• There is also a narcissistic delight in verbal dexterity, in dealing out the trenchant phrase.

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  • Although privately his wit could be waspish and his judgment trenchant, his behavior was always courteous.

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  • The award is given for the "angriest, funniest, most trenchant" book review published in the last year.

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  • Bartlett applies his down-and-dirty, black-humored and trenchant approach to the concept of business employment as survival of the fittest.

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  • Certainly, publicity and trenchant criticisms by the Cruickshank team have already forced some reform in parts of the payments system.

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  • The US has been trenchant in keeping agricultural concessions out of the barrage of trade deals it has signed recently.

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  • He gave unfailingly trenchant advice to an array of developing-country ministers and officials, including many who had asked him to.

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  • So keen has been Mr Mackey to air his opinions that for years he posted trenchant comments on the Yahoo!

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  • In the next post, I will present much more specific and trenchant proposals from the Japanese Association of Business Executives (Keizai Doyukai).

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  • All those politicians offer solutions with their trenchant analysis of current woes.

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  • That echoes trenchant criticisms of the industry by Franco Debenedetti, a liberal left-wing senator who has campaigned to reform the electricity industry.

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  • But the most trenchant comment came, not coincidentally, from the youngest and newest member of this billionaire cavalcade, Jack Dorsey, of Twitter and Square.

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  • They did so successfully with "Bethany" and "Jackie, " and now comes "Collapse, " playwright Allison Moore's trenchant comedy set in the beginning of the 2009 global economic collapse.

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  • When Lynch sticks with his straightforward view of how things are done in Hollywood, the film briefly comes alive as a trenchant, nuanced report from the front.

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  • His most trenchant piece of advice for the serious professor?

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  • His sensual, velvety, high-contrast black-and-white images capture the exertions and exultations of music-making, and Costa eschews talking-head interviews and voice-overs in favor of trenchant depictions of technique, mood, and personal interactions.

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  • This currently seems not only conceivable but even likely, despite opposition from four Republican Secretaries of Defense--Caspar Weinberger, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld and Jim Schlesinger (whose especially trenchant testimony is extracted nearby).

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  • Arriving in America, she felt a natural affinity with people on the ideological centre-right who believe the Western world should be more trenchant in defending its own values and less inclined to blame itself.

    ECONOMIST: No time for tradition

  • But he did get a boost from an unexpected quarter towards the end of the session when Peter Bone, one of his most trenchant critics on the Tory benches, praised his commitment to the coalition.

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  • Perhaps the most trenchant description of the Port Authority's method of doing business was outlined in an Oct. 19, 2011, op-ed in the New York Post by the PA's former executive director (1995-97), George J.

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  • Patrick Salmon, the Foreign Office historian who compiled the volume of papers published on Friday as German Unification 1989-1990: Documents on British Policy Overseas Section III Volume VII, says Mrs Thatcher's trenchant objections made little practical difference.

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  • The refusal to look back also robs Gore of another key argument, which is that Washington is a place where fisticuffs take over when footwork fails, and it is the most trenchant fighters who win the day.

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  • In a trenchant defence of France's "exception culturelle" in the digital age, the report proposed imposing a tax of up to 4 per cent on the sale of all devices, including gaming consoles and e-readers, that allow access via the internet to "cultural content".

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  • Funny trenchant little comments.

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  • She has emerged as a trenchant critic of the Government's Health and Social Care Bill, asked, rather innocently, asked if she could be put on the Public Bill Committee considering it, because she had a couple of amendments in mind, and complained when she was kept off.

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  • In a trenchant op.ed. for the Wall Street Journal, the eminent scholar David Satter further illuminates Russia's condition, revealing how "the Russian regime has worked systematically to eliminate all independent sources of power, " by, for example, adopting legislation that effectively gives the state control of NGOs - heretofore the sole outposts of Russian civil society.

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  • The director puts himself into the story as a longtime visitor to the city and a filmmaker on hand to present his work, and also introduces the acclaimed Burkinan director Idrissa Ouedraogo, who offers a trenchant view of the gap between market-centered popular movies and subsidized art films, and between official and street-level modes of distribution.

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