penetrating

This penetrating style of portraiture works on the subtlest of emotional responses as well.

It also illustrates the perils of penetrating al Qaeda networks in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Calm under fire, he possessed a sure and penetrating coup d'œil; he had great experience in war.

He had a loose hairy benignant face with a humorous but penetrating eye and the usual domelike brow.

It was shrill, it was penetrating, it rose and fell with a sort of ripping, tearing slash.

Now and then - 63 -he turns his head slowly as he leads, and rests these keen, penetrating orbs on the sea of dancers below him.

Some were for trying a new line of road, and for penetrating into Guzerat through Rajpootana.