It is an excellent debut, crisply written and full of dark observations on the fragility of worldly success.

Their military dispatches were crisply written in unadorned English.

Each crisply written scene seems to play out for an extra squirming beat or two.

He has given us a superbly reported, crisply written work.

"An extensively researched, crisply written book" about the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

He also efficiently camouflages the saggy little portions in both the halves of his movie with crisply written dialogues.

The result is a "crisply written, often entertaining" chronicle, David A. Hollinger wrote in these pages last year.

But at the same time they show a deep influence of the crisply written English pop made by Squeeze and Elvis Costello.

The novel is crisply written, economically constructed and so inventive that you read without a clue as to what anyone will say or do next.

And the movie, which is crisply written and luminously acted, gets lost.