Sample Sentences for
incisive
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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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    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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    he made the cut-off sign, sharply, incisively.  (source)
    incisively = clearly or sharply
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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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    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)
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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
    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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    Always before, Staff had ended on an incisive air.†  (source)
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    "Miss Bart remains here," his wife rejoined incisively.†  (source)
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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)
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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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    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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    All the Finches had straight incisive eyebrows and heavy-lidded eyes; when they looked slant-wise, up, or straight ahead, a disinterested observer would catch a glimpse of what May-comb called Family Resemblance.†  (source)
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    Zeena, apparently accepting this as final, lay watching him in silence while he pulled his suspenders over his shoulders and jerked his arms into his coat; but as he went toward the door she said, suddenly and incisively: "I guess you're always late, now you shave every morning."†  (source)
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