Word: trenchantly
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...premise: A brittle and conniving Hollywood agent (Julie White) is trying to land a big movie project for her hot actor client, while keeping under wraps the fact that he "has a slight recurring case of homosexuality." Thus the groundwork is laid for a "trenchant satire about truth and illusion Hollywood-style" (in the words of the New York Times). But almost nothing in this play is smart enough for satire, or even makes much sense. The project the agent is seeking for the client she doesn't want outed is... a play about two gay lovers. (There's some...
...Brooks had gone to Rochester at the urging of James Card, head of the George Eastman House film division, where she busied herself in research on silent films. It was there she found a second career, writing memoir-essays on her early days. These trenchant pieces, on Chaplin and W. C. Fields, Gish and Garbo, and of course Pabst and Pandora's Box, were collected in the volume Lulu in Hollywood, and proved Brooks a stranger creature than the moguls could imagine: a beauty with a brain. The flapper could write...
...problem is that the arguments he advances, though trenchant, aren’t new. You’ve heard them all before, probably from one of your fogeyish high school teachers. If you weren’t paying attention then, there’s little chance you’ll tune...
...evidence from film and literature, and his eye for the differences among European countries helps enliven the analysis. Critics can argue against his conclusion that "the twenty-first century might yet belong to Europe," but readers will find plenty of credible reasons for that view in his trenchant dissection of the second half of the 20th. Judt takes Europe from its hour of deepest need after the war to today's sometimes complacent prosperity in telling detail. At the signing of the treaty that launched nato in 1949, he notices, the band played "I Got Plenty of Nothing" - roughly what...
...takes control of his life and returns him to South Africa to find his inspiration. But lalela - listen. The man has fought the good fight - for literature and humanitarian values - in novels like Waiting for the Barbarians and Life & Times of Michael K, as well as in savannahs of trenchant nonfiction. Who would begrudge him a little diversion? André Brink might. He too championed the anti-apartheid cause, paid his dues, had his works banned. And in his latest, Praying Mantis, which appeared August, South Africa's leading writer in Afrikaans harks back to the 18th and 19th centuries...