"Incisiveness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... querulous incisiveness, "it is quite out of the question. Do I look like a man who could reasonably be expected to undertake anything of ...
— The Greater Power • Harold Bindloss
... the page and pointed to it:—"Isaac Runciman," clear and unmistakable. Incisiveness was a duty now. Said she, deliberately:—"Why is this forged letter signed with your grandfather's name?" A pause, with only a sort of puzzled moan in answer. "I will tell you, and you will have to hear it. Because it was forged by your father, fifty years ago." Again a pause; not so much as ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan
... is to place before his audience facts, reasons, and logical conclusions. He will not tolerate romantic emotions or sentimentalism, which he ridicules with a reckless audacity, a literal incisiveness, and a satiric wit that none of his contemporaries can excel. His chief claim to his present important position among playwrights is based on his originality and fearlessness of thought, the unfailing sprightliness of his conversation, the infectious spirit of raillery ...
— Halleck's New English Literature • Reuben P. Halleck |
