trenchancy

All the other films in the collection are rich in wit, emotional tumult and philosophical trenchancy.

But in this most restless and despairing symphony of the Mahler cycle, Alsop chose cogency over trenchancy much of the time.

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.

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.

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