Usage examples (33)

• Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader.
• "Did you never see anyone wet?" she asked, in trenchant tones.
• Throughout the book, Seife's practiced journalist's eye results in trenchant nonmathematical observations.
• Doyle -- That's exactly the kind of trenchant analysis that's going to get you a column in the New York Times.