In 2009, Afghanistan declared Band-e-Amir, a collection of six mineral-rich, piercingly blue lakes, a national park in hopes of protecting and promoting its landscape.
He has thrown drama, farce and comedy together with piercingly astute perceptions of mental illness, and topped the whole thing off with lyrical romance.
His reflections on the pogroms of Jews at the hands of their fellow Poles in Jedwabne under Nazi occupation and at Kielce after the war are piercingly well-judged.
Soon MySpace's ad salesmen will use software that sifts through its members' profile pages and sorts them based on the often piercingly personal information they pin up on their pages.
It's only the piercingly bright RGB LEDs built into the steering wheel that give you a clue something is amiss as it drives across the show floor slowly -- that and the fact that there's nobody sitting behind the steering wheel.