Word: trenchant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...continent, and particularly toward the treacherous problems of southern Africa, has come under attack. "Our foreign policy as it applies to Africa is in total shambles," says Illinois Congressman Edward Derwinski of the House International Relations Committee. "As usual, it's too little too late." In a trenchant editorial on the President's Lagos speech, the Washington Post accused Carter of succumbing to Nigeria's "uncomplicated fervor" for a guerrilla victory by the Patriotic Front forces, headed by Joshua Nkomo of Z.A.P.U. (Zimbabwe African People's Union) and Robert Mugabe of Z.A.N.U. (Zimbabwe African National Union...
With this soon-to-be-published study, Harvard Sociology professor Orlando Patterson jumps into the ethnicity fray with both feet forward. To the unmasking of the neo-conservatism of the new ethnicity spokesmen he adds a trenchant and remarkably comprehensive critique of the psychological and sociological sources of the appeal to ethnicity, and more important, shows how this appeal has traditionally translated into reactionary and implicitly fascistic social and political action...
...critique of the Communist Party's role in East German industry was tough and trenchant. "The indolence of the bureaucrat corresponds to the apathy of the worker, which, in turn, is matched by the disgust of the technical experts." The author was Rudolf Bahro, 42, a mild-mannered executive of an East Berlin rubber factory, and the quote was from his new book The Alternative-banned in East Germany, but a bestseller in West Germany. In an extraordinary act of defiance and courage, Bahro had agreed to be interviewed on West German television, which is watched by an estimated...
John L. Thomas, who writes of the decades from 1890 to 1920, offers a series of trenchant analyses. His aphorism about the first World War is typical: "Both sides, driven by contrasting but strangely complementary illusions, had succeeded in proving that in total war it is the war that wins...
Mostly Golf captures the enduring appeal of Darwin's airy and cultured prose which is leavened by a trenchant wit. In later years, Darwin moved away from straight narratives of golf matches and Mostly Golf contains numerous childhood reminisces, discourse childhood reminisces, discourse on the family dogs, and humorous essays of a philosophical bent...