Whatever one's views on the subject, the book remains worth reading for its interest and trenchancy.

Presently after, he developed his views on home politics with similar trenchancy.

He could probably explain all this to the Massachusetts drunk with some trenchancy.

And even if he could, one little thing that happened to me could never happen to him, or not with the same trenchancy of contrast.

And at the same time with such apposite trenchancy.

Repin had a way with politicians, singly or in mass, that has not often been rivaled for trenchancy.

Her son Edward VII, though he knew far less about clergymen than his mother, continued the same trenchancy.

This falling out with the cricketing establishment seems to have arisen from the trenchancy of some of Lillywhite's observations.

Avoiding sentimentality and free from a facile resolution, the playwrights treat the Yuppie Trauma with trenchancy.

Our reviewer, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., admired the book's "unflagging confidence, trenchancy and authority."

I wish I had given her more credit for her wit, her trenchancy, her admirably nasty imagination.

Ms. Fox-Genovese strives for aphoristic trenchancy, but La Rochefoucauld she is not.

But Mr. Vidal's sparkling dialogue and the trenchancy of his political world view remain as fresh and relevant as ever.

If not soul-mates, they were always style-mates; and the fierce trenchancy that characterises literary life at its liveliest, in a polemical age, never found finer exponents.

Reviewers, from a variety of critical perspectives, are unanimous in noting that Steiner's premature death was a loss to scholarship given the erudite trenchancy of his analytical acumen.

The book's real trenchancy lies, as with any of Mr. Amis's novels, in the language, especially as it renders the physical infirmities, the embarrassments and humiliations of getting old.

Robert Storey traces it with trenchancy: "A character of more simplicity than sense and of less decency than either, Gilles inherits the ignoble side of the commedias comic masks."

His trenchancy cost him his job, and he left Manchester the following year, succeeded by Samuel Langford, and moved back to Birmingham as music critic of The Birmingham Post.

But my favorite such pronouncement (perhaps because, for all its wrongheadedness, you still hear it regularly cited for its trenchancy) is F. Scott Fitzgerald's "There are no second acts in American lives."

Garson Kanin says that Otis L. Guernsey Jr. is to the American theater "as James Boswell is to Dr. Johnson, pursuing his arduous task with charm and trenchancy."

The vigour of his prose and the sense of a large personality that it breathed, his wit and trenchancy as well as his learning made him beyond question the outstanding critic of his time."

This assessment was shared by Carina Chocano of The Los Angeles Times, who felt that "once the movie wanders into its contemplation of mortality and meaning, the trenchancy kind of creaks and falls off."

Painted by Frederic Bazille in 1870, the "Black Girl With Peonies" has the forthright, upfront quality in which he excelled, and in a city that has so many thousands of black residents it has an even greater trenchancy.

To read it today is to be struck by the continued trenchancy of Moynihan's insight that family breakup was becoming the chief obstacle to the goal of racial equality, and also by its style - one of analytical boldness out of character for a government report, even one intended for internal consumption.