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Her incisive questions quickly revealed the weaknesses in their argument.incisive = clear and sharp
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The journalist’s incisive writing made complex political issues easy to understand.
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How can she be so brilliantly incisive on one page and so infuriatingly obtuse on the next?
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There was no way I was going to break first—and give Fang the satisfaction? I don't think so. But I did have an obligation, as leader, to take care of Nudge. As much as I hated to stop and lose time, it was a reality. "Okay, okay. We need food." How's that for incisive leadership? (source)incisive = decisive, direct and clear
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His face glowed with fierce pride and his head nodded wildly—the nod beginning from the waist and including the entire upper portion of his body, with the beard moving back and forth against his chest—each time he was forced to acquiesce to Danny's rendition of a passage or to Danny's incisive counter-questioning. (source)incisive = penetrating, clear, and sharp
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The pattern was a little changed; the incisiveness of alarm had receded, but the bewilderment and distress were still overwhelming. (source)incisiveness = sharpness
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It still had the southern richness of tone, but it had become suddenly more clear cut and incisive. (source)incisive = penetrating
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he made the cut-off sign, sharply, incisively. (source)incisively = clearly or sharply
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And now, with typical leaderly incisiveness, I put two and six together and came up with one single question that would get right to the crucial heart of the matter.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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Her eyes were olive-green—incisive and clear.† (source)
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See, that was me, sort of incisively singled out, living in a state of pause and stocktaking, twenty years old and stupider than my fellows and desperate to find a place for myself.† (source)incisively = in a manner that is direct, clear, and sharp
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"Miss Tulliver," he said, with bitter incisiveness, "has the only grounds of rank that anything but vulgar folly can suppose to belong to the middle class; she is thoroughly refined, and her friends, whatever else they may be, are respected for irreproachable honor and integrity.† (source)
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Go gave me her amused face, both elbows on the bar, hands cradling chin, hunkering down for an incisive dissection of my marriage.† (source)
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"Miss Bart remains here," his wife rejoined incisively.† (source)
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By the third time he heard it, however, he had seen Crispy Pork Rinds, and though he didn't read all that well, understood clearly his role as the target of Sarah Byrnes's and my incisive journalistic focus.† (source)
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LISE (choking with anger): But— CYRANO (incisively): I like Ragueneau well, and so—mark me, Dame Lise—I permit not that he be rendered a laughing-stock by any... LISE: But... CYRANO (who has raised his voice so as to be heard by the gallant): A word to the wise... (He bows to the musketeer, and goes to the doorway to watch, after looking at the clock.)† (source)
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