She looked at me with 'piercing' eyes, and I was suddenly frightened that she knew what I had done.
There's a small shop in town where they do tattooing and 'body piercing'.
She felt a 'piercing' sadness when she heard the news.
(..) that the man behind it ... ... was the most demented individual on the planet. I was expecting some guy with.. Covered in tattoos and piercings. I assumed he was, you know ... ... a very skinny, scrawny methamphetamine abuser. When Morpheus tells Neo to free his (..)2001 The Matrix Revisited