| She scanned the baby narrowly, then looked as searchingly at Sandra, whose face was turned to gaze across the fields. |
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| He looked down at the ground searchingly, as if what he had to say were written on the ground. |
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| My mother looked at me searchingly and asked what had happened. |
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| He looked at us searchingly, a doleful expression demanding our sympathy. |
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| Behind the apparent naiveté of Owens' paintings is a searchingly reflective approach to the history of painting and the traditions of Modernism. |
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| Elmo and grandpa stand on the escalators in the department store, looking searchingly around. |
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| Nor is the symbolism explored as searchingly as it might be. |
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| We must always question, honestly and searchingly, the wisdom of any war. |
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| Rina looked hard and searchingly at me, but finally she sighed. |
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| His subtle title refers not only to the fervor of the late nineteen-sixties but, more searchingly, to the ideological compromises that quondam radicals have made in the past few years. |
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| And yet Ms Gordimer writes so tenderly and searchingly about Julie's gradual transcendence of her western self that she manages to hold scepticism at bay. |
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| Also, this will suggest ways of testing it more searchingly. |
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| The rhythmic certainties of blank verse underpin O'Brien's wise, sophisticated writing, as searchingly felt about individuals as it is about society. |
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| Plot was to be of no importance, rather an aspect of reality was to be examined searchingly, and from this the story would unfold without imaginative effort. |
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| Cusk writes searchingly of her own mixed feelings about this arrangement, but she fails to make sense of the story of her marriage and its end through this one aspect of their domestic lives. |
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| He stared at me searchingly, trying to determine if I was lying. |
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