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.
“There’s a deep hunger born of this trenchant dissatisfaction and disillusionment with what has been handed to the younger generation, and I think they’re just raising their gaze to higher things.”
From New York Times
It was in documentaries that viewers discovered the most trenchant critiques.
From Washington Post
The range of Scharf’s work is intriguing — beyond his familiar cartoon-junkyard aesthetic, paintings from a dark period in his life have echoes of trenchant Surrealists like Yves Tanguy.
From New York Times
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