All he could manage was the memory of his god's eyes, deep and golden and piercingly beautiful, the last time he'd seen them.

The song was ancient and piercingly beautiful.

Their piercingly beautiful depths held alarm, fear, and.

The piercingly beautiful melodies, like "Pretty Women" and "Green Finch and Linnet Bird," were ornate ruses, equal parts sugar and melancholy.

The result is a fascinating, if occasionally strained, reading of the work, which allows Mr. Jones and his scenery and costume designer, Stewart Laing, to create a series of haunting, often piercingly beautiful tableaux.

Though music only becomes central in this episode, throughout the series the choices are effective, especially the piercingly beautiful theme by Brian Keane called, appropriately, "City of Dreams."

Until he is removed from his job and called back to Spain, Juana and the vicereine carry on a passionate but chaste love affair that inspires Juana to write some piercingly beautiful love poems.

The soundtrack becomes piercingly beautiful as Itzhak Perlman's violin solos occasionally augment the score.

I think I had another motivation, my friend, which is the sense that I may never again come to such a place, so remote, so far from my usual researches, and so piercingly beautiful.

The light from below conjured into sharp gold and black every subtlety of the great forehead, and made the cajoling mouth piercingly beautiful and kind, but the demon still inhabited the gaunt pits of his eyes.