Word: trenchant
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...Protestant Episcopal Church "as idle as a painted picture?" Have Christians forgotten that they are "saved to serve?" Are the "fields ripe for the harvest?" These are some of the trenchant questions provoked by Bishop Darst's letter. Well aware that, as compared with New Testament times, "the Church today is incomparably rich in money, organization, influence, power," he pointed out that it is "failing to produce anything like Apostolic results...
...Krim and the impending collapse of the resistance of the Riffians to the French forces in Morocco is that Spain must have learned that great resources and abundant population are necessary to successful schemes for colonial empire. That is all true enough; the Riffian episode has been a trenchant comment on Spanish weakness; but if it had been only that it would not have been as much in the head-lines...
...trenchant contribution to current thought on higher education was to be found in last week's Nation...
...publicity or pleasure, he is free to drop out when he chooses, and while the public may admire his prowess, it owes him no more for following his inclinations than it does to the spring crop of marble players. The distinction between amateur and professional is still far from trenchant; and it must be zealously guarded for the good, of amateur and professional sportsmen alike...
...treatment of the main problem with its trenchant heart-rending situations suggests Galsworthy's manner, indeed so does the whole well-knit play. An occasional line and a tendency toward the melodramatic damage it only slightly. As for the acting, the ensemble divides the honors; it is a notably even performance, topped by Mr. Clive...