His language is far too tart, incisive and economical for that.
As Lohrey says, there are too many incisive moments in this collection to feel comfortable naming a few.
However, like this production as a whole, which is clean and correct but too infrequently incisive, even Falstaff could use a shot of vitality.
Accompanists are capable of epiphanies, too: Blier's incisive way with rhythm tied together his madly eclectic Spanish program, which he illustrated with charming, edifying patter from the stage.
But the play, at Here in the South Village, is far too ragged to be incisive or even satirically sharp.
Even those who brave the progress bar find too often that urgent, incisive findings about poverty, health, discrimination, conflict or social change are presented in prose written by and for high-level experts, rendering it impenetrable to almost everyone else.
Virginia Woolf and Ernest Hemingway are literature's showiest party-throwers but this Californian party has form too. Patchett is light, incisive and all-seeing.
Critics of the government's economic program have complained that it is too tax-heavy and not incisive enough when it comes to cuts to public spending.
That scene comes to mind in the middle of "Urban Transition: Loose Blossoms," Ron Milner's intelligent, incisive and all too believable new play about a black family in crisis.
Elsewhere she is incisive and thoughtful too, even if the two earliest works here, Op 2 no 2 and Op 10 no 1, demand a certain lightness of touch that they don't quite get – the flurries and flourishes sound like collections of notes rather than single, self-propelling gestures.
