Example Sentences

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This sterling production, with its flawless cast and admirable trenchancy amid an extraordinarily complex plot, augurs well for her tenure.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

And yet, directed with trenchancy and an easy grasp of its black humor by Jamie Lloyd, the production never attempts to force-feed us any relevance.

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2014

Yet he writes with a marvellous trenchancy that sometimes becomes savage indignation.

From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2010

But Gilroy's plain, familial triangle rings with insight and trenchancy.

From Time Magazine Archive

This natural trenchancy gets freer play, of course, in the talk than in the writings.

From Dr. Johnson and His Circle by Bailey, John Cann