- a cutting wind.
- a stabbing pain.
- an acute observer of politics and politicians.
- as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang.
- frequent penetrative observations.
- icy knifelike reasoning.
- incisive comments.
- keen winds.
- knifelike cold.
- lancinating pain.
- penetrating insight.
- piercing cold.
- piercing criticism.
- piercing knifelike pains.