trenchant
犀利的,鞭辟入里,精辟的,犀利
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- : incisive or keen, as language or a person; caustic; cutting: trenchant wit.
- : vigorous; effective; energetic: a trenchant policy of political reform.
- : clearly or sharply defined; clear-cut; distinct.
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Examples
The result is a trenchant commitment to right-wing values that provides the prism through which many Mormons interpret new crises.
It’s a really nuanced and thoughtful book that won a million awards when it came out in 2018, and it’s especially trenchant on the responsibilities forced on to the families of incarcerated people.
Whitehead and Jenkins are very different kinds of artists, the former a minimalist whose spare prose conceals allegories of remarkable depth and the latter an expressionist, infusing trenchant ideas into sounds and images laden with emotion.
They argue that this increasingly trenchant China must be resisted, not managed or negotiated with, and Hong Kong is the front line.
One of the most trenchant chapters in the book is deceptively simple.
Much looking forward to going on with what is apparently also a trenchant and enlightening book.
The more trenchant and subtle criticism was that Republicans aren't bad people.
Typically, the Internet exploded with trenchant commentary about the leather jacket Palin wore.
Moss came to admire Wasserstein and his trenchant deconstruction of his fellow power brokers.
From the Reagan ascension until recently, the most trenchant description of the prevailing vision was “Starve the Beast.”
It is not every one that can handle an instrument of such power, yet delicate temper, as Nelson's sensitive genius.