Word: trenchant
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...usual, songwriting Guru Dave Faulkner focuses his trenchant lyrics, on faithless girlfriends and confused, desperate men, but with a venom unfelt on the band's two previous albums. The song titles alone--for example, "Out That Door," "What's My Scene," "I Was the One," "Hell for Leather," and "In the Middle of the Land"--spell out these feelings...
...special commentator for ABC, Kissinger composes a newspaper column every month for the Los Angeles Times syndicate. While the column, carried by the Washington Post, is vintage Kissinger in its grand sweep and magisterial voice, his careful avoidance of direct criticism of the Administration has made it less trenchant -- and less influential -- than it might otherwise be. It all adds up to a life that is both lucrative and satisfying. Still, he says, "I would put national service above business, as a general proposition -- if it is important." Then he laughs: "I don't want to sound like...
...some Washington press watchers, the man and the magazine seemed to have little in common. Shelby Coffey III made his name at the Washington Post as editor of the paper's Style section, noted for its trenchant, sometimes biting features. U.S. News & World Report, by contrast, has been a sober, conservative weekly that prides itself on a straightforward approach to events. But to Mortimer Zuckerman, the wealthy real estate investor who bought the magazine last June for $182 million, Coffey is "an ace and a treasure-house of ideas." Last week Zuckerman named Coffey, 38, as the new editor...
...country were tilted, all the loose nuts and bolts would tumble down here. "I don't know whether I would like to know my neighbors here," Ernest T. Emery wondered in 1905. "I don't like the way some of them act." (Emery's and other trenchant observations employed in this account repose in a fine collection by Bruce Henstell called Los Angeles, an Illustrated History.) There is to this day a certain nuttiness to the place; it is as if the mentally unwrapped in every other state got together once a year, chose the wildest card...
Some of the most trenchant criticism levelled at President Reagan appeared in a New York Times book review two months ago. Assessing a collection of modern humor Roy Blount's review strayed into musings on the political circus...