trenchant
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While the film follows the play’s text closely, Mr. Sorkin’s screenplay is tauter, more trenchant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Starting next week, the Surge is going to look different: sleeker and fresher but still phenomenally trenchant.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
David Hockney, who has died aged 88, was Britain's favourite artist - and a man of trenchant views, expressed in the broadest of Yorkshire vowels.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
Sonically dynamic and unapologetically trenchant, “Arirang” took me on a journey by asserting BTS’ collective powers as mature artists and master storytellers, and I couldn’t help but be inspired.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026
As a dramatist Strindberg's chief strength lies not so much in dramatic technique as it does in his trenchant and searching power of analysis of the human mind.
From Contemporary One-Act Plays by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
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