The clear, decided, incisive manner commanded her respect, while the sunny gayety won her liking.

He was a very staunch and fearless friend, an able and incisive writer, and remarkably energetic and diligent in astronomical investigations.

"And you know," said Hilda, speaking very frigidly and with even more than her usual incisive clearness of articulation, "it's not your property.

strong, energetic, forcible, active; intense, deep-dyed, severe, keen, vivid, sharp, acute, incisive, trenchant, brisk.

Hardy, who was in an evil temper, pitched it on to the floor and, with a few incisive remarks on levity unbecoming to age, pursued his duties in gloomy silence.

He envied the ease with which Beauclerk brought out his sly incisive retorts.

And so it went, sharp, incisive, plain-spokenwords that were hot brands and burned.

"Then, sir, in case of her sudden return, you ask an agent?" said a keen, clear, and incisive voice, which had not yet been heard.

His language is racy and incisive, and he talks as neatly as he writes.

one man's voice, harsh, incisive, agitated, could be heard above all the others.

In Sir John Davis' own neat and incisive words, "The natives seemed not unsatisfied in reason, though they remained in their passions discontented, being grieved to leave their possessions to strangers, which they had so long after their manner enjoyed.

As time went on, his replies to Congress grew shorter and more incisive.

The record of several consecutive centuries is graven deep in it by the brand and bayonet, and by the more incisive teeth-marks of hate.

The incisive voice of my mother-in-law sounded from the door of her room.

"Boys," said he, in his quick, incisive tones, "don't eat any more, 'twill make you sick, stow it away in your haversacks."

What dilettante has not felt the power of a more incisive attack of the note; of that prolongation of the note, held imperceptibly, which, having captured it, holds the attention of the listener?

Then he flung a firm, incisive, accentuated note into the midst of the choir, vivid as a spark bursting from a fire covered with ashes.

I had expected something incisive and clear-cut about him, but he was conspicuously gentle, and even deprecating in manner.

And so the man who sets to work like Fitzherbert loses his alertness and his observation, with the result that instead of bringing a very fresh and incisive mind to bear on life, he loses his way in books, and falls a victim to the awful passion for feeling able to despise other people's opinions.

The Master's voice was cold, incisive.

Let us be instant, be incisive with our resolution, that peace may not be the mother of another war, and our own victory rout ourselves.

Perhaps this characterization is most noticeable in "Counterparts," which she called her small party of opposing temperaments: Salome, so gracious; Rose, like the spirit of a sunbeam; Sarona, so keen and incisive, his passion confronting Bernard's sweetness; and Cecilia, who, it is easy to conjecture, wrote the book.

He too is a skeptic and an idol-breaker; but his is a kindlier irony, a less incisive philosophy.

His personality was so incisive that probably few were in any close or long contact with him without a good rasping now and then.

Then his incisive voice mellowed suddenly.