Word: trenchant
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...teaching-as chaplain and head of the department of religion at Columbia University. Out of his typewriter began to stream a series of religious books (eight so far), including Beyond Anxiety, If You Marry Outside Your Faith, The Next Day. Out of his mouth came the kind of trenchant talk that was rare in Episcopal pulpits. In 1952 New York's Bishop Horace W. B. Donegan appointed him dean of St. John's -the largest Anglican cathedral in the world...
...Bernstein strode in, his greying hair dramatically atousle, a navy-blue coat draped cape-style over his shoulders with artful carelessness. Everyone was waiting impatiently for the morning papers. Bernstein brought the news to his table: "They're all raves except Kerr" (the Herald Tribune's authoritatively trenchant Walter Kerr). Added Bernstein: "You know, Kerr's an inverted snob. He's such an intellectual that he can't stand a musical unless it's got a chorus line...
...lecturer backed his criticism of conformity by asserting that conforming artists are forgotten or ignored. "It is always in the future that the course of art lies," stated Shahn. He wondered if the "weeping face is to become a trenchant line...
...Potting Shed further establishes Graham Greene's position in the theater. Like Greene's The Living Room, The Potting Shed is more trenchant than artistically rounded, but the feeling it leaves, as not many stage works do, is that the playwright is more important than the playwriting. Just as Greene's conversion to Roman Catholicism has crucially conditioned the substance of both plays, so, from his coming late to the theater, both plays suffer in form from a novelist's conditioning. But the religious motive involves a deeply serious, perturbed and constantly probing...
Undershaft's moral value does not stop with his offering one of the most trenchant of all indictments of poverty. It lies also in his demonstrating the folly of all absolute positions, in his showing how good and evil must always jostle and even beget one another. But Shaw, with his new non-reformer's zeal, turns extremist...