gravity switches and giant, piercing spider legs. 10 chill and affordable video games to play that aren't "Animal Crossing" 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z I saw my daughter’s piercing as an act of violence against her breast. My daughter’s piercing 2013-09-05T23:00:00Z Stuffed into this illuminated novel are books within books, including a facsimile of a 19th-century novel, complete with tissue-covered plates and a wormhole piercing every page. ‘Bats of the Republic’ review: Two intertwined and echoing stories 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z The offices are spooky-minimalist, and a colossal statue of a little girl bestrides the campus, her eyes glassy and piercing like a nightmare doll’s. Review: ‘Devs’ Is a Cold and Beautiful Machine 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z These images — projected in 360 degrees — bombard visitors to a new Doctors Without Borders exhibition on the Mall with a piercing look at the global refugee crisis. If you had to leave home, what would you take? How a new exhibit personalizes the refugee crisis. 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z If you’ve seen Ben Daniels, he looks amazing as Antony Armstrong-Jones — he’s got the most piercing blue eyes — and I think he’s going to smash it out of the park. Matthew Goode Knows How to Charm. Just Ask Lady Mary and Princess Margaret. 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Many elements of female speech already sit in a range to which we are naturally more sensitive, and the improperly tuned equipment made women’s voices sound piercing or harsh. A Century of “Shrill”: How Bias in Technology Has Hurt Women’s Voices 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Clamorous with the voices of men, who take up an awful lot of oxygen, it is most incisive and piercing in the voices of its women, whom Hansberry draws with exquisite fullness. Review: ‘The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window,’ Uneven Yet a Powerful Draw 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z It's a well-acted and swiftly unfolding tale of sirens in the night, piercing the blackness, and of weary eyes gazing at the harsh morning light. 'Carancho': a well-acted, compelling drama of temporary refuge 2011-03-24T22:23:04Z He shattered that core sound into jagged rhythmic clusters, each lacerating note accompanied with a piercing strobe light flash. Music Review: Unsound Festival Returns to New York 2014-04-04T21:50:54Z Kesha would furrow her brow, squeeze her eyes shut and then glare outwards, her eyes piercing, her arms thrashing by her side. Why #MeToo has had little effect on the music industry 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z It’s a shapely, touching work, with sharp, piercing moments of real Graham incisiveness. Review: Looking for Martha Graham in Her Company’s Dance Steps 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z When Turandot referred to her ancestor, who cried out in anguish as she was ravaged by men, Ms. Netrebko delivered the piercing phrase with an intensity that sent chills through me. Review: Anna Netrebko Rings in the Year With a Met Gala 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z So, add perverse shoes among all that innocence — the heel like a nail piercing the foot — or transparent plastic boots. Hermès: Gentle End to Hectic Week 2014-03-05T18:19:30Z The piercing quality of her eyes contradicts the scrim-like effect of her clothing. ‘Harmattan Tales’ looks at what it means to be a woman in the African Muslim world 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z He whips his head around with widened, piercing eyes, never at peace and paranoid about how others perceive him. Review: A Tenor Claims His Place Among the Met Opera’s Stars 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z The piercing burn to your sinuses, like wasabi. Nigel Slater: ‘I love the crackle of winter’ 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z It even had an edible septum piercing and remarkably lifelike braids. A Birthday Party With ‘2 Dope Queens’ and One Jon Stewart 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z Again, Mr. Boulez drew a combination of rich sound and piercing clarity from the orchestra. Music Review: Pierre Boulez Conducts Met Orchestra at Carnegie 2010-05-17T22:00:00Z It finds its most eloquent expression, however, in Ms. Hashmi’s “Pin Drawings,” a mesmerizing series of works made by piercing sheets of white paper with needles of various sizes. Art Review: ‘Zarina: Paper Like Skin,’ at the Guggenheim Museum 2013-01-31T21:46:37Z With this question — raised by the Gucci show set: an antiseptic hospital-gown-green space with piercing overhead lights, medical beds strategically arrayed beneath — the Milan women’s wear collections got into gear. At Gucci, Dressing for the Post-Human World 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z As for a dance called “Indestructible”? This was another side of lovely — piercing and bold. Review: At Fall for Dance, Resilience Takes Center Stage 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Picasso’s piercing stare is that of a man deeply anguished by the horrors of war. Art: A City Steeped in Picasso's Lore 2011-07-19T11:00:05Z Textures were carefully balanced, with robust basses topped by airy trebles, including Ms. Greenleaf’s voice, piercing and true. After a Decade, a Monteverdi Masterpiece Flies Free 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z Brad Wells conducted the superb Roomful of Teeth singers in a plush, enveloping performance with, when called for, precisely focused execution of Mr. Riley’s piercing, sustained harmonies. Review: Terry Riley Works at National Sawdust 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z In the fresh interpretation, with its piercing strings and moody atmospherics, a celebratory weed rap by the Oakland duo Luniz became deeply unsettling. Movie Trailers Keep Tweaking Well-Known Songs. The Tactic Is Working. 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z “This is Sophie!” he said, euphoric with opiates, his eyes strange and piercing, an oxygen pipe in his nose. Marooned on ‘Love Island’ 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z The Whitman of “Beloved Renegade” tends wounded and dying soldiers for whom his affection is both unemphatic and piercing. Paul Taylor: Return of the Beloved Renegade 2010-02-19T16:07:00Z Moustakis fuses piercing description with blunt dialogue to explore the perpetuation of a family's snarled-up legacies of self-sufficiency, betrayal, psychological damage, physical abuse and loyalty through three generations. Alaska books: Bearing down on hope, survival 2011-12-01T00:43:04Z Dawn, and as the sun breaks through the piercing chill of the night on the plains outside Korem, it lights up a biblical famine, now, in the 20th century. The Eighties: One Day, One Decade by Dylan Jones – review 2013-07-08T09:00:02Z Sometimes this is down to tired strategies, but it is also due to the poetry's serious ambition, committed to piercing through the deceptive realm of the habitual in pursuit of the near-ineffable and mysterious. The Havocs by Jacob Polley – review 2013-01-04T21:55:01Z This no-frills drama about a farmer’s crusade to speak truth to power is as piercing and direct as an arrow. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z But beginning with the piercing parable that opens the second act — about whether Judaism, Christianity or Islam is the true faith — the play grows increasingly engrossing. Review: ‘Nathan the Wise’ Brings a Morality Tale to Today 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z A Los Angeles native, Mr. Negron used his sharp facial features, piercing eyes and deadpan delivery to commandeer screen roles that were intended to last only a few moments. Taylor Negron, of ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High,’ Dies at 57 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z It’s all about like the most piercing frequencies. A Teenage Producer With a TikTok Hit Brings New Zealand to the World 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z He was a very benign presence, with these piercing blue eyes. The day Oliver Reed grabbed me by the balls | Omid Djalili 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z Drawing from her first five books, this selection highlights McLane’s puckish tone and piercing insights. Newly Published, From Skateboarding to ‘Hamlet’ in New York 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z And then came my diagnosis with breast cancer and the piercing issue became, well, huge. My daughter’s piercing 2013-09-05T23:00:00Z “The music pulses with searing power, frenetic breathlessness and an astringent harmonic language spiked with thick, piercing chords,” Mr. Tommasini wrote, “though pensive, dreamy episodes provide welcome relief.” Your Guide to the Met Opera’s ‘Exterminating Angel’ 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Roddy McDowall, who steals the picture as their articulate leader, certainly does, with those piercing eyes blinking through a shaggy hide. The Times Critics' Guide to 'Planet of the Apes' 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z The piercing cries of “Jerusalem!” seem to express both a longing for escape and the messianic tendencies in Benjamin’s unorthodox thought. Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin Don’t Talk. They Sing. 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z In the Philharmonic’s colorful performance, the sound of the violins, playing the high, wafting opening lines of the “Dawn” interlude, was bright, piercing and eerily beautiful. Review: She Returns to Lead the Philharmonic. For Real, This Time. 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z This mix of piercing social observation and undying affection for Italy is classic Parks. In ‘Italian Ways,’ Tim Parks Again Tries to Explain Italy 2013-06-07T21:25:53Z It was almost enough to be swept along by the piercing intensity of “Rapture’s” brief vignettes, performed as if they were absolutely the proper thing to do on, say, Mars. PearsonWidrig DanceTheater’s ‘Rapture’: A big jumble with a big heart A slightly older Shawangunk Ridge cider — “two miles away by crow,” Mr. Brennan said — is completely different, with an almost piercing apple flavor, tempered by an underlying umami, almost cheesy element. A New Golden Age for Cider Production in New York 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z They were equally piercing in the tender "Bells of Harlem," about a troubled person experiencing "a little joy at long last." Dave Rawlings Machine and John Paul Jones stay true to roots 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z After a brief pause, James Habisohn, a senior at Brother Rice who is friends with Lowry's sister, stepped forward and played taps on his trumpet, the song's mournful notes the only sound piercing the silence. Fallen Marine 'was meant to serve others' 2012-03-10T02:52:00Z And Mr. Muzijevic played with subtle beauty, allowing the piercing dissonances in Schumann’s chromatic harmonies to emerge without any sense of making points or underlining complexities. Music Review: Schumann?s Poetic Side, Poured Richly Into Songs 2010-03-01T22:28:00Z Her writing is both funny and heartfelt, and her observations about life are piercing and mordantly rendered. ArtsBeat: New Bridget Jones Novel Coming in November 2013-02-05T15:35:00Z Mr. Johns’s gaze still is piercing, his eyes crowned by bushy white brows. Jasper Johns Isn’t Done Yet 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z While some mines are large, open pits, others are claustrophobically small: networks of tunnels piercing the earth. Dark crystals: the brutal reality behind a booming wellness craze 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z With one of the most crisp, piercing singing voices on record all year, he and his expert band rose head and shoulders above the rest of the booming neo-folk movement. Best pop music 2011: Seattle and beyond 2011-12-24T14:01:08Z “The policy is in place to ensure that if a child is distressed or resisting, Claire’s employees have the right to refuse to continue the piercing,” the rep confirmed to People. Claire's responds to ex-employee who claims she was instructed to pierce non-consenting children 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z She deploys the classic piercing stare of disapproval, the pinched lips and bird-like head movements as Miss Shepherd assesses the deeply unsatisfactory nature of everything around her. Maggie Smith's 20 best films – ranked! 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Without a piercing point of view to cut to the core of this male bonding, everything unspools slowly and without propulsion. ‘Horseplay’ Review: Boys Will Be Boys 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Typical of his knack for teasing out subtext is a brief but piercing scene in “Tigers Be Still” when Joseph tries to cancel his dead wife’s subscription to a yoga magazine. | 'Tigers Be Still': Escaped Predator? What Else Is New? 2010-10-07T02:01:00Z Naturally, Mr. Glass is the right man for inviting those kinds of confessions with his ability to pose piercing questions in casual, almost innocent, ways. ‘Three Acts’ Stars Ira Glass and Monica Bill Barnes 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z “If you can imagine lying on a railroad track, and a train is running over your body…” Badu says, with a soft grin and piercing green eyes that seem to know that I cannot. Erykah Badu Delivers 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z And I wonder if that is the point: settles in the mind as a piercing tableau, a still life. Private Lives; Berenice; The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner – review 2012-10-06T23:05:38Z It’s a piercing portrait of what happens to someone when they go through not only the abuse itself but the complicated emotional journey in the years and decades after. On the Record: the music industry #MeToo doc that caused Oprah to turn away 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z It was disproportionate and piercing and unclear, the worst I’ve heard in an American concert hall in recent memory. Music Review: Watch Out for Those Doors, and the Acoustics 2011-07-20T22:10:04Z Perhaps it is the limitation of the heart that saves the heart, and it is the piercing that loosens, a little, what those limitations are. When the fires came for us 2012-07-26T00:00:00Z “He is so not threatening, even though it’s this intimidating East Village piercing and tattoo parlor.” Piercings Are Back, Subtle and Sophisticated 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Give me the overly dramatic door slams, the piercing dirty looks, the wedding fiascos, the over-the-top death scenes — all that good stuff. ‘Comfort Viewing’: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Melrose Place’ 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z “The tight vibrato, hollow chest tone and occasionally piercing upper register are qualities that one must adjust to.” Magda Olivero, Frenzy-Inspiring Soprano, Dies at 104 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z She does “yoga” and “ballet” in the aisle, frequently kicking or shaking the walls and knocking stuff over, always with a piercing yelp like she’s shocked to death that that happened again. Worst co-worker ever 2012-07-24T00:00:00Z Ms. Gerring’s contribution, which played with the piercing angularity of the original “Lamentation,” was less thoroughly developed. Review: Martha Graham Dance Revisits a Classic in Gala 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z The next morning when Devi's mother lectures her daughter about the piercing that was decidedly not parent-approved, Aneesa covers for her and claims Devi got her nose pierced to feel closer to her Indian heritage. "Never Have I Ever" explores complexity of sharing space among women of color 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z Cosentino was very online, and very sensitive to the digital daggers piercing her music, her personal life and her looks. Best Coast Almost Had No Future. Now Everything Has Changed. 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z With its stark Appalachian setting, piercing language and coolly ferocious title character, “Serena” was a big book filled with bleakly beautiful details. Books of The Times: Rural Pride and Poverty and a Hen?s Empty Nest 2010-03-08T08:48:00Z The piercing whoosh of planes taking off cut the relative quiet during set break. What it’s like going to shows as live music slowly comes back in Seattle 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z After four minutes, there was a piercing tone from the piccolo, and then a moment’s silence. The Troubadour and the Lady 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Moore is also capable of some piercing criticism of aspects of her record. Margaret Thatcher: The Authorised Biography, Volume One: Not for Turning by Charles Moore – review 2013-04-27T13:00:11Z The crackling old soul samples don't add their traditional warm glow: they either spin gratingly out of time with the beats or else are fragmented into piercing squeaks and squeals. Kanye West: Yeezus – review 2013-06-17T14:56:34Z Her writing is epic, her delivery piercing, and with the addition of her band her potential is realised. New band of the day ? No 958: Sound of Rum 2011-02-01T17:00:43Z Would the biggest draw be the gold and diamond “lion” choker with piercing emerald eyes that was a gift to new grandmother Elizabeth Taylor from Richard Burton in 1971? Parisian Exhibit Reveals Secrets of Fine Jewelry Making 2012-11-27T13:30:19Z The track was empty when I arrived, but while riding the chairlift to the top of Miner’s Mountain, I heard the train’s piercing whistle. Tweetsie Railroad: A throwback in more ways than one 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z For an encore Ms. Moore played from memory Frederic Rzewski’s Piano Piece No. 4, which opened with cascading thunder and closed with piercing repeated B flats, each jab awash in a metallic corona. Music Review: A Night of Newer Works, With a Glance to the Past 2011-04-22T22:10:09Z Scott-Heron, widely considered one of the godfathers of rap with his piercing social and political prose laid against the backdrop of minimalist percussion, flute and other instrumentation, died on Friday at age 62. Gil Scott-Heron, a godfather of rap, dies in NYC 2011-05-29T17:49:11Z All of these artists had piercing relations to the concept of loneliness; all of them become, in Laing’s hands, symbols of the essential anomie of urban living. Finalists for the NBCC Criticism prize 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z The irascible Mason was known for his sharp wit and piercing social commentary, often about being Jewish, men and women and his own inadequacies. Jackie Mason, comic who perfected amused outrage, dies at 93 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z Photographs are particularly good at piercing haziness, since they often capture individuals taking action, not so-called cogs in a machine. When Genocide Is Caught on Film 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z The western ditty “Don’t Fence Me In” segued into “Ghost Riders in the Sky,” with Viva DeConcini playing a shimmering guitar solo that eventually soared with noise, like jets piercing clouds. Review | The fabulous Taylor Mac gives D.C. a sample of his reinvented Americana 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z The piece is like a series of overlapping musical events in the process of disintegration: Brass riffs fragment; melodic lines turn diffuse; piercing sustained harmonies morph into hazy clusters; pulsing rhythms falter and fade. New York Youth Symphony Plays Copland’s Symphony No. 3 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Still, salvation keeps arriving: Sentences — with their detached, reportorial tone, their economy of words, and piercing observations — that are vintage Didion. Joan Didion’s ‘South and West’ is a reminder of what the journalist could do 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z The harmonic writing is piercing and precise; the mood ambiguous, at once pensive and restless. Music Review: Evolution, and a Definitive Endpoint 2011-05-15T21:30:31Z He began the “Fantaisie” with mysterious, almost meterless delicacy, like the prelude to “Parsifal”; in the “Pastorale,” his palette extended to spicy burnt umber and milky pale blue, mellow oboe and sweetly piercing flute. Review: For Franck’s 200th, an Organist Pays Grand Tribute 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z This is provided by Mary Steenburgen’s schoolmistress, a fellow admirer of Jules Verne who likes the old boy’s piercing eyes but thinks he’s telling fibs. Back to the Future day: live! Enjoy 21 October 2015 around the world 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z He was an instantly recognizable if reluctant celebrity, idolized for his calm manner, his piercing blue eyes and his seemingly storybook marriage to the equally accomplished Joanne Woodward. A Posthumous Memoir Reveals Paul Newman in His Own Words 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z “Through the Night,” which Mr. Beaty is performing with his signature wit, grit and piercing lyricism, is a thing of beauty. | 'Through the Night': Black Men in America Trying to Move on Up 2010-09-27T04:01:00Z In a gripping final scene, charged by Stravinsky’s piercing, ominous music, we see the despairing emperor dying. Music Review: Stravinsky?s Tales, Dunked in the Spin Cycle 2011-03-02T22:59:11Z The division between the two is stark as if the Serranos’ piercing meaning has been dulled and drained off with Currin’s pretty but essentially vacuous paintings. When we all smelled like teen spirit 2013-04-21T19:00:00Z The sounds of skin ripping against flesh and a cleaver piercing through bone ricochet against the walls of her quaint kitchen. Chicken wings with a side of human flesh: A look at the meaty food cravings on “Yellowjackets” 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z Still, despite its occasional unsubtle point making, “Milk Like Sugar” delivers piercing glimpses of the way underachievement and unhappiness are passed down from generation to generation. | 'Milk Like Sugar': ?Milk Like Sugar? at Peter Jay Sharp Theater - Review 2011-11-02T02:00:09Z She has a bob haircut, a septum piercing and was wearing a floral print coat over a pair of fitted black jeans from Acne. Hollywood Celebrities Choose Sides in Presidential Race 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z In the oval-shaped portrait, Lincoln appears cleanshaven, with a heavily lined face and piercing gray eyes. A Trove of Lincoln Artifacts Heads to Auction 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z And while he delivers an occasional line reading of piercing lucidity, he presents the big speeches in big, separate blocks of words, words, words that don’t always connect. | 'King Lear' : ?King Lear? at the Public Theater - Review 2011-11-09T03:01:30Z At that point, Ian Anderson was blowing up giant balloons and piercing them with his flute. A date with Steve Carell and Tina Fey 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z The lean face, aquiline nose, piercing eyes — all are here from the beginning. Review | The enduring fascination with Sherlock Holmes: It’s elementary. 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z The monologue continues, perhaps unfortunately, with Mr. Lazar asking a few piercing questions as he eyes the audience. 2010-01-15T04:13:00Z Delilah feels her love interest “piercing me with his sincerity.” In This Novel, a Black South African Becomes a Domestic Worker — in Her Son’s Home 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Most were removed after shooting wrapped, but Oscar-nominated Mara kept the nipple piercing for possible sequels. The 10 best actor transformations 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z “She used the roundness in her voice, the piercing in her voice. There’s not a fear of pop music with Poly.” How Poly Styrene Broke the Mold 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z We have the piercing objectivity and bold originality of the outsider. Simon Doonan dishes on French chicks, straight men 2012-01-11T20:29:45Z Tony’s friend didn’t look at me except for the occasional piercing glance launched diagonally across the table. He Had to Leave So I Could Breathe 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z There are piercing reminders of both loss and wild excitement within it. Critic?s Notebook: ?Nutcracker? Riddles With Many Answers 2011-01-02T23:00:23Z His writing is not only entertaining but provides piercing social commentary about race, class and American ideals. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: By the Book 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z You do wonder if the piercing blue eyes and demi-mane of blond hair have hindered him when it comes to being taken seriously. Bradley Cooper: boy to man 2011-03-22T21:30:00Z And there are scenes of each of them alone that are piercing and lovely. Review: ‘L’Attesa’ (‘The Wait’) Turns Life Into a Ghost Story 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z That included dabbling in stand-up comedy, piercing her nose and entering a new relationship, her first since she separated from her wife in 2016. ‘Jeopardy!’ Hasn’t Had a Player Like Amy Schneider 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z A piercing tale of immigration, “The Leavers” tells the story of a young boy seemingly abandoned by his Chinese immigrant mother who is raised by two white professors in upstate New York. Best books of 2017: The best fiction 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z However, a representative told People that the company believed Marks “acted appropriately” and clarified that the stores’ policies are to refuse a piercing if the child does not want it. Claire's responds to ex-employee who claims she was instructed to pierce non-consenting children 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Drawing upon such stories, Loach and Laverty drill to the very heart of our contemporary work culture and ask piercing questions of the economic and political systems that support it. ‘It’s a form of modern slavery’: MPs on Ken Loach’s film about the human cost of the zero-hours economy 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z Two years later, she switched registers and released “Astonish Me,” a piercing novel about the cruel and beautiful world of ballet. Review | Maggie Shipstead’s ‘Great Circle’ is a soaring work of historical fiction and a perfect summer novel 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z And the Wyeths’ Christmas Eve zingers get sharper, piercing enough to draw blood. ‘Other Desert Cities’: A family’s personal, and political, pain 2013-06-07T22:37:00Z The orchestra is on a low simmer, nervous and stealthy, until the final moments, when the Palestinians vent their anger in threatening, piercing music, singing: What ‘The Death of Klinghoffer’ Could Have Accomplished 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z On Saturday, MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry delivered a solemn, yet piercing, segment on the killing of unarmed black men by police officers. Melissa Harris-Perry delivers an impassioned tribute to unarmed black me killed by police 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z Beyond the ins and outs of the case, “The Night Of” remained, from the beginning, a piercing glimpse into the best and worst aspects of the justice system. ‘The Night Of’ Finale: In a Lonely Place 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z There is much that is arresting here, love poems that are sensitive and compelling and faint satire that is unmistakably piercing. Review: ‘Color,’ by Countee Cullen 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Cooper's performance "is staggering in its physical discipline, its piercing emotional transparency and, most surprisingly, its restraint." Bradley Cooper earns plaudits for 'The Elephant Man' on Broadway 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z P-Orridge had been an early proponent of piercing and ritual cutting or scarring. Genesis P-Orridge Has Always Been a Provocateur of the Body. Now She’s at Its Mercy. 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Mind you, there are instances of piercing emotional conviction throughout, moments you want to file and rerun in memory. Theater Review: ?Death of a Salesman,? With Philip Seymour Hoffman 2012-03-16T02:11:33Z Others come as a shock: the kettledrums that sound like cannon fire; the piercing insistence of a piccolo that seems to have been requisitioned from Napoleon’s army. Music Review: John Eliot Gardiner Leads Ensembles at Carnegie Hall 2012-11-19T22:57:38Z With her unspackled skin and gold ball earrings — the kind you get from the piercing kiosk at the mall — the two-time Oscar winner sets the real-life tone for “Best Actress.” These Books Are Ready for Their Close-Up 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z The force of Hopper’s art is located within the piercing sense of possibility that the paintings convey, the sense of ambiguity and essential unknowability. What can fiction writers bring to Edward Hopper’s paintings? 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z With piercing language and extraordinary storytelling, Morrison forced readers to confront the depravity and terrorism of American slavery, shattering the English-language canon in the process. Analysis | Toni Morrison has kept the public at arm’s length. Now she’s letting people in on her terms. 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Bullets fire from a handgun in super-slow motion, piercing the raindrops, then a car window, then someone's skull. Review: `Softly' hammers its message hard 2012-11-28T17:25:16Z In the face of his earnest argument, I felt a piercing shame about my own presence on Facebook. Click ‘Delete’ to Save Your Soul 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z One guitarist—Dominic James—played bright, reiterative figures in the style of Nigerian highlife; the other—Lionel Loueke—made piercing electric sounds. A Brilliant Return for a Talking Heads Album 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z Jesse Sheidlower, editor at large of the Oxford English Dictionary, delivers a piercing essay about his insecure need to give lavish dinner parties, as seen though the prism of his failing marriage. Books of The Times: The Manly Art of Cooking Has Its Bards 2011-05-31T23:55:18Z Clearly they are alter-egos: the artist as a famous, wealthy but emotionally hollow and self-destructing relic; and the artist as a bottom-feeding hustler of mediocre talents but piercing self-awareness. 'No Man's Land' at ACT: Pinter without a map 2012-08-23T17:55:05Z Susan Bullock's Brünnhilde, however, has hit her stride, her soprano piercing through the orchestra. Siegfried – review 2012-09-30T16:15:01Z A photographic mural of the artist Cindy Sherman dressed in ritualistic Masonic garb looms over the lobby, her piercing gaze seeming to suggest: Get it together, guys. L.A.'s Marciano art museum will debut May 25. But first: A sneak peek 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z If having a piercing was once an in-your-face roar, the new vogue is a whisper. Piercings Are Back, Subtle and Sophisticated 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Laura Ingalls Wilder's books have danger and love and bears in them, but all I remember of them with real clarity is the food, and the wonderful piercing hunger it produced. Katherine Rundell's top 10 descriptions of food in fiction 2013-07-23T14:23:39Z That detachment, its cause and consequence, forms the shrouded heart of “Please Be Normal,” a tiny, piercing study of dawning desperation that’s all the more remarkable for being virtually silent. Review: ‘Please Be Normal,’ a Couple’s Dawning Desperation 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Moore describes her ambitious shopkeeper father as "tall, with piercing blue eyes and wiry blond hair"; Harris calls him "tall, blond and blue-eyed". Margaret Thatcher by Charles Moore; Not for Turning by Robin Harris – review 2013-04-24T12:57:02Z Given his youth and the lack of pain in his expression, there are subtle references to the piercing of the body of martyred St. Sebastian, who himself incarnates the suffering of Christ on the cross. Charlie Hebdo’s war on despair: “They have weapons. F*ck that sh*t. We have champagne!” 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Her high, piercing voice became a source of consistent laughs. What’s behind the obsession over whether Elizabeth Holmes intentionally lowered her voice? 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z The revelation Lea is building toward is less of a twist and more of a smoldering “of course!,” but that doesn’t make it any less piercing. Fiction That Takes You Back in Time 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z It is difficult to believe your lover is alive under the same sky, and the more clearly you can see their room, their bed, the more you feel the piercing pain of separation. Love poems: writers choose their favourites for Valentine's Day 2012-02-10T22:52:01Z Kennedy was hit just below his right ear, the bullet piercing his skull. 50 years after Robert Kennedy’s assassination: Don’t get caught up in conspiracy theories 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z The accretion of detail is a windup for a piercing moral observation. The Unclassifiable Essays of Eliot Weinberger 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Stricken with fragility, it combines affecting poetic lyrics and piercing sorrow with something ethereal that drags you into an achingly alluring world. March's best music from across the MAP 2013-04-02T15:55:27Z My daughter claimed that her piercing was a metaphor, which piqued my interest. My daughter’s piercing 2013-09-05T23:00:00Z No filmmaker uses drone camerawork so lyrically; his flying eye dips and swoops with a piercing curiosity. ‘Nomad’ Review: Werner Herzog Pays Tribute to a ‘Kindred Spirit’ 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Although Mr. Thaw and Mr. Evans share what Ms. Thaw called “those piercing concentrated blue eyes,” they are otherwise not obviously similar. ‘Endeavour,’ Inspector Morse Prequel, Set for PBS 2012-06-29T20:46:16Z By the end, it seems to dissipate rather than achieve the piercing sense of longing that so powerfully concludes many of its smaller sections. ‘Underground Fugue’: A tale of mother-daughter love against a backdrop of terror 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z But it is at the winter solstice that Maeshowe consummates its mystery with the astronomical spectacle of the sun piercing its dark sanctum of death. Winter solstice: See the light on the darkest day 2010-12-21T11:46:02Z It unfolds in sound waves that swell and subside, rich with unsettling slides, piercing dissonances and spiraling riffs that never quite slip into a regular pulse. Simon Rattle Conducts Schumann With Berlin Philharmonic 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Mac’s recollection of discovering a home in the world just as it was burning down makes for a particularly piercing moment. Taylor Mac’s ‘A 24-Decade History of Popular Music,’ 1930s-1950s 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Her beauty is more restless, more piercing, more discriminating and in a way more detached. Jeanne Moreau: the intelligent, complex star who lit up the French New Wave 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z It’s hovering over “I Used to Think I Could Fly,” the astute and piercing debut album from the 18-year-old Canadian Tate McRae. Post Malone and Pop’s Single Sound 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z Those piercing piano notes had started to disturb my dreams. 'The Leftovers' Recap: Grief and Its Hucksters 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z It unfolds in thick, undulating waves and piercing sustained sonorities, interrupted with fragments that appear and evaporate. Review: The Jaap van Zweden Era Begins at the Philharmonic 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Playing the marimba with headless mallets, Ian Rosenbaum made glissandi sound like a wooden roller coaster, and the coordinated accents of struck wood and plucked strings were piercing. Dance Review: ‘Capture/Release’ Uses Lar Lubovitch Dancers 2013-06-26T21:49:30Z The magazine spoke to Kiersten Johanna Johnson, a tattoo artist in Colorado, who said she had customers who came in for “pain therapy” — using tattooing or piercing as an alternative to self-harm. Can’t Let Go of ‘S-Town’? Here’s What to Read Next 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z And in dramatizing the effects of that backlash on Walter Lee, the feckless dreamer of the family, it offers a piercing psychological portrait of Black manhood in distress. Review: This Time, ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ Really Does Explode 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z It’s an extraordinary low-frequency rumble, not so much piercing as vibrating. Critic’s Notebook: Power of the Riff Festival, With Sunn O))), in Brooklyn 2012-09-03T21:57:58Z Yet Wamariya is piercing about her alienation in America and her effort to combat the perception that she is an exotic figure, to be pitied or dismissed. From the Rwandan Genocide to Chicago: A Young Author Survived to Tell Her Story 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z He comes into possession of a cursed Ashanti blade that, after a run-in with his suicidal project assistant, ends up piercing him. Da Sweet Blood Of Jesus review – Spike Lee's horror flick is uneven but unique 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z And it’s impossible to imagine a cast better able to infuse Ms. Ziegler’s story of love, pain and loss with more natural poetry, or more piercing honesty. Review: ‘A Delicate Ship’ Plumbs the What-ifs of Love and Heartbreak 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z One actor blows fiercely on a plastic horn, piercing eardrums and probably most parents’ calm hopes. Spare Times for Children, for Nov. 23-29 2012-11-22T20:56:47Z It’s the voices that are pumped to piercing. Sondheim goes ‘crunch’ in prog-metal ‘Sweeney Todd’ 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z The grit was definitely missing, and anyone with long, blonde hair and piercing blue eyes should have grit in his voice. "American Idol" recap: Holy war 2010-03-03T13:04:00Z More songs like the piercing ballad featuring Julia Michaels appear on “Dangerous Levels of Introspection,” to be released Friday. New this week: Whales, ‘LFG,’ ‘Mysterious Benedict Society’ 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z He's underscored by piercing Trap hi-hats, two giant inflatable ecstasy pills being suckerpunched across the venue and a panoramic projection of digital distortion on every wall. SXSW music festival: Solange, Death Grips and Kendrick Lamar 2013-03-18T16:49:11Z Inside “The Daily Show” sausage factory, Stewart was determined to turn arguments about the follies of government into piercing comedy. Moments of Zen (and rage) behind ‘The Daily Show’ 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z The King’s words are both piercing and muddled; his white T-shirt looks stained with foodstuffs, his crown chintzy. Theater Review: ‘Feast’ Revisits Babylon, With Interactive Whoopee Cushions 2014-01-14T23:03:33Z Deploying a chain in the percussion and piercing flute notes, it contains a lot of what the composer frankly calls noise. Chains Clink, Water Splashes: A Composer’s Beautiful Noise 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z His life may have devolved into a floating Key West-Rome-New York installment of "Hollywood Babylon," but the piercing language and devastating emotional honesty of his best writing will forever be uncorrupted. The shame and glory of Tennessee Williams in John Lahr's new book 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Alternatively, select the “Service” tab to search by plenty of options that include men’s haircut, mustache trim, relaxer, reflexology, eyebrow threading, ear piercing and spray tanning. Browsing for Beauty Services on the Road 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z How many women have said as much before sharing piercing experiences? ‘The Confessions’ Review: A Mother’s Tale, Told With Empathy and Care 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z The stranger with piercing eyes answers, “I am of the children of Isis.” The 19th-century best-selling horror novel that isn’t ‘Dracula’ 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Big in physical form, with piercing blue eyes and tremendous drive. Terence Donovan Fashion edited by Diana Donovan and David Hillman – review 2012-12-16T00:05:04Z A piercing whistle seems to propel them into movement and they shuffle and stop until another whistle commands them. Northern Ireland Town Embraces Beckett Festival 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Throughout filming, Mr. Henry wore motion-capture materials on his head, so that his face could be replaced with a digital re-creation of Cushing’s piercing visage. How ‘Rogue One’ Brought Back Familiar Faces 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z The exceptional sensitivity toward the smallest turns of mind and the piercing perceptions of the most agile twists in moods are illuminated. The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z In “Fire on the Beach,” Faladé describes Wild’s flowing hair and “piercing eyes — reminiscent of John Brown’s ascetic’s glare.” A Rousing Novel Follows a Brigade of Black Soldiers in the Civil War 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z The contrast she showed on Tuesday between the outer and inner sections of Balanchine’s “Stravinsky Violin Concerto” was thrilling; nothing about the outer movements prepared you for her piercing pathos in Aria II. Dance Review: Youth, Balanchine and Fans Are Served 2011-05-06T23:29:12Z Mr. Abrahamsen enshrouds these lines with gently throbbing, piercing music, though the vocal part often seems to float above pulsing patterns in the orchestra. Review: ‘Let Me Tell You’ Has Its New York Premiere 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z A certain hunger for the affections Natalya was in the habit of bestowing on him flickers occasionally in Mr. Dinklage’s piercing eyes. Taylor Schilling and Peter Dinklage in ‘A Month in the Country’ 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z “Fingertips,” despite containing some of the record’s most piercing lyrics, simply drifts. Lana Del Rey Plunges Into the Deep, but Never Abandons the Shallow 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z It is wonderful to see Cushing, replete with snarling lip and piercing stare, back in the franchise that relaunched his career. Rogue One: the CGI resurrection of Peter Cushing is thrilling – but is it right? 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z It was described by the Guardian as "late, piercing, morally incisive look at the unscrupulous rich" – a recurring theme in the series? Boardwalk Empire: season one, episode two 2011-02-02T22:10:00Z Both are works of piercing subjectivity, literary feats of self-description whose status becomes, over time, ever more artistic and less political. The Female Eunuch, 40 years on 2010-11-20T00:06:00Z It found that one or numerous small caliber rounds piercing the vessel would not cause a catastrophic loss. Fear while flying: World War Z offers the latest in a string of deadly flights 2013-06-13T16:11:50Z These devices produce a piercing sound loud enough to wake you, your neighbors and the front desk, too. Portable door locks can give travelers extra comfort and protection. Here’s how to choose one. 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z On Tuesday night, Shamir passed that test at U Street Music Hall, using his piercing countertenor to lead a dance party. Shamir is chatty, casual and ready to take his voice to new heights 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Then there are the occasional, exhilarating eruptions of noise, like the ecstatic climax of “Third Construction,” during which Mr. Cha-Beach drew piercing moans from a conch shell. Review: With Flower Pots and Toys, an Ensemble’s Fresh Take on Percussion 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z I avoided the television because it was an endless loop of a plane piercing one of the World Trade towers or scenes of despair at Ground Zero. Perspective | What will post-pandemic fiction look like? The novels that followed 9/11 offer some clues. 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z She possesses the traditional attributes of an old-fashioned movie star: a piercing stare, high cheekbones, a blond mane. Her Specialty Is Bringing Headstrong Women to Life Onscreen 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z My high school guidance counselor, who had the same cartilage piercing as me. Becoming a Woman Without Her 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Throughout a career spanning more than half a century, Rame and Fo captured the hearts and minds of many Italians with their irreverent, piercing political satire performed for stage, radio and television. Italian actress Franca Rame, wife and muse of Dario Fo, dies 2013-05-29T12:08:39Z In “Whiplash” and “Oz,” J. K. Simmons wreaked havoc with his curt, gravelly voice, a piercing stare and spasms of violence. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Counterpart’ and ‘The Resident’ 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z Though men can deliver the steak and sizzle, as in the piercing retro of Gareth Pugh, maybe women are better at making salad. As London Fashion Ends, a Burberry Concert and Anya Hindmarch’s Fun House 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Yet its very uncertainties, expressed with piercing honesty, reel you in. Review: A Married Woman Longs for ‘The Escape’ 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Then a piercing cry from loudspeakers in the distance: INCOMING! Iraq nearly gave me PTSD 2013-04-16T16:30:00Z "Next to Normal" focuses, sometimes humorously but with piercing candor, on a middle-class wife and mother whose bipolar disease and clinical depression are fracturing her family. Review: 'Next to Normal' opens a window into bipolar disease with candor and song 2011-02-26T01:19:41Z Her uncompromising vision and piercing prose are reasons to celebrate the long overdue appearance of this bracing voice in English. Lina Meruane's 'Seeing Red' is a piercing novel of blindness 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z The music is piercing, as shown is the video below. Clip joint: songs that haunt characters 2012-07-11T15:55:01Z I never knew I could feel such joy and piercing heartache simultaneously. I live in Tokyo. He lives in D.C. Omicron forced us to marry if we ever wanted to see each other. 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z It is no accident that the official logo is designed around a piercing, dark-browed eye. Comic-Con Is All About the Eyes 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z There something rather creepy about Agent Van Alden's fastidious demeanour and piercing gaze. Boardwalk Empire: season one, episode two 2011-02-02T22:10:00Z When I was 26, I broke up with a long-term partner, got an ill-advised facial piercing and changed careers – all in the space of a month. ‘Everyone thought I was mad’: how to make a life-changing decision – and stick to it 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z By the pool last week, the only physical remnants of his edgy persona were the small silver hoops piercing his ears. Ex-bad boy Colin Farrell turns romantic in ‘Winter’s Tale’ 2014-02-14T21:57:23Z What we said: An intriguing and cerebral quasi-genre picture ... that can be read at least partly as a piercing – if not precisely passionate – rebuke to the death sentence. Best films of 2018 so far 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Thug - Lipstick StainsA smattering of synths, piercing vocals and some cutting lyrics turn Diamond Thug's Lipstick Stains into instantly addictive listening. November's best music from across the MAP 2012-11-15T09:00:00Z Brodie is never going to solve cases by the piercing strength of his intellect, but Isaacs has the engaging knack of conveying a man who knows he's not as bright as he'd like to be. Rewind TV: Panorama: Hillsborough – How They Buried the Truth; The Hunt for Britain's Sex Gangs; David Bowie – Five Years; Case Histories 2013-05-25T23:04:04Z Its message, conveyed through a patchwork of biographically inspired vignettes spanning from 1972 through 2013, rings with the piercing clarity of an alarm bell. With “When We Rise,” ABC gives viewers a noble if uneven portrait of the ongoing struggle for LGBT rights 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z Tall and clean-cut, Mr. Norman, 36, has piercing blue eyes and a recently grown blond beard that barely conceals a still-boyish face. Andrew Norman on Loving ‘Star Wars’ and Pushing Musical Boundaries 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Across the film is a constant, dreaded creep — of violence escalating and piercing through fences and windows, of the sound of a mob getting closer to barricaded doors. ‘January 6th’ Review: Scenes of a Riot 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Chelsea Lee’s voice, gravelly on the edges, bends like a beam of light, piercing through hazy bass thumps. For D.C. pop band Shaed, the rock-and-roll dream is all about family 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z And then there are those chiseled good looks and piercing green eyes, which seem to beg for a cape and spandex. After ‘Rocketman’, Taron Egerton Transforms Again for ‘Black Bird’ 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Cranach pulled a delicate, transparent veil across her naked sex, the imminent piercing of her body by one weapon juxtaposed with the memory of another. Martin Luther broke Europe in two, and Albrecht Dürer painted it back together 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z The new guest drops a hairbrush, piercing the room’s stillness. Top bunk for $30 a day: Life inside one of Airbnb’s modern boardinghouses 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z The name seems to suggest that the young woman will emerge as a ray of light — a piercing ray of light! — in Dexter’s life. ArtsBeat: 'Dexter' Watch: Bonded by Rage 2010-10-25T15:23:00Z As Dido, she is piercing at many individual moments, muted in others, better in motion than in stillness. Dance Review: ‘Dido and Aeneas,’ From Mark Morris, at Mostly Mozart 2012-08-23T22:03:45Z A neglected kettle boils, its whistle piercing ears and hearts. Review: ‘Stew’ Takes Deeper Emotions Off the Back Burner 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z The disorienting In the Mirror, with its piercing slide guitar and Sparks-ish melody, brings us no closer to answering that, but it's beguiling. Readers recommend: songs about mirrors – results 2012-08-16T09:11:32Z The instruments sometimes cushion the vocal line with mystical, piercing harmonies, until emotions break loose and the music becomes fiendish. Review: The Hazy Mysteries of Love at Lincoln Center 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z McCarthy and Hall, who plays the repressed divorcee, both were attracted to the show’s message of appreciating the messiness of life and piercing through peoples’ overly processed, manufactured and edited portraits on social media. Nicole Kidman leads ‘Nine Perfect Strangers’ on quite a trip 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z With Kitade sporting teased hair, dark, smudged makeup, ropes and an arm piercing, it's safe to assume her music will also take a turn for the darker. Why Japanese pop matters 2010-03-25T23:10:00Z They were as surely a testament to a widening fascination with body modification in its most eye-popping extremes: allover tattoos, subdermal implants, piercing, stretching, scarring, branding and the like. Piercings and Eye-Popping Tattoos: Fashion’s Latest Canvas Is the Skin You’re In 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z And I’m pretty sure it had something to do with an illiterate Nepalese woman with a nose pin, septum piercing and thick gold hoops in her ears. ‘I stood there, mouth gaping, words stuck’: how a comedian cured her stammer 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z With his skinny frame, looking like a stiff wind could topple him, and blue eyes that are almost unsettlingly piercing, Mr. Hawkes gives an astringent performance that scrupulously avoids pathos. ‘Lost Lake,’ a Two-Character Play by David Auburn 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z Cline is an astonishingly gifted stylist, but it is her piercing understanding of modern humiliation that makes these stories vibrate with life. Emma Cline Knows First World Problems 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Another storm is clearly imminent, but the hope of salvation lies in the rainbow and the spire piercing a patch of clear bright sky. Constable 'masterpiece' bought by Tate for £23.1m 2013-05-23T11:25:57Z The young Georgian mezzo-soprano, noted for her Carmen, has a huge, piercing voice, and she isn’t afraid to sacrifice purity of technique for the sake of intensity of expression. A Hell-Raising Mezzo-Soprano Cuts Through a Dreary First Week at the Metropolitan Opera 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z The melody lands on unexpected notes, and the cluster chords that support it are spiked with piercing dissonance. Music Review | Yannick N?zet-S?guin: Youthful Intensity, Onstage and in the Program 2010-02-19T04:51:00Z Many home bakers have been told— by Food Network, by cookbooks, by their grandmothers — that the best way to check the doneness of a cake is by piercing the center with a toothpick. Why an expert baker says the “toothpick trick” is actually ruining your cakes 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Krakauer’s clarinet girded each with a piercing wail in the premiere on Wednesday night, communicating anguish, outrage and catharsis. Music Review: ‘The Big Picture,’ Movie Music at the Museum of Jewish Heritage 2014-01-30T23:53:10Z There was this one treatment, a piercing element that the Klingons have, and few would recognise it, but those who are serious fans will catch it. Star Trek Into Darkness: how it was made, by the people who made it 2013-05-11T05:00:00Z A “long, doleful, piercing cry”, by a journalist on the Guardian, in a country so overwhelmed by gun violence that it has almost given up trying to stop it. High fliers 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z The piece builds to a meter-fracturing dance, then ends quizzically, with subdued, piercing harmonies for the cello and a wistful fiddle tune. Music Review: A Cozy Chamber Concert Buoyed by Lapping Water 2011-04-18T21:55:54Z During sustained passages, her luminous voice sounds shimmering and sensual one moment, piercing and desperate the next. Review: In ‘Written on Skin,’ George Benjamin Creates an Unusual Love Triangle 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z We arrived in January, by which point the warm Provençal brushwork of lavender and limestone had given way to a piercing wind. Encounters with Shakespeare 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z Ahmed’s demeanor is welcoming, his voice calm, his smile inviting, his chestnut eyes piercing. “Vodou is like a gun” (and that’s how you spell it) 2013-03-10T00:00:00Z His is a distinctive voice, spiked by cluster-like harmonies, at once piercing and ethereal, and squiggly rhythmic riffs. Review: The Rare Problem of a New Opera That’s Too Short 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z Writers Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi keep their cards close to their chest but what’s ultimately the biggest surprise is not the gruesome violence that comes but the piercing sadness that follows. My streaming gem: why you should watch The Invitation 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z This British version is the most merciless and empathic interpretation of this much performed work I’ve seen, and it keeps returning to my thoughts in piercing shards, like the remnants of a too-revealing dream. Review: Tom Hiddleston in a Love Triangle Undone by ‘Betrayal’ 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z But the songs stuck with me, along with piercing images of aging performers clinging to a waning spotlight. ‘Follies’ Was My First Broadway Show. 50 Years Later, I Remember It All. 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z This music is about fluidity and enchantment and, on the album’s piercing title track, loss. The Best Jazz of 2018 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Of the subject herself, we see her like we’ve seen her never before – her light seems dimmer despite the bleach blond hair, piercing eyes and bright, expensive clothes. This Is Paris: Hilton documentary puts the reality in reality TV 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z As he tramps through the snow on his way to school, you have a piercing sense of a young man in harmony with nature. Review: In ‘Being 17,’ 2 Boys Teeter Between Animosity and Attraction 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Yet the skittish orchestra, especially the piercing strings that almost cling to the voice, suggests otherwise. Music Review: Stephanie Blythe and Philharmonic at Avery Fisher - Review 2011-10-02T20:21:48Z A plant piercing through a box expresses the desire for freedom. Art Rooted in Nature Blooms at TEFAF 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z The other day, Catherine Hay, a 45-year-old marketing and communications specialist with a corporate clientele, lay stretched on a surgery table at the End Is Near, an upmarket piercing salon in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Piercings and Eye-Popping Tattoos: Fashion’s Latest Canvas Is the Skin You’re In 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z In “When Orbital Proximity Feels Creepy,” he writes, “I am making my way in some dark room / looking for other structures to love”—a piercing summation of what it feels like to navigate grief. Peter Gizzi, a Poet of Sound and Time 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z It does what you expect at almost every turn, even with some hallucinations that, with one piercing exception, seem calculated to keep real hurt at bay. ‘Cake’ Stars Jennifer Aniston as an Accident Victim 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Cases where piercing provides a medical benefit to the animal, and is performed under the supervision of a veterinarian, will also be allowed. New York state bans pet tattooing, piercing 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Their desultory attempt to rekindle the flame infuses “Bright Days Ahead” with a piercing sadness that the rest of this emotionally unfocused movie tries to avoid with an almost pathological perkiness. Movie Review: In ‘Bright Days Ahead,’ a 60-Year-Old Woman Takes a Lover 2014-04-24T23:35:20Z “That’s the bright side here, that the dead man does not have a piercing?” Books of The Times: In Florida Slough With the Gators and Family Ghosts 2011-02-16T23:30:12Z On the new album, piercing pop-punk tunes like “Gone” and “Deadweight” challenge emotionally ambivalent partners to wear their hearts on their sleeves. Beach Bunny Is Building an Indie-Rock Career in a Time of TikTok 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z It dares to look inside modern India’s many closets, offering a piercing insider’s portrait of a society very few journalistic books or articles on “new India” can capture. Analysis | ‘Made in Heaven’ offers a groundbreaking look behind big fat Indian weddings 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Neither a heartthrob nor a conveying threat, Mr. Van Patten became a journeyman TV performer, a familiar round face with piercing blue eyes and a balding pate. Dick Van Patten, who was a TV father on ‘Eight is Enough,’ dies at 86 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Padmore’s flexible voice and piercing focus — that blue-eyed stare — have made him indispensable in a wide-ranging repertory that includes Bach, Schumann, Britten and Harrison Birtwistle. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Billy Budd,’ an Unusual Foray for Mark Padmore 2014-02-06T23:28:59Z Even Fornés’s occasional loss of focus prompts insights of piercing authority, as when, in her apartment, seeing Memran filming her, she asks, “Who is doing the writing?” An Extraordinary Documentary Portrait of a Playwright Facing Alzheimer’s Disease 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z The Witness is described as "a piercing and dark thriller of modern morals" and focuses on a father and the daughter he rescued and adopted when he photographed her in war-torn Rwanda. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-06-01T23:06:24Z We see the stirring of her lifelong interest in piercing the veil of language to access existence itself. ‘The Chandelier’ Offers an Early Glimpse of Clarice Lispector’s Power 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z Gilmore's lean, Texas warble brought a piercing quality "In the Pines," and his accentuated delivery pushed the traipsing beat of "Deep Ellum Blues." Jimmie Dale Gilmore takes another unusual turn 2011-06-26T14:59:00Z The tough managing editor came in and told us something about page layout and then fixed me with a piercing glance and said: “You know he’s dead, don’t you?” 'I never knew how much I'd write crying': Peter Bradshaw on film star deaths 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z He had piercing blue eyes, weathered skin, and a gentle walk. The Man in Xinjiang: A Frightening Experience in Rural China 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z OB, as locals call it, still feels like the hippie community it once was, and like all of the beaches in San Diego, it’s friendly — it just comes with more tattoo and piercing studios. Getting to know San Diego’s lovable beaches 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z The needle pokes into your skin, piercing it so the tattoo drips into your flesh. This DIY tattoo trend will make you wince — or want one yourself 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z The results are iffy — a lot of compelling work and some piercing curatorial insights but shrouded beneath old-fashioned parochialism. At new Whitney Museum site, a show is shrouded in parochialism 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Why had this piercing upset me so much? My daughter’s piercing 2013-09-05T23:00:00Z The emotions the elder Mueller elicits from the songs, while perhaps not as piercing as those of her younger sibling, touch us nonetheless to the quick. 'Beautiful' makes a fetching Los Angeles debut at the Pantages 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z Sam Smith, “In the Lonely Hour”: Unrequited love ruled Sam Smith’s debut album, introducing the world to a piercing voice that is brave and honest. Associated Press’ album of the decade: Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z In 2013, after two Tesla cars caught fire, the company discovered that both explosions were a result of sharp or heavy objects piercing the battery, which sits in the car’s underbelly. The Risks in Hoverboards and Other Lithium-Ion Gadgets 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z But Ms. Wilson, with her offhand intensity and overscale features — dramatically wide lips, piercing blue-gray eyes, architectural eyebrows — was more than holding her own in the rehearsal studio. After ‘The Affair,’ Ruth Wilson Hits Broadway in ‘Constellations’ 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z When Cinderella goes to the ball, the magic of the moment is simple and piercing as she steps down from her carriage and a retinue of fairies dart an airy embroidery of homage around her. Cinderella 2010-04-12T21:00:00Z And then we turn the corner, and there she is, fully fledged, a brilliant artist, making breathtaking paintings that have the flat, colorful solidity of Gauguin, but a piercing intelligence and emotional insight. Review | Suzanne Valadon modeled for some of the world’s greatest artists. Then she became one. 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z And the final train, with its piercing headlight, terrifies as it must, and ends the ballet almost as it began – leaving Anna as a scarlet spark on the railway line. Anna Karenina ? review 2011-08-13T23:05:30Z And for whatever reason, as confirmed at Town Hall, the most startling of her early-period voices — the piercing, metallic mewl — is mostly gone. Music Review | Joanna Newsom: At Town Hall, Singing in Tongues, Some of Them Strung 2010-03-20T00:19:00Z Conan Doyle even appropriated some of Bell’s physical attributes for Holmes, giving him the professor’s “sharp and piercing” gray eyes and thin, aquiline nose. Detecting the origins of Sherlock Holmes 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z I read “Landmarks,” in part, on the subway in New York, riding to and from work with the heat seething outside and the awful news of the world piercing even the summer torpor. Review: ‘Landmarks,’ a Book on Language and Landscape 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z Charb's "Open Letter" is alive with blistering rationale, all the more piercing in the context of the cost he and his staff paid to the fundamentally irrational. A year after the Charlie Hebdo attacks, slain editor Charb makes his case in 'Open Letter' 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z But, she said, “it’s also a piercing commentary on mother-daughter relationships, the indignity of bureaucracy, the burdens of caregiving and the impositions of religious dogma on women.” Women Dominate Shortlist for International Booker Prize 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z The Tales of Hoffmann,” equally morbid, is a far more uneven film, but its best dance moments are piercing — and its finest, and strangest, performance is that of Mr. Ashton. Dance This Week: ‘Fantasia’ at MoMA and Ballet at the Joyce 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z |
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