The phrase "a searing read" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a book, article, or any written material that is intense, emotionally charged, or thought-provoking.
Example: "The novel was a searing read, leaving me in tears by the end."
Alternatives: "a gripping read" or "a powerful read".
The Oscar-nominated actor Benedict Cumberbatch left his place beside fellow actor Robert Lindsay – respectively the next to tackle the role and a notable former interpreter of Shakespeare's Richard III – to read a searing new poem by the poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, with the line "Grant me the carving of my name".
In their weekly e-mail, half a million fans of Lands' End, the preppy cataloger that agreed in May to sell out to Sears, recently read about a man who wore his Lands Endd mesh shirt to a preserve for orphaned chimpanzees in the Republic of Guinea.
Con: Marcus has described PayPal as a searing experience whose "real management" (read: bureaucracy) took him away from what he most loves, building products.
I have a lovely friend who is a much more of an attachment-parenting, Dr. Sears-reading type than I am, and I remember on one of our earliest playdates thinking, Wow, he's got it so together -- she talks to her kids about their feelings when they misbehave and never raises her voice with them!
As someone who always thought searing conflict was a healthy (read: necessary) part of family gatherings, I struggle to see why parents are so against their children's partners adding a little philosophical spice to a polite gathering.
In November 1933 Mandelshtam produced a searing epigram on Stalin which he subsequently read to many of his friends ("We live unable to sense the country under our feet").
It's totally unsustainable," said Packer, whose group released a searing ad against Trump that features women reading some of his most offensive remarks.
But in an interview, he said that those who view him as sympathetic to the governing Indian National Congress Party have probably not read his book, which is a searing indictment of India's present government and every previous one.
THESE days, red-carpet cynosures name-check designers like they're reading a Sears catalog.
The new lives take a searing toll.
