On Tuesday the nation's fretful, hopeful voters will finally have their say, and none of the rigorously calibrated polls or demographically incisive analysts out there can tell us with any certainty what will happen.
It was a baptism of fire, for, at that point in the early 1970s, the violence was escalating by the day, but despite his lack of formal journalistic training, Dunseith quickly emerged as a shrewd observer of events and an incisive political analyst.
Special praise goes to Dan Balz, the best, most level-headed, incisive political reporter and analyst in newspapers.
As an analyst, he is incisive and cocky, well satisfied that all his predictions will, or have, come true.
A brilliantly incisive analysis.
Petty serves as a laconically compelling narrator, the Heartbreakers (especially an incisive Benmont Tench and a drily bitter Stan Lynch) chip in like color analysts, and the music speaks for itself, a staggering string of one masterful pop song after another.
Another, for beat reporting, went to Gretchen Morgenson of The Times "for her trenchant and incisive Wall Street coverage," which focused in part on the business conflicts of financial analysts and the firms that employ them, which receive investment banking fees from the companies the analysts cover.
The Code of Codes comprises incisive essays by stellar figures in a variety of fields, including James D. Watson and Walter Gilbert and the social analysts of science Dorothy Nelkin and Evelyn Fox Keller.
He offers unadulterated praise for Barack Obama -- but as usual and beyond the issue of his endorsement, Brzezinski's incisive intellect, analysis and wit penetrate to the core many fundamental realities that DC pundits and news commentators and analysts rarely get to.
