| Not surprisingly, the avowedly liberal author was a trenchant critic of the decision to intervene militarily. |
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| Anyone expressing trenchant anti-monarchist views is now suspected of sympathising with Irish republicanism's most fanatical fringe. |
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| The drama has many trenchant things to say about New Labour's obsession with style over substance. |
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| Violinist Adela Pena played with a penetrating tone and trenchant musicality. |
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| Neither was his crime to be caught expressing his trenchant views, even though that was a bit stupid. |
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| In doing so, he subjects central tenets of modern economics to trenchant criticism. |
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| The interviewer was the man who at the time was regarded as the most abrasive, trenchant, incisive questioner of the time, Robin Day. |
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| A quiet and generally even tempered man, he could be and was trenchant in his criticisms as the occasion demanded. |
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| Members may recall that when the Parole Act and the Sentencing Act were first passed, there was trenchant criticism from the Court of Appeal. |
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| What makes his books so popular is that he presents what he does find in a singularly trenchant and forthright manner. |
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| However, only a few of the dozen-strong cast have the requisite style to make the parody trenchant instead of merely silly. |
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| Today, his comedies are remembered for their level of artistry, inventiveness and trenchant sarcasm. |
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| There are two vocal items, a wordless vocalise with flute and guitar and a trenchant, highly effective group of eight Haiku, a minute each. |
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| So, in the spirit of giving till it hurts, let me offer up to the least deserving of us my annual scathingly incisive yet perennially trenchant. |
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| A polygamist has to be a good fighter, so accordingly we find that the peacock is armed with trenchant spurs upon the legs. |
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| Jones provides a trenchant portrayal of a boy in desperate pursuit of his dreams. |
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| I'll just try to paint the most trenchant, funny, mediagenic sign I can. |
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| Mr President, I do not wish to delay this House too much longer, but I would like to make one trenchant point. |
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| In the first place, this concerns the fight against entrenched directors, against whom the opposition of macroeconomic theories is trenchant. |
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| Noted for her quick wit and trenchant commentary, her name has since become synonymous with Good Day, America! |
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| Much looking forward to going on with what is apparently also a trenchant and enlightening book. |
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| I don't know what you are paid to express such unreserved and trenchant views, but it surely cannot be enough. |
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| Stephen Daldry, working from Lee Hall's trenchant and witty script, displays a instinctive visual flair and cinematic understanding. |
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| Cable covered more ground than the others too, and he was more trenchant and more direct more often, while they flannelled. |
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| Ridiculed online as lame and pretentious, West's essay seems to me trenchant. |
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| She asked some really trenchant questions for all parliamentarians to ask as we consider this bill. |
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| I must needs adopt an impressionistic approach in my responses to some of the more trenchant comments that have been made. |
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| Norman continues to be a trenchant analyst of language issues, and Pat was one of the founders of Canadian Parents for French. |
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| Lincoln, who by this time had been brought back into politics by Kansas-Nebraska, became one of the trenchant critics of Douglas's theory of popular sovereignty. |
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| In often trenchant language, he criticised the proposed development for being overly-commercial and entirely unacceptable for such a sensitive area. |
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| That meant that he was always hugely popular both in the House of Lords and the House of Commons, because his criticisms, although trenchant, were never malicious. |
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| The Bill passed its first reading easily, despite trenchant criticism from radicals who were angry about interference with the freedom of refugees. |
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| We were going to say something funny and trenchant, but we were re-enacting an Irish funeral service at the pub last night, and so are in no shape to respond. |
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| Bulgarians are trenchant in their view that their country can no longer be perceived as a lawless, volatile state where every citizen is on the take. |
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| Although she usually keeps her most trenchant observations for the stage, several members of Hollywood royalty have received a memorable tongue-lashing. |
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| Typically, the Internet exploded with trenchant commentary about the leather jacket Palin wore. |
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| Moss came to admire Wasserstein and his trenchant deconstruction of his fellow power brokers. |
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| He first hit a nerve in 1996 with his trenchant bestseller The Death of Common Sense. |
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| He became a trenchant critic both of capitalism and of many aspects of socialism. |
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| Degas enjoyed society on his own terms, dining out within a trusted circle and regaling families such as Ludovic and Louise Halévy with his trenchant opinions and humorous aphorisms on art, literature, and politics. |
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| The highlight of the evening was provided by Federal Councillor Moritz Leuenberger who delivered a highly entertaining speech full of trenchant comments and charm, to the delight of our guests. |
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| It is a dispiriting narrative, mostly riveting, occasionally too laden with bureaucratese, always trenchant. |
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| Layton continued his trenchant disapprobation of the Iraq War in 2008 and introduced a successful, though largely ignored, motion to offer political asylum to U. S. Army deserters. |
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| The short entries range from campy, insidery quips to trenchant cultural observations. |
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| He was as trenchant a critic of his successors in his old age as he had been of his predecessors in his youth. |
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| His eyes, of the usual blue, were perhaps remarkably cold, and he certainly could make his glance fall on one as trenchant and heavy as an axe. |
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| The meetings would thus become more trenchant. |
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| It may be recalled that the quality of the air service between London and Strasbourg has been the subject of trenchant and frequent criticism over the years, as indeed has the general air service from other member states. |
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| Is the defendant allowed to express his views in a trenchant way? |
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| Lenin's trenchant analysis is complemented by a grudging confirmation from the other side of the class line, Wrangel's front man General A. A. Von Lampe. |
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| There are more than 60 contributors to these volumes, their offerings ranging from academic doodling to trenchant analysis of issues with roots in earlier periods but continued relevance to today's agenda. |
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| This unprecedented and intense schedule of meetings conveyed the seriousness and trenchant interest in advancing co-operative regional security in the Middle East. |
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| The Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights welcomes the work carried out by the Rapporteur of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and considers it both trenchant and innovative. |
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| However, the most trenchant criticisms have come from critical scholars. |
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| The anti-western narratives will be more trenchant and more credible, and novices will continue to join in as terrorists, suicide bombers and criminals. |
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| In his trenchant lyrics as well as in his political interventions, Matoub developed a reputation for saying what Kabyles thought in secret but felt unable to say. |
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| The syntheticism does much to nudge Pederson's project from wispiness to a more trenchant expression of uncertainty, with a surprising degree of staying power. |
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| Perhaps a more trenchant criticism is that predicting megagrowth stocks defies hard analysis or, as the author says, is largely a matter of intuition. |
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