He spoke with the crisp incisiveness of a master, but for once his subject did not immediately respond.

He will not tolerate romantic emotions or sentimentalism, which he ridicules with a reckless audacity, a literal incisiveness, and a satiric wit that none of his contemporaries can excel.

The loves of the peasant youth and the aristocratic girl, traversed and agitated by their overweening pride, and triumphing at last rather over themselves than over each otherthese things make up a gladiatorial combat of 'espagnolismes,' which is displayed to the reader with a supreme incisiveness.