"He is almost like a caricature of an owl, with a sturdy build, strong, piercing eyes, and owl-like properties".
Around 1927 the architect Charles Rennie Macintosh, then living in the Pyrenees, made a wonderful watercolour of the village of Fetges which draws on his art nouveau heritage to produce a picture of piercing clarity and strong structural rhythm.
Strong chins, piercing eyes, faces full of furrows, they are peas in a pod, hard to tell apart, a three-piece: easy.
"He has great, great eyes, strong and piercing.
He stood out through his striking appearance: tall, lean, prematurely grey-white-haired, strong jaw, piercing eyes and a gravelly voice.
We rose with the sun, covered in the morning's dew, with the smell of salt in the air, and out along the surf line early in the sun's arcing rise, we could see its strong rays piercing the breaking wave tops in bright green sparkling splashes.
Lacking his guile, Hull were unable to pierce a defence strong enough to cling on to a three-point lead which had been established by an impeccable performance from Andy Farrell, who landed five goals and a drop goal in addition to scoring a first-half try for a personal tally of 15 points.
White-haired, with piercing pale blue eyes and strong features in a wide oval face, she walks stiffly and talks falteringly.
Both men spent time in the Dodgers' organization in their formative years as players, both have strong opinions and piercing baseball intellect, and both last managed in Japan.
The main distinguishing characters of falconiforms are the hooked beak, used for tearing flesh; taloned feet, used for piercing, grasping, and killing prey; strong feather quills that can withstand the aerodynamic forces of rapid flight; and large eyes, with very acute vision.
