Word: trenchant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...responsibility is well placed, for Burns is known as a trenchant economic analyst and a man of formidable composure. His powers of concentration are legendary, his manner ineradicably professorial. His pewter grey hair is parted down the middle. His brown eyes squint slightly through rimless glasses. His voice is somewhat reedy, worn to didactic evenness by 40 years of lecturing. "I regard myself primarily as a scholar interested in government," he says, teeth clenching one of the hundred or more pipes he owns...
Having survived Warsaw, I awaited the Beethoven with ambivalent anticipation. The Chorus was massive enough to rout Xerxes' Persian legions but sang with respectable diction and infectious enthusiasm, far outshining the supernatural unimaginativeness of Mr. Yannatos' conductorial efforts in the first three movements. The orchestral contribution was by turns trenchant and languid, almost always exhibiting a sepulchral gravity. The blame must be placed on Mr. Yannatos' amorphous conception of the work. His most persistent problem was metrical confusion, as he repeatedly failed to find the perfect tempo where metrical relaxation and momentum would conjoin...
...extreme penalty-extremely. He dies in the electric chair, in the gas chamber and by gunshot while being hanged. Each time, he is casually resurrected to go on talking, shouting and heckling with the rest of the cast, in the course of which none of them utters anything trenchant, or moving, or witty...
...selected Democratic Senate candidates, all foreign policy rationalists and all in varying kinds of electoral trouble this fall. Almost as a throw-away, McCarthy noted that the Senate would be called upon to take the lead against the progressive "militarization" of our foreign policy. It was McCarthy's most trenchant line, but he didn't elaborate...
...mythological heads. In politics, the warring desires for republican simplicity and kingly extravagance proved even more difficult to resolve, and after the French Revolution the curios made for kings descended to commoners. A Jacques-Louis David crayon drawing of Napoleon's mother, done before 1800, is a trenchant comment. Beneath a flashy nouveau riche Empire headdress, the Corsican dowager wears an expression of smug pride...