How to Use trenchant in a Sentence
trenchant
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The Wolf of Wall Street just might be the most trenchant film made about America’s last decade.
— David Sims, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2019 -
The great man deserves something far more pithy and trenchant.
— David Benedict, Variety, 13 Dec. 2022 -
Peele’s film is trenchant and riotous, bitter and bleak.
— Richard Lawson, VanityFair.com, 23 Feb. 2017 -
Installing them near the works of Tomah, Bridges, and Cayard brings their trenchant message home.
— Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2018 -
Burnham was one of the earliest YouTube stars and later a trenchant critic of such fame.
— Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 13 May 2024 -
These best-selling books display the trenchant wit of a flaneur strolling through Babylon.
— Brenda Wineapple, The New York Review of Books, 19 Oct. 2022 -
One of the most trenchant moments in the book comes when Harris, whose strong faith features prominently, told Tophs and Eliot the story of Easter.
— Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2022 -
But Letter puts a trenchant spin on it, finding not sorrow but pure yearning in the grooves of this decision.
— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2021 -
No point during the Christmas season to be cynical, trenchant, and wry.
— Brian T. Allen, National Review, 30 Dec. 2021 -
Qian, Lee and the trenchant pianist Juho Pohjonen were equally convincing in a pair of Schubert fantasies on the first half of the program.
— John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 6 Mar. 2018 -
This should give her freedom to pursue the gamble of appointing herself as the face of the city’s most trenchant and explosive problem.
— Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2022 -
On rewatch, months into a pandemic, Palm Springs is even more trenchant.
— David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 July 2020 -
Those two abodes are at the center of Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, a loopily brilliant drama that might be the most thrilling film of the year—as well as the funniest and the most trenchant.
— David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2019 -
In real life Ms Barr is a woman of trenchant but hard-to-define political views.
— The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018 -
In this trenchant narrative of the days that followed the murder, Malala masterfully weaves the different threads of the story.
— Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023 -
Still, how else to interpret the most trenchant passages in the novella, which reflect on mortality and time?
— David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2021 -
Some analysts believe the scammers may have gone after her because of her trenchant views.
— New York Times, 16 Dec. 2021 -
Reiner never stopped coming up with a good line, something to say — funny or melancholy or trenchant.
— Hank Stuever, Washington Post, 30 June 2020 -
His readers valued him for his knowledge, his passion, and his trenchant opinions.
— The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2022 -
Archie’s aunt, a literature professor, tells him in one of the novel’s most trenchant passages.
— David L. Ulin, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2017 -
Warnock’s speech warmed up the faithful with laughs, often followed up later by trenchant criticism.
— Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 13 Apr. 2018 -
Berger was also well known as the trenchant and controversial art critic of the New Statesman and New Society.
— Lisa Appignanesi, The New York Review of Books, 9 May 2019 -
But as President Trump observed in one of his more trenchant moments, there isn’t much of a constituency for deficit reduction.
— Loren Thompson, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023 -
Always, the references were germane to our conversation or a trenchant comment on the most pressing issues and crises of our time.
— Nr Symposium, National Review, 6 Dec. 2020 -
The events of the pandemic offer a trenchant illustration.
— Hannah Fry, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021 -
To the Atlantic’s Adam Serwer, a trenchant critic of Trump’s racial politics, that last objection misses the point.
— Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 16 July 2019 -
This is a book that’s trenchant and intelligent; wry but not glib; humane but never indulgent.
— New York Times, 5 Dec. 2019 -
With its basic depictions of love, monogamy, and betrayal as trenchant as ever, who wouldn’t want to revisit it?
— Marley Marius, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2021 -
Telling them to stick to facts nicely won't do any good, these are trenchant critics of Social Darwinism who engage in the most bare-knuckle war of all-against-all when given any quarter.
— Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 5 Feb. 2013 -
The ending is a thing of beauty, and while the story isn't exactly surprising, Promising Young Woman is nonetheless a trenchant and resonant film.
— Eric Farwell, EW.com, 27 Oct. 2023
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