Fans of an esoteric good time have three chances to catch the San Francisco Bay Area's finest Jewish-American klezmer-blues-folk rock band, purveying its magical blend of haunting female vocals, piercing feminist thought and danceable music.
Then put back together, but in such a way that any thoughts brought sharp, piercing pain.
He was a man of piercing intellect and curiosity, brilliant thought and focused discipline but his greatest gift was his immense capacity for giving of himself to others.
He paints piercing, plausible portraits by combining their thoughts with their battlefield behavior.
Lopate's three earlier collections and his book-length essays match Hazlitt's promiscuous host of interests with Montaigne's piercing attention to his inner life, his quicksilver thoughts and fugitive impressions.
Here, the texture of her acting and dancing was piercing: disheveled from her night with Romeo and horrified by the thought of death, she tossed the vial onto the floor and ran fearfully to crouch next to her bed.
Black Thought, the group's sprightly lead rapper, darted around the stage, reciting dexterous rhymes about "busting thoughts that pierce your mental," but he wasn't the star.
This sounds less like a representation of thought than a piece of convenient ventriloquism, a lepidopterist's pin piercing a middle-aged woman's consciousness in order to fix her in the velvet-lined display case of her time.
They hear his piercing laugh and the long "Ahhhhhhhhh"s he utters as he pauses between words or thoughts, which veer off in surprising directions, and they have no other explanation.
He described himself as "not insensitive to how my piercing words might be read by the white Americans I was addressing ― how my thoughts might now be heard in earshot of the Dallas killer's deeds".
