The film is not an encyclopedic history or a thumbnail overview of France's current-day social conflicts; it's a film of experience and of reflection, and its first-person narratives and anecdotes are matched by vigorous and incisive discussions of ideas, observations of a diagnostic and analytical bent.
More than 2,000 people have filled up the historic Manhattan Center with our biggest hackathon and Startup Alley yet, and a set of incisive discussions with tech leaders.
The contributors offer incisive discussions of topics ranging from desire, identity, justice, and kinship to love, race, and religion that suggest new directions for the understanding of gender studies.
The statement distributed at the news conference said General Musharraf had met with top cabinet and security officials today for fours hours of "incisive discussion," after a similarly long meeting on Friday with the country's top generals.
In this heartfelt, incisive 1993 discussion of Cassavetes by one of his crucial collaborators, Peter Falk — who acted under his direction in "Husbands" and "A Woman Under the Influence" and with him in "Mikey and Nicky," directed by Elaine May — goes into some of the particulars of the convergence of his art and his life.
But with its repetition of population myths and important omissions, and Haberman's failure to produce an incisive, realistic discussion of solving the current and evolving horrors of overpopulation, the piece has only drawn awareness to the declining quality of the "news" that The New York Times sees fit to print.
The book is most incisive in its discussion of swimming pools as what one editorialist called "one of the touchiest problems in race relations".
There she was extremely active in social, cultural and intellectual activities, and she served on many committees, primarily those related to health issues, always adding her incisive comments to discussion.
PAUL ARMENTANO Vallejo, Calif., Dec. 14, 2011 The writer is the deputy director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws and co-author of the book "Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink?" I congratulate Mr. Evans for his incisive and insightful discussion of the medical marijuana issue.
Andersen's incisive, wide-ranging discussion of the film clips seen there is an exemplary contribution to scholarship and, for that matter, the politics of culture, and I'd like to see the law say so and set it free, along with other such works of commentary on the audio-visual realm.
Recently Ian Hacking (1999, chapter 3) has provided an incisive and interesting discussion of the issues that divide the constructivists (Collins, Pickering, etc).
