Either Juventus chose a bad night to forget their defensive structure or Messi et al were just too piercingly brilliant.
Few writers wrote so piercingly about the first world war.Certain themes emerge.
Mr Sullivan, a journalist and the southern editor for the Paris Review, is known for his piercingly poetic style of writing.
His reflections on the pogroms of Jews at the hands of their fellow Poles in Jedwabne under Nazi occupation and at Kielce after the war are piercingly well-judged.Some might see Mr Michnik now as the epitome of the Warsaw liberal establishment.
Though Sam Mendes's Bridge Project productions of The Tempest and As You Like It received a muted response, there were warm plaudits for three classy revivals: John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation; Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, starring Toby Stephens and Hattie Morahan; and Noël Coward's Design for Living, a still piercingly modern love story between three good friends.
It is filmed with a piercingly lovely fairy-tale quality that heightens the film's already larger-than-life battle of innocence versus evil.
Lily James is a piercingly young and beautiful heroine who retains, throughout her ordeal, traces of spark and mettle that led her to defy convention in the first place.
In their wrenching scenes together, Lucy Briggs-Owen's Olga piercingly conveys her recognition of his worth, unlike her spineless spouse whose offer of hush money results in one of the most ambiguous and painful happy endings on record.
A piercingly bright lamp was pushed into his face.
We forgive him his occasional displays of crassness, his off-colour jokes because just when it seems like Brand is nothing but a dancing monkey desperate for applause he pens a piece so piercingly insightful and engaging, for example his blog on Woolwich, or Margaret Thatcher, or his day in Parliament.
I stare at this clever, charming man, with a brain that's a cross between a steam train and a butterfly, and a silver tongue that's been dipped in speed, and piercingly intelligent eyes, and (artfully?) uncoiffed hair, and wonder how on earth he keeps himself stimulated, how on earth he sets himself new challenges.
