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But they also embodied a trenchant 'social criticism.'† (source)
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A second less and the trenchant blade had shorn through his heart.† (source)
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He wanted to show his tolerance of her viewpoint, allow himself to be convinced by some of her arguments, make certain trenchant points of his own and then drive her to the nondescript room where she lived at the edge of this or that town, with a partial view of the mountains, and have soft, moaning and mutually tolerant sex in her rumpled bed, but he slowed only slightly as he drove past.† (source)
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John Torrance, man of letters, esteemed thinker, winner of the Pulitzer Prize at seventy for his trenchant book of memoirs, My Life in the Twentieth Century.† (source)
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There was a trenchant, focused look to his eyes, as if a notion or thought had taken a profound hold over him and he was useless before it.† (source)
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She and the student are never far apart, hovering, shoulder to shoulder, over her narrow desk, mercilessly dissecting a term paper or gleaning the five trenchant points from a thirty-page chapter of gobbledygook.† (source)
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Though the inspector had no such convenient pulpit for reply, certain trenchant remarks of his on persecution, contempt of authority, bigotry, religious mania, the law of slander, and the probable effects of direct action in opposition to Government sanction achieved a wide circulation.† (source)
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Isabel saw them arrive with a good deal of assiduity at her aunt's hotel, and pronounced on them with a trenchancy doubtless to be accounted for by the temporary exaltation of her sense of human duty.† (source)
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My sister had a trenchant way of cutting our bread and butter for us, that never varied.† (source)
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And at the same time with such apposite trenchancy.† (source)
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The second lycanthrope made a trenchant point.† (source)
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Silence followed the scout's trenchant speech.† (source)
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It was a criticism of Henry's character far more trenchant than any of her own.† (source)
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And he walked on, wearing those everlasting pastel checked trousers, leaving Hans Castorp behind, presumably "cut to the quick" by so much trenchant significance—and to some extent he was, although he was also vexed and amused by the notion that he was supposed to be.† (source)
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The trenchant divisions between right and wrong, honest and dishonest, respectable and the reverse, had left so little scope for the unforeseen.† (source)
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He had to be deferential when Mr. Vincy decided questions with trenchant ignorance, especially as to those liquors which were the best inward pickle, preserving you from the effects of bad air.† (source)
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