It lacerates, it haunts, it dreams, it mourns, and because of its effective use of the second-person narration, the characters call out to you — persistently — until you feel what the dead feel and, perhaps worse, what the survivors feel".
Some people say she buried it, lacerated it, drank it away.
AS POLITICIANS lacerated it and advertisers withdrew their business this week, the future of the News of the World, Britain's biggest-selling Sunday paper, looked bleak.
His last two comedies, The Squid and the Whale and Margot at the Wedding, had some phenomenally poisonous characters, and dialogue so lacerating it would be confiscated at customs.
While other mayors have silently suffered the Port Authority's presence in their midst, Mr. Giuliani has publicly lacerated it as an unaccountable and unnecessary anachronism that ought to be dismantled.
"In a style both lyrical and lacerating, it reveals the impact of this great refusal both on the heroine herself and on those around her.
Ben Brantley of The New York Times called the production "lacerating" when it was done in London this summer.
And by the time he gets to mimicking the infant teeth of the baby he has fathered but barely knows, Mr. West suggests nothing so much as an overgrown child engaged in an extended tantrum that is as lacerating as it is shot through with laughter.
As the refugee crisis continues to lacerate the world, it leaves behind wounds that will take decades to heal.
When a narrow wire is used, it may lacerate the soft tissue of neck even without a long drop (cheese cutter method).
Like Rachel Cusk's "Outline," "Wilful Disregard" is lacerating in its intelligence and honesty; it makes you waver between loathing and compassion for basically all humans.
