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.    From LearnThat.org.  [Paul J. Meyer]

"Did you never see anyone wet?" she asked, in trenchant tones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mates at Billabong] Reference

Throughout the book, Seife's practiced journalist's eye results in trenchant nonmathematical observations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Seife's "Proofiness," reviewed by John Allen Paulos] Reference

Doyle -- That's exactly the kind of trenchant analysis that's going to get you a column in the New York Times.    From Wordnik.com.  [How the Edwards campaign blundered into hiring those bloggers.] Reference

A kind of trenchant edge upon it, a genial asperity, that gave it character, tang.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cardinal's Snuff-Box] Reference

His head the trenchant blade cleaves to the teeth.    From Wordnik.com.  [La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier] Reference

A trenchant sword, and on fleet steeds they mount.    From Wordnik.com.  [La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier] Reference

Ugolino had a trenchant humour of the Italian sort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference

And trenchant lance in rest; strength, beauty, grace.    From Wordnik.com.  [La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier] Reference

Which splits the crest in twain; the trenchant blade.    From Wordnik.com.  [La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier] Reference

I have already quoted some very trenchant words from Caryle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love's Final Victory] Reference

I have already quoted Carlyle's trenchant words on this point.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love's Final Victory] Reference

Except for that one trenchant fact about her, she is an ordinary woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Eve, My Mary] Reference

From England, there was the trenchant but little seen "The Last Resort.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Arts Extra: The Lessons Of Hollywood's Creative Crisis] Reference

He was trenchant in speech, forceful on paper, and helpful in committee.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

A few of the subjects which the author discusses in trenchant fashion are.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman Her Sex and Love Life] Reference

"If Mendoza's cinema is very trenchant, it's because things have gotten worse.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Daring Filipinos Not To Look Away] Reference

Her trenchant remark about civilization wasn't the product of a conditioned mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lani People] Reference

I am sure each one of them would have had something trenchant and accurate to say.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Susan Corso: 'Untold: A History of the Wives of Prophet Muhammad': Demystifying Islam's First Women] Reference

He could have papered the entire Meadowlands with trenchant criticisms from my peers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eli's Coming] Reference

Judi Dench is the imperious Queen Elizabeth; she cuts a trenchant and commanding figure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brush Up Your Shakespeare] Reference

Galloway says he has been a trenchant critic of Iran, just like he was of Saddam Hussein.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary] Reference

It met with immense applause from one part, with trenchant criticism from the Philistines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

With recession all but inevitable, a more trenchant comparison might be Winston Churchill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon’s Comeback] Reference

Cranmer's baptismal liturgy, above all, is a trenchant expression of western Augustinianism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Common Prayer, part 2: Wetting baby's head] Reference

Despite his change of tack, however, Lomborg is likely to continue to have trenchant critics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bjørn Lomborg: $100bn a year needed to fight climate change] Reference

Following these came the "Quarterly Review," then under the editorship of the trenchant Gifford.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference

The most trenchant aspect of their work is its ability to separate faulty perceptions of time use from reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Bind? What Time Bind?] Reference

The following will be the most trenchant and insightful blog on the subject of the Tea Party I have ever written.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steven Weber: 'They,' Tea and Me] Reference

U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk's trenchant retort: "Does that include the dead Americans in military cemeteries as well?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter From America: Enlightening The Little Paci] Reference

The rhetorical rhythm, at its best, contains trenchant religious critique and deft deployments of America's democratic ideals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrew Wilkes: Social Criticism: A Political and Religious Act] Reference

It further shows the skill with which he could meet the famous editor on his own ground; for he also could wield a trenchant pen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference

Even in the hands of such an elegant and trenchant writer, the undergrowth of dense detail may nearly defeat many general readers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catalunya, Here I Come] Reference