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Infrared is particularly effective for penetrating thick, murky regions of space and revealing what lies beyond.
The lecture was on Celtic lynchets and aerial photographs provided for a penetrating analysis of the issue.
One flagellum and most of the body of the penetrating microgamete had entered the macrogamete.
Taste is the sensation of a dissolved object penetrating the taste buds on the tongue and surfaces of the mouth.
His room was the same, sterile as it had been seconds before, the penetrating smell of antibiotics and baby oil still in the air.
This penetrating vapor controls and eliminates malodors from smoke, humidity, food and biological odors.
With a single drawn-out look of longing, Cserhalmi conveys an unworldly tenderness with his deeply penetrating eyes.
When thatch gets too thick it prevents water and nutrients from penetrating to the soil and grass roots.
As we begin our descent I am able to catch a glimpse of a magnificent peak penetrating the cloud bank near Portland.
One coat of a penetrating sealer can give satisfactory performance, but two coats are generally better.
The grout can then be sealed with penetrating grout sealers to minimize future stain problems.
The whooping crane, named for its loud and penetrating mating call, is one of America's best known and rarest endangered species.
He was fairly short, a trifle rotund, with dark penetrating eyes that had a way of roving mercurially over objects under surveillance.
Nietzsche, in fact, provides an occasion for some of his most penetrating insights and most sensitive interpretations.
The expression he wore was calm, almost completely serene, except for the penetrating glare he had trained on Travis.
Similar to conventional teeth, the points of the serrations provide more pressure for penetrating into hard-packed soil.
Violinist Adela Pena played with a penetrating tone and trenchant musicality.
A caustic wit, a penetrating eye, a stiletto tongue that enjoyed drawing blood, she wasn't everyone's cup of tea.
For a moment his eyes were unfocussed, but eventually they cleared up and he looked down at her with a penetrating gaze.
Bolet's touch, velvety yet penetrating, is a miracle, and he caresses each phrase as if it is taken from an operatic aria.
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Examples from Classical Literature
They were through, penetrating solid crystal, masonry, steel and duralumin girders.
The intervening sea is one over which the most penetrating of Argus-eyed policemen or sheriffs, can not see.
It was in this period that Bulgaria reached the peak of its territorial expansion, penetrating deep into the Byzantine Empire.
Another gleam of light, bluer and more penetrating than its forerunner, lit the brown rafters of the cabane.
More penetrating than its clamminess was the thought that Madame de Ferrier was out in it alone.
It was of a full and penetrating sweetness, too keen and delicate to be cloying.
Its voice is also utterly unlike the well-known penetrating and musical coo of the collared dove.
Cinna, master of Campania, was penetrating into Latium, while a samnite army invaded it on the other side.
Two armies, penetrating into Samnium by way of Apulia and Campania, re-established the old frontiers.
It was a luxury so penetrating and powerful that it affected him like an opiate.
The allocution of his holiness shows that this consequence has not escaped his penetrating intellect.
But what held his attention most was the lean, emaciated face and penetrating eyes.
He is small, so that the volume of sound he emits is not great, but it is penetrating.
Her poetry was symbolized by the fleur-de-lis with its penetrating perfume.
He stands out as one of the most penetrating satirists and resonant scoffers at folderol that this continent nourishes.
Ammoniac has likewise a peculiar odour, not less penetrating, or less disagreeable, than these other gasses.
The guelder-rose's summer snow-balls, and the mock-orange with its penetrating odor, whiten the still gardens as we pass.
It gives me great pleasure to fancy that I see radicles of orchid seed penetrating the sphagnum.
If any one sees a rudiment of reason in this hymenopteron intelligence, he has eyes that are more penetrating than mine.
It was a penetrating concord of inarticulately pleading, accusing sounds, accompanied by gestures of the most exquisite propriety.
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