Perhaps the novelty will have worn off by the time the book-length version comes out, but Lofgren's ideas are trenchant and far-reaching enough to outlast the dog-bites-man quality of the original essay.
Liberal Democrat MPs have received criticism for not fighting enough of a trenchant battle in the Commons in an attempt to thwart Labour and the Conservatives' cosy conspiracy to force the digital economy bill through its second reading and it is fair to say that the Lib Dems' own record on the bill over the past few months is far from spotless.
Its principal targets – falsehoods of the court, abuses of church power – were conventional enough, but it contained trenchant comments about the Queen's proposed marriage to the Duke of Alençon, known dismissively in England as "Monsieur", and some passages of fable which sound like disparagements of Lord Burghley.
It's a trenchant, hilarious turn, with plenty of pain.
I don't know what you are paid to express such unreserved and trenchant views, but it surely cannot be enough.
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Things are bumpy enough that even Valleywag's normally trenchant and witty Owen Thomas called me in a post yesterday slamming the new Kindle as both a "digital chieftain" and one of the "addled lords of print".
But technological change some banks are trying to tailor Internet banking to small businesses and the publicity given to this report may be enough to make a structural solution unnecessary.Certainly, publicity and trenchant criticisms by the Cruickshank team have already forced some reform in parts of the payments system.
If the home team constructed enough chances to win a handful of matches, a combination of trenchant defending and errant finishing meant not one was converted.
If I had insight enough and "gumption" enough to beat John Strachey to it, I could have applied those trenchant words, appropriately modified, to Paul Moore.
Murder was also the focus of Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood's trenchant retelling of the story of an infamous 19th-century murderer, Grace Marks, a servant girl clever enough to outwit her doctor.
