11. NEYERS, CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, PATO VINEYARD 1999 $ 35 Piercingly ripe fruit, well integrated with oak. 12. The verdict : This piercingly strong movie puts the " hell " in the Hello Kitty generation. 13. Morton's piercingly fine performance throws into relief the paucity of strong roles for women in the main competition. 14. As Samuel Johnson piercingly observed, " Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier ." 15. The photographs here made with a camera are generally aloof, even chilly, although a few are almost piercingly perfect. 16. The temperature, which had been hot during the day and pleasant at night, dropped rapidly to become piercingly cold. 17. "Before Central Park : The Life and Death of Seneca Village " is an understated but piercingly emotional show. 18. Silence, of course, as Bergman himself has made piercingly clear throughout his work, can sound depths that words cannot. 19. In that piercingly human moment, Cronkite was not just a journalist but an American citizen mourning the loss of a president. 20. Henry Czerny's eyes are so piercingly blue you need something with an SPF of 15 just to sit across from him.