The production combines fine individual performances - Joseph Mydell's Jaques is a vividly pompous poseur who savours his melancholy; Paul Chahidi is an incisive, audience-baiting Touchstone - with a strong sense of company: at the start, the whole cast assembles beneath the huge pine that dominates Rae Smith's set, for a snowy rendition of "Under the Greenwood Tree".
All of this is a way to say: I interviewed Gary Johnson for a few minutes before he addressed the NYU audience, but it wasn't a very hard-hitting or incisive interview, because I like the guy and have no idea how to talk to a candidate who you (mostly) agree with.
Literary audiences are notoriously incisive.
And while Mr. Ceylan shares the Russian playwright's tolerant and incisive sense of human frailty, film audiences may notice another spirit hovering over the film, that of the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami.
Rich cites his incisive wit, Bob adds that younger audiences on cable skew left.
Mr. Camilo has made one hard-to-find album for a Japanese label, but his music - with its cross-cultural drive, incisive melodies and bravura technique - makes American audiences roar approval.
Fran Unsworth, director of BBC News, said: "Eddie has delivered outstanding journalism and created a real bond with the audience through his mixture of warmth, incisive questioning and knowing when to listen in order to get the very best out of his guests.
Audiences had heard her as an incisive violinist with the American Contemporary Music Ensemble.
He was a sharp, incisive speaker who loved to shine and dominate his audience.
(Rachel Kalish and Michael Kimmel's concept of the "aggrieved entitlement" of some white men has been especially incisive and illuminating, and deserving of a much wider audience).
Always intelligent and incisive, he's one of those rare actors who hold the audience's attention with everything they say — Jimmy Cagney and Edward G. Robinson had that gift, too — and whenever he shows up in this elaborate caper film he brings the show to life.
