incisiveness

• “In a forthcoming article (November 11, 2010) in the New York Review of Books, Diane Ravitch, the eminent educator, critiques the movie Waiting for 'Superman', which she deconstructed with her usual incisiveness and profound knowledge of the history of recent educational "reforms.”

  The Huffington Post: Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: Who's Listening?

• “From an England perspective,Wood,Palmer and Flood certainly impressed but the game overall was very poor fare,littered with basic errors on both sides and utterly lacking the sort of dynamism and incisiveness we have come to expect from the southern hemisphere sides..”

  The Guardian: Wales v England: five things we learned from Six Nations 2011 opener

• “The main question was whether the visitors would still have the same confident incisiveness when they returned from the dressing room.”

  The Guardian: Montenegro 2-2 England | Euro 2012 Group G qualifier match report

• “There would be a knockdown from Adam's diagonal ball which led to a shot from Suárez that skimmed past the right-hand post, followed by an attempted shot from the Uruguayan's angled pass that was foiled at source by Hangeland's crunching block, but Carroll never really brought his strength and weight to bear on the match with any sort of consistency or incisiveness.”

  The Guardian: Andy Carroll's ineffectiveness adds to Liverpool frustration at Fulham | Richard Williams

• “And, whether we admit it or not, we also value incisiveness.”

  Discourse.net: Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots)

• “Neo-Classical incisiveness, as opposed to Romantic fluidity, sometimes with exotic and erotic overtones, is announced by Ingres's exquisitely refined pencil portraits, including one related to his forceful painting of the publisher Louis-François Bertin.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Drawn to Revolution

• “They relished the chance to see him in a red shirt once more even though they accepted his incisiveness had diminished.”

  The Guardian: Thierry Henry's second coming gets to the heart of the matter | Rob Bagchi

• “Shaun Wright-Phillips then found himself in a similar position as QPR finally showed some incisiveness; the winger steered his shot on target but David Martin saved.”

  The Guardian: Queens Park Rangers 1-0 MK Dons | FA Cup third-round replay match report

• “Their spirit was strong for a while but the necessary incisiveness was lacking.”

  The Guardian: Manchester United 3-0 Tottenham Hotspur | Premier League match report

• “In her book about the controversy, Kathleen Flake artfully recounts the ways that Mormons responded to the eruption of hostility, and she describes with incisiveness the fault lines that the hearings revealed within the Mormon community and American society at large.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Five Best: Samuel Morris Brown

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