"Incisiveness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... through by this afternoon. There isn't any more to show you." Clark spoke with a certain quick incisiveness and his eyes seemed ...
— The Rapids • Alan Sullivan
... Rudolph Musgrave had not been contented to be just a Musgrave of Matocton.... Well, it was too late now. He viewed his whole life now, in epitome, and much as you may see at night the hackneyed vista from your window leap to incisiveness under the lash of lightning. No, the life of Rudolph Musgrave had never risen to the plane of dignity, not even to that of seeming to Rudolph Musgrave a connected and really important transaction on Rudolph Musgrave's part. Yet Lichfield, none the better for Rudolph ...
— The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck - A Comedy of Limitations • James Branch Cabell
... cleric out of the gangway, and before he could speak in the next room, the girl was talking with strange incisiveness. ...
— The Innocence of Father Brown • G. K. Chesterton |
