Keenness and forcefulness of thought or expression or intellect.
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Examples for "incisiveness "
Examples for "incisiveness "
1 Next, a resonant bass voice said with a sort of indolent incisiveness :
2 Today, the power, incisiveness and passion of Engels's polemic remain undiminished.
3 The balanced incisiveness of the tale seems almost anthropological, though infused with story.
4 It took Arsene Wenger's team much of the afternoon to rediscover their incisiveness .
5 He realized again her clean-cut, finished daintiness, the incisiveness of voice and feature.
1 However, she scarcely expressed her disapproval aloud with her usual trenchancy .
2 In it the farmers' representative expressed herself with the trenchancy we have come to associate with that lobby.
3 No zeal, no faith, no intellectual trenchancy , but as much low-minded geniality and trivial complaisance as you please.
4 Such was the trenchancy and temper of his weapons that much of what he advanced has stood the test of time.
5 But the ardour of the disciple pressed objections home with a trenchancy that is very unlike the sage distillations of the master.
6 Then, almost immediately, she began to chatter to Margaret French about the sights of the lagoon, with her natural trenchancy and fun.
7 Mrs. Elsmere was old enough to know what importance to attach to the trenchancy of eighteen, but still the words were pleasant to her.
8 And even if he could, one little thing that happened to me could never happen to him, or not with the same trenchancy of contrast.
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