A piercing red light blinded him for a moment and a computer voice demanded, "Identify!"

Delaney's hand was on the verge of touching the blackened, grotesque head when, without warning, the scene was bathed in the harsh, piercing light of a flare.

Standing before the gates, he looked up at the Tower; his eyes taking in everything, coolly appraising the crumbling minarets and the polished marble that glistened in the cold, piercing light of the stars.

Drawing the black hood up over his head to blot out Solinari's cold, piercing light, he lay down on his bed and drifted into the restful sleep so necessary to him and his Art.

She would sit crouching forward, her elbows on her knees, her brows drawn together and her gray-green eyes smaller than ever, reduced to mere pin-points of cold, piercing light.

The pyramid, now lit with an almost piercing light from within, became translucent; Jaspin could see his own hands dimly through the sides.

Through a horizontal gap in the safety curtain shines a piercing light, illuminating a solitary figure at the front, and slicing the audience in half.

She would be beautiful had not her left eye and one arm been removed, replaced by metal implants and a red piercing light of her own.

A piercing blue light was heading up the road.

Lucy was aware of a violent cacophony of noise and her eyes were whited-out by the most piercing light.