| 单词 | trenchant |
| 例句 | A second less and the trenchant blade had shorne through his heart. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z An inventive, lively and trenchant assessment of race in American history from the perspective of people of color. TV marks Black History Month with provocative, creative fare 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z It’s a great, trenchant piece of writing, irresistibly insistent in its repetitive accusations. ‘For Colored Girls’ Review: Ntozake Shange’s Women Endure 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Loudon is like a single, relentless glare of light: his lyrics are trenchant and unsentimental, his music plain and direct. House of Rufus ? review 2011-07-22T17:44:20Z In “By Heart,” his trenchant Brooklyn Academy of Music debut, he invites 10 audience members to memorize Shakespeare’s Sonnet 30. Review: ‘By Heart’ Commits Community to Memory 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Arthur Miller didn’t need to mention the red scare in “The Crucible” to say something trenchant about it. Should Aziz Ansari and Louis C.K. Talk About Accusations Onstage? 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Rather, his art is vigorous and trenchant, flecked with wit and irony, and passionately engaged with the larger history of art, from van Gogh and Matisse to Francis Bacon and Robert Rauschenberg. Review | This Native American artist should have been a household name. But he died at 31. 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z It’s a conspicuous show of its budget, but the story of its budget isn’t built into the film’s story—as it is in Gomes’s ingenious and trenchant “Arabian Nights.” The Petty Laments of Yorgos Lanthimos’s “The Lobster” 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z In so doing, she offered trenchant commentary on the social and political issues of the day. Was Jane Austen a ‘secret radical’? 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z It’s also a trenchant, anarchist-inspired commentary on politics and personal identity in the era of Reagan and Thatcher. New “Watchmen” TV series in development at HBO 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z But trenchant satire aside, parallels with the current president are so familiar that some readers have dubbed Mr. Freedland “Nostradamus” while others are begging him to choose their lottery numbers. Is Trump Imitating Fiction? Or Is Fiction Imitating Trump? 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z The clear frontrunner for the competition’s main prize, the Golden Lion, this determinedly child-unfriendly animation is the most trenchant statement on the human condition here. Venice film festival – plenty of punch to disturb the peace 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z Don't let this misguided review disuade you from seeing this brave and trenchant play. Review: In ‘A Life,’ Lonely and Looking to the Stars for Answers 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z At first, your book seems like a portrayal of a very cool one, but by the ending pages, it’s developed into a sneaky but trenchant critique of urban planning and an exploration of terrorism. Building the alternate-universe New York: Novelists Seth Fried and K Chess in conversation 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z The mindset of an addict is trenchant in its very nature; you're in a circuitry of neurosis that's very, very difficult to break. Russell Brand: 'It's irrelevant what other people think of you' 2013-02-03T20:00:01Z The academy honored him "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt and defeat." Mario Vargas Llosa: Nobel Prize in Literature Goes with a Well-Known Name 2010-10-07T16:10:00Z If some seemed silly, others were trenchant; an especially disturbing encounter involved a plastic surgeon. Review: In ‘KPOP,’ Korean Pop and Broadway Meet (Too) Cute 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z Lahr's trenchant handling of Williams' struggle, the cautionary tale of a dramatist chasing an elusive vision in an art form with relentless commercial pressures, should be required reading for fledgling playwrights. The shame and glory of Tennessee Williams in John Lahr's new book 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Profile of the impossibly dry Irish comic, best known for his trenchant attacks on the Catholic church. Catch-up TV guide: from Mad Dogs to The United States Of Television: America In Primetime 2013-05-04T04:59:01Z The production, starring an unforgettable Jaquel Spivey, succeeds on multiple levels: It provides trenchant commentary on Black art, the Black body, religion, masculinity and queerness, while also being laugh-out-loud funny and heartbreaking. 10 Stages and Screens Where I Saw Connection 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z The music of the black church—where Aretha was born and inculcated, where her voice both originated and returned—was the most trenchant force in her life. Aretha Franklin Is As Immortal As Can Be 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Harlem-born rapper Azealia Banks has some trenchant criticism for middle America in the April 2015 Playboy cover story, assailing everyone from “fat white Americans” to black musicians, most of whom fail to meet her grade. Azealia Banks: "I Hate Everything About This Country" 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z But paradoxically, even as the term becomes more commonplace, it has grown more trenchant. What Does Misogyny Look Like? 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z An elaborate adaptation of Walt Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” the piece is Ms. Higdon’s most trenchant work and among her loveliest, qualities undiminished in this skillful reduction. Music Review: Nathan and Julie Gunn With Pacifica Quartet at Zankel Hall 2013-04-24T21:51:23Z That's because a brilliant script by Julian Fellowes managed to examine trenchant themes of ambition, power and domestic politics while still providing lots of soapy twists and turns. The Top 10 TV shows of 2011 2011-12-30T19:25:06Z In between jokes about being a single middle-aged guy no longer interested in sex, he might deliver a trenchant polemic about how political debates are financed. On Comedy: Appreciating the Comics Sean Patton and Ted Alexandro 2014-03-12T20:01:16Z He was also a contributor to The New York Times, where his trenchant, witty, and erudite writings represented a bygone era in which clashes over the meaning of classical music held mainstream import. Richard Taruskin, Vigorously Polemical Musicologist, Dies at 77 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Through these post-mortems, Parks is asking trenchant questions about how we memorialize Black bodies. Review: In ‘Plays for the Plague Year,’ the Soundtrack of Our Lives 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Their trenchant analysis of the quartet near the end of Verdi’s “Rigoletto” swiftly and precisely captures that composer’s gifts for definition and juxtaposition of character. Books of The Times: ‘A History of Opera,’ by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker 2012-12-27T22:03:04Z No. To expect Daub to acknowledge critiques of tech thinking by women is to expect that he include not the most feminist or woke critiques of those philosophies, but the most trenchant ones. ‘What Tech Calls Thinking’ Might Really Be Something Else 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z He is one of the most astute and trenchant commentators on the status of new African art in an international context. Art Review: Some of Simon Ottenberg’s Gifts in ‘The Art of Translation’ 2013-08-15T21:58:16Z With its sly humor and trenchant vision, this genre-bending work finds sublime poetry in the world of mixed martial arts. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z Alongside the usual élitist stumbling blocks that trip up politicians everywhere—fancy suits, outrageous makeup bills—he has claimed more trenchant symbols of power. Will Scandal Sink Emmanuel Macron? 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z In his 2008 book "God Is Not Great", Hitchens put himself on a collision course with major religions with his trenchant atheist views. Writer Christopher Hitchens to undergo chemotherapy 2010-06-30T23:52:00Z And though it's an undeniably silly comedy, it also offers more than a few trenchant gags about the self-absorbed, superficial side of our contemporary culture. 'Zoolander 2' confirmed at Fashion Week; will strut its stuff in 2016 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z Like Johnson, Brand has trenchant views and tends to put them over in the guise of jokey taunts. Russell Brand: messiah or very naughty boy? 2013-06-15T23:05:40Z These are interesting but not new or terribly trenchant thoughts. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z But though Ms. Hagedorn’s lyrics often feature trenchant hooks, they seem to catch the same fish over and over. Review: Do You Believe in Miracles? ‘Felix Starro’ Does 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z The Swedish Academy said it honored the 74-year-old author "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt and defeat." Mario Vargas Llosa Wins Nobel Literature Prize 2010-10-07T11:48:00Z Less predictable, and more broadly trenchant, are Flynn’s musings on rock’s cultural evolution. The Day the Music Died 2010-02-27T05:51:00Z As for Scorsese, Lee’s culture wars are no mere hectoring or moralizing; they’re part of a trenchant and comprehensive world view. Spike Lee’s Necessary, Overwhelming “Chi-Raq” 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Full of trenchant observations and beauty, the book is a countermeasure to the erosion of memory. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z The Hatchet Job award was established in 2011 by literary website The Omnivore to honor "the angriest, funniest, most trenchant" review published in a newspaper or magazine. Morrissey mauling wins Hatchet Job review prize 2014-02-12T00:26:27Z The prize was founded last year by literary website The Omnivore to reward the "angriest, funniest, most trenchant" review published in a newspaper or magazine. Book reviews vie for dreaded Hatchet Job award 2013-01-08T14:01:06Z Not much else is trenchant, or even sensible. Review: In ‘Balls,’ Billie Jean and Bobby Come Out Swinging 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z They create a trenchant structural outline as distinct as Lewitt’s open cubes. The personal and political in Rashid Johnson's cubes 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z It also aims for the trenchant political wit of Tom Stoppard in his “Rock ‘n’ Roll” mode, and Gogol’s blithe way with bureaucratic satire. Review: Real Russians and Fake News in ‘Describe the Night’ 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z “Hamilton” is indeed a great epic, tracing the successes and failures of a trenchant political thinker and flawed family man. ‘Hamilton’: Making ecstatic history 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Marshall was always known as a spectacular raconteur, and much of his story is delivered in the language of trenchant, powerful and often engagingly funny anecdote, a medium in which Mr. Fishburne thrives. | 'Thurgood': Marshall v. Bias: A Life Revealed in Anecdotes 2011-02-23T23:22:27Z Nice girls do not finish first in Seattle playwright Victoria Stewart's trenchant and entertaining topical drama, "Hardball." Review: 'Hardball' play hits home about media pundits run amok 2011-03-10T01:30:46Z Though thwarted, the idealism lingered, making him just the type of trenchant misanthrope – like George Carlin or Bill Hicks – that is the template for many great comedians. Comedy gold: Sam Kinison's Breaking the Rules 2012-12-20T15:37:15Z This display of photomontages by a Berlin Dadaist of the 1920s who became a Communist and trenchant satirist of Hitler shows that Germany's radical cultural creativity in the 1970s had deep roots. Kraftwerk tickets pass you by? Take a Krautrock tour of Tate Modern instead 2013-02-07T14:18:54Z His pronouncements on literature were always trenchant: "To write seems to me easier than trying to avoid the feeling of meaninglessness that not writing brings"; or "Literature doesn't tell stories, but ways to tell stories". Rodolfo Fogwill obituary 2010-08-27T17:10:00Z It was in documentaries that viewers discovered the most trenchant critiques. Perspective | Even the best films about Afghanistan couldn’t have prepared us for this scene 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z He gets engaged, seemingly instantly, to his pretty young secretary; breaking Fay's heart and causing her to utter the trenchant yet true line "I hope she knows you only like the beginnings of things." One last "Mad Men" Monday 2010-10-18T17:00:00Z Recorded in chaos, never properly finished and never released in the band's lifetime, Third is a sprawling morass, its songs raw and trenchant yet achingly melodic. Big Star Third – review 2012-05-29T12:42:27Z To find trenchant character portraiture in the Ninja Turtles, you probably have to have been 11 during the first flush of their fame. REVIEW: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mock Turtle 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z "The Goldfinch is an emotionally trenchant masterpiece," said Sara Nelson, editorial director of books. Donna Tartt novel tops Amazon list 2013-11-08T12:46:34Z He was too harsh — the ending is trenchant rather than inconclusive. ‘The Rat Trap’ Review: Together for Better, but Mostly for Worse 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z The archival footage is delightful and the interviews with his contemporaries are insightful, but Talley’s own commentary is the real draw — he will always be trenchant, funny and fabulous. The Best Movies on Amazon Prime Video Right Now 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z He’s best known for “Bad Jews,” a trenchant four-character comedy that explored the fault lines of Reform Judaism. How to Write for the Rockettes 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z The narrative is trenchant and intelligent; wry but not glib; humane but never indulgent. In ‘Antisocial,’ How the Alt-Right Went Viral 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z With his big band, he offers plush arrangements of his compositions, often undergirded by a trenchant groove. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z The multimedia scene is one of several trenchant sequences in the effective, if sometimes leisurely, 1st Stage production of “Columbinus,” the 2005 docudrama about the 1999 mass shooting at Columbine High School. Review | ‘Columbinus,’ re-creating the 1999 Colorado high school shooting, remains disturbingly relevant 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Aside from spanning many media, his work is also joyous, a feat given how trenchant it is as a social and political commentary. Go See Yinka Shonibare at the Morris-Jumel Mansion This Weekend 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z Don't let this misguided review disuade you from seeing this brave and trenchant play. Review: In ‘A Life,’ Lonely and Looking to the Stars for Answers 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Announcing the award in Stockholm, the Swedish Academy praised Mr. Vargas Llosa “for his cartography of the structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt and defeat.” Vargas Llosa Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 2010-10-07T13:15:00Z Despite its big laughs and no-you-didn’t surprises, it builds a trenchant argument. Review: African-American Flight 1619 Now Boarding in ‘Ain’t No Mo’ 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Ms. Collins, one of many trenchant interviewees, says she fell not for him but for his songs. Books of The Times: ‘I’m Your Man,’ Leonard Cohen Biography by Sylvie Simmons 2012-09-13T22:17:26Z Sadly, the uncertainty voiced by this fictionalized authorial ego is reflected in the play’s meandering construction and lack of trenchant point. | 'Leaving': A New Play by Vaclav Havel Has Its American Premiere 2010-06-08T22:24:00Z Mr. Lelio’s film is also a work of trenchant social and psychological realism. Best Pictures, Maybe, but Telluride Is Not About Oscars 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z In the words of the Nobel citation, his fiction is obsessed with "the cartography of structures of power and trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt and defeat". Mario Vargas Llosa: a master of humour and humanity 2010-10-07T17:42:00Z Its collection of tired stereotypes about L.A. and the movie industry feels like the kind of film that this group would find trenchant. Glenn Whipp's Golden Globe nomination predictions 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z He has offered a trenchant critique of the limits of global capitalism. Kojin Karatani Wins $1 Million Berggruen Prize 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z A race-relations pressure cooker set on the hottest day of the year in Bedford-Stuyvesant, it makes a particularly trenchant comment on gentrification in one scene. From ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’ to ‘Little Men’: A Borough’s Real Estate Crises, Onscreen 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z Without even considering the design proposals – the removal of the square's Victorian statues, the cutting down of its trees – it's not hard to see why opposition was so trenchant. Glasgow's welcome stand against the '21st-century square' 2013-01-28T10:30:01Z The satire in “Nicotine” is lighter and less trenchant than that of “Mislaid,” which skewered contemporary race relations and identity politics. ‘Nicotine’: The new zany-brainy novel from Nell Zink 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Starting as a creative writing professor at Eastern Illinois University, she made her name with trenchant essays for online outlets such as Salon and the Rumpus. Roxane Gay decided to write about being overweight. It took her to some painful places. 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z He also folds into the writing a few trenchant debates about the moral ambiguities of journalists’ role in covering atrocities. 2010-01-29T04:55:00Z “Parasite”: Writer-director Bong Joon Ho keeps the audience guessing in this twisty, comedic and trenchant film about two families — one working class, one wealthy — whose stories become intertwined in a modernist palace. ‘Once Upon a Time,’ ‘Portrait’ top AP’s 2019 best films list 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z A trenchant, serpentine account of the career of the Yom Kippur mole. 9 Thrillers (One True) That Times Editors Think You Should Read This Summer 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z It’s a trenchant, hilarious turn, with plenty of pain. With “Labyrinth,” Mark Dendy Confronts His Demons 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z But at midday on 7 October, Mario Vargas Llosa was announced as this year's laureate for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt and defeat". Why Ngugi wa Thiong'o should have won the Nobel prize for literature 2010-10-08T09:48:00Z In this trenchant and wide-ranging book, Biggs writes about starting over after divorce while seeking wisdom from a canon of great female authors. 19 Works of Nonfiction to Read This Spring 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z His autopsy of the current liberal ennui is not particularly trenchant or surprising, but it’s certainly amusing. The Plight of the Aggrieved, Rich Manhattan Liberal 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z The result is a memoir enlarged and illuminated by Woolf’s insights, but mediated by Smyth’s trenchant observations and wit. Review | A woman tries to understand her late father — with the help of Virginia Woolf 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Rod Liddle, also of The Sunday Times, is one of my heroes: so witty, so trenchant, so unafraid of political correctness — I read every word he writes and laugh over many of them. Anne de Courcy: By the Book 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z While much of this year's material is forgettable, one bit in which Lawrence expresses his disgust at Kellogg's for marketing Coco Pops as an after-school snack is truly wonderful, trenchant satire. Who is today's defining comic? 2010-08-20T15:35:00Z The picture abounds with amazing landscapes and trenchant but quietly articulated commentaries on tourism and Jamaica’s other economies, or lack thereof, in this era. ‘No Place Like Home’ Review: Self-Discovery in Jamaica 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z That is the point of this trenchant book, written in response to the heated debate over an appropriated image — and history — of blackness in the last Whitney Biennial. The Best Art Books of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z One could venture that indeed it was his Riverside anti-Vietnam War speech, or his increasingly trenchant critiques of capitalism, or perhaps his newfound willingness to pronounce the dreaded “S” word – socialism. The “macroethics” of Martin Luther King Jr.: When he spoke out against the Vietnam War even his supporters deserted him — here’s how he endured 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z It’s one example of these stories’ restrained but always trenchant humor. Review | In Matthew Baker’s ‘Why Visit America,’ the U.S. is an absurd place, but also full of hope 2020-08-13T04:00:00Z As in this lovely soliloquy, Mr. Posner’s play is at its most trenchant and funny when it doesn’t just collapse the distance between Chekhov and today, but also encourages us to forget Chekhov entirely. Review: ‘Stupid _____ Bird’ Is Chekhov for the 21st Century 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z Its real subject, or at any rate the most trenchant theme to emerge from behind its abstractions and intangibles, is the one suggested by the title, borrowed from Stravinsky’s book of études for young pianists. Review: ‘Five Easy Pieces,’ an Unnerving Alliance of Children and Art 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z She was well-known for her trenchant opinions of the personalities of the music world, and her conversation was always peppered with humour, sometimes with a slightly edgy twist, carrying echoes of a difficult childhood. Valerie Watts 2010-07-14T16:21:00Z Among them is William Powhida, who uses research, text and a realist style to marry flippant social commentary with trenchant political critique. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Her observation of the fragility and loveliness of daily life is so sharp and her commentary so droll, trenchant and precise that the modest world she describes becomes almost numinous. Review | ‘Brood,’ a quiet meditation on the small stuff, makes for a perfect pandemic read 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z In any case, after all this, Wheeldon returns us to the 1992 rehearsal room with a trenchant gesture: The dancers pull the linens away to reveal the bed as a bunch of tour trunks. Review: In ‘MJ,’ No One’s Looking at the Man in the Mirror 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z One of the most trenchant scenes focuses on Paul Cohen, coach of the player Harold Solomon, as he analyzes his charge’s loss in real time. ‘The French’ Review: A Candid Look at the French Open 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Photograph: Tim Knox The blurb claims that Mary Beard's latest book offers "a provocative tour of what is happening now in classics – learned, trenchant and witty". Confronting the Classics by Mary Beard – review 2013-03-24T11:30:01Z Breaking through the plane of the picture but retaining its trenchant symmetry, the Virgin rests her elbow on the painting’s illusionistic marble frame. ‘Mantegna and Bellini’ Review: A Family Affair 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z But it feels neat, a little too small and personal for a story that offers such trenchant analysis of the sins of parenting, the destruction of privacy and the irresistible but futile pursuit of purity. With ‘Purity,’ Jonathan Franzen tackles the Web, mothers, the truth 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z No doubt his trenchant online persona would formulate an answer in due course. Michael Holden's All ears 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z The third, and by far the best, of these Middle-East-meets-the-Wild-West comedies is “War Dogs”, a trenchant and very funny satire co-written and directed by Todd Phillips, the maker of “The Hangover” and its sequels. War games 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z His tonally grounded music flickers, hums, pulses, thunders and soars from the expert, 15-piece Boston Modern Orchestra Project under Gil Rose's firm and trenchant baton. COT's dazzling 'robot opera' poses provocative new questions 2011-04-03T18:39:00Z At that point, it’s clear that the film’s relationship-specific commentary, trenchant as it is, takes a back seat to a broader, more metaphorical point. Cannes: With 'The Lobster,' a director keeps swimming in rebel waters 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z The ailing Baba’s sudden eruptions into anger or, in one of the play’s more trenchant and painful scenes, his mistaking of his daughter for his dead wife, are rendered with moving simplicity by Mr. Nakli. Theater Review: ‘Food and Fadwa,’ at New York Theater Workshop 2012-06-08T02:00:00Z That’s the cadence of one of his most trenchant riffs, forming the backbone of the bridge to classic-period Yes’ biggest hit, “Roundabout.” Chris Squire, the cornerstone of Yes at its best 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z Reiner never stopped coming up with a good line, something to say — funny or melancholy or trenchant. Perspective | Carl Reiner’s key to living a long, funny life? Never stop having something to say. 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z In a trenchant introductory essay, the author will discuss the rise of the fashion museum from historic beginnings to today. F.I.T. Museum Director Brings Critical Eye to Clothing 2012-02-10T11:08:01Z These and other trenchant, polished interviews lend a firsthand immediacy to a whirlwind tour of supposed democracies and bold resistance. Movie Review: ‘A Whisper to a Roar,’ Directed by Ben Moses‘ 2012-10-12T01:09:55Z The Hatchet Job award was established by literary website The Omnivore to honor "the angriest, funniest, most trenchant" review published in a newspaper or magazine. Review of 'blah' memoir wins Hatchet Job prize 2013-02-12T20:01:11Z Venting in the mass-art madhouse has its uses, some more trenchant — and appropriate — than others. At satire's forefront, cartoons press against hard lines 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z It’s a difficult, often rewarding collection that plays out something like an electroacoustic opera, using trenchant words and queasy sounds to diagnose the ills of a contemporary racial dystopia, and to outline its historical precedents. Live Jazz: 3 May Standouts, From Sullivan Fortner to Dana Murray 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z The Pulitzer jurors cited him “for trenchant and searching reviews and essays that joined warm emotion and careful analysis in examining a broad range of books addressing government and the American experience.” Washington Post wins Pulitzer Prizes for criticism, photography; affiliated cartoonist also honored 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z “Some of the spikiest, most trenchant writing I’m reading lately is by female playwrights,” Ms. Lavey said. Call for Theaters to Produce More Plays by Women 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z “A study in excess, it expressed, perhaps inadvertently, the conviction that no image could be adequate to the subject,” Princenthal writes, in a characteristically trenchant critique. ‘Unspeakable Acts’ Revisits a Pivotal Moment in the Art World’s Treatment of Sexual Violence 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z And in the novel’s final paragraphs, he offers one of the most trenchant calls for progressive action that I have read in a very long time. Mack the Knife, Now a Transgender Hero of London’s Riotous Underground 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z And there are some ways in which the modernist critique of mass literature is just as trenchant today as it was back then. A Better Way to Think About the Genre Debate 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Thanks to her witty, trenchant analysis, Kael won that battle in the pages of Film Quarterly, but Sarris ultimately won the war. Cooperation and creative versatility distinguish winning directors 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z But I reread the book and realized how prescient it is and how trenchant and how funny it is. Sheik navigates Broadway, pop worlds 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z The album was a trenchant critique of the commodity form in the form of an irresistible commodity. Riff: Riff: The Iron Lady as Anti-Muse 2011-09-25T04:33:02Z He’s a lampoonist with a trenchant take on American culture and a gift for ferociously satiric one-liners. 'Barbecue' at the Geffen finds a ferociously funny way into the subject of race and identity 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The awarding committee said in a statement it chose Vargas Llosa "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt and defeat". Mario Vargas Llosa surprised and delighted by Nobel prize win 2010-10-07T17:47:00Z Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in October, with the Swedish Academy citing his "cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt and defeat". Vargas Llosa's Nobel address extols political power of literature 2010-12-08T13:46:00Z With this in mind, Tolentino’s insistence that we move beyond the personal may be her most trenchant political insight. Jia Tolentino on the ‘Unlivable Hell’ of the Web and Other Millennial Conundrums 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z And because of his prolific writings — muckraking journalism, trenchant essays, impassioned speeches, exquisite letters and some heartbreaking poems, Martí is arguably the more beloved. ‘José Martí,’ by Alfred J. López 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Still, the chief difficulty is the script, which increasingly substitutes tawdry violence for trenchant thought. Theater Review: ‘Holy Land’ Examines Dehumanizing Effects of Armed Conflict 2014-04-23T21:27:20Z Yet the fuel and oxygen of immigrant literature — movement, exile, nostalgia, cultural disorientation — are nevertheless what fire the pistons of this trenchant and panoramic novel. A Road Trip Novel Distills America Through Gary Shteyngart’s Hipstamatic Mind 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z The opera’s trenchant critique of the suburban American dream was deeply personal. ?A Quiet Place? Of Dysfunction And Dystopia 2010-10-22T08:06:00Z Her writing is trenchant and decisive; it’s also dominant. The Crucial Lessons of Democracy in “Selma” 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z That trenchant commentary was, from my over-10 demographic point of view, about right. Dance Review: The Shape of Fun (Birds and Forests Included) 2011-03-20T21:20:53Z He set up “Notes Nearing Ninety” with a page of trenchant one-liners: “You are old when someone mentions an event two years in the future and looks embarrassed,” he wrote. Review | Donald Hall’s parting gift: Essays on aging and not always gracefully 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z Rather, in 80 muscular minutes, Hnath, author of the trenchant “A Doll’s House, Part 2” — another marriage play — is providing a mere snapshot. Review | This new Broadway play about the Clintons’ marriage is as fascinating — and sad — as you’d expect 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z The star of the opera, as of the play, is ultimately Wilde’s trenchant wit. Review: Wilde’s Wacky ‘Earnest,’ Now With Arias 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Having now spent almost three decades concocting pop-culture satire both trenchant and profane, Judge probably understands that the actual utility of such work is practically nil. ‘Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe’ Review: Chortles in Space 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Part of what Johnson is after is to skewer political correctness, but his critique is more trenchant than mere parody. T. Geronimo Johnson brings culture clash to 'Welcome to Braggsville' 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z She's a thoughtful, trenchant feminist, and had reservations about the place of women in music that went far beyond "Shall I take off my top for Top of the Pops?" Bedsit Disco Queen by Tracey Thorn – review 2013-01-24T07:00:03Z Year after year she was moved to express herself: trenchant political criticism, urban anxiety, seasonal highs and lows. Feiffer?s Dancer Returns to Leap Ever So Seriously 2011-07-06T22:01:16Z You can see bright sparks, though, of the mature dramatist in the making, as well as flashes of the trenchant wit and contemplative melancholy that would become his signature. Review: The Ages of A.R. Gurney in the Wistful ‘Final Follies’ 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z While the love interest in that book is an annoyingly passive cipher, the narrator’s girlfriend is a free-love feminist with trenchant views on Asian stereotyping. Review: ‘The Sympathizer,’ a Novel About a Soldier, Spy and Film Consultant 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z From the muscular serenity of its opening bars, the Seventh is a triumph: its proportions are shapely, its themes striving and memorable, its moods convincingly trenchant or painfully vulnerable. Daniel Barenboim and the Music of Anton Bruckner 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z If only he had said this trenchant line to the director, “American Moor” might be a more dramatic play. Review: In ‘American Moor,’ an Insider’s Guide to ‘Othello’ 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z Insightful, keen, even trenchant observations of the minutiae of everyday life. Ellie Kemper: By the Book 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Extensively notated by Mr. Hutchinson, a professor at Cornell University, the book is no one’s idea of a literary masterpiece or a work of trenchant social criticism. A Breezy Chameleon, Blurring Social Borders 2014-02-16T22:07:35Z It’s a heady time for this playwright, who in both “Speech & Debate” and “Columbinus,” his 2006 New York debut, written with P J Paparelli, mined the awkwardness of the teenage years for surprisingly trenchant insights. Stephen Karam?s ?Sons of the Prophet? and ?Dark Sisters? 2011-10-09T03:17:20Z The essays are full of wit and charm, along with some trenchant observations. An Elinor Lipman feast: new novel, new essay collection 2013-05-08T23:42:09Z His is just one story in an emotionally and politically trenchant chronicle of capitalism, propaganda, conflicting values and labor rights. ‘American Factory’ Review: The New Global Haves and Have-Nots 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Mozart himself was a mercurial fellow, and the Israeli-American violinist matched him thrust for trenchant thrust of wit, poetry, and imagination. Shaham's Mozart dazzles Seattle Symphony audience 2012-10-26T19:16:04Z “For someone who was such a pioneering legal scholar to make Ailes an exception to the trenchant line she has drawn is a depressing irony.” The Curious Case of Susan Estrich 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z “The word psyche means two things in Greek,” Archie’s aunt, a literature professor, tells him in one of the novel’s most trenchant passages. Paul Auster’s ‘4321’ offers four parallel versions of one life 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z In moments like these “Turn Me Loose” is at its most trenchant and disorienting. Review: In ‘Turn Me Loose,’ Raw Jokes That Still Sear and Bite 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z In its citation, the Swedish Academy hailed Mr. Vargas Llosa, 74, “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt and defeat.” Mario Vargas Llosa Wins Nobel Literature Prize 2010-10-07T13:03:00Z The award is given for the "angriest, funniest, most trenchant" book review published in the last year. Mars-Jones wins Hatchet Job prize 2012-02-08T10:23:29Z And with actors of such ample imagination — including Winningham, so vinegary as Lily, and Ahmed so exquisitely reticent as Adele — the circumstances informing trenchant performances need not be visible to the audience. Review: Off Broadway, Jim Parsons Meets the Small Bang Theory 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z Still, to obsess over endings would be to miss the larger point of this trenchant book. In ‘Surviving Autocracy,’ Masha Gessen Tells Us to Face the Facts 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z It’s possibly the most trenchant passage in the book. The Struggles of Modern Motherhood in Essays, a Thriller and a Dystopian Novel 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z And as embodied by a bearded, seemingly sleep-deprived Daniel Radcliffe in the engagingly trenchant and bracingly acted new Broadway play, “The Lifespan of a Fact,” he’s also impossibly, abrasively, hilariously unbearable. Review | Daniel Radcliffe a stickler for the truth in buoyant ‘Lifespan of a Fact’ 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Other trenchant observations pepper “Fifty Shades of Black,” a scattershot satire of the book’s 2015 screen adaptation, but a lot of wading is required to find them. Review: ‘Fifty Shades of Black’ Sells Sex With (Intentional) Laughs 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z It was kind of distressing to see Ms. Jackson looking and sounding so feeble, and a relief when she became her trenchant self again during breaks. Glenda Jackson on Quitting Parliament, Playing Lear and Returning to Broadway 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Nancy Mairs, whose encounters with mental illness, disease and religious faith found expression in a series of trenchant, intensely personal essays and memoirs, died on Saturday at her home in Tucson. Nancy Mairs, Who Wrote About Her Mental Illness and Multiple Sclerosis, Dies at 73 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z "Death is often the point of life's joke," is one character's trenchant bon mot in a novel that is itself a cruel and brilliant extended joke. Classics corner: Laughter in the Dark 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z But also one of the most trenchant critiques of contemporary America I've ever seen in a comedy. Steve James picks his 5 favorite sports films 2012-09-20T21:52:08Z Insufficiently trenchant as satire, and not quite hilarious enough as entertainment, “Berlusconi: A New Musical” is caught between two stools. Review: ‘Berlusconi: A New Musical’ Is Hammy and Hamstrung 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Having at his disposal the magnificent resource he once called “that moldy old library of film trivia, my brain,” he was, as a critic, trenchant, vigorous, witty and surprising. An Appreciation: The Endlessly Curious Richard Corliss 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z “So much money, so little truth”: That’s how the trenchant modernist choreographer Antony Tudor saw the overstuffed excesses of big-story ballets half a century ago. American Ballet Theatre’s ‘Whipped Cream’: A fleeting sugar high 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z The U.K.-centric prize was established by review aggregating website The Omnivore to honor "the angriest, funniest, most trenchant" review published in a newspaper or magazine in 2011. Adam Mars-Jones wins Hatchet Job of the Year award 2012-02-07T20:32:13Z If this sounds like a recipe for clichés, Wohl suffuses the dialogue with trenchant detail and wit. Astute 'Barcelona' at the Geffen Playhouse leaves audiences guessing 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z While the current racial conflicts enhance and inform the experience of watching "Selma" and make the discussions of racial inequality more trenchant, modern times dim the power of "Gone With the Wind." We view movies through the lens of our times; case in point, 'Selma' 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z But it’s also a fiercely contemporary record, in terms of both its electroacoustic textures and its trenchant political commentary. Terri Lyne Carrington on the Power of Betting on Yourself 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z She portrays herself as an anti-institutional autodidact, but somewhere along the way she developed a trenchant critique of exo-cities and a honed spirituality. There's no pretending in Chrissie Hynde's spare, deft memoir 'Reckless' 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Two years later, this MacArthur “genius” grant recipient, National Book Award winner and trenchant cultural critic also had revealed his secret identity as a writer of comic books. Review | In Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘The Water Dancer,’ a slave makes a superhero’s journey 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z “Baldwin” offers trenchant examinations of the American condition, and “Raisin” questions the American dream. Onstage This Fall, the Enduring Friendship of Baldwin and Hansberry 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z The show’s tireless commitment to the laugh feels almost radical, given prestige TV’s current preference for emotionally trenchant comedy. ‘Black Monday’ Mines ’80s Excess for Comedy and Commentary 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z When Vargas Llosa was awarded the 2010 Nobel prize for literature, the Swedish Academy praised his "cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." Mario Vargas Llosa: a life in writing 2012-06-15T21:55:18Z The catalogue is a far more trenchant document, with discussions of Dante and Derrida, an analysis of art, capitalism, utopia and the end of the Cold War, immigration and purgatory, South Africa and apartheid. Wandering from the straight path of clarity, it’s still full of powerful art 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Art from the 1970s and ’80s is presented as prescient of what’s being made now, and new art is viewed as putting a trenchant spin on the past. At ‘Greater New York,’ Rising Art Stars Meet the Old School 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z The Swedish Academy said it honored Vargas Llosa for mapping the "structures of power" and for his "trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt and defeat." Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize 2010-10-07T19:38:00Z Rock, best known for his trenchant comedy routines about relations between black people and white people, most recently wrote, directed and starred in the film "Top Five," released earlier this month. Comedian Chris Rock and wife to divorce: People magazine 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z The title is taken from a play by Jean Genet, in which black actors don “white face” to enact a trenchant critique of race in post-Colonial society. ‘200 Years of African American Art’ at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z But the Lonely Island does not traffic in trenchant topical satire. Review: Andy Samberg Spoofs Pop Stars Without Spite. And That’s 4 Real. 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z The internet is still full of trenchant “Diane v Rebecca” arguments, with plenty of defenders on either side, and that wouldn’t have happened if the producers had simply replaced like for like. Loss leader: can a TV show continue without its main character? 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z With good reason: The 2010 Nobel Prize in literature was bestowed upon Vargas Llosa mostly for “his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat.” Mario Vargas Llosa’s delicious melodrama of sex, love and revenge 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z After viewing footage from the first day’s shoot, Reinhardt offers many trenchant criticisms that Huston largely dismisses. Lillian Ross’s Brilliant Chronicle of the Power Struggle Behind a John Huston Film 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z "The Insult" is a trenchant, even devastating, movie that will hopefully win the Oscar as Best Foreign-Language Film. ‘Beirut’ Trailer Was Supposed to Thrill. Instead It Offended. 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Yet the compressed installation of this show shortchanges other moving-image works, particularly her politically trenchant films of the 1970s, made while many other Brazilian artists were in exile. Lygia Pape’s Brazil, From the Beach to the Barricades 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z This is a book that’s trenchant and intelligent; wry but not glib; humane but never indulgent. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z It’s a fascinating thing to behold: literary criticism that’s deeply personal, hysterically funny and starkly honest in addition to being scholarly and trenchant. ‘B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal,’ by J.C. Hallman 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z The initial days unfold at a vacation’s leisurely pace, without much happening but with plenty of wit and trenchant observation. Review | Rumaan Alam’s ‘Leave the World Behind’ is a brilliant, suspenseful examination of race and class 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z Come for the suave personalities and impeccably tailored suits, stay for the trenchant critique of modern capitalism and its ivory-tower movers and shakers. New Directors/New Films Turns 50 With a Bracingly Eclectic Lineup 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z The rather better-known adage is the less ostentatious but rather more trenchant “never look back”. Why Daniel Radcliffe and Anne Hathaway should think twice about returning to past glories 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Now in its second year, it is awarded to the "angriest, funniest, most trenchant book review" of the past 12 months, and this year's winner will be chosen from eight nominees. Rushdie, Amis targeted in critical maulings of 2012 2013-01-08T15:39:20Z For decades, he was perhaps best known for his trenchant and transfixing sculptures, which were often assembled from found objects. The Ten Best Albums of 2018 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z But, in his own flawed way, he offers up an intelligent, idiosyncratic, and often trenchant critique of American social, political, and cultural life. Living with Frank Bascombe: An Interview with Richard Ford 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Anti-Islam activists have burned several copies of the Koran in Sweden and Denmark, two of the most liberal countries in the world that allow trenchant criticism of religion in the name of free speech. Sweden to expel man behind recent Koran burning demos - TV4 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z Throw in LaValle’s gorgeous prose and trenchant observations on racism, social media and bookselling and both Due and I were all in. 6 books to get you started with Black horror, classic and new 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z Times city editor Bill Boyarsky, 88, tackled the age issue in a recent episode of their trenchant and always entertaining podcast — Inside Golden State Politics. Column: Is age really just a number? Not when it comes to Biden and Trump 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z Sweden and Denmark are among the most liberal countries in the world, and have long allowed trenchant criticism of religions. Sweden raises terrorist alert level after Koran burnings 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z Denmark and Sweden are among the most secular and liberal countries in the world, and have long allowed trenchant public criticism of religions. Explainer: Why are Sweden and Denmark having a crisis over the Koran? 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z The show sends up the studios while raising trenchant, humor-laced points about why the writers are on strike in the first place. They're on strike, but these writers are finding ways to write and create 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z The social commentary swings from pop to political, all with the same light but incisive tone, which is what makes “The Blackening” both entertaining and trenchant. Review: Horror-comedy 'The Blackening' drives a stake into the heart of a racist trope 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Nikolai was much less of a mystic than his brother had been, but he was equally trenchant in his opposition to any loosening of the Russian social order. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z She draws out themes that feel as trenchant as ever, especially the essential truth that bodies, in all their mysterious and unruly ways, cannot be controlled, not by ourselves and not by others. Review: 'Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret' is as lovely and amazing as the Judy Blume novel 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z The Poetry prize was awarded to Dionne Brand for “Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems” a collection which displays “Brand’s ongoing body of thought—trenchant, lyrical, absonant, discordant, and meaning-making,” according to the judges’ citation. Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Winners Announced 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z “Fires in the Mirror,” a trenchant exploration of the community devastated by the 1991 Crown Heights riots in Brooklyn, was a breakthrough hit and a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize. Perspective | Anna Deavere Smith takes a fresh step with first opera, ‘The Walkers’ 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z In actual fact, “Your Driver Is Waiting” turns out to be a punchy page-turner imbued with dark comedy and trenchant social commentary. ‘Your Driver Is Waiting’ review: Priya Guns’ dark, fierce, funny novel 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z “There’s a deep hunger born of this trenchant dissatisfaction and disillusionment with what has been handed to the younger generation, and I think they’re just raising their gaze to higher things.” ‘Woodstock’ for Christians: Revival Draws Thousands to Kentucky Town 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Honig is particularly trenchant in his analysis of the criminal investigation led by Fulton County, Ga., District Attorney Fani Willis into Trump’s attempts to influence Georgia election officials. Review | The tricks used by the powerful, including Trump, to avoid justice 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z Navalny is President Vladimir Putin's most outspoken domestic critic and a trenchant opponent of the war in Ukraine. Russia's Navalny accuses authorities of using prison to break his health 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's most outspoken domestic critic and a trenchant opponent of the war in Ukraine, is currently serving sentences totalling 11-1/2 years on charges including fraud and contempt of court. Navalny says mercenary boss visited his jail to recruit for Ukraine campaign 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z The power of a relic isn’t in its aesthetics but in its narrative — and this unremarkable domestic object holds within it the story of Manifest Destiny overlaid with Didion’s trenchant counternarrative. Joan Didion remains elusive in a Hammer Museum show inspired by her life 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Perhaps the most trenchant complaint I heard was that there is no clear plan for supporting Puerto Rico’s agricultural sector. What Hurricanes Taught Puerto Rico About Feeding Itself 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z But he saved some of his most trenchant criticism of the West for railing against the cartoons South Park and Peppa Pig. Russia toughens anti-LGBT 'propaganda' ban to apply to all adults 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z “Throughout, the language is both precise and evocative, and the author’s evaluation of the various circumstances is readable, trenchant, and intersectional,” reads a starred Kirkus review. 5 spooky books that will put you in the Halloween mood 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z “She is asking very trenchant questions and demonstrating that it’s important for the justices to actively engage with the material and issues and arguments and people before them.” New Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson makes herself heard 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z The composition was inspired by Francisco de Goya’s renowned, politically trenchant aquatint, “The sleep of reason produces monsters.” Review: In a must-see L.A. show, painter Bob Thompson uses art history to consider social injustice 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z But besides being trenchant examinations of modern life, his movies are also very fun. Unpacking the wild twists, excessive vomit in 'Triangle of Sadness': 'Maybe it was too much' 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z But Ng — whose spectacular 2014 debut, “Everything I Never Told You,” was followed by 2017’s equally trenchant “Little Fires Everywhere” — roots her hero’s journey in books and libraries. Review: 'Little Fires Everywhere' author Celeste Ng ventures boldly into the dark future 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z The king’s death is conveyed to Elizabeth without words as she spots Philip’s trenchant expression from across the well-manicured lawn of their lodge. Here are ‘The Crown’ episodes to watch to learn more about the queen 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z If they have artistic cousins, they’ll be found in Philip Guston’s trenchant paintings of hooded Klansmen begun in the late 1960s. Review: At MOCA, painter Tala Madani playfully smashes the patriarchy with pie 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z At the same time, he draws trenchant comparisons between the Islamic State group in Syria and certain parts of the American right. American lies, fear and violence through a war correspondent’s eyes 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Gorbachev, the party, the KGB and the military were lambasted with open and often trenchant criticism. Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the Soviet Union, dies at 91 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z I know I’ve cited this remark before, but it’s so trenchant it’s worth repeating: Once, as I was writing about the difference between Los Angeles and Orange counties, I sought out the same Robert Winter. How L.A. became the land of the single-family — and singular — home 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z Perhaps the most trenchant features of “Hotbed” are the parallels to today’s landscape. Review | An unruly women’s club that pointed the way to modern feminism 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z That particular chicken finally came home to roost two weeks ago, nearly four years after the trenchant exchange, when the justice voted to strip women of a constitutionally protected right to seek abortion care. Review: At the Hammer Museum, Andrea Bowers' art becomes an act of nonviolent civil disobedience 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z Wade has launched trenchant court and political battles across the states. Your Monday Briefing 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z The Wall Street Journal once called Mr. Shields one of the “wittiest political journalists in America” and “frequently the most trenchant, fair-minded, and thoughtful.” Mark Shields, columnist and TV political commentator, dies at 85 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z She has crafted a trenchant allegory of life in these United States over the past several years, not coincidentally also filled with plagues and schemes and dastardly leaders. 10 books to add to your reading list in June 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z Woolly Mammoth Theatre was an early proponent, staging Hunter’s trenchant “A Bright New Boise” in 2011. Perspective | To revive us, we need plays like the Pulitzer-winning ‘Fat Ham’ 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z Movie screens have lit up with footage from the front lines and films with trenchant meaning in relationship to the conflict. Cannes Film Festival, born out of war, grapples with Ukraine 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z Yet 2017’s cynical if trenchant “Everything Now” turned off many in the band’s audience; it was the first of the group’s five LPs not to earn Pitchfork’s coveted Best New Music commendation. For Arcade Fire, a return to big songs, still with some big worries 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z Add a trenchant literary dimension — the play converses with Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” — and “John Proctor” is, its slightly slow and expository beginning aside, pushing for a 4.0 GPA. Review | High marks for Studio Theatre’s ‘John Proctor Is a Villain’ 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Not that “Memory” intends any particularly trenchant social commentary such as this. Review: Liam Neeson out for revenge? 'Memory' makes you want to forget about it 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z The author sums up with a trenchant point: Bernie may never see “the promised land,” but he did win. Opinion | Still Feeling the Bern 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z Some of the most trenchant of these efforts, in fact, are occurring at the intersection of race and Judaism. Jewish diversity is becoming an ever more vibrant issue onstage 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Surprising, I know, from a show not usually known for having the most trenchant satire. Trump's "hole-in-one" and Herschel Walker's "degree": Why MAGA loves lies too big to be believed 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z It was a bracing introduction to the program’s trenchant negotiation of beauty and grief. Review | Kennedy Center’s ambitious ‘Cartography Project’ makes a strong showing with eight premieres 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z A more trenchant line of criticism has come from Black women who have rejected the arc of Kaneisha’s journey. Review: Jeremy O. Harris' 'Slave Play' awakens the Mark Taper Forum with a jolt 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z 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. Review | A mother’s quest for genetic answers about her son’s mysterious ailments 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z By singling out extremists as Israeli, Theophilos's criticism was more personal and trenchant than that of a collective statement issued by the heads of other churches in Jerusalem before Christmas. Jerusalem church leader says Israeli extremists threaten Christian presence in city 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z Her trenchant, frequently contrarian opinions on subjects as varied as the films of Woody Allen and the traffic in Los Angeles were matched by a precise style that was nearly universally admired. Joan Didion, who chronicled American decadence and hypocrisy, dies at 87 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Some analysts believe the scammers may have gone after her because of her trenchant views. The Harvard Job Offer No One at Harvard Ever Heard Of 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z She applied a similar, and equally trenchant, criticism to Black anti-racism, which she said was often grounded in a patriarchal worldview that excluded the experiences of Black women. bell hooks, pathbreaking Black feminist, dies 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z A professor on Georgetown’s law faculty, she offers the rare and trenchant perspective that deep study of legal theory and deep respect for real-world practice can bring. Review | For Black kids, typical childhood behavior is often seen as a crime 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z A more expansive and trenchant and, let’s hope, gripping look at Buttigieg may yet be told, perhaps in tandem with another presidential run. Review: 'Mayor Pete' ably chronicles Buttigieg's presidential bid, but expect no surprises 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z But he acknowledged that the firm had been hit with "trenchant criticism" and needed to be more transparent. Clegg: Facebook is mainly 'barbecues and bar mitzvahs' 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z It’s an exquisitely sensitive series, but perhaps its greatest achievement is how matter-of-fact and slice-of-life it feels, despite its heavy subject matter and trenchant social criticisms. Perspective | The best and worst of this year’s fall TV 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Caruncho’s small gestures to link the properties are perhaps the most trenchant changes, challenging the country’s complicated attitude toward land ownership and privacy. In a Fading Portuguese Village, the Gardens Bloom Again 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z But “Queenpins” mangles any and all possibilities for trenchant social commentary. Review: 'Queenpins' is a crime against your time 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Ms. Finnegan’s Gawker is, so far, funny and occasionally trenchant — I’m surprised to say the two pieces I’ve enjoyed most are both literary criticism — but it hasn’t yet had a breakout hit. If Gawker Is Nice, Is It Still Gawker? 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z There are trenchant observations on Japan’s shameful treatment of ethnic minorities and those considered to be of lower caste. The star Japanese crime novelist almost too good to translate 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Still, how else to interpret the most trenchant passages in the novella, which reflect on mortality and time? Review: Cynthia Ozick, nearly 93, writes her age in the evocative novella "Antiquities" 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z In fact, a few brave Democratic senators were trenchant critics of the Vietnam War, into which two Democratic presidents had waded into. Military might, market ideology and moral posturing: A toxic combination that has poisoned America 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z I learned that from “Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration,” Reuben Jonathan Miller’s trenchant guide to the legal and social cruelties piled on Americans who have felony convictions. Review | For 20 million felons, the punishment never stops 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z But any trenchant observations to be found in this “Blithe Spirit” only pop and fizz into thin air like Champagne bubbles. Review: Why revive Noël Coward's 'Blithe Spirit'? Why, indeed 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z A trenchant conversation piece from a promising new director, “Test Pattern” provides ample room for one’s biases and privilege to shape our interpretation of what’s on screen. Review: Shatara Michelle Ford's potent 'Test Pattern' opens a conversation on bias and privilege 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z Blurring fiction and nonfiction — Sanderson was a real person, whose journals and other writings Tobar used as source material — the book asks trenchant questions about imagination, appropriation and where, or whether, we belong. The 10 best California books of 2020 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z Mr. Ruddy’s cynicism brings me back to the most trenchant attack from conservative media on the mainstream media: that journalists think conservatives are stupid. The King of Trump TV Thinks You’re Dumb Enough to Buy It 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z But its members were best known as trenchant conservative ideologues, preaching austerity and refusing to cede ground on social issues. Win or Lose, It’s Donald Trump’s Republican Party 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z Her trenchant insights put the mundane into a global perspective, such as her comment that President Trump’s “ambivalence about face masks has become a matter of national security.” Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Thank you for space to breathe. Now back to reality. 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z In her trenchant style, replete with personal stories, Lane asserts that the United States is failing to adequately track its population, economy and society. Democracy suffers when government statistics fail 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z For all the hopeful murals, more trenchant messages were written on Kenosha walls, too. 2 shootings, 2 days, 2 miles: US inequality microcosm bared 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z A more trenchant criticism is that these videos show exactly the kind of police abuses the protesters are supposed to be out there fighting against. Opinion | Videos of Portland protesters show a complicated relationship with police and policing 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z The more allegorically inclined “Waiting for the Barbarians” can’t hope to match those earlier films in all their trenchant specificity — or their hallucinatory visual power, despite the artful cinematography here by the veteran Chris Menges. Review: Mark Rylance brings nuance to the stolid anti-colonialist epic 'Waiting for the Barbarians' 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z More than a decade ago he conducted research on the role of government in pandemic planning, and has been a trenchant critic of the current response. Carl Bergstrom: 'People are using data to bullshit' 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z Even so, he has continued to write trenchant essays that have been published abroad, and told friends that he accepted the possibility of detention. Outspoken Chinese Professor Is Said to Be Released From Detention 2020-07-12T04:00:00Z Her portrait of a New York under threat from an ancient evil, and defended by human embodiments of its five boroughs, is hugely enjoyable, as well as a trenchant take on inequality and gentrification. The great escape: 50 brilliant books to transport you this summer 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z The president’s most trenchant critics are often accused of hyperbole or hysteria, charged with “Trump derangement syndrome”. John Bolton confirms Trump's wickedness – but still he deserves Americans' scorn 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z And to your point about the deep, trenchant feminism of “Fury Road”: It is as fully felt and fully realized an element of this universe as anything else. Is 'Mad Max: Fury Road' the ultimate summer movie? Let's discuss 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z Kudos to Max Boot for his trenchant analysis in his April 2 op-ed, “Covid-19 is killing off our old imperatives of national defense,” of our misguided approach to national security funding. Opinion | Americans must take care of their health-care heroes 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z In the rest of the British Isles, there are no active measures at present to enforce self-isolation, and guidance on self-isolation is less trenchant. Coronavirus: Man arrested for 'failing to self-isolate' on Isle of Man 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z On those events, and on nearly every major intervening world affair, Mr. Daniel could be counted on for trenchant commentary, if not also for his participation at the side of their protagonists. Jean Daniel, preeminent French journalist and intellectual, dies at 99 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z And it’s not just Bloomberg’s money that appeals to them – or even his trenchant Twitter battles with the president demonstrating that he refuses to be bullied. Once a longshot, Bloomberg is gaining ground in California. Will it last? 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z Not long after, she was the first candidate to bring up Trump’s impeachment and his acquittal by the Senate, a trenchant reminder of the stakes of the election. How they fared: Democrats fight for survival in New Hampshire debate 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z “Up Yours Delors,” right-wing tabloid The Sun famously declared on its front page in November 1990, just before Thatcher was ousted for her increasingly trenchant approach to Europe. Britain’s EU Journey: When Thatcher turned all euroskeptic 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z A Washington Post reviewer called it “an extraordinary debut … a memoir enlarged and illuminated by Woolf’s insights, but mediated by Smyth’s trenchant observations and wit.” Check out these 6 paperbacks with colons in their titles, all worth pausing over in February 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Gerber tries to use his sermons to steer congregants to a less trenchant view of politics by urging them to accept that others may disagree with them. 'We forgive him': evangelical Christian swing voters stay loyal to Trump 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Dr. Himmelfarb continued to write into her 90s, never losing her sharp edge or the trenchant quality of her prose, as she sought to use history to illuminate the current age. Gertrude Himmelfarb, scholar of Victorian era and neoconservative thinker, dies at 97 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z It was an odd symmetry that 2015’s Booker was won by Paul Beatty, the first ever American victor, with The Sellout, a trenchant satire on racial segregation and identity in contemporary America. From The Big Short to Normal People: the books that defined the decade 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z “Parasite”: Writer-director Bong Joon Ho keeps the audience guessing in this twisty, comedic and trenchant film about two families - one working class, one wealthy - whose stories become intertwined in a modernist palace. ‘Once Upon a Time,’ ‘Portrait’ top AP’s 2019 best films list 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Guilluy, the author of La France périphérique, is a trenchant critic of what he describes as 21st century “citadels”, which have become the “shop window of happy globalisation”. How the megacities of Europe stole a continent’s wealth 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z The world premiere of Judith Leora’s trenchant comedy “Showpony” last year was a big hit for the Victory Theatre in Burbank. Review: The emotionally shattering 'Elijah' starts with a death-penalty debate in TGI Fridays 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Slim majorities of Democratic voters say they would prefer a moderate candidate and one who promises to find common ground, rather than a trenchant liberal. 5 Takeaways From the Latest Iowa Poll 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z Eugenics, never without its trenchant opponents, became an increasingly crucial part of a new world order over the course of the twentieth century. Ethical research — the long and bumpy road from shirked to shared 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z First up: the solo show “Aliens, Immigrants & Other Evildoers” presented by Latino Theater Company in downtown L.A. offers trenchant social commentary. Latino Theater Company pulls no punches with 'Aliens, Immigrants & Other Evildoers' 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z A trenchant critic of past administrations, Lopez Obrador said the previous strategy had turned Mexico into a “graveyard” and that his critics wanted him to continue with it. Mexico 'did well' in releasing Guzman son to avoid violence, president says 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z The Internet was overwhelmed with trenchant, and cutting, critiques from legal experts. Republicans Trash Trump on Syria—but Not Ukraine 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z But it’s also a tribute to a filmmaker whose understanding of the world is as persuasive in its cruelty as it is trenchant in its humanity. Review: Thrilling and devastating, 'Parasite' is one of the year's very best movies 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z That position was both trenchant and incredibly confusing. Forget Brexit. The new battle is over Jeremy Corbyn’s successor | Zoe Williams 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z So should more students, some of whom have written trenchant analyses of this folly, as I’ve recounted in the columns linked above. Hope, history and common ground: The story of two Yale buildings — and America 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z The next morning, the Indian newspapers and several liberal commentators, including some of Narendra Modi’s most trenchant critics gushed over his moving speech. Opinion | The Silence Is the Loudest Sound 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Her 1992 book, “The Way We Never Were,” took a trenchant look at American nostalgia for the good old 1950s. A Centennial Celebration of Suffrage: Stephanie Coontz: ‘The Way We Never Were’ 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z He is trenchant on psychiatry’s failures, from prefrontal lobotomy to ‘care in the community’; critical of neuro-reductionism; eloquent on diagnosis debates; and ever aware of the human suffering at his chronicle’s core. A century of psychiatry, the realities of migration, and Greenland’s ticking ice clock: Books in brief 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Still, it’s difficult for even a space kid to argue with Lepore’s trenchant line: “My country went to the moon and all I got was this lousy surveillance state.” Half a century ago, the nation came together to put a human on the moon. Why the long decline since? 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z And the notion that it was somehow funnier, I thought, really, really diminished what was a serious, trenchant, and deeply, deeply perceptive idea. Ta-Nehisi Coates Revisits the Case for Reparations 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z The first “Gloria” had the benefit of originality and a trenchant political subtext rooted in recent Chilean history. Critic’s Choice: Julianne Moore rings true in ‘Gloria Bell’ 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Herself a trenchant actor, performance is her way into Restoration comedy. Sex, money and idiots in power: Restoration comedy's endless appeal 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z In the 1960s, the trenchant, bluesy wail of his horn served as a foil for James Brown’s screams and grunts on such classics as “Cold Sweat.” Saxophonist Maceo Parker has done it all 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Rich Lowry made a trenchant observation in his Politico column that applies both to the subpoena battle and the Times story about Trump's massive business losses. 'Crisis' mode: Can Trump bait the Democrats into impeaching him? 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Not since Ingrid Bergman has there been so trenchant a demonstration of what it means to maintain a brave face. The Genius of Julianne Moore in “Gloria Bell” 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z So argues economist Dieter Helm — chair of independent government advisory body the Natural Capital Committee — in this trenchant manifesto for change. Adventures of a bathynaut, art goes algorithmic, and CRISPR encapsulated: Books in brief 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z "They took a such a trenchant line on the backstop, such a very political line," he said. Varadkar leaked Brexit conversation - Raab 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Among the most trenchant criticism is the belief that Slavic Macedonians are bent on appropriating Greek history, not least the ancient warrior king Alexander the Great. Thousands of Greeks protest over name change for Macedonia 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z On the same principle, the case for a female President is overwhelming, given some of the trenchant actresses who have been elected to that role, on TV: Cherry Jones, Geena Davis, and Alfre Woodard. “Glass,” the Last Piece of M. Night Shyamalan’s Superhero Puzzle 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Rowland’s choice of a specifically British grandfather clock establishes a subtle but trenchant familial link to the mother country, principal market for the exports of cotton and tobacco on which the South relied. Review: In Cameron Rowland's 'D37' at MOCA, the legacy of slavery takes frightfully familiar forms 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z In Israel, he was a trenchant critic and dissenter. Amos Oz: the novelist prophet who never lost hope for Israel 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z The foolishness of the balancing trick is transformed into trenchant racial spectacle. Review: Dot by dot, painter Peter Williams makes points about racial violence 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Interweaving cultural touchstones, science history and trenchant insight, Jasanoff calls for a biology that reintegrates humanistic concerns to prevent a reductionist scientific hegemony. Ethics at the cutting edge, beastly movers and shakers, and teeth as time machines: Books in brief. 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Am I at risk precisely the same error I perceive in others: My analysis is trenchant, wise and realistic; everyone else’s is naïve and deluded! Progressives, moderates and (most of all) pundits: Get over yourselves, already? 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z Will someone who was a trenchant critic of Trump in 2016 become a thorn in the side of the president? Will Mitt Romney be a thorn in Trump's side if he wins Utah Senate race? 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z But the 44th president’s words were as trenchant as ever. ‘This is Georgia’: key state shows midterms fight in black and white 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z Polling consistently shows that immigration is an especially trenchant issue for Republican voters. ‘Pushing every button’: Trump mobilizes the government in campaign’s final days 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z As a diagnosis of the ills of “late capitalism,” this book delivers a trenchant critique of the ravages of inequality and a passionate cry for greater balance. Review | How much inequality can capitalism endure? 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Banksy began his career in the Bristol graffiti scene, tagging buildings with politically trenchant pieces critiquing police violence, Western imperialism and consumer capitalism. Banksy pranks auction by shredding million-dollar painting. Now it may be worth even more - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z A hectic blend of crossed signals, mistaken motivations and trenchant dialogue, “School” is written in deceptively elegant verse that adds comedic shock value to its crudities. 99-Seat Beat: A Jewish telling of "Merchant of Venice," the race for the A-Bomb, and much more - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z The trenchant, startling “This Is America” was instantly one of the year’s most discussed singles and music videos, but his subsequent pack of single releases have been pure, balmy escapism. Drake, Prince, Janelle Monae and more: This fall's must-hear albums and must-see concerts 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z This is, in other words, the trenchant all-female heist picture that “Ocean’s 8,” with all its shallow pleasures, never even aspired to be. At Toronto, Steve McQueen's 'Widows' blurs genre and politics into a corrosive cocktail 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z “Isis lied to me,” she recalls, her voice more trenchant. ‘Only bones remain’: shattered Yazidis fear returning home 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z There was trenchant public criticism of the policy, but Mr Morrison proceeded with his severe approach to the portfolio and built a reputation as a tough operator. The rise of Scott Morrison, Australia's new PM 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z His questions about the Communist Party were trenchant. Opinion | A professor dared tell the truth in China — and was fired 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z The salt in the wound of this painfully out-of-touch film is the footage of real L.A. homeless camps and people, as if the film were saying something trenchant about the issue. Review: Hollywood satire ‘An L.A. Minute’ offends more than it bites 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Other fans said talk radio’s trenchant humor and satire was misunderstood by smug, politically correct liberal elites. Quebec’s ‘Trash Radio’ Host Fires Up Outrage, and Big Ratings 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z The tonal balance is tricky, and it isn’t helped by the filmmaker’s penchant for making his most trenchant arguments with blunt, billboard-like speeches and on-the-nose comparisons to the toxic environment of today. Review | ‘BlacKkKlansman’ is Spike Lee’s best, and most necessary, movie in years 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z Typically, an evening with Newman consists of the man at his piano, surveying some of the most trenchant, funny, heart-wrenching, poignant and politically savage songs in the history of popular music. Randy Newman will survey 50-year career solo, with band and full orchestra at Hollywood Bowl 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z The trenchant headline recounting the interview in Baptist News read: “God Wants Humans to Use Natural Gas and Oil, Not ‘Keep It in the Ground,’ says E.P.A. Opinion | The White House Is Tearing Down the Wall Between Church and State 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Meskell offers a trenchant critique of how UNESCO’s aim of preventing war sits oddly with projects commemorating sites associated with violence. UNESCO’s troubled drive for peace through science and culture 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z This trenchant familial story appears early in “Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death,” the latest installment in Yale’s “Jewish Lives” series — individual biographical volumes that explore Jewish identity. Review | How Harvey Milk’s fight for social justice was fueled by Jewish tradition 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z I mentioned this to my daughter and she said "You've just been racially profiled," a trenchant observation Roth might have appreciated. Roth a bard of the unbridled libido, but also a writer whose passing brings tears 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Mazzucato’s trenchant analysis is a compelling call to reinvent value as a key concept to help us achieve the world we all want. How to retool our concept of value 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z And they offered trenchant observations and analyses that remain relevant and instructive. Review | Female writers and thinkers unfraid to speak their minds 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Bethany: As the last person in the United States of America to see “Black Panther,” allow me to offer my trenchant opinion: It is great! Dinner at a Movie: A new Bellevue cinema offers the very best upscale dinner-and-drinks bet yet 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z After the Parkland, Fla., school shooting, Sailor J uploaded a trenchant review of the “Thoughts and Prayers” makeup line. Perspective | Let’s ignore YouTube’s worst creators for a moment and watch these 8 channels we actually love 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z But what's with the "young" part, which brings to mind turbulent emotional dramas rather than trenchant economic theory? 'The Young Karl Marx' explores the unexpected early days of a revolutionary historical figure 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Now, just a few weeks into January, she is already making headlines with typically trenchant comments on the #MeToo movement. Margaret Atwood: ‘I am not a prophet. Science fiction is really about now’ 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z Jimmy Carter’s chief speechwriter, James Fallows, wrote a trenchant piece in The Atlantic Monthly called “The Passionless Presidency,” portraying his former boss as a good man but an ineffective chief executive. Analysis: How ‘Fire and Fury’ differs from other tell-alls 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z There are trenchant assessments of the clash between Western and Islamic civilizations and the need for Muslims to admit the moral and spiritual deficiencies of their faith. The Secular Republic of Iran 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Paper products titan Georgia-Pacific and its owners, Koch Industries, are taken to the proverbial woodshed in the trenchant, disturbing documentary “Company Town.” 'Company Town' takes aim at factory owners in Arkansas 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z The trenchant questions and thoughtful discussion in Big Mind, however, will help us to reimagine our institutions and convince us of the urgency of doing so. How to mobilize group intelligence The most trenchant criticism of President Trump’s foreign policy is that it risks forfeiting America’s hard-won position of global leadership. Trump Brings Foreign Policy Back to Earth 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z Yet he still manages an occasional interview with the foreign media, his manner affable, his opinions trenchant, and with a cigarette never far from his lips. China’s all-powerful leader should heed the lessons from history, former official says 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Sam Pollard’s energetic, trenchant documentary “Two Trains Runnin’ ” spotlights a time when this beating heart of African American culture underscored a curious crossroads of the civil rights movement. Music documentary 'Two Trains Runnin'' captures 1964 collision of blues and civil rights 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z With every passing month I yearn for the time when you could read an NY Times article and anticipate a trenchant and insightful analysis... On London’s Streets, Black Cabs and Uber Fight for a Future 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z But the sympathy, wry humor and trenchant probing of Akhtar’s writing, and the quietly authentic power of Jolly’s Zarina compensate for a few glitches, and help us accept a predictable upbeat ending. A Muslim-American family confronts faith, feminism and romance 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z A trenchant, persistent critic of Jeremy Corbyn who still harbours vast doubts about him, but acknowledges his election performance reshaped the landscape. Could a new political party be on the way? - BBC News 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z His 2011 book “Europe’s Angry Muslims,” which criticized Britain, France and Germany as failing to properly integrate Muslim immigrants, was praised by the Economist as “a trenchant indictment of European policies.” Robert Leiken, political scientist whose scholarship bucked party lines, dies at 78 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z Ms. Dvorak’s well-written, trenchant piece captured a telling, tragic moment in a changing city. Opinion | The closure of a D.C. oasis for the down-on-their-luck is a sign of the times 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z It also plans to start endorsing candidates in Democratic primaries; and perhaps launch primary challenges to Democratic incumbents who are considered insufficiently left-wing or trenchant in their resistance to Mr Trump. A surge in activism could reinvigorate the Democratic Party 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z And she becomes only more vital and influential each passing year, with her trenchant, incisive sensibility slicing right through people’s exterior posturing to reveal the real, soft stuff inside. Indie Focus: Going the distance with more from Cannes, 'War Machine,' 'Wakefield' and 'Manifesto' 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z And yet Iran was the country singled out for trenchant criticism while Gulf regimes were told “we’re not going to lecture anyone”. Who better to lecture Muslims than Islamic expert Donald Trump? | David Shariatmadari 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z In this trenchant exposé, investigative journalist Art Levine examines challenges such as US$4-billion cuts to state mental-health budgets, as well as case studies of casualties, from prison inmates to teenagers in residential 'boot camps'. Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z As deliciously trenchant and barbed as her past works, Fay Weldon’s “Before the War” takes up where her recent “Long Live the King” left off. Mother and daughter on different sides in Fay Weldon’s ‘War’ 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z This bracing, hallucinatory and daring film mixes formal experimentation with trenchant social commentary about the history of Baltimore, red-lining and rats as a symbol for racial and class inequality. Locarno: What's a nice Swiss film festival doing in L.A.? 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z R. Nicholas Burns, a veteran United States diplomat and a trenchant critic of the president, called her “one of the most pragmatic and one of the most courageous voices in the administration.” Once a Trump Critic, Nikki Haley Casts Herself as His Leading Diplomat 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z Lest one think “A Proper Place” has any trenchant observations about 20th-century British colonialism and class stratification, the show’s opening underlines how the estate’s servants just love to serve. Review: Village musical proposes a new social order that isn’t really new 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Brandon Rottinghaus, a politics professor at the University of Houston, noted the readiness of Trump to express trenchant opinions on all manner of issues, however minor or outside the normal scope of his day-to-day tasks. Rick Perry ‘deeply troubled’ by election of gay Texas A&M student president 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z This sequel, set 20 years after the original “Trainspotting,” is a trenchant continuation and amplification of themes from the first picture. ‘T2 Trainspotting’ review: Choose this sequel with the original bad boys 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z But growing political support for his trenchant politics of division is unlikely to bring peace closer for anyone caught up in the region’s bitter, long-running conflict. Bezalel Smotrich: Israel’s far-right demagogue, drawing fringe beliefs to the centre | Emma Graham-Harrison 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z Woodman offers a painstaking, trenchant diagnosis of his own movement. Burst your bubble: conservative articles on Trump's address to Congress 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z A trenchant New York Post headline — “ ‘Sanctuary City’ Law Let Gang Member Walk Free From Rikers” — lit up social media as Trump supporters across the country railed against New York’s defiance. Trump Immigration Policies Pose Conflict for Police in ‘Sanctuary Cities’ 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z “The Refugees” confirms Nguyen as an agile, trenchant writer, able to inhabit a number of contrary points of view. ‘The Refugees’: The past haunts the present for Vietnamese Americans 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z “Because by apologising to the moisture, I was conveying to Mr Chrysostom, in the most trenchant way possible, my own opinion of his character.” 'I fell out of bed laughing': writers on their favourite funny book 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z Dead-black comedy mixes with trenchant social commentary, even if it eventually takes us out of the compound to something a little more familiar. The top 10 interesting-imperfect movies of 2016 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z Despite the bleak situation, there is no trenchant wisdom to be unearthed here. Even with the ultimate clock ticking, 'Two Weeks to Go' is more selfie than movie 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z The recent supposed find of a cache of lost drawings by Vincent van Gogh elicited a trenchant dismissal by the Van Gogh Museum and justified ridicule. Fake or fortune: is this lost Leonardo da Vinci drawing the real deal? 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z One of Musk’s most trenchant critics has been the journalist Shepard Stewart, who writes for a clutch of conservative online news sites. The trolling of Elon Musk: how US conservatives are attacking green tech 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z Cooke’s trenchant reporting shows how, even in the context of slow reform under Raúl Castro , the legacies of that economic crisis — from the black market and dual currencies to ideological confusion — remain. How to understand Cuba beyond Castro 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z The findings are particularly trenchant in the wake of an election that was often framed in terms of white Americans feeling threatened by the demographic rise of minority groups. In a third of the U.S., more white people are now dying than being born 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Foreign policy analysts said that despite the trenchant tone of some of the comments from the Trump camp, the opening to Cuba was unlikely to be thrown away any time soon. Trump aides threaten hard line as Cuba steps into the unknown 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z He rarely gives interviews, or speaks publicly, but when he does defend himself or his company he can be trenchant. Venezuela, A Failing State 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z The resulting music, as effervescent as it was, raised potent issues about cultural appropriation that remain as trenchant today as they were then. Rock’n’roll’s first intellectual sophisticate: Paul Simon 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Yet David J. Barron’s “Waging War: The Clash Between Presidents and Congress, 1776 to ISIS” provides a trenchant counterargument to the idea that wartime presidents are pretty much omnipotent. Despite its imperial power, the presidency sometimes bends to Congress in wartime 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z His staging of Bartlett’s trenchant wit has the audience constantly laughing at awkward or uncomfortable interactions even when we sense tragedy on the horizon. Review: The kids are not alright in play ‘Love, Love, Love’ 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z The gangly, trenchant right-hander, who will turn 34 on Tuesday, arrived in Anaheim in 2006 after a two-year ascent from Long Beach State and quickly reached levels few outsiders predicted. Jered Weaver says he wants to pitch next season before Angels fall to Astros 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z And despite heavy monitoring, Chinese discussion groups circulate trenchant critiques of government policy, even on delicate issues such as the Cultural Revolution. Foreign Reporters in China Face More Restrictions Now, Report Says 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Her book is trenchant, entertaining political history that ought to be a textbook. Maureen Dowd is back to skewering the Clintons, this time with a side of Trump 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z He also drew applause with some trenchant attacks on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti introduces himself to nation at DNC: 'I'm just your average Mexican American Jewish Italian' 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z The greatest danger of “Chaos Monkeys” is that it could suffer the same fate as many equally prescient cautionary tales: It is appreciated less as trenchant social criticism and more as a how-to manual. Review: ‘Chaos Monkeys’ Is a Guide to the Spirit of Silicon Valley 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Assange, a trenchant Clinton critic, said she was receiving constant personal updates on his situation. WikiLeaks to publish more Hillary Clinton emails - Julian Assange 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z “The credibility of the United Nations is on the line,” the leading human rights organization wrote in its trenchant statement. Amnesty blasts U.N.’s “shameful pandering to Saudi Arabia over children killed in Yemen” 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z But the president’s most trenchant opponents were critical. 'Start of moral awakening': Obama's historic Hiroshima visit bittersweet 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z And so those three words made a trenchant headline, written by an unknown editor, to describe a contest held 40 years ago Tuesday, which would eventually topple another king—and change the world of wine. How America Kicked France in the Pants And Changed the World of Wine Forever 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z The White House Correspondents Dinner roaster on Saturday night did land some trenchant lines, though he was not as funny as many past hosts, and maybe not nearly as funny as he thought he was. Did #WHCD roaster Larry Wilmore run into the Oscar-host paradox? 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, the chorus’s message, echoed in Brother Sun’s close harmonies and trenchant lyrics, elicited an enthusiastic response. After Pete Seeger, a Coffeehouse Tries to Carry On 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z It is a trenchant comment on wealth and luxury on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The Guggenheim's monstrous golden toilet sums up the obscene art world 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z Thomas Frank, founding editor of The Baffler, and author of What’s the Matter with Kansas and other books, is among the most trenchant voices on the left today. Thomas Frank: Democrats just aren’t that concerned about income inequality 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z At its best, it’s been a treasure trove of vital journalism, trenchant thought and delicious fun. Former Gawker editors on the Hogan trial aftermath: 'It's about what journalists can cover' 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z Visiting Bill’s old stomping ground of Hot Springs, Theroux is trenchant: “Still a disgrace 50 years after Clinton lived in town,” he writes. Why is Trump so popular? Visiting the south gave one writer some clues 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z He turns his unassumingly trenchant character studies over to filmmakers who can fit these figures to their age and glean the zeitgeist from a personality. Leonardo DiCaprio's talents are in full bloom 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z "He was also known, on occasion to dissent," Roberts joked, referring to Scalia's trenchant opinions when on the losing side. Scalia lauded as shorthanded Supreme Court returns to work 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z This, surely, would be a result to try even the patience of a club hierarchy who seem trenchant in their reluctance to sack Van Gaal. Manchester United ease pressure on Louis van Gaal with FA Cup win at Derby 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Mocking a goatee is not trenchant observational humor, but Jones’s swagger, and the specificity of her language, made the bit feel charged, like a knife trick performed at close range. Leslie Jones: Always Funny, Finally Famous 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Photograph: Marwa Arsanios One of the shrewdest and most historically trenchant artists to emerge from Lebanon in recent years, Arsanios probes the Middle East’s turbulent present by gazing at the utopian dreams of its past. The best American art shows of 2015 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z He is also an opposition politician and a trenchant Kremlin critic. The luxury hotel, the family of the top Moscow prosecutor and Russia’s most notorious gang 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z At times trenchant and at times silly, “Chi-Raq” principally follows a movement led by young women to withhold sex as long as men continue brandishing weapons. 'Chi-Raq': Spike Lee tries to change the gun debate, with comedy and anatomy 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Shankly, however, caught wind of the Doc’s tactical reconnaissance, and turned up to the impromptu session, marching his players back to the team hotel, but not before giving Docherty what for in the trenchant style. A brief guide to … Chelsea's rivalry with Liverpool 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z But he was regarded as a skillful lawyer and negotiator and a trenchant steward of the economy in a turbulent era. Geoffrey Howe, treasury chief under Margaret Thatcher, dies at 88 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z In her trenchant new work Duty-Free Art, she exposes the growing network of tax-exempt free zones for art storage, a favorite solution for money launderers and worse folks. The best American art shows of 2015 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z He’s been on the talk in the trenchant style. Lithuania v England: Euro 2016 qualifier – as it happened 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z The home fans are full of frustration, whistles and boos raining down, mingled with a few trenchant demands for Edin Dzeko. Bosnia-Herzegovina v Wales: Euro 2016 qualifier – as it happened 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z In a climate where the loudest voices often get the most play, his sober, trenchant analysis and passionate understanding of historical precedent reads like a breath of fresh air. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has become voice of reason in 2016 firestorm 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z A celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.’’ The Ring Cycle: Boxing’s Eternal Cinematic Appeal 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z That letter would become the preface to Baldwin's trenchant examination of American racism, "The Fire Next Time." The Dream Never Came True 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z He’s been on the talk in the trenchant style. Lithuania v England: Euro 2016 qualifier – as it happened 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z The home fans are full of frustration, whistles and boos raining down, mingled with a few trenchant demands for Edin Dzeko. Bosnia-Herzegovina v Wales: Euro 2016 qualifier – as it happened 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z A trenchant book on the topic first published in 1940 remains a classic. When Private Equity Firms Give Retirees the Short End 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z But fixing up existing shelters does not address the more trenchant, systemic factors contributing to homelessness. We have allowed ourselves to become blind to the crisis of homelessness | Lauren Sandler 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z He recites Nazi boilerplate, and it is received as just part of his act or, sometimes, a trenchant commentary on the cultural and political corruption of contemporary Germany. A novel about Hitler trivializes the Holocaust 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z He visits places that were important to Abbey and Stegner, and draws trenchant conclusions about the current state of affairs in a region still battling over how to best protect and exploit its fragile resources. Westerners with sharp pens 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z His ethos was both broad and narrow, often controversial, and always trenchant. 'Father of Singapore' Lee Kuan Yew Dies at 91 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z “His credibility, in the view of his fans, is based on his trenchant analysis of the events of the day, his pulling no punches, his willingness to call it like it is.” For Bill O’Reilly and Fox News, a Symbiotic Relationship 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Perry Divirgilio, known as Vision, is a poet and activist in Philadelphia who tweeted an array of witty, trenchant responses with the hashtag: In Black Twitter, giving voice and driving the debate 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z That is little surprise, considering the vindictiveness and trenchant hatred that inspired government officials to begin burying the federal dead in the front yard of General Lee’s beloved home. CHARLES HURT: Arlington House book tells story of American loss 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z Despite the stall in that plan, Gray remains trenchant in his position. Germany and Sweden to Send Troops and Increase Aid to Kurds Battling ISIS Mahatma Gandhi delivered a trenchant assessment of the British Empire in 1928. Book review: ‘Meltdown in Tibet,’ on China’s eco-destruction, by Michael Buckley 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Paul Thomas Anderson’s trippy, trenchant satire is very much a creature of Thomas Pynchon’s biting deconstruction of the final daze of peace, love and understanding that gives “Inherent Vice” its inspiration and its name. Critics Picks: Critics' Picks: Dec 19-25, 2014 - Los Angeles Times 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z In the United States, for much of the 20th century, a trenchant divide existed in the ways mainstream and African-American periodicals approached black luminaries. When Glamour Speaks Your Name 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z Many MEPs were surprised at how trenchant the Pope's criticisms were. Pope Francis hits out at 'bureaucratic' Europe 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Israeli news reports called that payback for Yaalon, who in January, employing some trenchant language of his own, reportedly called Kerry “obsessive” and “messianic” in his bid to revive the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Name-calling flap is latest sign of tension between Israel and U.S. 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z In a trenchant analysis of his former party, the ex-MEP said politics was not about the truth, and that he was “very sorry this disease has been picked up by Ukip”. Godfrey Bloom quits Ukip and warns Douglas Carswell of ‘back-stabbers’ 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z An even more trenchant criticism of the government’s emphasis on spotting Ebola victims as they entered Britain was provided from Sierra Leone by Andrew Gleadle, programme director for the International Medical Corps. Britain warned to expect ‘a handful’ of Ebola cases in coming months 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z The trenchant stuff was there, but mostly happened offstage. Interview: How Assassin's Creed Unity Navigates the French Revolution's Politics 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Indeed, he has a reputation for trenchant and clear scholarship about the court. Law school dean to the Supreme Court: This love affair is over But then some enterprising character alerted the Sunday Times to its existence, and the paper published a story listing some of Magueijo’s more trenchant criticisms. Who said Britons were drunk, dirty and deplorable? 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z Here in the US, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois was recently “unhired” for his trenchant remarks on the Israeli invasion of Gaza. The internet is a cesspit of conflict, right? No – it's an engine of consensus 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z The paper, by Xianyao Chen of the Ocean University of China and Ka-Kit Tung of the University of Washington, has a remarkably trenchant abstract: A Closer Look at Turbulent Oceans and Greenhouse Heating 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z Conservative Republicans, who have been the most vocal and trenchant critics of the border crisis are, conversely, those most opposed to spending money to manage the crisis. GOP to deny bulk of Obama request for increased funds for migrant crisis 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Dr. Álvarez, an ophthalmologist, was a cultural historian, diplomat, newspaper editor and trenchant critic of dictatorship. Emilio Álvarez Montalván, Nicaragua’s Pro-Democracy Sage, Dies at 94 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z But California Chrome, under vigorous handling by Espinoza, once again stole the show with a trenchant turn of foot that has become his trademark. Preakness win keeps California Chrome on course for Triple Crown 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z Tuesday night in New York, he’s up for a sports Emmy for his studio work, which is regularly lively and trenchant. With the help of TV, Rick Neuheisel returning to good graces on numerous fronts 2014-05-06T00:29:36Z A trenchant collection of short stories from the author of “Birds of America” Pope Francis’s first year: Faith, hope—and how much change? 2014-03-06T16:01:17Z Perhaps the most trenchant critique of Mr. Awda is that he loves the limelight, and hones his message to appeal to Saudi Arabia’s large youth population. The Saturday Profile: Conservative Saudi Cleric’s Political Shift Leaves Many Perplexed 2014-04-04T15:10:40Z Sadly, science and its administration, once seen as central to Indian development, are not currently on the agenda, despite some trenchant critiques from scientists and science policy-makers. Policy: Free Indian science 2014-04-02T17:20:33.762Z While Morford’s trenchant scorn for the official line had little resonance outside liberal circles, the growing mood of distrust that it fed into did present Democrats with an obvious opportunity. When Republicans hated the troops 2014-02-23T17:00:00Z When it’s 83 degrees without a cloud in the sky in Florida that qualifies as trenchant analysis. Boswell: Washington Nationals face serious questions as spring training opens 2014-02-18T02:15:00Z A scathing review of singer Morrissey's recent autobiography has won an award presented annually to "the writer of the angriest, funniest, most trenchant book review" of the past 12 months. Morrissey critique wins Hatchet award 2014-02-12T09:45:06Z He said that he tried and sometimes failed to "always in politics be civil and polite, but be tough and not personalise stuff, be very trenchant where I disagree with people on policy". Clegg issues truce plea to Boris 2014-01-09T10:18:03Z "Today is a black day," said Ricardo Monreal, a trenchant critic of the government and leader of the leftist Citizens' Movement in the lower house. Mexican Congress passes radical shake-up of oil industry 2013-12-12T20:34:15Z Josh Brown, an investment adviser and trenchant financial blogger, posted a this morning from an unnamed reader who invests institutions’ money. The Hedge Fund Way: Pay More, to Get Less, and Be Unable to Access Your Money 2013-12-06T17:35:20Z According to a source, Davies and Baker-Bates were "trenchant in their opposition to the transaction for months". Why did regulator ignore Co-op Bank's financial experts? 2013-11-27T08:22:38Z The trenchant question is whether nostalgia for “originalism” is a useful guide to policy. Hindsight: The Federal Reserve’s Framers Would Be Shocked 2013-06-22T17:43:11Z Her views on Israel can be especially trenchant. Melanie Phillips: Melanie Phillips: she's putting the world to rights 2013-05-11T23:04:13Z But when I ask Mercedes if she thinks these prosecutions are going to end the movement, her response is trenchant and sharp. Security alert: notes from the frontline of the war in cyberspace 2013-05-04T08:00:00Z It's the same patter he has offered inside the ropes since his amateur days in the early 1980s: trenchant, profane, funny, cranky. Drive, He Said 2013-02-16T05:00:00Z Taleggio Way more classic and rustic than a dog-eared copy of Gibbon, yet as potent and trenchant. Creative Cheesemongers Pen Clever Descriptions 2013-01-22T22:51:37Z Here's BBC Radio Four's food programme with more trenchant criticism of the scheme. Coca-Cola's sugar problem 2013-01-18T12:36:49Z I won't offer much trenchant analysis, other than to say I see the Wolf Pack hanging around and making it interesting. Pac-12 bowl picks, No. 1: New Mexico 2012-12-15T03:54:20Z A trenchant government report by a Treasury official, Andrew Edwards, called for an end to this abuse in 2001. How secret offshore firms feed London's property boom 2012-11-26T20:58:47Z This is the kind of trenchant analysis that moves undecided voters toward a candidate. The Lohan Effect: Will Romney Get a Boost from Low-Information Voters? 2012-10-15T11:05:33Z That bit of trenchant analysis comes from deep inside the Republican tent: Gov. The Media Equation: Challenging the Claims of Media Bias - the Media Equation 2012-09-30T23:56:15Z Though my possibly supercilious opinion is that this is not particularly trenchant commentary, and the subtlety that truly effective cartoons thrive on is morphed, in his work, into something in the nature of a sledgehammer. The Sedition Files 2012-09-21T19:25:00Z This year she won plaudits from fellow peers and disability activists alike over a series of trenchant interventions on the controversial welfare reform bill. Tanni Grey-Thompson: Paralympic star to disability rights champion 2012-08-26T17:14:43Z But it’s the Conservative commentary which is most trenchant. Mitt’s One Good Deed in London 2012-07-27T18:01:00Z It quickly became clear he is a man of trenchant views - and he doesn't rate journalists very highly. Frank by name, frank by nature 2012-07-16T23:03:23Z Halsall zipped off on another jag in which she explained why Aristotle is a more trenchant thinker than Thomas Aquinas. London 2012: Fran Halsall – Britain's gladiator of the pool 2012-07-14T22:00:05Z The most trenchant advocate of this revisionist view is Arvind Panagariya, a professor of international affairs and Indian political economy at Columbia University. India Ink: Manmohan Singh, Overachiever? 2012-07-11T10:37:22Z Meanwhile, for some trenchant analysis of Lambert from an activist perspective, catch this from the Bristling Badger blog. Home Office silence over claim that police spy set fire to Debenhams 2012-06-29T11:22:31Z His comedy is political, trenchant, delivered in an easy style that probes sensitive subject matter without being overtly confrontational. Soweto’s Stand-Up Son 2012-06-18T05:00:00Z Science-fiction writers, who were accustomed to thinking about the role of science in society, had trenchant things to say about this threat. Ray Bradbury, Master of Science Fiction, Dies at 91 2012-06-06T14:49:14Z After arriving in their swish motorcades and delivering a few trenchant words to the waiting press, leaders are swept inside. The strange things that happen at summits 2012-05-29T10:12:01Z Mr. Macalister was a clever politician; a concise and trenchant speaker; and a capital parliamentary leader in so far as the House work was concerned. Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information 2012-04-22T02:00:09.320Z There was a trenchant symbolism, too, in massacring a flea with Debrett; no other volume would have been heavy enough. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z "A calmly written, closely reasoned, and trenchant indictment of the still prevalent dogmas and assumptions of political economy." A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z The manifesto combines strikingly clearheaded historical analysis with trenchant commentary on what he saw as two decades of strategic and operational failures by jihadists. The New Mastermind of Jihad 2012-04-07T00:08:45Z There are no doubt remarkable coincidences in the work; but they are not of a sufficiently trenchant character, and, moreover, most of the facts may be explained otherwise than by the influence of soil. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z "She was excessively artificial, but not altogether uninteresting," observed Wyn, in her trenchant way. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z I have now given it in full, for it is trenchant, and full of common sense. Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature 2012-03-29T02:00:13.900Z Mackenzie, a trenchant writer and an excellent reasoner. The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 2012-03-27T02:00:21.067Z He wrote two papers on homoeopathy, which he attacked with trenchant wit; also a valuable paper on the malarial fevers of New England. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Round his armed head his trenchant blade he blest. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z It is the part of the poet to make his work intensely real and ideal, the two elements that appeal with trenchant force to children. Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School 2012-03-17T02:01:04.053Z Thomson’s satire was always bitterest, or at any rate most trenchant, when it dealt with Religion, which he considered a disease of the mind, engendered by folly and fostered by ignorance and vanity. Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z Yet it is well to remember that the abrupt and trenchant separations which popular practice loves are overridden to a deeper view by an essential unity of idea, reducing them to indifference. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z Very characteristic is the interest in men and things, and the disposition to cut through questions in the schools after a trenchant fashion of his own. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z We talked of other things, and for a time all my former interest in his piquant anecdotes and trenchant remarks was renewed. Mr. Marx's Secret 2012-03-02T03:00:10.327Z Of course this trenchant passage refers only to the principles of the school found to fail. The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels 2012-02-24T03:00:31.020Z The weapon has a brass cross and guard, and resembles those trenchant Florentine blades of the sixteenth century, with its channels, curved point, and fine temper. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z There are about 600 trenchant one-liners like that I could quote from the book. City Room: Big City Book Club: Discussing Dawn Powell With Candace Bushnell 2012-02-21T15:52:46Z Not less direct and trenchant are his attacks on political government, which, interpreted by the light of after events, sound like the first distant mutterings of revolution. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z And below are some of the more trenchant comments — from haters, lovers and even the odd musician. City Room: On Buskers, the Straphangers Have Spoken 2012-02-09T22:44:59Z It is strange that he should have been mastered by the gross imposture of witchcraft, when he could expose with trenchant force the pretensions of alchemists, astrologers, and Rosicrucians. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z This heroic captain also wore a sword of mighty proportions, on whose trenchant blade was written in letters of scarlet the savage inscription, “Blood or Guts!” The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 2012-02-04T03:00:17.917Z His features were strongly marked; the nose trenchant and hawk-like, and the mouth severely lined. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z Her trenchant wit, affability, and candor pleased the young men not less than her culture and varied accomplishments impressed the older ones with whom she came in contact. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:35.370Z The spectators retire from the "pit," the sheaths are taken off the trenchant spurs, and the encounter commences. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z But I don’t understand why Venables, or some of the men who think as I do, and wield trenchant pens in high places, why they don’t come out, and set all this right. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Probing the Passions of Science: An Interview with Carl Zimmer on the Art of Science Writing Carl Zimmer is one of the most insightful and trenchant science writers working today. Probing the Passions of Science: An Interview with Carl Zimmer on the Art of Science Writing 2011-12-20T15:15:05.230Z A number of his most trenchant satires are directed against George III., who, after examining some of Gillray’s sketches, said, with characteristic ignorance and blindness to merit, “I don’t understand these caricatures.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z In his 2007 book "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything," Hitchens took on major religions with his trenchant atheism. Polemical journalist and atheist Christopher Hitchens dead at 62 2011-12-16T06:50:32Z And to those trenchant utterances of Huxley, Tyndall, Mill, Carlyle, etc., herein given, I beg to direct the careful attention of the reader. Ingersoll in Canada A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others 2011-12-16T03:00:10.740Z From boyhood he had believed in a protective tariff, and throughout his active life he was its most trenchant advocate and propagandist. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z He felt the sentiment would have reached a larger dignity, a more epigrammatick crispness, a more trenchant elusiveness, if it had never strayed beyond the bonds of an heroick couplet. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z The girl had risen at the conclusion of his trenchant speech, and stood, holding her fan loosely in both hands, looking up at him in the dim rosy glow of the Chinese lanterns. Grit Lawless 2011-12-01T03:00:18.137Z On our way from the piazza we encounter other limonari,—dark, sleepy, Italian, not trenchant nor incisive in their offers. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z According to this trenchant successor of the ancient oracle, there is unrest and seething turmoil everywhere. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z Now strove the two knights together, hand to hand, in such fashion that shield and helm and hauberk were hewn in pieces, and the blood ran from their bodies by reason of their trenchant glaives. Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends 2011-11-24T03:00:40.487Z I do not think that a more trenchant word has been spoken to this nation since 'Uncle Tom's Cabin.' Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z "And what's this I hear about Stephen Casey?" went on Mrs. Knox, in shrill and trenchant tones, delivering her real attack now that she had breached the wall. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z As a dramatist Strindberg's chief strength lies not so much in dramatic technique as it does in his trenchant and searching power of analysis of the human mind. Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-11-12T03:00:36.860Z I don’t tweet witty aphorisms or amusing anecdotes or trenchant commentaries because I’m not especially witty, amusing, or trenchant. Twitter Etiquette: Must You Follow Back? 2011-11-10T13:29:00Z Moreover, Professor Rense has manifested a great interest in the ornithological aspect of the problem, and his trenchant advice has been of inestimable value to me. A Quantitative Study of the Nocturnal Migration of Birds. Vol.3 No.2 2011-11-02T02:00:14.587Z This man was very unlike the one I mentioned above: he was as heavy in his person and his manners as the other was meagre, angular, and sometimes trenchant and bitter. The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville 2011-11-02T02:00:13.477Z He seized Maulear in the breast with his right hand, the nails of which were trenchant as a needle, while with the left he sought to thrust the dagger in his heart. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z Others uniformly affect the trenchant and tremendous, with very big words, and awful accumulations of them. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z A price of two thousand guldens was set on his head, which gave Vondel cause for another trenchant pasquinade. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z |
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