Sentence examples for trenchant observation from inspiring English sources

"Portrait Gallery" starts off with a bang with a biographical sketch of Isadora Duncan that is filled with vivid detail and trenchant observation.

In what I think is an especially trenchant observation, Buhler suggests that these disillusioning events have led to a different epistemological framework.

There's a risk in writing such a sweeping, inclusive narrative about the very recent past; for all its trenchant observation, the subject may be too recent, too familiar, and still too nauseating.

Set to music ranging from Bach to John King, "Heavy Light" was billed as a tragi-comic piece inspired by Horace Walpole's trenchant observation that "life is a comedy for those who think, and a tragedy for those who feel".

Most of Katie Thompson's songs have little to do with character or plot, and the dialogue's sole trenchant observation is that the only sexy male redhead anyone can think of is Eric Stoltz.

His magic stems from startling lyric-writing that embraces tenderness, irony and trenchant observation, and the contrast between his soft, blues-rooted singing voice and a muscular, percussive piano style that nails the groove, harmonises like a second vocal, and frequently mimics the stinging attack of a guitar.

"Trenchant observations permeate this book," Sydney Zion wrote here in 1984.

In one of his most trenchant observations, he likens record collectors to bag people, for their tendency to collect indiscriminately.

Like the earlier book, "Long Time No See" is strongest in its trenchant observations of middle-class suburban life.

"It's hard to make a garden that looks good even if the light is bad," he notes, in one of the more trenchant observations in the film.

His determination to "tell it like it is" often created controversy or criticism, but he reveled in the attention his trenchant observations drew.