The work was absorbing, and he'd thrown himself into it with the cool, incisive intelligence that he also used to govern his personal life.

To read Moynihan's earlier writings is to encounter an incisive intelligence and a fine, mandarin style (now sadly dissolved into a kind of self-absorbed baroque).

Matthew pictured his father's mild, ascetic face with its incisive intelligence, and the honesty that was so clear it was sometimes almost childlike.

And they are products of an incisive and dogmatic intelligence and a belief that it was possible to bury European art forever.

He earned the admiration of his peers for his high integrity and incisive intelligence.

Elrington Ball described him as a man who combined great wit with incisive intelligence and a knowledge of the world.

He had incisive intelligence and great knowledge and ability.

Michael Alexander writes that, as a translator, Pound was a pioneer with a great gift of language and an incisive intelligence.

Nor had it affected his sharp, incisive intelligence.

A quiet man, with an incisive, quick intelligence, she thought.