Word: trenchant
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...behavior. He launched special issues on such topics as black America and the changing role of women. Because he hated homogenized prose, he also introduced individual bylines. In those days before computers, when their stories came back to them on paper, writers strained to read Henry's always trenchant (though sometimes nearly illegible) comments, which could be lengthy and learned or just one decisive word...
...when he faces the Faculty once more on Tuesday, he will have to defuse a far more trenchant challenge—to his leadership...
After delivering a trenchant rebuttal of Friedman, Sandel set his sights on Summers, who was a prominent advocate for global integration as chief economist at the World Bank and later as Secretary of the Treasury. Sandel mercilessly mocked Summers’ now-famous aphorism: “In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.” Friedman has cited Summers’ quotation in four separate Times columns over the last two years...
Before Jon Stewart, Bill Maher and Al Franken, there was MORT SAHL, who revitalized stand-up comedy in the 1950s with his trenchant political wit. TIME joined the laughter in a 1960 cover story on the verge of an election...
...unwavering criticism of every government, empowers the film to approach critically governments which even knowledgeable Americans have regarded as widely different from one another. But Demme’s view from below, which measures rulers in terms of rural economies, Creole culture and press rights (the three trenchant categories Dominique focuses most of his activism on), provides an altogether different perspective...