Word: trenchant
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...value of the courses given is unquestioned. But it is one thing to sway an unthinking mob or a pack of loungers softened by a hearty dinner and good wind and quite another thing to grapple with an intellect fully as keen as one's own. Mental agility and trenchant powers of persuasion can best be developed through debating...
...Better Social Order." To some, this seemed a sour subject to bring up in the presence of the headmaster of a school so closely identified with the existing social order. Fears were set at rest when President Lewis began listing the evils of secondary education: "The use of correct, trenchant and beautiful English among the graduates of our secondary schools is so rare as to attract surprised attention. Manners are poor, the courtesies of an early day are classified as Victorian and are therefore discarded. It is considered smart to appear uncouth. Lawlessness is on the increase. Political indifference...
...World-Telegram Dr. Miller was quoted thus: "If ever a Pulitzer Prize should be awarded for variety and excellence of special writers, it should go to the World-Telegram." Simultaneously the Post happily quoted Dr. Miller: "If ever a newspaper deserved a Pulitzer Prize for trenchant editorials, it is the New York Evening Post...
TIME's drolly flabbergasting captions, oddly arranged sentences, strange, trenchant, startling and vivid epithets-these by association (rather than per se) are endearing to its readers. . . . Such vigorous goings-on, however, premise an affectionate give-&-take which no advertiser even begins to rate...
...London last week, Sir Josiah, after some hesitation, gave newsmen a trenchant criticism of the New Deal...