Word: trenchant
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BOOKS Senator Al Gore, trenchant environmentalist...
HARVARD COMMENCEMENT guests, you are about to witness something remarkable. You may never again hear speeches as special as the ones you will hear today. Now I won't guarantee that the speakers' delivery will be especially skillful, their ideas especially trenchant or their wit especially sparkling. Hell, I won't even guarantee that they'll keep you awake...
...burden of power has added weight to his taut cheeks, sketched lines under his eyes and erased the spontaneity from his grin. The face of Carlos Salinas de Gortari recalls Mexico's ubiquitous clay masks: one side smiles, free of trenchant thought; the other is a frieze of pained contemplation. That, Nobel laureate Octavio Paz wrote in The Labyrinth of Solitude 40 years ago, is typical of his countrymen: "His face is a mask, and so is his smile...
What redeems the work in the end is the dialogue, in its acuity and trenchant wit. The levels of diction in the production, either through directorial or textual failings, are almost as numerous as the subplots, but it is hard to complain. The moments of lyricism in the play compensate. Chrissy wants to dance ballet and "other dances that tell a story, of which go-go is only a poor fascimile...
...Democrats have a big role" in the S&L crisis, he added, citing three former leaders of the House who left under ethical clouds and two current Senators facing ethics investigations. Fair enough so far. But Fitzwater then overreached in seeking to implicate Senator Robert Kerrey of Nebraska, a trenchant critic of Bush. Fitzwater offered no evidence of any wrongdoing by Kerrey, and neither has anyone else...