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Перевод: incisive

[прилагательное]
режущий; острый; резкий; колкий; язвительный

Тезаурус:

1. For an incisive critique of much of the current consensus regarding language among analytic philosophers see G. Baker and P. M. S. Hacker, Language, Sense and Nonsense , Oxford, 1984.
2. I could well imagine her lecturing: she would be wearing a mortar-board and gown perhaps, her head on one side as she usually held it when talking; and her eyes would be twinkling, as she held forth in that clear, incisive, "educated" voice of hers.
3. Angus Maude, who had written about The Middle Classes and in 1983 was to become a life peer, lived in a nearby village, sent his children (or at least his daughters) to Banbury Grammar School and was an incisive critic of the contemporary changes in educational policy.
4. It is scarcely possible that the most incisive speaker and planner should have had to drive himself up to Newcastle for a meeting the other day - and in a car without a telephone.
5. We got two Grieg classics - Spring and I Love You - and then the Prokofiev, a delight with its roaming tonalities, its incisive sketches and its shafts of psychological insight (like the thrilling high speeded-up waltz, with music-box runs all over the place, that played in the duckling's mind as he looked at his reflection and found he was a swan).
6. His Diary , one of the most incisive and entertaining accounts of the workings of government and the foibles of politicians, is a rich illumination of national history and institutions.
7. Toshiba Divisional Championship: London 28, South-West 12 Incisive midfield sets up fine finale.
8. You'd never call the 940 incisive; it's not a car to be rushed into a direction change.
9. When he had finished the hearings quickly wound up with no incisive questioning of the last three witnesses, Shultz, Weinberger and Meese, although their tales would have been worth hearing; the committees, after all, had contracted to finish by early August, whether or not the full story had been told.
10. The emphasis on athleticism, power play, sustained long-ball assaults, blitzkrieg, has bred a proliferation of muscular but blunderingly naive defenders who appear to be alarmingly, untidily vulnerable when required to cope with more subtle forms of attack; show them dribblers, runners with the ball or an incisive exchange of sharp passes, and panic sets in.
11. But even this pales slightly in the face of Walton conducting, in the same series, the first-ever recorded version of Belshazzar's Feast, featuring Dennis Noble as the incisive soloist, a wartime set that caused a sensation at the time.
12. Some new measures had, of course, been necessary, but on the whole changes brought about by the war were less incisive than they had been in 1914.
13. The latter gains its incisive bite from a performance by Peter Sellers as the Machiavellian union chief Fred Kite, but too many of the other Boulting films take facile swipes at absent-minded professors or barristers, and ignorant, lazy bureaucrats.