For Arvid, the Norwegian narrator of Petterson's incisive novel, three events twine around one another in 1989.
Mr. Meredith's main accomplishment here is in providing a many-faceted, sensibly incisive overview of events that could easily be oversimplified, and have been in earlier accounts.
The family traveled widely in support of Marshall's work, and settled in Scarsdale, New York, where Peggy held court in her spacious kitchen and at the Scarsdale pool, impressing friends with her incisive take on events of the day, her candid appraisal of people, her sage advice, puckish humor, and cultivated tastes.
The civil servant Enid Russell Smith, always an incisive analyst of events, commented in 1962 that government could draw in future on two things: parents' concern for their children, and the changes taking place in the medical profession.
Reporters directly involved in military action were believed to provide a more-incisive account of events by shedding the inevitable speculation that might surface by keeping the media at a distance.
It popped into my head back in February, when I was reading a brilliant blog by Newsnight's Paul Mason, titled Twenty reasons why it's kicking off everywhere, which remains among the most incisive analyses of this year's events.
A divisive host, Stewart's incisive analysis of news, current events, the media and the Republican party endeared him to some and infuriated other, often lampooning Donald Trump and other figures in the run up to the 2016 Presidential elections in a series of memorable sketches and parodies.
It popped into my head back in February, when I was reading a brilliant blog by BBC Newsnight's Paul Mason, titled Twenty reasons why it's kicking off everywhere, which remains among the most incisive analyses of this year's events.
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.
Yet through all this adversity, she has been able to get her message out to the public and has created a remarkable side career as an incisive commentator and writer on current events.
And what it does tell us about Jobs is more a depiction of of events rather than an incisive look at what made him the great, maddening, transformational figure he was.
