Sentence examples for incisive study from inspiring English sources

It's an engaging and incisive study that finally rescues its often scorned subject from sentiment and mimsy.

This was followed by a short, incisive, study of Henrik Ibsen (1999) and a major study, Dickens and the Popular Radical Imagination (2007).

Bazzana, the author of an incisive study of Glenn Gould, follows up with the extraordinary story of a pianist much less famous but even more eccentric, Ervin Nyiregyházi.

In 1998, she published a superb first book, "Hunger: A Novella and Stories," a taut, incisive study of Chinese immigrants in America and their almost wordless struggle to adapt to a new life.

'BLOOD AND GIFTS' J. T. Rogers's incisive study of the roots of the American involvement in Afghanistan was as dramatically engaging as it was rooted in the complex history of the region.

Mr. Schreiber's Barry is an incisive study in a subject that has since become the stuff of endless analysis: the pathology of fame, of what happens to someone who sees himself reflected and distorted in the eyes (or in this case, ears) of multitudes.

Dean R. Hoge, a prominent sociologist of American religion best known for incisive studies of an aging and dwindling Roman Catholic priesthood, died Sept. 13 Saturday in Baltimore.

Apart from giving comfort to elevator operators everywhere, To the Last City works as both a deconstruction of its genre and an incisive psychological study along the lines of A Cruel Madness.

Tiptree's own writing — along with that of Raccoona Sheldon, yet another masked marvel who was one of Alice's alter egos — is a necessary, roiling accompaniment to this coolly incisive character study.

In her first non-series novel, an incisive psychological study of two 11-year-old girls who are put away for seven years for the kidnap-killing of a 9-month-old baby, Lippman examines her disturbing subject with grave intelligence and sensitivity.

MacLeod's police procedural is a wise indictment of fundamentalism of all kinds and a stark delineation of how belief systems can corrupt, as well as being an incisive character study of a man coming to terms with the brutalities of his past.