Every gesture in these works came across as pared-down and essential, at least in these incisive, brilliant and beautiful performances.
Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Fourth Estate, £20 Over 13 years, Ifemelu has built up a solid life in the US, not least because of her incisive, witty blog about matters of race and culture.
I cannot say that he's a naturally incisive or trenchant interviewer, at least on the evidence of the reviewed performance.
At least he held the tempo true and played with incisive attack until the hard-driving final section, which came off as a din of cluster chords and was something of a mess.
On her 2007 Handel disc Ms. de Niese's collaborators, William Christie and Les Arts Florissants, were at least unafraid to turn up the heat, pushing her toward incisive delivery.
It was unhelpful, to say the least, towards survivors who wanted to return afterwards.Ms Pick is equally incisive in describing how post-war Austria came to adopt the mantle of victimhood.
Pearce could reflect on at least four presentable opportunities in the opening half, with Kiki Musampa having his most incisive game since joining the club and Shaun Wright-Phillips frequently panicking Queudrue.
What the ad campaign for "Zohan" does not emphasize is that the film also attempts to satirize the continuing tensions between Israel and its Arab neighbors, and provide humorous commentary on one of the least funny topics of modern times with a comedian who is not exactly known for incisive political wit.
In four two-hour evening sessions, he provided an incisive, moving narrative of Parker's incandescent career, but he could also be oppressive, not least with his pointless occasional class "surveys".
Malcolm is so effortlessly incisive a writer that any of her subjects is liable to feel cut, but she at least seems fascinated by the book's deep contradictions – and she does call it "extraordinary", although maybe not exactly in the laudatory sense of the word.
