Word: trenchant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though Bernard Shaw has called Strindberg "the only genuine Shakespeare modern dramatist," there is no need to go to the Plymouth in either a devotional or dutiful attitude. What you will see is a bitter, provocative, misogynic drama matched with a trenchant performance...
...Time for Decision. The most trenchant analysis of what is happening I heard from a one-armed, one-legged man who is leader of Germany's Social Democratic Party. Kurt Schumacher is Germany's toughest, most impassioned anti-Communist fighter. Says he: "Ever since Bismarck, resurgent nationalism in Germany has sooner or later looked toward
...beyond a story on the show here; it is one of the clearest and best and most trenchant expositions of what modern art is all about. With your reproductions (in LIFE and TIME) you are doing for art what the phonograph and radio have done in popularizing good music...
...Communist Chief Rodolfo Ghioldi, was making a strong bid for a seat as deputy from Buenos Aires. That would give him official immunity and possible relief from the police, who had dogged him ever since the 1943 revolution. It would also assure him a big pulpit for his trenchant criticism...
...labor faced up to this danger. This building up of prices continually cannot take us anywhere except to disaster." G.E.'s price cut would not let much wind out of the inflation. But Charlie Wilson, by showing the way it could be done, had made an open and trenchant appeal to business for a price cut, to labor to stand on its wage-side. Unless G.E.'s example were followed by other key industries (e.g., steel, motors, oil), Charlie Wilson's gesture would remain a gesture...