Sentence examples for sharp decisive from inspiring English sources

We hear Dr. Taylor's absorbing account of her stroke from the 18 dancers, who narrate it in shifting groups, their physical vocabulary alternating between sharp, decisive gestures and flowing, expansive phrases suggesting the doctor's dislocated hemispheres.

Asked about the author's state of mind, Sentell says that "other than some mobility issues, she is sharp, decisive and in charge".

"Warm words from Ed Davey have to be matched by sharp and decisive action," Mr Cash said.

In fact, they said, it obscured a sharp and decisive business intelligence.

While the latter scene is as sharp and decisive as an execution shot, some of the more self-consciously expository passages drag on painfully like a botched strangulation.

But by September, in what Mr. Beisner calls a "sharp and decisive turn," he joined the growing bipartisan consensus that Stalin had to be resisted rather than accommodated.

What makes her a role model is her ability to double as feminine, yet sharp and decisive to get what she wants.

"Deborah has a sharp and decisive sensibility, and is very attentive to music, about which she is passionate, almost possessive," the Brazilian singer-songwriter Caetano Veloso, long an admirer of her work, said in a telephone interview from Rio. "Her work is poetic, but never in a diaphanous or ethereal way.

But he marshalled his troops with characteristic authority in the field and was sharp and decisive behind the stumps.

Forces combined, with El Alagui a frustrating figure in attack - never quite sharp or decisive enough to breach Falkirk's defiance - and strike partner Jason Cummings drifted into obscurity.

Mr Valls has given the government a sharper, more decisive tone.