soul-searing

Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci's wonderful anthology of nerdy fiction and comics, Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd was a great read: the short fiction ran the gamut from soul-searing angst to high comedy and all the territory in between.

Boing Boing 2009

What the video shows This five-minute soul-searing video graphically shows Sri Lankan soldiers shooting people at close range.

Forensic Experts Say Tamil Killings Video is Authentic 2011

Giving her deep, soul-searing kisses, he worked her with his fingers and thumb.

How to Woo a Reluctant Lady Deborah Gonzales 2011

Giving her deep, soul-searing kisses, he worked her with his fingers and thumb.

How to Woo a Reluctant Lady Deborah Gonzales 2011

Two soul-searing bear markets have sent investors reeling — and have severely tested the notion that the average person can save and invest enough to retire on her own.

What can investors learn from a dreary decade? 2010

And over this small family the soul-searing question looms: Did Jacob commit murder?

House Rules by Jodi Picoult: Book summary 2010

I thought I was done crying after Lee's soul-searing version of Cohen's iconic song "Hallelujah" on Tuesday night, but no.

Holly Robinson: Cheers and Tears for American Idol Finalists Crystal and Lee: Singers With Heart 2010

Admittedly, describing spirituality as hard work, soul-searing, and intellectually rigorous is probably not good marketing.

Jay Michaelson: Will Spirituality Ever Be Serious? 2009

But he falls into that beloved British category of divorced, whiskey-sodden, prickly detectives, and you easily feel the man's sleep-deprived, soul-searing pain as he puzzles out crimes.

Holly Robinson: Our TV Sleuths Need to Take a Page from British Mysteries 2009

I set no soul-searing Truths here; just a handful of small joys. '

OpEdNews - Diary: Skunks, Cats, Murphy, and Where Was That Scotch, Anyway? 2009