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It was like the whistling of a piccolo many times magnified—shrill and shriller till it keened with the terror of a lost soul and filled the room with the piercingness of itself.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

Then a skirl of laughter, the piercingness of which, near to, could only be guessed at.

From The Disturbing Charm by Ruck, Berta

So, too, loudness, softness, crescendo, diminuendo, volume, piercingness, have their emotional accompaniments.

From The Psychology of Beauty by Howes, Ethel Dench Puffer

Their piercingness was a mental quality, I suppose, and the velvety softness a physical one.

From Fanny Herself by Ferber, Edna

He is a child in sensibility, while a youth in the vividness, and a man in the grasp, the piercingness and the copiousness of his thoughts.

From The Opium Habit by Day, Horace B.