Word: trenchant
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...matter of what nationality, who wish to understand the workings of the body politic in Britain, and there is much to be derived from that recital of body politics in general. These are no textbooks requiring a scholarly mind to disentangle their sense, but rather are they full of trenchant observation, clear analysis and an ofttimes sparkling wit, written in the common tongue wth charm, force and a liberal supply of aphorisms...
...curiously enough, its indecorum was too inevitable to be reprehended. For 4¶ sets Champion William T. Tilden II had been playing George M. Lott, young Chicagoan, for the U. S. Clay Court Championship. The former had been a trifle below form, while Lott had played a glittering, trenchant game, won the first set, the third set, and brought the score to 4 all in the fifth and deciding set of the match. Then it was that Tilden threw down the balls he had been about to serve with and lifted a lean face, whittled leaner by anxiety and irritation...
...Republican Covered Wagon just as it has crossed Recent Election River. The perplexed Elephant turns to Driver Cal, asking: "Now, where's that half-breed guide of ours gone ?" And Cal replies : "Search me ! He was in the wagon until we got safely across the river." But the trenchant pen of the cartoonist* discovers the "half-breed guide"-and what does he wear but the face of Mr. Borah?-hiding behind the brush and whispering to the prowling savages who wear insurgent feathers in their topknots...
...discerning eye. The front and back pages were completely wrapped in pictures. Within, tiny stories, mostly of the human-interest-scandal-crime variety, lay side by side, like meek sardines, while over all and through all, garnishing and epitomizing, were scattered photographs, comic strips, drawings. The headlines were trenchant: "No Rabbits," "She Must Pay," "Marry Me," "Hero Sued." It happened that the first issue of the Mirror coincided with the first day of the Democratic Convention. The politics of the Convention were disposed of promptly on the second page, terminating in less than a short column by bumping into...
TARNISH-The trenchant, middle-class tragedy of loving unwisely and too often...