Both Uses of
incisive
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- She had risked it, but her brother gave her such a terribly incisive look—a look so like a surgeon's lancet—that she was frightened at her courage.†
Chpt 19 *
- After her brother had delivered himself, on his return from Europe, of that incisive little address that has been quoted, Morris's cause seemed so hopeless that Mrs. Penniman fixed her attention exclusively upon the latter branch of her argument.†
Chpt 28
Definition:
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(incisive) direct, clear, and sharp in thinking or expression -- often indicating a decisive person (makes decisions quickly) or a penetrating mind