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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
That echoes trenchant criticisms of the industry by Franco Debenedetti, a liberal left-wing senator who has campaigned to reform the electricity industry.
There is also a narcissistic delight in verbal dexterity, in dealing out the trenchant phrase.
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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.
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.
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