Word: trenchant
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...Englanders are still pleased to remember as a most unfortunate speech. Many and great were the execrations heaped upon his head. One man particularly was outraged. He wrote a poem called Ichabod which today third graders recite in a fumbling monotone on Memorial Day. He also broke forth in trenchant prose with the words, "The God that made New Hampshire taunted that lofty state with little men." Old Boston squatted on its haunches and shook the heavens with ill-concealed joy, some even doubted if God had made New Hampshire...
...whole corrupt U. S. to be his province. He learned about city politics from Manhattan of the 1890's. first as police reporter on the Evening Post, then as city editor of The Commercial Advertiser. His personal popularity with crooks and grafters, combined with unassailable integrity and a trenchant style, soon put him in the first rank of reformist journalism, in the forefront of those of whom his great & good friend Theodore Roosevelt dubbed "muckrakers." Steffens came into national prominence with his series in McClure's Magazine on the "shame of the cities": factual but highly colored articles...
...Myers; then it became a successful musi-comedy. But not until its present metamorphosis into a talking picture has a form been reached in which the many-faceted material is properly displayed. Few creative works are translatable from one medium to another, but A Connecticut Yankee is no less trenchant as a picture than as a novel; it is wonderful entertainment, rippling with chuckles, expanding often into resonant Twainian belly-laughs. Director David Butler has omitted the sociological satire of the novel. He has concentrated on the humor of anachronism and made a thorough job of it. His method...
...England" prepared by Sir Henry Newbolt's Committee and sponsored by the British government, it is interesting to note how much emphasis is laid on the problem of devising examinations in English that shall serve adequately as tests of achievement and as educational stimuli. A rereading of those trenchant paragraphs and a survey of examining processes here in American schools have prompted the Commission to consider in some detail the educational value that examinations may have in secondary-school English curricula. In this section are recorded some of the results of this reflection as it has focused itself upon...
...withering clarity and veracity that is closely skin to genius. Blaring forth his ideas in a prose that is the essence of strength and polish, he never leaves the reader a moment to catch his breath, but rushes him along through a host of coruscating criticism that is as trenchant as it is illogical. But then logic is a useless baggage to an emotional epitomizer...