The phrase "incisive essay" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an essay that is clear, sharp, and effectively communicates its points.
Example: "Her incisive essay on climate change challenged many preconceived notions and sparked important discussions."
Alternatives: "sharp essay" or "penetrating essay".
Her argument has the makings of a tight, incisive essay.
In an incisive essay published last week in the London Review of Books, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, a journalist with the Guardian, described the continued atomization of the Syrian opposition.
Read Byrne's incisive essay over on The Guardian.
In The Washington Post, sociologist David Meyer has an incisive essay asking why, if Americans are so angry about their political system, are they not protesting?
Charts Sri Lanka's journey from whipping boys to world champions with incisive essays from an all-star cast of cricketing brains.
Other European heirs to this tradition of the essay include Stefan Zweig and Hugo von Hofmannsthal in Austria and Thomas Mann and Bertolt Brecht in Germany; their sprightly and incisive essays on the arts can be traced to the 19th century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer.
Among the most incisive essays, Brian Leiter's excellent piece on "cyber-cesspools" suggests persuasively that victims of malicious reputation damage ought to be able to appeal to a "Google panel" to have those search results deleted.
You may have read Lincoln Michel's writing on this site before, but those engaging and incisive essays are just the tip of the literary iceberg for this guy, who is the online editor at Electric Literature and whose outstanding debut collection Upright Beasts comes out October 13 from Coffee House Books.
Anaïs (Anaïs Reboux), the title character of Catherine Breillat's incisive sexual essay "Fat Girl," is a fiercely intelligent, overweight 12-year-old loner who hides out from the world, absorbing its bitter truths from inside the self-protective envelope of her own billowing flesh.
All 17 volumes of the "Selected Writings," which consist entirely of cut-and-pasted quotations from philosophy books, are displayed without much commentary; that's been relegated to the catalog, where an incisive and sad essay by John Kelsey describes these texts as "the autobiography of a disappearing artist and the final means by which he controls and completes this act".
It was complicated by Kennan's tendency to defend on occasion each side of the issue — leading to incisive and quite unsentimental essays and diary entries analyzing the global balance of power, followed by comparable reflections questioning the morality of practicing traditional power politics in the nuclear age.
