Definition of Penetrating
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Having the power of entering, piercing, or pervading; sharp; subtile; penetrative; as, a penetrating odor.
Acute; discerning; sagacious; quick to discover; as, a penetrating mind.
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Penetrating Quotations
They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
Khalil Gibran
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
Eric Hoffer
The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that.
Dmitri Mendeleev
If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.
Xun Zi
She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.
P. G. Wodehouse
The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices.
Ivan Pavlov
Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries.
Hugh Mackay
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
Igor Stravinsky
It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.
George Jean Nathan
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.
Kenneth Grahame
Penetrating Translations
penetrating in German is durchdringend
penetrating in Spanish is penetrante
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