As a former journalist and now a film-maker telling a story of this importance that has entered the zeitgeist in such a profound way, I wanted to simply tell a story in the most incisive and fair way possible.
But Mead rushes away from her most incisive thoughts — about the way wedding photos, propped up on office and living-room walls, serve as a kind of advertising campaign for the marriage in question, about how weddings became splashier and more expensive just as no-fault divorce made marriage a less secure proposition than ever before.
Mr. Franzen's whole mode of being — the way he mostly runs silent and deep, issuing a novel every 10 years or so, refusing to embrace social media — was already his most incisive possible rebuke to the way he suspects so many of us live now.
Just before McCain entered the White House, he stared blankly at a young Treasury aide and inquired, "What do I need to know about this meeting?" In "Game Change," Obama emerges as the most incisive, most disciplined and, in important ways, most conservative of all the contenders.
In fact, the book's most incisive chapter, and the most moving in its way, is "A Self-Made Woman," which recounts Hellman's financial history.
The most incisive ensemble?
The most incisive move of the game so far.
This was not the most incisive or tautly structured performance.
Anderson is not the most incisive then, nor the most influential, nor the most parsimonious.
One of the most incisive assessments of Professor Young's professional skill came, fittingly, orally.
