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Перевод: incisive
[прилагательное] режущий; острый; резкий; колкий; язвительный
Тезаурус:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- Toshiba Divisional Championship: London 28, South-West 12 Incisive midfield sets up fine finale.
- You'd never call the 940 incisive; it's not a car to be rushed into a direction change.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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