Word: trenchantly
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...Fischer split from the more extreme factions in his own movement and later brought his pragmatic style and trenchant wit to the Greens, which he joined in 1982, just two years after the party was founded. He was the first Green to take a government post, wearing sneakers to his swearing-in ceremony in 1985 as Environment Minister in the state of Hesse. His appointment as German Foreign Minister, the highest post held by a Green politician, lent Germany a distinctive presence on the international stage, one enhanced when the former anti-militarist turned humanitarian interventionist backed German troop participation...
Although the bulk of each edition of the Standard is devoted to political news and analysis, Kristol’s anthology is chock-full of trenchant cultural criticism. One particularly strong example is a 1999 article by an English professor at the University of Virginia professor, Paul A. Cantor, analyzing the threat that the end of the Cold War posed to professional wrestling...
Another name should be added to their ranks: British Mystery Writer Ruth Rendell, who since 1964 has published 26 novels and four volumes of short stories, all of them intelligent, trenchant and graceful. This summer she will introduce an additional byline, Barbara Vine, which will accommodate her high productivity and, she says, give voice to a more feminine, less dispassionate side of her personality. Rendell plots deftly, and she brings comprehension if not compassion to even the kinkiest of characters. Until now, the author has been something of a secret indulgence, enjoyed primarily by mystery buffs. Within the genre...
...often, though, Vargas Llosa becomes bogged down in minutiae, rattling off figures of little interest to the ordinary reader. But just as frequently, he paints in overly broad strokes, providing analysis hardly trenchant enough to hold the interest of a serious academic...
...preceding year. At the age of 28, he joined the fabled team of photographers for the historical section of the U.S. Farm Security Administration, a group that included Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and Ben Shahn. Examining an impoverished rural America, they made some of photography's most trenchant and memorable images. In the FSA, Mydans learned the moral dimension of photography. No eye cast upon the hardships of those years could afterward decline into a tool for pretty picturemaking. A natural storyteller, he also learned with the FSA to look for his story in faces, in the unsettled gaze...