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26 examples of Incisive in a sentence

It provoked tears as well as incisive questions about unarmed peace-keeping forces and the double-dealing of a Western society that picks its moral fights with commodities in mind.
Moholy's ideas were as bold and incisive as ever, but his approach to design was too experimental, as was his insistence on seeing it, as he put it, as an attitude, not a profession to be in tune with the times.
Norman Wexler's incisive Oscar-nominated script is superbly enacted by Peter Boyle (in a powerhouse performance) who manages to make his garrulous, down-to-earth yet hypocritical and opportunistic character (with a barely-disguised fascist streak which comes to the fore in the remarkable violent conclusion) likable, even admirable; indeed, he comes across uncannily like a flabbier version of the young Marlon Brando!
They are meaningful, powerful, incisive.
Transcendental, sophisticated, incisive, emotive, powerful...
Robert Benton's incisive screenplay presents us flawed, but real human beings with hearts, souls, and brains.
It is considered both polemical and incisive in making its case against both that complex and the war fiasco we are currently involved in in Iraq.
As with the earlier French release, it is an incisive character study of marginal people using their wits to get ahead in a society that has turned its back on them.
The interplay between Sergeant Vinson, Private McGurney, and Scout Pawnee is interesting and incisive.
A sparkling, incisive, progressive-minded comedy-drama that leaves much of this genre looking exactly like the disguised condoning of tradition it really is.
Film-makers should give up on Phillip Roth adaptations unless they can give them the necessary energy; and biting, incisive and vulgar insights that are so much a part of Roth's work.
Horton Foote has often written incisive character studies that are dramatically underpowered, and this effort by his writer-director son follows in Dad's footsteps.
This incisive take about how movies are made, directed by Vincente Minnelli, dares to go behind the scenes to show what goes on in the way the film industry operates.
Fields and Bruckman were too incisive as comics not to have done everything in this film very deliberately.
Among scholars today, on both the left and right, Schmitt is known for his incisive critique of modern liberalism.
In short, EU membership entails having to accept incisive measures that deeply affect a state’s internal affairs.
This work—which the IMF calls surveillance—needs to move from an all-encompassing approach to a more incisive analysis of specific weaknesses and distortions that create the risk of crises or hinder adjustment to globalizationtheintegration into the global economy.
In an incisive response, Michael Lind argued that Sullivan gets things backwards: the real culprit is “too little democracy.”
As author Afshin Molavi wrote in his incisive travelogue Persian Pilgrimages , Iranian youth today are not revolutionary idealists, like those of three decades ago.
In Nigeria, for example, most media companies need diligent editors, seldom publish incisive features and analysis, and struggle to compensate their staff due to lack of funding.
All through the day, her bold, incisive friendship did not spare the other those hinted suggestions intended to portray in hideous colours the danger that she was running.
But the prisoner became in a flash passionate and incisive.
Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe.
Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most inextricable mysteries.
I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by my friend's incisive reasoning.
That cold, incisive, ironical voice could belong to but one man in all the world.