trenchant
Example Sentences
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When Mr. Hart discusses commanders and strategy his views are typically trenchant and insightful.
But it’s consistently appealing, underpinned by fluent Broadway pop-rock melodies that, importantly, never overwhelm the lyrics, which are trenchant and clever.
She draws out themes that feel as trenchant as ever, especially the essential truth that bodies, in all their mysterious and unruly ways, cannot be controlled, not by ourselves and not by others.
From Los Angeles Times
The Poetry prize was awarded to Dionne Brand for “Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems” a collection which displays “Brand’s ongoing body of thought—trenchant, lyrical, absonant, discordant, and meaning-making,” according to the judges’ citation.
From Los Angeles Times
Through these post-mortems, Parks is asking trenchant questions about how we memorialize Black bodies.
From New York Times
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