As one looks at that face wherein a mockery more trenchant than the world is able to endure leers and wags the tongue, one feels certain that the soul of the eighteenth century was not really contented with its heroic sentimental mask.
He had a trenchant sentence to repeat to them which he thought they would take as a direct message from the distinguished nobleman who had uttered it.
He cast an envious eye across the ocean at the trenchant argument of the dear loaf; he had no such straight road to the public stomach and grand arbitrator of the fate of empires.
Her confusion of warm disjointed musings chilled instantly to her usual trenchant matter-of-factness.
His mind, no less trenchant and subtle than Hamilton's, was the most impressible, the most receptive, mind of his time in America.
They closed as quickly as possible with the enemy, and then fell on with the trenchant swords which they used so skilfully.
Verses were sent to him from Paris which he read aloud, expressing his opinion in a brief and trenchant style; he spent three days writing regulations for the French comedy at Paris.
Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.
The Guardians were drubbed in trenchant leaders and indignant letters.
Give me a trenchant statesman, or I pray you leave legislation alone.
Then Regnier, by his own account, harangued that august and unfortunate lady in a manner which in print seems extremelytrenchant and dictatorial.
I only saw him once, but the gleam in his eyes was as harsh and trenchant as that of a knife.
Simple and trenchant outlines of character are yet to be supplanted by features of subtler suggestion and infinite interfusion.
The death with trenchant dart, doth brede in brest sutch il, As I cannot forget the smart, that thereby riseth stil.
Could cleave my arms with trenchant stroke: True are the words the hermit spoke.
Struck by my keen brand’s trenchant blade, Thine enemies shall fall dismayed, Like towering mountains rent in twain, Or lightning clouds that burst in rain.
A blessing on each trenchant blade That low on earth these arms has laid!
But Ráma with a trenchantdart Cleft Dúshaṇ’s ponderous bow apart.
Soon as my trenchant steel is bare, Flashing its lightning through the air, I heed no foe, nor stand aghast Though Indra’s self the levin cast.
Where bush and tangled creeper lay With trenchant steel they made the way; They felled each stump, removed each stone, And many a tree was overthrown.
Mahákapála’s monstrous head Fell with the trenchant dart he sped.
His trenchant falchion Ráma plied And smote him on the better side, While valiant Lakshmaṇ on the left The arm that held him prisoned cleft.
Sharp as a serpent’s venomed fang Straight to its mark the arrow sprang, And from the giant’s body shred With trenchant steel the monstrous head.
We talked of other things, and for a time all my former interest in his piquant anecdotes and trenchant remarks was renewed.
He turns about in the midst to utter a noble sentiment or a trenchant remark on human life, and the style changes and rises to the occasion.
Thence, in spite of an uneven and emphatic key of expression, something trenchant and straightforward, something simple and surprising, distinguishes his poems.
And so with Pepys and his adored protagonist: adored not blindly, but with trenchant insight and enduring, human toleration.
In other words we are now in one of those difficult ethnological areas, where we have no broad and trenchant lines of demarcation, but the phenomena of intermixture instead.
If he had lived at the present day he would infallibly have been a naval expert, better informed than most and more trenchant than all; but recognizably one of the species, artist in words and amateur of ocean-strategy.
These trenchant passages were written partly, it may be imagined, to suit the English taste of the day.
He boldly assailed the silver dollar, and with his trenchant pen he wrote such burning words of denunciation that the printer had to set them on ice before he could use the copy.
Had I not already more reforms on hand than I can possibly successfully operate I would gladly use my strong social influence and trenchant pen in that direction.
Thomas Paine treated Christianity not only with trenchant argument, but also with brilliant derision.
He had not spoken one word in interruption, as with a harsh andtrenchant voice she thus hurled insult upon insult at him.
With swift strides they came; their helmets flashed like lightning over the tops of the pines; and each brought his sword and pike of trenchant steel.
But the young man did not hear; his thin lips parted, and in a voice as trenchant as a knife-thrust he exclaimed: "Ah!
Some of his lines embody a condensed trenchant vigour which has made them proverbs.
These were almost extemporaneous, and in their trenchantvigour and terrible mastery of invective are unsurpassed except by the second Philippic.
Her talk, full of the trenchant nonchalance of those days, was both amusing and alarming: 'My dear Hester, what are you saying?
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