So spare me, if you please, the hero's sharply intelligent blue eyes and outthrust determined chin; likewise the heroine's arrogant cheek-bones.

Last year our reviewer, Margot Livesey, admired Murr's "dark energy, his sharply intelligent prose, his genius for the unexpected."

They were sharply intelligent.

Publishers Weekly described the novel as "Spirited and sharply intelligent".

The eyes fixed brightly upon Cadfael's face were sharply intelligent.

Peter Finch and Glenda Jackson star as a homosexual doctor and a sharply intelligent woman in her 30's who share the same lover (Murray Head).

Interestingly, Mr. Taylor also contributed an essay to the catalog for "Black Male," a show that he found "sharply intelligent" at the time.

The Aedui leader was sharply intelligent and Julius could feel the man's cool assessment of him right to the end.

Cheerful, sharply intelligent and pleasant looking, he was the picture of the popular M.P. among his people.

In 1998 our reviewer, Valerie Sayers, called this a "charming and sharply intelligent" memoir "full of a generous interest in the life beyond the self."