They were impressed with his easy manner and incisive knowledge of players, where they came from and their abilities.
He blended the most personal type of visionary mysticism with an incisive humour in a manner reminiscent of Kierkegaard.
Yet "despite its shortcomings, this smart, caustic movie is easily the most incisive and realistic comedy of manners to emerge from Hollywood in quite a while, and that's saying a lot".
Yet despite its shortcomings, this smart, caustic movie is easily the most incisive and realistic comedy of manners to emerge from Hollywood in quite a while, and that's saying a lot.
Throngs of reporters, American and, for what is usually the first and only time in the football season, foreign, descend on the Super Bowl site—Indianapolis this year to ask all manner of inane or incisive questions that, on balance, pertain to football and the two involved teams.
But his mind was sharp and clear and he was certainly the intellectual equal of Iain Macleod, his friend and rival, whose rebarbative manner made him seem more incisive.
It captures something of Tallchief's burningly incisive éclat (so unlike Ms. Farrell's grandly, wittily remote manner); it makes us feel the gap Tallchief left behind her (though I never saw her dance, I know the film of her "Pas de Dix" performance); and it establishes an enduring character of its own, a brightly palatial, Hungarian-flavored theme-and-variations treatment of medieval chivalry.
The key to the match probably lies in the manner they are tackled but Sri Lanka also have genuinely incisive pacemen in Lasith Malinga and Nuwan Kulasekara, the world's top-ranked one-day bowler.
But the manner of this defeat, with Stoke always looking more incisive and Newcastle managing just one shot on target, will do little to reduce the negativity he will face ahead of Saturday's trip to Swansea.
She writes self-consciously in the tradition of Jane Austen and George Eliot, and while her book has all the incisive psychology and tribal observation of a classic novel of manners, it lacks those writers' profound social critique.
