Sentence examples for piercing glance from inspiring English sources

"Orthodox?" he asked with a piercing glance.

As I watched those four lives turned upside down – their houses bombed, their children starved, and their mothers killed by the advancing Nigerian army– I began to wonder if my country was ready for such a piercing glance into its past.

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 curtly nodded (though I didn't know) and it was a motion I converted into just discreetly looking down because to my horror I could feel myself choking up.

As a young man Godwin had been very much the philosopher — austere in dress, with an angular figure, an intense manner and piercing glance.

With his Bond-villain voice, his neatly trimmed gray hair and beard, his piercing glance, the genius I.Q.

Yet when she paused to fix her gaze on people, her piercing glances revealed that this shrew was shrewd and had no use for foolishness or pretension.

"It was just an emotional field of negativity and disapproval and piercing glances that shot arrows of what certainly felt like real hatred, and I was astonished.

He later said he was astonished by the "emotional field of negativity and disapproval and piercing glances that... certainly felt like real hatred".

Liutkus-Pierce glanced at her calendar: It was April 1.

The exhibition features Sherman's "Untitled Film Stills" (1977-1980), in which she casts piercing sultry and suspicious glances through a black and white noir filter.

Ms. Blythe commands the stage and though she has a big body, moves with agility and grace, exudes charisma and conveys piercing emotional subtleties with every glance and phrase.