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And brushes with death only make life more piercingly sweet. from Vox
The stock cars have loose steering and are ear-piercingly loud. from The New York Times
Rousset is restrained in his interventions, yet he can be piercingly effective. from New Yorker
Hwang won, and the crowd showered him with a piercingly loud ovation. from The New York Times
"A Ghost Story" is suspenseful, dourly funny and at times piercingly emotional. from The New York Times
The reason Greta Gerwig's "Little Women" is so fresh and so piercingly alive? from The New York Times
Is it because he shines a piercingly ironic post-modern light on rampant sexism? from Vice
St. Lenox, he of the nasal baritone and piercingly observant quotidian lyrics, is back. from Vice
Piercingly bright red and blue lights lit the Oxia Corporation logo on the ships' sides. from The Verge
Frances, the book's college-student protagonist, a writer, is piercingly observant about everyone but herself. from The New York Times
In one heart-piercingly elegiac sequence, Jeanne and Gilles head off together, leaving Ariane behind. from The New York Times
The writing is an astonishing mix of dreamlike poetry and piercingly political and psychological insight. from The New York Times
And to turn his love of the game, whether baseball or life, into piercingly eloquent soliloquies. from The New York Times
And on some level, Christopher will always know this, more piercingly that we can usually afford to acknowledge. from The New York Times
I turn the hair into something really piercingly colorful, so I find my character easier among other players. from Vice
His eyes are so piercingly intense that it seems as if his question is aimed squarely at me. from Vice
If you try swiping through Tinder for more than a couple minutes, your hands will start to hurt piercingly. from Vice
Eliot piercingly grasped the principle — obtained surely from Hindu religion — that, in dance, motion contains stillness and stillness motion. from The New York Times
A piercingly shrill electronic version of "Hush Little Baby" blares through our room as a blue neon light strobes frantically. from The New York Times
This is where the film transcends its algorithmic plotline and, like clouds parting, reveals a piercingly vivid truth about friendship between girls. from Vice
" In one of those drawings, Mallko looks directly at the reader with a piercingly curious gaze, as if asking: "What's your problem? from The New York Times
Although she lacks an ideal shining timbre, she is a piercingly expressive singer-actor who kept the audience engaged in Heliane's obscure predicament. from New Yorker
But the ambition of the work is piercingly moving, as testimony to what painting can do by way of demonstrating what it can't. from New Yorker
Immaculately lit and performed, the movie captures the anguish of the postwar milieu so piercingly that you can almost feel it in your bones. from The New York Times
Yes: the Night King, that piercingly blue-eyed terror in the North, is actually a revolutionary as admirable as our favorite Game of Thrones characters. from Refinery 29
After intermission she turned to Ravel's piercingly poetic and very difficult "Miroirs" suite, playing with lushness one moment and striking crispness and clarity the next. from The New York Times
The Model One tops out at a modest 15 mph, with a 15.5-mile range, and I shattered nearby eardrums with the piercingly shrill horn. from Wired
He had the same broad face and reddish hair and piercingly blue eyes, all of which made him seem like a proxy, or a genetic ambassador. from New Yorker
The title refers to a mysteriously woo-woo, sky-piercingly tall spire that somehow holds both the universe's various worlds and its monstrous threats in check. from The New York Times
Kate's deep connection to her father is piercingly illuminated when Jack looks to her for comfort — a complement to Kate's struggles with her mother in the present. from People
Anchored in the work of James Baldwin, who spent several emancipatory years in Istanbul, her memoir is a piercingly honest critique of the unexamined white American life. from New Yorker
This indebtedness to both language and his physical embodiment is what gives the recordings such strength; they're so piercingly relatable that they almost become the body enfleshed. from Hyperallergic
To hammer home the threat of White Walkers, HBO released another teaser that ends by zooming out to show one of the terrifying creatures' piercingly white eyes. from Mashable
Luiselli is a superb chronicler of children, and the narrator's 5-year-old daughter and her husband's 10-year-old son feel piercingly real — perceptive, irreplaceable, wonderfully odd. from The New York Times
He was also able to return to his love of music when he purchased the piercingly white guitar he played at Yangapalooza, which was modeled after Prince's own instrument. from Vice
A meal at Dizengoff may end with a lemonnana, a half-frozen slush of piercingly sweet mint lemonade dosed, if you like, with gin, vodka, rum, bourbon or arak. from The New York Times
All of these new plays are asking variations on the questions most piercingly dramatized in this "Oresteia": In the absence of gods, how do we make our own justice? from The New York Times
Gomber's shot at a no-hitter was abruptly interrupted by ear-piercingly loud sirens that caused a game delay of nearly 8 minutes at Cincinnati&aposs Great American Ball Park. from Fox News
"Insistence on equality, despite its piercingly slow entry onto the rolls of law, is the most powerful aspect of our experiment," McDonell adds in the vein of conventional American exceptionalism. from New Republic
The characters in the lovely, at times piercingly elegiac "If Beale Street Could Talk," the latest from Barry Jenkins ("Moonlight"), need to fight to have even an ordinary, unmolested life. from The New York Times
Those two genres are fused together with an arresting artfulness, woozy and dreamy interludes mixing with the talky technical stuff to create a film that is broadly enlightening and piercingly intimate. from People
That's been happening long before the Gang's time, of course, turning tradition on its head and making it one's own, but they're still piercingly what-you-see-is-what-you-get. from Refinery 29
From the old days, I knew the curried goat would be very tender and richly seasoned, although like most of the cooking at the Islands, it was never scalp-piercingly spicy. from The New York Times
A rack of piercingly bright swimsuits — say, the pink Peter Millar one covered in fish ($85) — is merely a tiny splash away from a mature black-and-blue MCM weekend bag ($1,170). from The New York Times
After losing his wife, the visual artist Geneviève Castrée Elverum, to pancreatic cancer last year, Mr. Elverum wrote and recorded the album "A Crow Looked at Me," a piercingly direct document of grief. from The New York Times
The same can be said of Jenny Holzer's Installation for Bilbao (1997) at the Guggenheim Bilbao, which scrolls and flickers and is piercingly bright; installed in the museum's lobby, it's impossible to avoid it. from Hyperallergic
A few solo sessions and Soundcloud uploads later, and fans started to resonate with this fairly unknown kid writing piercingly honest songs about the ebb and flow of small-town life and falling in love. from Vice
They will find a piercingly clear and authoritative voice in both poetry and prose, able to assert itself on seemingly any topic, which will serve as a model for inaugurating and explaining future paradigm shifts. from The New York Times
If you're in any industry that is less piercingly hurt by this crisis, and you still have the luxury of disposable income, then I encourage you to do what you can to support local businesses. from Business Insider
On the other hand, if you live in certain ZIP codes of Manhattan and Brooklyn, you probably know women whose personalities and problems are fairly accurately, sometimes piercingly, captured in the show's portrayal of Alison. from The New York Times
The bell that signaled the beginning or end of Winnie's days sounded too churchy to me: "piercingly" is the word Beckett used to describe its ringing, and here the sound could hardly be described as such. from The New York Times
Colman looks every inch the royal as she is seen pacing in a room, dressed in an evening gown with a royal blue sash and a crown before she turns and stares piercingly at the camera. from CNN
Read more " _____ • Hal Brands in War on the Rocks: "When it comes to foreign policy, the one thing that has become piercingly obvious so far is that this president has no idea where he is going. from The New York Times
It was just, I'm just—" The crowparrots started up then with one of their raucous dinnertime chants, squawking so piercingly you could hear them even with the windows shut—" Big Mac , Big Mac ," they called. "_Fries! from New Yorker
The intimate gallery at CAC housing these five large-scale works on paper had a chapel-like feel, offering both the intimacy and the peace required to take in such beautifully dense and piercingly direct images. —SRS from Hyperallergic
"Would Everybody Please Stop: Reflections on Life and Other Bad Ideas," a collection of essays out last month from Sarah Crichton Books, is a tartly funny and often piercingly emotional ramble through life at a certain age. from The New York Times
Kinilaw, a Filipino ceviche in a piercingly sour calamansi and cane vinegar marinade with a jab of bird's-eye chile, is worth sticking around for, especially on those nights when it's made with bay scallops instead of fish. from The New York Times
The director behind the unsettling Dogtooth has made the sort of low-tech, incisive sci-fi film that's ingenious when done right, exposing our romantic foibles while saying something piercingly true about our need for (and fear of) commitment. from New Republic
I'm not saying that Kate Nash was one of the greatest unsung songwriters of the 2000s or even that "Foundations" is a hugely incredible song—but it does capture that particular process of grief in a piercingly familiar way. from Vice
" Alluding to Mr. Oz's piercingly eloquent left-wing advocacy, Mr. Netanyahu, a conservative, added, "Even though we had differences of opinion in many fields, I greatly appreciate his contributions to the Hebrew language and the renewal of Hebrew literature. from The New York Times
But it's Mr. Benjamin's remarkable music that gives the work its charge: The writing is so lush, haunting and detailed — radiant one moment, piercingly dissonant the next — that you are continuously enveloped by the raucous beauty of the sounds. from The New York Times
You get the sense that someone once said to her that she needs to keep politics out of music, only to have her respond by making songs about universal experiences so piercingly specific they end up being political by design. from Vice
In an update from bright whites, nudes are being used to create an eyes wide open situation; and choice color blocking — geared to make irises look piercingly Facetuned IRL — is giving new life to the upside-down eye makeup trend. from Refinery 29
Someone who is not a boogeyman, but someone whom, as Ta-Nehisi Coates so piercingly lays out in "Between the World and Me," parents, aunts and uncles, grandparents, spouses, children and community had poured their love, hopes and dreams into. from The New York Times
But far from a piercingly revelatory moment about Biden the incident fundamentally just underscores what's obvious about Biden: He's old, he's never been known for precise speaking, and he's more politically moderate than the other top contenders in the field. from Vox
That's why the "piercingly fresh scent of snow" instantly transports Dr. Gaines Lewis to times when she'd go sledding as a child, and why others have connections to the smell of sprinklers on pavement, of freshly mown grass, or of spaghetti sauce. from Refinery 29
Only intermittently was he able to surrender what he knew to what struck his eye—though he did so beautifully, in 1867, with unusually relaxed views of an old coastal fortress, in the South of France, awash in golden sunlight beneath piercingly blue skies. from New Yorker
The crass stereotypes the movie portrays are that artists are expected to stage insular strangeness; curators enact patient, piercingly insightful translation of artistic visions; marketers proffer daring and scandalous campaigns; and museum directors are supposed to enact a kind of birds-eye-level rectitude. from Hyperallergic
The track's dramatic turns make it so memorable though, with Marcella Detroit's ear-piercingly high-pitched verse and Siobhán Fahey's pleading chorus demonstrating that the only downside of channelling the vocal register of a drowning witch is that the spell is broken when Simon Cowell comes a-calling. from Vice
The piece begins with seemingly distinct statements, with pauses in between: a mini-episode of pastoral-like sonorities with an ominous cello line lurking below; sustained, bustling high harmonies with squiggly flights from the piano; an episode of staggered drum bursts; a haze of dense, piercingly dissonant chords; and more. from The New York Times
For me, the sparseness of the trio's sound revealed the harmonic pungencies and rich details in the music, like the transfixing moment when the avenging Sweeney haltingly sings the lines "There was a barber and his wife, and she was beautiful," and the piano gently jabbed the word "beautiful" with a piercingly dissonant chord. from The New York Times
The most immediately apparent sonic ingredients are the harshest ones: pounding metallic drums, random electronic shrieks, piercingly high bleeps dragged down a chalkboard, blasts of bass turned up way too loud, surprisingly hummable if dissonant synthesizer hooks, Gazelle Twin's own voice filtered through a mechanical groan — a musical forest of whirling knives and churning gears. from Hyperallergic
Domestic details are piercingly described, bringing the squalor of the camp to life: Even from that distance I caught the stench of sweat, today's sweat, still fresh, but under that the stale sweat of other days and other nights, receding into the far distance, the darkness, all the way back to the first year of this interminable war. from Economist
" And "Speech," sung piercingly by the guitarist Mark Stewart, takes its text from John L. Lewis, the fiery leader of the United Mine Workers union: "Those who consume the coal, and you and I who benefit from that service because we live in comfort, we owe protection to those men and we owe the security to their families if they die. from The New York Times
The dilemma of "My only love born from my only hate," when the Nurse explains to her who Romeo is; the passionate declaration of "My bounty is boundless as the sea/My love as deep" in the balcony love scene; and the anguish of "Then, window, let day in and let life out," as she sends Romeo from her bedroom into exile: Ms. Ferri piercingly evoked those moments. from The New York Times
While I looked on, he let loose a fast-figured, at times piercingly dissonant improvisation, with reposeful tonal chords to close.
Critical reception has been mostly positive. Kirkus Reviews gave a favorable review for Sharp Objects, calling it "Piercingly effective and genuinely terrifying." The Star-Herald also gave a positive review, praising the book's gradual revelations.
He died from tuberculosis in 1901 following a long illness. Gabrielsson was the most famous poet of the socialist wave of writers. He differed, however, from other writers in that his works called for reform rather than out and out revolutions. His poems were piercingly accurate.
This plant is a shrub which can grow to become up to in height, which can grow with either somewhat erect branches or branches which have a more sprawling form. The stems are glabrous. Plants can flower from about five years of age. The leaves are linear and needle-like, ending in a piercingly sharp point.
Clytemnestre leaves Iphigénie, who still takes her father's side, and waits for her husband. Agamemnon eventually appears, blaming her for her daughter's delay. When Iphigénie enters in tears, he realizes that they know everything. Iphigénie pleads for her life with restraint, nevertheless piercingly reminding her father that her pleas are made for the sake of others – her mother and her betrothed – rather than herself.
Giving it 3.5 out of 4 stars, USA Today writer Elysa Gardner described the album's sound and lyrics as "piercingly direct". Chicago Tribune writer Greg Kot and Randall Roberts of the Los Angeles Times awarded it 3 out of 4 stars. Kot believed the album would have been better without the songs referencing sexuality, but still considered it "fascinating". Roberts believed Rebel Heart stood out "sturdily" because of its production.
" In his book Alternative Rock, Dave Thompson described the album's sound as "dry ice-piercingly intense guitar drones and hefty nods to miasmic hardcore soup, oozing a contrary trance-spun drone. Noise becomes beauty as feedback is layered over vocals over feedback ad infinitum." Anthony Carew of About.com described its style as "atonal, desconstructed, free-noise guitar playing" and noted that it had an "ethereal, spectral quality that radically reconfigured the predominant paradigms of rock'n'roll.
Mohammed Sulaymon Barre, a Somali refugee who worked for a funds transfer company, described his Bagram interrogation as "torture." [ Summarized transcripts (.pdf)], from Mohammed Sulaymon Barre's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 30-37 Barre said he was picked up and thrown around the interrogation room when he wouldn't confess to a false allegation. He was put into an isolation chamber that was maintained at a piercingly cold temperature for several weeks and deprived of sufficient rations during this period.
Sweet Baboo's earliest musical influences were fellow Welsh musicians such as Super Furry Animals and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci. Later influences have included the Beach Boys, Dire Straits, Squeeze and Jonathan Richman. His musical style has been described as a mix of country and psychedelic – idiosyncratic, with a skill for writing darkly funny to piercingly tender lyrics. Sweet Baboo has performed extensively at festivals such as Glastonbury, Festival N°6 and Latitude; he's been a regular performer at the Green Man Festival.
The feeling he perceives is pure disgust: a contempt so refined that it almost shatters his mind each time it occurs. As the novel progresses, the Nausea appears more and more frequently, though he is still unsure of what it actually signifies. However, at the base of a chestnut tree in a park, he receives a piercingly clear vision of what the Nausea actually is. Existence itself, the property of existence to be something rather than nothing was what was slowly driving him mad.
177, 180 alt=Rocky hillsides and village During the evening of 19 November, a thunderstorm followed by a drenching downpour broke over the opposing armies. In a few hours every wadi in the foothills and on the plain was in flood. The black soil plain, hard and firm during summer, became in these winter conditions sticky and heavy for marching and almost impassable for wheeled vehicles. The temperature, which had been hot during the day and pleasant at night, dropped rapidly to become piercingly cold.
Reviewing Happiness in The Guardian, Diana Evans wrote that it "builds in resonance beyond the final page".Diana Evans, "Happiness by Aminatta Forna review – love in the urban wilderness", The Guardian, 5 April 2018. In The Spectator, Kate Webb wrote of Happiness: "Forna’s piercingly intelligent and interrogative novel ... registers tectonic shifts taking place in the world and provokes us to think anew about war, and what we take for peace and happiness."Kate Webb, "Our sheltered lives have made us overly fearful: Aminatta Forna’s Happiness reviewed", The Spectator, 21 April 2018.
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports an approval rating of 100%, based on 27 reviews, with a weighted average of 8.27/10. Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score, rates the film 83 out of 100, based on 9 reviews, indicating "Universal acclaim". Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times wrote, "A tough but essential watch, “Roll Red Roll” documents how a sexual assault in a declining Appalachian town became an international cause célèbre." Owen Gleiberman of Variety wrote, "... piercingly relevant and disturbing documentary about an infamous high school rape case...".
Metal Church is an American heavy metal band. They originally formed in San Francisco, California in 1980 before relocating to Aberdeen, Washington the following year and briefly using the name Shrapnel. Their self titled debut album was released in 1984, and their latest, Damned If You Do, was released on December 7, 2018. Metal Church is credited as a formative influence on the thrash metal subgenre, melding the aesthetics of the new wave of British heavy metal and American hard rock with "incredibly tight musicianship" and "piercingly screeched" vocals.
Critic Peter Debruge declared the style "the antithesis of your well-lit, elegantly shot Hollywood movies – or the locally made films of Mungiu's childhood". Journalist Steven Boone said that while the film was well reviewed for "its bracing drabness, its ugliness, its lack of style", he believed it was "beautiful and stylized", because "it is alive and piercingly present-tense". He compared it with the films of the Dardenne brothers. Mungiu said he aimed to begin scenes, including the first, without giving the audience background information and letting viewers discern what was happening.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 92% approval rating, based on 153 reviews, with an average rating of 7.92/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "This is a piercingly honest, acidly witty look at divorce and its impact on a family." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 82 out of 100, based on 37 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".Squid and the Whale, The (2005): Reviews On an episode of Ebert & Roeper, both critics praised the film and gave it a "two thumbs up" rating.
Minhas's first novel,Tunnel Vision (2007), is a first-person meditation on life as a woman in a man's world. It was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, adapted for the stage by The Madras Players in 2009, and published in Italian as Pakistan Graffiti in 2012. It has been described as “piercingly witty and acutely perceptive” and a “silent bestseller”. Her second novel, Survival Tips for Lunatics (2014), is a “bitingly funny” adventure in which a bickering couple accidentally leaves their two sons behind on a camping trip in Pakistan's turbulent Balochistan province.
Night Garden is an illuminating book!” Jeanne Marie Beaumont said, “Piercingly visionary and subtly hallucinatory, over and over these poems acknowledge the vast mysterious companionship of the natural world and the fluidity of experienced time. As the poems bring things to notice, whether the hum of Sears fans, the oddments on a basement worktable, or the smell of a pharmacy aisle, they create a new way to be intimate with the physical world. It is as though Keats's “hark!” has awoken this poet to her fullest senses, and there is no turning away.
In a contemporary review for Down Beat, Leonard Feather called Quiet Nights a "curious and not entirely satisfying album". He felt "Song No. 2" ended prematurely while the long-meter arrangement of "Wait Till You See Her" sounded unusual, but found "Once Upon a Summertime" to be brilliantly recorded and "Summer Night" highlighted by Davis and Feldman's "consistent level of lyrical beauty". In the Saturday Review, Quiet Nights received praise for Davis' "wonderfully songful trumpet in a Latin-American vein", set against "piercingly lustrous curtains of tone and discreet Caribbean rhythms". Loren Schoenberg later called it "a slightly flawed but worthy companion" to other classic Davis-Evans recordings.
Pitch is an aspect of a sound that we can hear, reflecting whether one musical sound, note or tone is "higher" or "lower" than another musical sound, note or tone. We can talk about the highness or lowness of pitch in the more general sense, such as the way a listener hears a piercingly high piccolo note or whistling tone as higher in pitch than a deep thump of a bass drum. We also talk about pitch in the precise sense associated with musical melodies, basslines and chords. Precise pitch can only be determined in sounds that have a frequency that is clear and stable enough to distinguish from noise.
Listen out, too, for a clutch > of exhilarating, at times arrestingly Lisztian choruses. ... Other > highlights include the lovely quintet "Doubtless thou art our Father" and > soprano aria "Tell ye the Daughter of Zion" (such enchantingly > Mendelssohnian clarinets), the powerful Overture to Part 2, Mary Magdalene’s > almost operatic "Lord, why hidest thou thy face?", and that piercingly > expressive orchestral interlude that opens the final scene entitled "At the > Sepulchre – Morning" (pre-echoes here of Elgar). Wonderfully affecting, too, > is the purely orchestral introduction to the memorable "Weep ye not for the > dead", and the sublime unaccompanied vocal quartet "Yea, though I walk > through the valley".
These abstract works, just as much as those in his realistic vein, display a distinctive and exacting draftsmanship. Also in a modern (or even postmodern) vein are his series of "fragments": bizarre portraits, mostly of famous people, consisting of extreme closeups of only parts of (usually) the head or face, often far off-center. A particularly amusing example is "Thatcher's Thatch", consisting only of the British Prime Minister's famous hairdo jutting up from the bottom of the canvas. There are also grotesque and piercingly angry paintings of social commentary, sometimes verging on protest art, such as "Our Hero", an over-muscled monster with a tiny infant's head, embodying belligerent and stupid militarism.
Following a Latin invocation of Satan by Susanna, she is cautioned by Sister Clementia, with the tale of a nun, Sister Beata, who gave in to her erotic fantasies, and as a punishment was bricked up behind the altar. Susanna, no longer capable of abstaining, discards her veil, rips the loin cloth from the crucifix in front of her, and demands such punishment from the nuns, who have now congregated around her. Musically, this finale consists of a giddying sequence in woodwind and strings, abruptly cut off by a piercingly dissonant, yet dynamically restrained chord in the upper strings. Following this, vocal and brass forces compete – the nuns all now chanting ‘Satana’ - in what is both a deafening and densely scored series of chordal exchanges.
Several wear pith helmets, one of whom sits in the sun shirtless outside the awning leaning against a pole holding up the awning. The delay caused by these rearguards may have seriously compromised the British Empire advance as there was not much time to conclude military engagements in southern Palestine. The winter rains were expected to start in the middle of the month and the black soil plain which was currently firm, facilitating the movements of large military units would with the rains become a giant boggy quagmire, impassable for wheeled vehicles and very heavy marching for infantry. With the rains the temperatures which were currently hot during the day and pleasant at night would drop rapidly to become piercingly cold.
" He described Bluebeard's Friends as the "most incisive" of the first three plays. However, Rosemary Waugh of New Statesman expressed disagreement with the praise of this third work as "the great #MeToo play we were all waiting for", saying that "Glass is by far the most intriguing thanks to how it resists interpretation [...] incredibly, piercingly sad at the end, despite the fact you’re still unsure about exactly what you’ve just witnessed." Susannah Clapp of The Observer argued, "Churchill’s elastic way with structure and the gauntlet of her ideas are so striking that there is a risk of overlooking just how comic a writer she is, and how powerful a creator of weird and credible dialogue. [...] There is a beautiful arc to the evening as the final line quietly touches on opening moments.
The last reaction is one for high-intensity terrestrial situations. In instances of dealing with larger or more threatening predators, such as the tayra, the buffy-headed marmosets amass in a large group, yelping in piercingly loud manner to try and scare the predator away. Distinct vocalizations are used depending on whether they are for inter- group communication of extra-group communication. For inter-group communication, a short-distance call is used, while for an extra-group communication call, a loud, shrill long-distance call is used.Orlandoni, S., Mendes, SL. Veracini, C. (2009) “Individual and Gender Differences in Vocalizations of a Wild Group of the Buffy-Headed Marmoset (Callithrix flaviceps)” Folia Primatologica Volume: 80 Issue: 6 P.375 Specific vocalizations are used when an adult buffy-headed marmoset discovers a source of food with others.
Leigh's marvelous achievement is not only in capturing emotional clarity on film, but also in illustrating the ways in which families start to heal and find a certain bravery in their efforts." Similarly, Kenneth Turan from the Los Angeles Times ranked the film among the best of the 14 features Leigh had written and directed by then. He found that Secrets & Lies was "a piercingly honest, completely accessible piece of work that will go directly to the hearts of audiences who have never heard of him. If film means anything to you, if emotional truth is a quality you care about, this is an event that ought not be missed [...] Unforced, confident and completely involving, with exceptional acting aided by Dick Pope's unobtrusive camera work and John Gregory's telling editing, Secrets & Lies is filmmaking to savor.
" At Nash Country Weekly, Jon Freeman found that this album even more so than its predecessor has "more engaging studies of real-life heartbreak, domestic inertia and the daily trials of womanhood." Kyle Anderson of Entertainment Weekly alluded to that the release "is a more fully formed take on Southern sisterhood." At Los Angeles Times, Randy Lewis evoked that "their switchblade-sharp vision incorporates acute observational powers about the human condition and savvy compositional skills that come together in songs that are piercingly honest, funny and sometimes both." In addition, Lewis said that "mostly it feels like eavesdropping on one helluva lively girls night out." Rob Burkhardt of Music Is My Oxygen Weekly told that the release "doesn’t take this popularity for granted; instead, it wisely spends the political capital", and that is because it "has enough sex appeal to keep the men interested, a deeper look reveals that it is really an album by women, for women.
Cheshire wrote that the story is told with "extraordinary delicacy and cinematic intelligence" and with a "finely calibrated poetic obliqueness that draws the viewer into the relationship's gradual unfolding". Cheshire continued: Cheshire also praised the performances of the leading actors, including Fiennes who "creates an exuberant portrait of Dickens that encompasses his vanity and selfishness as well as his bounteousness and thirst for life", Jones who is "luminous" and "conveys the young woman's mix of awe, intoxication and anxiety as she is drawn inexorably into the orbit of a powerful older man", and Scanlan who shows Catherine Dickens' "dignity and grace in heart-rending circumstances". Cheshire concluded: In his review for The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw gave the film four out of five stars, calling the film "piercingly intimate and intelligent" and praises Fiennes for his "strength as a director" and for his "richly sanguine" portrayal of Charles Dickens. Bradshaw also praises Scanlan for her "shrewd and sensitive performance as Dickens's neglected wife".