trenchant
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The artist’s infamously aggressive manner and trenchant theoretical pronouncements, captured here by actors in video and audio recordings, were at odds with the lyrical effects of his best work, and would color his critical fortunes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Since becoming the first US-born pope a year ago this week, Leo XIV's measured style has given way to a trenchant tone in an ongoing confrontation with US President Donald Trump.
From Barron's ● May 6, 2026
Perhaps this nihilism will prove too trenchant and reactive for some viewers.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2025
The humor is more direct — Barron can be very funny — but the debate is less trenchant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2025
Yet it is well to remember that the abrupt and trenchant separations which popular practice loves are overridden to a deeper view by an essential unity of idea, reducing them to indifference.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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