Example sentences for: incisive

How can you use “incisive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Richard Romley, the district attorney for Maricopa County ( which includes metropolitan Phoenix), was perhaps the most incisive of those who testified before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing early this month.

  • I want to say it's incisive, but I have too many problems with its psychological elisions to let it off the hook."

  • In this sober, incisive, and riveting book, a well-documented history rather than a novelistic evocation of the man himself, Roudinesco cannot conceal her dismay that Lacan was not better behaved, more temperate in his appetites, less baroque in his provocations.

  • Fifteen years ago, Sidney Blumenthal, now a top adviser to President Clinton, wrote an incisive piece for the New Republic examining why then-President Ronald Reagan's frequent factual misstatements hadn't made him as unpopular as Richard Nixon or Jimmy Carter.

  • Perhaps the most incisive of the advisors on terrorism to the new administration was the holdover Richard Clarke.


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