Isabel saw them come with a good deal of assiduity to her aunts hotel, and judged them with a trenchancy which is doubtless to be accounted for by the temporary exaltation of her sense of human duty. ❋ Unknown (1917)
One pleasure in the rereading of Marx is to savor the trenchancy and aptness of his literary allusions. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Pianist Lambert Orkis, violinist Nurit Bar-Josef and cellist David Hardy dug into the score with robust tone and obvious affection, turning on a dime from trenchancy to delicate wisps of sound. ❋ Post (2010)
Strange that the only text that seriously can be said to rival Shakespeare in trenchancy and power of expression should be a work primarily of religion, not literature, a compound book by many authors and, for English readers, a work of translation as well. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Elbert Ventura for Reverse Shot: With its Biblical intimations and political trenchancy, Children of Men achieves an allegorical grandeur that obliterates misgivings about narrative plausibility - you can imagine its epic journey as a pop origin myth repeated to future generations (should they come, that is). ❋ Unknown (2006)
We hope that the quality of its writing, the trenchancy of its insights, and the depth and thoughtfulness of its reporting will inspire many of our online readers to join the Atlantic family by becoming print subscribers. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The holiday really is for all Americans, though I suppose a sourpuss leftist might, with boring trenchancy, be able to interject it isn't such a fine day for Native Americans. ❋ Unknown (2007)
For Dr. Bell believed that ‘these intersections were in some way connected with, or symbolical of, the antagonistic forces at work’; but his pupil and helper, with characteristic trenchancy, brushed aside this mysticism, and interpreted the discovery as ‘a geometrical method of dividing the spaces or (as might be said) of setting out the work, purely empirical and in no way connected with any laws of either force or beauty.’ ❋ Unknown (2005)
And at the same time with such apposite trenchancy. ❋ Unknown (2003)
His generosity in reading this entire manuscript was characteristic; so was the trenchancy and penetration of his comments. ❋ 1932- (2000)
Holz states with great clearness and trenchancy what he calls his 'new principle of lyric'; one which ❋ Various (N/A)
In a serious discussion it seemed to me right to say plainly what I felt and believed; but if in doing so I have given pain, or expressed myself on any point with a too great trenchancy and confidence, please believe that I regret it very sincerely. ❋ Ward, Mrs Humphry (1918)
Such was the trenchancy and temper of his weapons that much of what he advanced has stood the test of time. ❋ Preserved Smith (1910)
From his reserved speech, shy manner, and uncommunicative patience under criticism, from the silent abruptness of his decisions, his formidable trenchancy in self-defence when openly attacked, and his aloofness from any attempts to curry favour with the Press, it may be inferred that his character was a dignified one; but he was dignified precisely in the way which makes such actions as taking a subordinate political position particularly easy. ❋ Ed (1910)
But the ardour of the disciple pressed objections home with a trenchancy that is very unlike the sage distillations of the master. ❋ Morley, John, 1838-1923 (1905)
The trenchancy with which his atheist urges his reasoning, proves that the writer was fully alive to its force. ❋ Morley, John, 1838-1923 (1905)
