1. This is a piercingly honest and occasionally extremely funny performance. 2. It can be as piercingly transcendent as young Armstrong on his trumpet. 3. On that piercingly clear day, you couldn't see a soul. 4. But the refugees are piercingly and appropriately visible here. 5. Piercingly fruity, then mellows to a long finish.6. And, most piercingly : How could a merciful God do this to anyone? 7. His views on the script, his insight and his comments were piercingly insightful. 8. Worse still : this piercingly original Glasgow novelist had found herself depressively blocked for months. 9. The performances are wildly inconsistent, either piercingly shrill or hushed to the point of narcolepsy. 10. It has remarkable purity of flavor but is so piercingly tart I can only manage a few bites.
