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But if you do, the soft sting pierces even harder.
An injury that pierces skin often activates it, he said.
From the empty pulpit, the searchlight beacon pierces the darkness.
Rather, it's the speed at which its particles pierces the sky.
Scorpio's gaze pierces secrets and darkness, not to mention your soul.
Once close enough, he deals Arthur a blow that pierces the skull.
The beauty of this moment, evoking the oceanic feeling, pierces the heart.
In the foreground, a sharp, inky splatter of dead flowers pierces the snowfall.
There, only the sound of Carhartt pants un-zippering pierces the night's silence.
He leans forward, and the rotten-egg funk of ammonia pierces the air.
But any time anyone pierces that veil, it sends him into a rage.
The red-blooded vivacity of Ms. Olin's performance, however, pierces through the muck.
He pierces Mexico's class system and gets with the bougie girl at the wedding.
Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson's version of "Amazing Grace" pierces through the otherwise hushed room.
When the bee's proboscis pierces its chamber, the flower arches and shivers beneath it.
And Shiv making her big announcement at dinner definitely spurs something in the Pierces.
Within seconds of setting foot on the sand, the heat pierces even the thickest shoes.
A strand of optical fiber pierces the center, and blue light is shone through it.
The concrete block basically pierces through the metal frame and sends shattered glass flying everywhere.
In another, "Landscape of Thorns," a gargantuan knot of concrete thorns pierces the desert floor.
Bring to a boil and cook until a knife easily pierces them, about 12 minutes.
Every so often, a ray of sunshine pierces the gloom, illuminating a small urban patch.
An ominous, almost haunting melody pierces quiet strings as a vessel cuts across the sky.
All that plus a free(ish) stay at Tern Haven and the Pierces' forced, judgmental hospitality.
He's new money, compared to the Pierces, who have been rolling in it for (seemingly) centuries.
It also pierces the veil of politics and shows what kind of ruler he wants to be.
Spotting the forked upper section of an abandoned Ark as it pierces the horizon never gets old.
"He has this stare, this wide-eyed smiling gaze that pierces right through you," Ms. Turner said.
The creature bobbles off, unsteady on its legs and disintegrating where the sun pierces its furry body.
A man pierces metal needles through his cheeks during the Cap Go Meh festival celebration on Feb. 19.
If it pierces technical resistance at 210.70, it could weaken to 210.16, Erste analysts said in a note.
King told Vulture that Ashley Benson, who portrays Hanna, was the one who found "Secret" by The Pierces.
The Coravin device pierces any natural cork with its needle that works like a thin straw for pouring.
The position of the stick, which normally pierces the lips and nose, is determined by a person's gender.
After an unexploded missile pierces the building, suspended above like a harbinger of death, those fissures become maws.
Parker's voice pierces through the track, Steve Garrington's bass is finally decipherable, and everything feels a lot calmer.
In her inebriated state, she forgets she is brandishing a bottle shard and it fatally pierces Polo's chest.
It pierces the eyes: Here, wide-brimmed hats are as much practical attire as they are fashion statements.
The Pierces position themselves as the honest ones, but they're also trying too hard to impress the Roys.
And if you don't watch, allow us to explain why the show pierces people directly in their feelings.
Then it pierces the fish's brain with its beak, which is creepily located right between the squid's eyes.
Affetto is a robot that can smile at you while it pierces your soul with its endless, dead state.
In time, she also picks up their language: She pierces her ears, wears nail polish and flashes a smile.
Image: SALSAOnce the drill pierces into the lake, SALSA scientists will extract water samples and mud, as Nature News reports.
Just Missed the BullseyePhotographer: Scott Carnie-Bronca (Australia)The ISS pierces a path across the sky in Harrogate, South Australia.
When the blast occurs, it pierces the relatively quiet 100-plus acres in West Texas where the demonstration was conducted.
When a mosquito bites, it pierces your skin and draws blood with the tip of its strawlike mouth, or proboscis.
Cover shot The cover of a California high school student magazine features a physical "bullet hole" that pierces every page.
"McCaig pierces the mystery in which Mitchell shrouded Rhett Butler," Stephen L. Carter wrote in his review in The Times.
The leaders of the alt-right claim to possess superior understanding that pierces through the myths that blind common mortals.
By Trejo's side is his lowrider motorcycle; the shine of its custom chrome handlebars pierces through the print's gray tones.
THE decision announced on February 25th to scrap term limits for China's president, Xi Jinping, pierces the veil of Chinese politics.
The brutality and intentionality of Morgan's murder pierces our every day, and will continue to do so until we join her.
So for their new issue of Verde, they added a physical "bullet hole" which pierces the cover and every page inside.
A guitar slowly pierces through the steady sounds of the water, before a sleepy synth and distant house beat flow in.
Maybe there is simply this giant, silent, cold thing drifting through the culture like an iceberg that barely pierces the surface.
Like when Logan tells me, It could be Gerri, but it's not Gerri, it could really be Rhea for the Pierces.
I'm still having trouble pinpointing why THIS show, of all the dramas, pierces people directly in their feelings week after week.
What first spoke to Six was the gaze of the subject (whose identity remains unknown): "He pierces the image," he said.
But they are also positioning themselves to launch from their necks a hard, sharp calcium carbonate spear that pierces the mate's body.
But there's hope for a path forward that pierces the polarized fire-fight that too often characterizes current discussions about charters — Millennials.
Yet, his comment pierces Kurdish memory of the last Iraqi invasion; the 1988 Anfal Campaign resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths.
It's not great because of the reality, it's great because, for just a second, that reality pierces the performance and accentuates it.
The soldiers could easily have been depicted as monolithic heartless monsters, but instead we often see where their humanity pierces their ideology.
As for buffs, Mei's ultimate, Blizzard, has an increased radius — now 10 meters instead of eight — and its projectile now pierces barriers.
I'm very interested to see if this character returns, or if the Pierces continue to be represented by Rhea (Holly Hunter) instead.
Yet with a little bit of care, you can sidestep the Daylon Pierces of the world and find Mr. or Ms. Right.
The expectant hush that falls on an auditorium when the oboe's A pierces through the hum of voices and the lights dim.
Lana Del Rey, 2000, had a heart chest piece pierces with swords often adorned on renderings of a mourning Mary, mother of Jesus.
This photo captures what it looks like at the start and finish of totality, when sunlight pierces the very edge of the moon.
This photo captures what it looks like at the start and finish of totality, when sunlight pierces the very edge of the moon.
The music is a representation of the experience of seeing the sun rise over the red dunes as light pierces the planet's atmosphere.
Lana Del Rey, 32, had a heart chest piece pierces with swords often adorned on renderings of a mourning Mary, mother of Jesus.
When a projectile moving at some 15,000 miles per hour pierces the entire wall, it generates friction and heat as it passes through.
This Airbus-designed little item is much like a toggling harpoon, which has a piece that flips out once it pierces the target.
HQ is redefining mobile, creating through its twice-daily trivia games a sense of urgency that pierces the monotony of our social feeds.
One shard pierces through my neck and slices into my jugular, and blood is squirting through my fingers and pouring onto the floor.
Route 4, a highway notorious for congestion, pierces the bottom of the borough and leads to the George Washington Bridge, six miles way.
The sound of artillery sometimes pierces through the cacophony of honking horns, as vehicles carrying the possessions of desperate people struggle to leave.
In a lesser singer's hands, this tune might have fallen flat, but Houston elevates the material with a towering vocal that pierces the sky.
Completely normal response: She pierces hers, shows up at my apartment, climbs up to my balcony and waits for me to come home, topless.
On the summer solstice a sharp beam of light shines through slabs of fallen rock and pierces the exact center of a spiral petroglyph.
Every time a tattoo gun pierces your skin, the needle is opening a wound -- and another pathway by which germs can enter your body.
The fallback strategy is to drill two relief wells that will go down alongside SS-25 and intersect it where it pierces the capstone.
PARELES Lauren Mayberry, frontwoman of the Scottish band Chvrches, has a voice that's tart, serrated and soaring — it cleanly pierces through everything around it.
Then, wielding the needles like surgical instruments, she pierces the leather, pulling taut the threads to draw the halves together in an unbreakable bond.
For example, she pierces through the narrative that Assange was single-mindedly trying to help Donald Trump and hurt Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.
The male latches on to the female's back, pierces a hole into a groove on her abdomen and directs his ejaculate straight into her bloodstream.
As the sun rises, the young man walks toward the bull, fixes his aim and pierces the animal with a spear on its right side.
They realized that during the flyby, Galileo flew through a plume -- a burst of liquid from Europa's ocean that pierces through the moon's icy shell.
His widow, a hunched, 60-year-old in a black cardigan, pulls her arm out of her sleeve and winces as a needle pierces her skin.
"He draws a portrait from his breast," the libretto says, and a solitary flute pierces the gloom like sunlight through a crack in the prison walls.
And these walls are not thick or foreboding; they're made from the loveliest layers of audio through which her voice pierces like sunshine through eyelet curtains.
They both are down to help their dad win over the Pierces, and thus they develop their anti-ATN reputations — but they want to do right.
When order seems finally restored, he pierces the Central Park night with the sound of a police siren, as natural to its environment as a birdcall.
With Calypso, David Sedaris is as funny as ever — but his wit pierces through these essays, getting to heart of his exploration of family, place, and mortality.
It is an anomaly so endlessly comical that the very length of its humor pierces the bounds of the mind and touches the rim of mystery itself.
One sound remains stubbornly, comfortably the same: the rhythmic whistle that pierces all background murmuring and heralds a traditional chant about the former Islanders defenseman Denis Potvin.
Whether it's a shawl draped over a female figure, or worn as part of ceremonial dress, the crimson color pierces her paintings with a vivid sense of urgency.
As it pierces through the billowing darkness, resembling a supernatural rage, the lightning's incandescent flashes warn volcanologists far away that a potentially dangerous tower of ash is skyward.
The charismatic Mr. Chalamet, Mr. Hammer and Mr. Stuhlbarg — whose brilliant delivery of a tricky speech pierces the heart and, crucially, the movie's lustrous patina — transform beauty into feeling.
This was during the big year of pimple-popping videos on YouTube, and the Pierces were fascinated by them — especially Dr. Pimple Popper, also known as Dr. Sandra Lee.
Despite this blunder — or perhaps because of it — the next morning the Pierces approve the takeover, provided they keep editorial control and Siobhan is officially announced as Logan's successor.
Elsewhere, a plastic T-Rex hangs suspended beneath a large fake toadstool; a dried branch pierces a chunk of gray Styrofoam and merges with bright green and pink plastic plants.
Produced by Jonathan Wilson (Father John Misty, Conor Oberst) and The Black Keys' Pat Carney, "Call Your Name" will find favor with fans of The Pierces and Mazzy Star alike.
The centerpiece of this show, "Seated Warrior," continues his series of bronze sculptures based on traditional African statues, which he collects and then dips in wax or pierces with gunshots.
He heads to Lucious' mansion to tell him, but before they can enjoy their newfound brotherly love, Grandma Lea pierces a knife into Tariq's jugular when Lucious' back is turned.
Now I can see the brush work properly; the blues of the night sky stutter like Morse code, and the black outline of the church steeple pierces the distant hills.
Plus, because TOI 700 is a bright star relatively close to Earth, ground-based telescopes could also look to see how much its starlight pierces the three exoplanets&apos atmospheres.
As the Dow Jones industrial average pierces through the 21,153 level for the first time, CNBC PRO found the stocks Wall Street believes will lead the Dow to 22,000 and beyond.
While running Mr. Pereira's company in the late 1960s, Mr. Wong oversaw the design of the Transamerica Pyramid, the striking 853-foot-tall building that pierces the sky in San Francisco.
When a distraught Shiv asks him if the Pierces have put any booze in the guest rooms, he says no, and sneers, "It's just Emily Dickinson and low thread count sheets."
Kendall assumed the company had two weeks to respond — and, in the interim, to push through the sale before the progressive Pierces found out the Roys were implicated in such sleaze.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Amid the well-groomed homes and quiet roads in the suburbs of Karori in Wellington rises an unexpected structure, with a steep, folded roof that pierces the sky.
This is a frequently gorgeous film, and it gets significant impact from shots like the moment where the Soyuz, atop a column of flame, pierces the cloud layer and reaches for orbit.
Their new, 8-minute film Tree lets users experience life as a kapok tree from the moment it pierces through the earth to its death in a slash-and-burn farming operation.
In addition to strangulation and choking, the FDA says other concerns may include potential injury to the mouth, or infection if a piece of the jewelry irritates or pierces the child's gums.
Credit... NONG KHAI, Thailand — The water is so clear on the Mekong River in northeastern Thailand that the sunlight pierces through to the riverbed, transforming the waterway into a glinting, empty aquarium.
Propped up on a pedestal of lake water and stocks of green plant life, a Ninja Gaiden samurai sword pierces the hull of a red head piece taken from the Gundam franchise.
Take Chuck, who is so desperate to be dominated that he pierces his nipple with a safety pin, much to Wendy's horror, and then hires a dominatrix who gives him a black eye.
A thin, bright, red line pierces the middle of a black screen, followed by a vivid rainbow of other lines that ultimately coalesce into the Netflix "N" — the word "Netflix" never even appears.
Yet no substantive conversation or hint of greater meaning pierces this gauzy void, which the Mulleavy sisters, whose fashion label is Rodarte, decorate by slapping butterflies or flowers on virtually every available surface.
But for someone who dealt with the Pierces for so long, Rhea doesn't seem to have a great handle on how to maneuver the ultra-family members she recently hung out to dry.
The new project, longer than a traditional EP but not quite a full-length album, is a blistering collection of tracks that pierces through to the cacophony of noises and frustrations of contemporary life.
Snails, for example, which are hermaphroditic, begin with hours of what scientists call "foreplay," in which snail pairs get close and sniff each other before launching a sharp calcium spear that pierces their mate.
To deposit its eggs, the parasitic oak gall wasp pierces a leaf or stem with its ovipositor, a long tubelike organ that would be a stinger if this wasp were the kind that stings.
For marginalized groups, they are another arrow that pierces our flesh, and which we must pluck out, work on healing our wounds and try to pick up the pieces and carry on with our lives.
As the world's oldest photographic archive, Girault's travel pictures offer a tantalizingly familiar mapping of the world through images, and their modernity pierces sharpest when they picture places razed or renovated in the intervening decades.
When the deal ultimately falls through, he blusters and rages but is unable to intimidate the Pierces into playing along because the family doesn't feel the need to appease him in the way his children do.
Shakespeare is just one of the cultural shorthands that lets us know that the Pierces Aren't Like the Roys — as though Logan didn't just give Frank a watch engraved with a Tennyson line, but I digress.
Remember how that episode ended with the Pierces agreeing to Logan's deal if he would simply name Shiv as his successor — something he had promised to her in the season premiere (however uncertain his word may be)?
Brutality is revealed as boring, repetitive, frequently ridiculous: A man in "The ­Mehlis Report" survives the tremendous blast of a car bombing only to be killed by a shard "smaller than a lentil," which pierces his heart.
Eleven-year-old Johannes holds up a cod head that's close to the same size as his own, pierces it through its chin onto the hook, then expertly slices off the fleshy part from the fish's lower jaw.
Mr Damore argues that, with so many negative TV ads aired by outside groups, "the candidates don't have control of the message"—leaving Ms Cortez Masto and Dr Heck to emphasise their life stories, hoping some light pierces the murk.
The Americans' directors hold the characters at a distance, usually filming in wide or medium shots, only cutting in for close-ups when a particularly deceptive con is on or when a moment of raw emotion pierces Philip or Elizabeth's exteriors.
Details: After traveling 6 months and 300 million miles, the robotic geologist must go from 12,300 mph to 0 in 6 minutes flat as it pierces the Martian atmosphere, pops out a parachute, fires its descent engines and, hopefully, lands on three legs.
To celebrate this and highlight some of the issues and pressures women continue to face in today's society, CAT (formerly one half of The Pierces, now a solo entity) is releasing "Hard to Be a Woman" with the accompanying video, premiering below.
The robotic geologist — designed to explore Mars' insides, surface to core — must go from 2360,24 mph (19,800 kph) to zero in six minutes flat as it pierces the Martian atmosphere, pops out a parachute, fires its descent engines and, hopefully, lands on three legs.
Anyone can build a camera obscura (National Geographic has a succinct video tutorial online); it's just a matter of blocking out the light while leaving a pinhole that pierces through, and setting up a surface onto which the light passing through it can reflect.
Close-ups of hands and faces alternate with expansive landscapes painted in delicate shades of gray, a ray from a flashlight pierces the night, birds swoop up into the sky in silhouette, a ceiling fan morphs into an airplane in the eyes of an insomniac.
Employers believe arbitration benefits providers who stay out-of-network and charge at will, and that it unnecessarily pierces holes in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), which governs employer plans that directly pay for their workers' medical claims and preempts state insurance laws.
Kathy J. MillsBrooklyn To the Editor: Re "A Cry Pierces Museums' Hush: Raise Our Pay" (front page, July 23): The news that museum workers are unionizing is music to many of our ears — those of us who work in the "creative" industries and recognize pay injustice.
Kathy J. MillsBrooklyn To the Editor: Re "A Cry Pierces Museums' Hush: Raise Our Pay" (front page, July 23): The news that museum workers are unionizing is music to many of our ears — those of us who work in the "creative" industries and recognize pay injustice.
The people who sit for Schoeller are highly recognizable — actors, musicians, politicians, athletes, and the famous alike — but when photographed at such close proximity by Schoeller, they appear new and vulnerable, often with a grave seriousness in their eyes that pierces the picture plane and dissolves any ego that their celebrity warrants.
These odes would be worthwhile in themselves, but Massey pierces her adoration with criticism of the world in which they (and we) live, and the forces which publicly demean them: Take the stripping of Courtney Love's dignity, the erasure of Amber Rose's autonomy, the delegitimizing of Sylvia Plath's pain, not to mention that of her (female) fans.
But the Pierces were a hilarious jumble of upper-class nonsense — double PhDs from Brown, fluent Latin, a disdain for Oprah's book club, the Brookings Institute, secret drinking, Nantucket red pants — and while none of them had the sway with Nan that Naomi seemed to, and all of them will likely see their family legacy go up in flames, they're at least about to (continue to) be hella rich.
If he falls short, it is in those works, fueled by the urgency of his image-making, that evince signs of haste: the unconvincing brush marks depicting the pike that pierces the neck of the decapitated "Vietnamese Head" (1970), or the undercooked portrait of General Geisel, in which the Brazilian dictator's suit jacket is dashed off with a few sketchy lines that fail to excite the figure/ground relationship — especially when compared with its solidly painted companion piece, in which a smirking Geisel thrusts his chin forward in a gesture we recognize all too well from our own crypto-autocrat.

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