How To Use Incisive In A Sentence

But there's something terrifically right and incisive about her every move in the first few scenes.
But he does not allow himself to yield either to the past, or its falsifier, nostalgia, the ‘history’ of which mind-set he incisively anatomises.
He could be eloquent and lighthearted but also incisive and sarcastic with those who failed to live up to his high medical standards. Times, Sunday Times
Consider this incisive analysis of the Whitewater investigation.
I can picture him now, often speaking without a note, with humour, incisive argument and magisterial disdain for the opposing view, swatting away anyone ill-judged enough to make a hostile intervention.

The wife's questioning is swift and incisive, causing her husband first to reveal a trickle of information, then a cascade.
He regularly prompted attacks with incisive forward passes. Times, Sunday Times
The pages brim with incisive descriptions and exquisite pictures of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile and Patagonia.
The passing was more incisive, the pace picked up and the balance of the team no longer looked lopsided. Times, Sunday Times
Baggies will need to watch out for his incisive passes. The Sun
That much is clear from your letters related to my incisive analysis last week, exploring Google's ills.
After a scrappy start, both teams settled down with York producing a series of incisive moves, all of which collapsed either at the whistle of the referee or their own indiscretions.
Atlético were a threat on the counter-attack and they proved it with a swift and incisive move eight minutes before half-time to take the lead. Times, Sunday Times
As he coolly, incisively probes away, his questions elicit fascinating personal revelations, generating feelings of anger, guilt, panic and emptiness.
No American author had ever dreamed of such ovation before: an ovation not due to any incisive thought, not due to any novelty of his subject-matter, -- but due to the fact that a man born overseas had suddenly appeared among British writers, who could lay hold upon their own resources of sentiment, and inwrap it in language which charmed them by its grace and provoked them by its purity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
But sweeping narrative is not Leaf's style; instead, she represents incisive moments, many of them funny, some harrowing, and all equally free of portent and nostalgia.
The movie is brilliantly scripted by Aaron Sorkin, author of the courtroom drama A Few Good Men and the TV series The West Wing, and incisively directed by David Fincher, whose films (among them Se7en, Fight Club, The Game and Zodiac) show him to be a doubter of outward appearance, a questioner of accepted realities. The Social Network – review
Might he be the focus of some incisive Hollywood docudrama?
Since he dictates all of his written work, the way he writes and the way he talks are identical: ornate, elaborate, old-fashioned, yet incisive and clear.
He was incisive, sharp and wise. Times, Sunday Times
We commit to continuing to publish the serious scoops, the weighty investigative pieces and the incisive political analysis.
The conservative commentator George Will has been especially incisive of late about the "dismaying," "un-presidential temperament" of McCain and the sleazy tenor of his campaign. Carl Bernstein: The Palin Pick -- The Devolution of McCain
EXCELLENT, incisive and crisp passing, particularly in the first half. The Sun
They are incisive, beautifully written, witty and very personal.
His account is highly readable and sometimes incisive.
The "2011 Farmers 'Almanac" says October 4th through 7th will bring clear and incisively chilly weather to the northeast, fair weather to the southeast, a surge of colder air will move in into the south central region, fair chillier weather to the northwest and fair colder weather to the southwest. Predicting The Weather Not Always High-Tech
a fastidious and incisive intellect
The 23-year-old is the heartbeat of the team, impressing with his range of movement and incisive passing. Times, Sunday Times
A thrilling 70th minute move involving two thirds of Liverpool's outfield players produced an incisive fourth goal.
I have written in the past that I would love to watch the Sunday gasbag shows with some of America's incisive social critics of the past.
Argentina started to take control of the game, with a patient game in the back and quick and incisive counter-attacks, complemented of course by their lethal penalty corners.
We will miss that quizzical, inquiring, genial but incisive mind. Times, Sunday Times
Other views have lacked the incisiveness and the firmness of conviction that make his analysis a classic in the history of rate regulation.
Kendal managed to construct some incisive moves and penetrating attacks but they came to nothing.
Generally, there will be a tense producer at one elbow, a hypertense director at the other, and six or seven grim PR people scattered around, all of them expecting one to come forth with both incisive analysis and wild praise, some eight or ten seconds after “The End” has appeared on the screen. Film flam
The choral singing, meanwhile, is incisive throughout. Times, Sunday Times
The film gains incisive bite from Sellers' performance as the union chief.
All songs share a penchant for incisive, thoughtful lyricism, but those words may be screamed over rowdy feedback in "Bootstraps" or catcalled in a dirty falsetto on bluesy tracks like "Company. Heather Browne: Drew Grow Brings Rock and Roll Salvation
Conclusion The comprehensive community-based NCD control and prevention is an optimal incisiveness for the medicine and public health initiative.
The eminent historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. has sometimes been labeled a hagiographer for the Camelot chords he struck, but A Thousand Days is an intricate and serious narrative biography with sweeping historical themes and incisive drypoint character sketches. American Sketches
Michael also reviewed many books for the journal, combining speed of turnaround, with incisiveness and a broad understanding of transport history with which to contextualise the book reviewed.
The most incisive move of the game then produced the deserved winner. Times, Sunday Times
They were too quick, too incisive. Times, Sunday Times
The error was obvious to an incisive mind like his.
The film is an incisive satire on religion and British society, with the Church of England hierarchy particularly coming in for a skewering.
It naturally overgeneralizes to some extent, but I found it to be an incisive and amusing read.
Class divisions have increasingly permeated the nonprofit sector in recent years, a development incisively described by Harvard professor Theda Skocpol in her book, Diminished Democracy. Pablo Eisenberg: State of the Nonprofit Sector
Today these interviews still seem fearless and incisive and free from the gladiatorial razzamatazz that characterises the genre today. Times, Sunday Times
But may the shuttle back row chair be this kind of characteristic display incisiveness.
We all greatly valued his incisive mind, his calm and patient approach to problems, and his enthusiasm in pursuit of academic excellence. Times, Sunday Times
She picked up the gauntlet in her incisive Keynote Address to the Conference.
We commit to continuing to publish the serious scoops, the weighty investigative pieces and the incisive political analysis.
On the stroke of half-time, Stoke finally pierced through the resolute City rearguard with a swift, incisive move.
The representation of Leonello's long skull, resolute but unaggressive chin and flat, perhaps broken, nose is more incisive than in the moulded portrait medallion Pisanello copied from it.
The most acerbically incisive advice comes from British author Will Self. We don’t need no stinking rules « Write Anything
And he did so with an enviable manual dexterity driven by a witty, incisive mind.
The writing is pithy and incisive and sometimes devastatingly accurate.
You may know him as the talented creator of that incisive Tucson Weekly comic strip, Staggering Heights.
It is no longer remotely funny, incisive or sharp. Times, Sunday Times
Following an incisive pass, the left-winger raced clear, committed the keeper, before drilling a left-footer into the corner from a tight angle.
Baggies will need to watch out for his incisive passes. The Sun
Its impact is enhanced by incisive writing and compelling evidence in profusion.
Least developed in the gorilla but greater in chimpanzees and australopithecines, with formation of incisive canal.
But he makes a few incisive edits to the camera's body — tidies it up visually — and mills the chassis from a solid block of titanium. Style Meets Substance
The Chicago settings are authentically bleak and the plotting subtle and incisive.
If Professor Kent's study is incisive and short, Lord Hattersley's is long and designed (but fails) to be magisterial.
It is a deeply incisive explanation of how we all begin, how we plod on, and how we approach the end -- we are always looking for a theory or an idea to bring cohesion to the chaos that is life, whether it be the career we choose (or reject) or the spouse we adore (or don't) or the label we flaunt ("free-spirit," "dependable," "respectable"). Nina Sankovitch: The Story of Life: How It All Began by Penelope Lively
Despite occasional patches of purple prose, the book is mostly clear and incisive.
The singing is excellent down through the cast and the orchestra performs splendidly under his incisive baton.
as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang
But he is also capable of terse, astringent judgments and an incisive turn of phrase.
He is unpredictable, but with the freedom to roam he can drive forward from midfield and deliver incisive passes. Times, Sunday Times
It was a lead that lasted just four minutes though, as an incisive move ended with Nolito slicing the visiting defence open. The Sun
H.W. Fowler wrote about them incisively in his 1926 Dictionary of Modern English Usage, though most of the specific words he considered — such as casuistic and casuistical, diabolic and diabolical — don’t trouble us anymore. Word Court
Friedel, who was a virtual spectator for the vast majority of the afternoon, had to save smartly from Geremi early on following an incisive move down the right.
Perusing this delicate yet powerful little book, we can't help but admire the shapeliness, the eloquence, the stylishness, and the incisiveness of the essay it contains.
The problem for a portrait painter is the incisiveness of your observation - how deeply you choose to look into your subject.
The Briton was in control for much of the encounter with Velazquez although she could not produce an incisive winning move, her pressure forced her opponent to twice concede shido penalties.
Never very numerous, they reached this commanding position by an incisive and unexcelled diplomacy.
He is respected around the world for his brilliant mind, incisive advocacy and direct approach. Times, Sunday Times
Most of the jokes aren't laugh-aloud funny but they are incisive.
However, it in no way hampers the author's incisive analysis of the ‘dicty,’ African-American bourgeois.
The complaints are well-reasoned, but they're not incisive. Globe and Mail
In fact, Webb was a highly educated and incisive intellect.
Her blonde bouffant and sympathetic manner masked an incisive interrogator, equally at ease with pop stars or dictators. Times, Sunday Times
Wilson's is one of the most incisive, informed texts on the man who is still neglected and forgotten.
The novel has sharply incisive passages, but Haigh's thin characterizations don't quite live up to the promise of the clever, intricate premise. Mrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh: Book summary
This characterization is indubitably incisive, but it fails to take account of the fact that the expression droit divin des rois (divine right of kings) is, as Jean Mesnard has demonstrated, nowhere to be found in Bossuet's work. Louis XIV's Secret Wife
That's an important issue and one that strikes to the heart of why we train college students to think logically, research carefully and write incisively.
The more irrational and illogical someone becomes, the more logical and incisive I become.
It was delightful to hear the Menuetto played with such incisive energy and vigor.
These emerging and incisive experimental and theoretical tools make the field of nanoscale electrocatalysis ripe for rapid and comprehensive growth.
They are farther from winning silverware or returning to the swift, incisive football of a decade ago. Times, Sunday Times
With the Irish pack ruling the roost, and Scotland over-elaborating to a ridiculous degree on the few occasions they managed to get their hands on the ball, the young Irish backs began to look increasingly incisive.
He was really sharp and incisive. The Sun
He side-steps his way over out wide to score his first try for England after a rare incisive move.
Guess my brilliant incisive lawyer didn't know what would happen to me when she divested me of my material wealth.
The big rescue operation she mounted, the unreserved love provided thereafter, the support and incisive advice, the confidences shared. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
The highly incisive aftertaste is flecked with chalkiness from the soil.
Atlético were a threat on the counter-attack and they proved it with a swift and incisive move eight minutes before half-time to take the lead. Times, Sunday Times
And the goal was the sort of incisive move which Spain had been unable to produce against the Portuguese but this was far from boring stuff. The Sun
Her commitment to accuracy, decency and incisive writing never deserted her.
Brilliantly passionate and incisive vocals over stunning arrangements on the borderline between jazz, classical and flamenco.
His incisive mind was well suited to instilling a sense of purpose into an organisation that was very bureaucratic. Times, Sunday Times
We will miss that quizzical, inquiring, genial but incisive mind. Times, Sunday Times
Her ability to combine ravishing description with incisive analysis was outstanding.
The passing was more incisive, the pace picked up and the balance of the team no longer looked lopsided. Times, Sunday Times
Writing from the perspective of an intelligent though lonely and bewildered child, he uses incisive humour to expose the lunacies, vagaries and hypocrisies of traditional and alternative belief systems.
The 23-year-old is the heartbeat of the team, impressing with his range of movement and incisive passing. Times, Sunday Times
Thanks, however, to DeCandido's ability to brew up credible and intriguing politics on both the large and small scale, and his proven talent for fast-paced narrative and incisive characterization, Enemy Territory manages to aquaplane over the absurdities of its premise and deliver a package of absorbing, high-octane, bloodthirsty fun. May 31st, 2005
Her incisive, anti-male insults, delivered in a southern drawl, gave her a prominent reputation and within a few years she had started to appear in guest roles on TV.
Donegal put together another incisive move in the 19th minute, Hegarty netting with aplomb.
Every word valuable, every word classic, incisive paragraphs, chapters exquisite, beautiful Yiziqianjin lin, ringing, sharp pen of the document took dreams Think Progress » Tea Partiers Get Their News From Fox And Are More Likely To Justify Violence Against The Government
Meanwhile Rachel Sylvester is her usual incisive self in the Times on Tuesday. The start of the election campaign
Its energetic endosarc, the content theme and even each performance technology progress all is trying the beautiful charm to unfold incisively.
The orchestra plays splendidly under the incisive leadership of Patrick Fournillier, too, and the sound reproduction is vivid and fully state-of-the-art.
Some of the humorous incidents described in the book are incisively hilarious.
Atlético were a threat on the counter-attack and they proved it with a swift and incisive move eight minutes before half-time to take the lead. Times, Sunday Times
This is Scribble With Unique Thougts and Incisive Words.
It takes an incisive professional to cut through all this self-indulgent chaff to bring you the priceless kernel of truth, so here goes…
Rereading Charlie's TV columns in the Guide from 2000 to 2010, the striking thing is how quickly and incisively he skewered the core of each show, pinpointing either its brilliance or boneheadedness. Charlie Brooker: 10 of the best Screen Burn columns
Meanwhile, the National produced one of its biggest, most buoyant and popular comedies in Richard Bean's One Man, Two Guvnors and one of its most incisive and disturbing dramas in London Road, which brought together the terrific talents of composer Adam Cork and documentarist Alecky Blythe. The best theatre of 2011: Susannah Clapp's choice
Margie and I stared, unsure whether she had just said something breathtakingly incisive or mind-numbingly literal-minded.
Only then does the audience have its brief opportunity to launch incisive ripostes into the heart of the thesis.
The Invisible Mountain, set in Uruguay, is an incisive examination of some of life’s trickier dilemmas, including when to place family at the forefront, and when to honor your own ideals even at the expense of others. The Invisible Mountain: Summary and book reviews of The Invisible Mountain by Carolina De Robertis.
Management as a discipline made sense only its 21st century social context, about which he wrote incisively well into his ninth decade.
His lyrics are incisive and true without self-consciousness or contrivance, yet tackle subject matter as diverse as socio-political commentary to lovelorn heartbreak as skilfully as the best in the genre.
So, in the spirit of giving till it hurts, let me offer up to the least deserving of us my annual scathingly incisive yet perennially trenchant.
His presentation was clear and incisive.
You may know him as the talented creator of that incisive Tucson Weekly comic strip, Staggering Heights.
The awkward nature in which he attempted to execute the action seemed to encapsulate his lack of incisiveness, in stark contrast to the intelligence and skill of his strike partner Suarez.
The light bows are curved outward and strung with black horse hair, which gives the music incisive attacks and lush sustains.
In the hands of a lyricist like Mark Kozelek (Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon) or Bill Callahan such little surface-surfing emotional feuilletons can have an incisive and unexpected judo quality about them.
The most incisive move of the game then produced the deserved winner. Times, Sunday Times
The writing is fresh, the analyses incisive - all the things that are necessary for a good work of history.
They scrummaged better to retain possession and their mobile backs forced errors from the home side, creating promising field positions to score a couple of vital tries from incisive inter-play around the scrummage.
He is unpredictable, but with the freedom to roam he can drive forward from midfield and deliver incisive passes. Times, Sunday Times
But the game was made safe by Black eight minutes from time after another incisive move.
You can look forward to some retrospective travel notes, complaints about summer TV and other incisive, analytical gems.
He is respected around the world for his brilliant mind, incisive advocacy and direct approach. Times, Sunday Times
In the sixth minute, an incisive move down Balliol's left saw a twenty-yard effort tipped around the post.
The 23-year-old is the heartbeat of the team, impressing with his range of movement and incisive passing. Times, Sunday Times
For him, rhythms are incisive and repetitive - out of Stravinsky, but also connected to pop and jazz.
While the progressive implications of some of the films seem tangential, the analysis is generally incisive and occasionally provocative.
This feeling of frustration, so incisively conveyed by these considerations by P. Medawar, pervaded in the forties the field of experimental embryology which had been enthusiastically acclaimed in the mid-thirties, when the upper lip of the amphibian blastopore brought this area of research to the forefront of the biological stage. Nobel Lecture The Nerve Growth Factor: Thirty-Five Years Later
You may know him as the talented creator of that incisive Tucson Weekly comic strip, Staggering Heights.
The films I was making weren't incisive enough.
Even the hammier performances of Anthony Hopkins and John Malkovich grow on you, leading to incisive interplay late in the film. Frames Per Second Magazine
But a third goal was inevitable and it came in the 64th minute, the end product of a typically incisive move. Times, Sunday Times
Both programmes were described by the panel of adjudicators, in a citation at the awards ceremony, ‘as examples of first class journalism presented in a compelling and incisive manner’.
Bruce indulges in some incisive improvisation, especially when dealing with the inevitable heckler.
Even after the visitors took the lead with their first real chance, Callum McManaman converting the rebound after Ben Watson's penalty struck the post in the 34th minute, Swindon showed themselves to be sharper and more incisive, and all the while showcasing the slick and enterprising interplay that Di Canio encourages. Paolo Di Canio returns to centre stage as Swindon Town knock out Wigan
It is no longer remotely funny, incisive or sharp. Times, Sunday Times
incisive teeth
His goal was superb but some of his incisive passing was fantastic. Times, Sunday Times
This incisive, fiery disciplinarian always gets to the heart of a score. Times, Sunday Times
The visitors just about deserved their victory for their more incisive back play.
Textural clarity requires rhythmic precision, knowing the important line at any point in the score, dead-on intonation, and the ability to sing lightly and incisively at the same time.
Even so, Harnoncourt delivers one of the most rhythmically incisive accounts of the scherzo, sharper even than Szell's.
His goal came from an incisive move. Times, Sunday Times
Atlético were a threat on the counter-attack and they proved it with a swift and incisive move eight minutes before half-time to take the lead. Times, Sunday Times
While some German critics decry her as an eloquent hysteric, others praise her cold yet incisive observations of human lives and loves.
EXCELLENT, incisive and crisp passing, particularly in the first half. The Sun
Several chapters are rich in fresh insights and in incisive restatements of accepted views.
That is not an understatement as what follows is both an incisive critique of much current missiology/ecclesiology as well as a challenge to boldly re-imagine what it means to do mission and be the church in a post-Christian age.
For those familiar with the era, the documentary is a sweet piece of nostalgia even if it fails to be comprehensive or intellectually incisive.
The home side were calm of mind and incisive of distribution. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps he is more incisive on individually produced artefacts like paintings or buildings.
His goal came from an incisive move. Times, Sunday Times
Yet the accompanying depiction of Louise's confused emotions towards him are incisive and brutal in their honesty.
Like the somber Hawthorne's, his style is brooding, adumbrative, rather than incisive or brilliant, and it often limps among the facts of his story like a man in pain. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism
He does not seek to be fashionable, yet his incisive analysis of social and political realities reflects a distinctive outlook.
The moments of grace and beauty, of clear crisp prose and keen incisive social commentary lie outside the obsessive, self-reflexive mediations of Ben and Priya on the nature of their flawed union.
He was incisive, sharp and wise. Times, Sunday Times
She picked up the gauntlet in her incisive Keynote Address to the Conference.
These articles are the most incisive and intelligent I've yet seen anywhere, and I seriously hope you will continue to draw more detailed conclusions from this case.
The home side were calm of mind and incisive of distribution. Times, Sunday Times
Fortunately, incisive writing and convincing performances help us overlook them.
They frustrated the home support with incisive counter-attacking football, allowing a new on-loan recruit a couple of gallops at central defensive pairing Mark and Stephen.
However, Keighley showed ruthless finishing almost on half-time as their backs opened up Park with an incisive move to score the try, making it 3-11 at the break.
Each speaker recounts the way that life was, aspects unique to their particular local region, often touching on unexpected sidelights and incisive observations.
Strengths of the book are its brevity, the lively, incisive writing, and the authors' willingness to take a stand.
This one incisive judgment of river secretary - general, it is wraparound to telling political height.
The book ends with an incisive analysis of animal altruism.
It should provide him with the perfect backdrop for an incisive portrait of a world unfamiliar to the general viewer.
And the goal was the sort of incisive move which Spain had been unable to produce against the Portuguese but this was far from boring stuff. The Sun
Graves is quietly incisive and commanding as the relatively humane Dr. Treves, but Burton is a trifle too actressy even for an actress portraying an actress.
David Anderson was a selfless public servant with an incisive analytical mind.
Their normal crisp and incisive passing here was replaced by loose wayward kicks that often went straight out of play. The Sun
They are farther from winning silverware or returning to the swift, incisive football of a decade ago. Times, Sunday Times
An argument, then, of this kind is the most incisive, viz. the one that puts its conclusion on all fours with the propositions asked; and second comes the one that argues from premisses, all of which are equally convincing: for this will produce an equal perplexity as to what kind of premiss, of those asked, one should demolish. On Sophistical Refutations
Making only their second appearance in this championship, they had opened brightly enough, showing some neat, incisive play in attack.
Instead, he surveys the answers and disagreements found in the vast literature of the subject, giving his own incisive judgment on the merits and demerits of the various authors concerned.
I'm only into the second chapter, but it's incredibly incisive stuff: simple anecdotes that illustrate simple yet powerful principles.
The interviewer was the man who at the time was regarded as the most abrasive, trenchant, incisive (you get the point) questioner of the time, Robin Day.
Sarah has been an incisive critic of my work, an unequalled friend in moments of self-doubt, and an eident copy-editor.
Deliver intelligent and incisive points, well made and expressed with sublime brevity, with great import for the organisation and relevant to all present.
He has an incisive but sympathetic way with him. Times, Sunday Times
The discipline and tenacity of Porto's defence tonight, and their capacity for quick, incisive breaks, recalled Clough's Forest teams at their best.
His goal was superb but some of his incisive passing was fantastic. Times, Sunday Times

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