Sentence examples for pierced like from inspiring English sources

The psychiatrist's words pierced like a bullet.

A bulky wooden cruciform on a gilded base, it is encrusted with Mexican votive charms and pierced, like an African power figure, with energy-releasing spikes and swords.

"THE ONLY TRIBE" Masks by the sculptor Roland Gebhardt — flat, geometric pieces of foamboard, pierced like punch cards — are the basis of this dance-theatre piece choreographed by Peter Kyle.

No stage production could match Kurosawa's Birnam Wood, and, in his final framing of the hero — a human hedgehog, stuck with arrows — he conjures a tragedy not laden with grandeur but pierced, like a dream, by the absurd.

These noble souls were often glimpsed in strobe-lit flashes of gore at the moment of their deaths, their faces "pierced like a piece of fruit" or turned into carrion, "bird's feathers on your face / . . .

Jean Cocteau thought that Picasso had "terrible eyes that pierced like gimlets"; Richardson thinks of him as a witch doctor with the gift of x-ray vision that Andalusians call the mirada fuerte - a strong gaze that penetrates objects.

The cave is eerie, in part because the gray pigeonlike birds are so loud and their eyes are piercing like headlights.

Pac's creativity was often things outside of his lyrics, like wearing a nose piercing, like me and my female friends do, but still being macho – and I think rappers now are expressing creativity in the way they present themselves too".

"The sound is piercing, like steam escaping.

If you have a body piercing (like on your nose, tongue or eyebrow), it's best to hide that fact if your school is against it, usually just by not wearing piercings to school.

Bead, small, usually round object made of glass, wood, metal, nut, shell, bone, seed, or the like, pierced for stringing.