Quotes About Penetrating

Mrs Patch was all that she had hoped. She was an improbable blonde of uncertain years, with a very much painted face, a singularly penetrating voice, and a laugh which made Mablethorpe wince.

My mind was clear and penetrating at the time, for it was midnight, the hour at which I am most brave and most free.

The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.

quedasteis fascinados por el pensamiento, cuya cercanía era especialmente penetrante dado que poseía un carácter introspectivo, y a la vez misterioso porque era más difícil de atrapar que las estrellas mismas. Os imponía la sabiduría, mientras que el código era irreflexivo.

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.

It's not really an easier racket than acting is. For some reason, I guess it had - the rejection of an illustrator's life is less penetrating than the rejection of an actor's life. So I was able to manage that. But all the while, I still nursed that old dream of being an actor.

In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined.

She called, Au ror a! in a penetrating voice that could cause a small bird to fall dead out of the sky.

Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops

What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half.

What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half.

I came to the conclusion seeing also that the 'influence' of Brahmin and Buddhist thought upon Europe, as in Schopenhauer, Hartmann, and Deussen, had largely been through romantic misunderstanding that my only hope of really penetrating to the heart of that mystery would lie in forgetting how to think and feel as an American or a European: which, for practical as well as sentimental reasons, I did not wish to do.

The wonderful voice did not soothe her. It penetrated to every artery, pierced, injured her. She surrendered herself to the unfathomable pain of incorporeal things.

For that school is so busied with the particles that it hardly attends to the structure, while the others are so lost in admiration of the structure that they do not penetrate to the simplicity of nature. These kinds of contemplation should therefore be alternated and taken by turns, so that the understanding may be rendered at once penetrating and comprehensive, and the inconveniences above mentioned, with the idols which proceed from them, may be avoided.

C-CNE, for Counter-Computer Network Exploitation—penetrating an adversary's networks in order to watch him penetrating our networks.

Megan's eyes could have drilled holes through butter

There is no scent in it so wholesome as that of the pines, nor any fragrance so penetrating and restorative as the life-everlasting in high pastures.

Contemplando el pasado, parece que siempre leí en posición incómoda. (Que es la forma en que escriben la mayoría de los escritores, según compruebo). Pero lo leído penetró. Lo importante es, y debo recalcarlo, que leía sin desviar la atención con todas mis facultades que poseía.

Huoneesta kuuluva Piersin ääni oli hiljainen mutta veitsenterävä. (C. J. Sansom: Ilmestys, suom. Ilkka Rekiaro)

fierce-looking, a coal-eyed brunette with a gaze direct as lasers. She

The Chanel aesthetic is like the force in Star Wars, surrounding, penetrating, and binding together the universe of fashion, now and forever.

the most arresting eyes

Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops.

She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.