trenchancy

Example Sentences

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This sterling production, with its flawless cast and admirable trenchancy amid an extraordinarily complex plot, augurs well for her tenure.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

And yet, directed with trenchancy and an easy grasp of its black humor by Jamie Lloyd, the production never attempts to force-feed us any relevance.

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2014

Yet he writes with a marvellous trenchancy that sometimes becomes savage indignation.

From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2010

But Gilroy's plain, familial triangle rings with insight and trenchancy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Pennell has drawn them as they are, with so much trenchancy, such assertion of their hideous decorativeness, their isolation over modern Paris, that no drawings could be better, and any others would be superfluous.

From English Book-Illustration of To-day Appreciations of the Work of Living English Illustrators With Lists of Their Books by Sketchley, Rose Esther Dorothea