The deveining of sexuality from gender can seem trenchant still.
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These are interesting but not new or terribly trenchant thoughts.
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Me About My Uterus, both a memoir and a trenchant manifesto.
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But the Lonely Island does not traffic in trenchant topical satire.
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Insightful, keen, even trenchant observations of the minutiae of everyday life.
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President Trump has a proclivity for tweeting, typos and trenchant nicknames.
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We were used to Bee's extenda-a-rants and Noah's trenchant monologues.
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In Body Beautiful and House Beautiful, Rosler is a trenchant media critic.
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Adorable—and a pretty trenchant lesson about the power of high fashion.
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Comedy has long been a go-to vehicle for trenchant political commentary.
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In June, the Brexit referendum spawned several trenchant variations on the trolley problem.
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What is the trenchant difference between what preceded 2016 and what has ensued?
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Oliver makes a trenchant case in favor of access to women's healthcare above.
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Mr. Lelio's film is also a work of trenchant social and psychological realism.
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So I'm particularly gratified that the trenchant quote from Mark Twain is present.
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We can see Larry Wilmore be trenchant and sardonic any night of the week.
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As startups grow, they should face more trenchant criticism about their effects on society.
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The star of the opera, as of the play, is ultimately Wilde's trenchant wit.
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In one mood, he is a vigorous, witty, trenchant writer, formidably lucid and polemical.
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Despite its big laughs and no-you-didn't surprises, it builds a trenchant argument.
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But paradoxically, even as the term becomes more commonplace, it has grown more trenchant.
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The first one, from H.L. Mencken, is actually trenchant political commentary for modern times.
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Though these tools trim the tedium, turning them to trenchant Toledos takes tireless training.
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Emily: I highly doubt we're going to get trenchant racial commentary out of this storyline.
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Ben Sasse, a senator from Nebraska, took an early and trenchant stand against Mr Trump.
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That's from a pessimistic but trenchant analysis by Lyle Cantor a whopping six weeks ago.
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MCC offers an encore run of Jocelyn Bioh's giggly, trenchant comedy, directed by Rebecca Taichman.
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She offers trenchant commentary on the legend of Bluebeard and an episode of "Star Trek".
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All of Fraser's works combine a trenchant and unsparing intellect with a magnetic physical presence.
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Nevertheless, she has put together a trenchant, concise and pleasure-focused menu of Vietnamese dishes.
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This, too, is a conflict that feels all too trenchant in the current cultural moment.
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But worry is trenchant and wily, able to slip through the balustrades of most any reassurance.
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In real life Ms Barr is a woman of trenchant but hard-to-define political views.
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Ashe, who's had professional experience with sexual assault cases, had some particularly trenchant advice to offer.
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Its premise might have felt more novel, its insights more trenchant, its smugness easier to stomach.
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Not surprisingly, Comey's decision not to indict was met with trenchant criticism from Republicans and conservatives.
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And Ms. Ensler is never more trenchant (or self-aware) than when butting against a bureaucracy.
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First, a brief account of the history of this bill, which carries some trenchant political lessons.
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On Thursday, Imran Khan, the most trenchant political opponent of Mr. Sharif, also arrived in London.
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This is a book that's trenchant and intelligent; wry but not glib; humane but never indulgent.
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He delivers some of his most trenchant criticism toward Barack Obama, particularly over Obama's handling of Flint.
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Mr Netanyahu's deep divisiveness is not just a side-effect of a forceful personality and trenchant views.
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Nonetheless, the chorus's message, echoed in Brother Sun's close harmonies and trenchant lyrics, elicited an enthusiastic response.
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With his big band, he offers plush arrangements of his compositions, often undergirded by a trenchant groove.
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David Uberti at Splinter has a nice rundown of the various fights, along with some trenchant critique.
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This year you will need to equip yourself with some trenchant commentary to fend off your soused interlocutor.
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And no less trenchant: What sources of power are available to a woman in a male-dominated field?
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Rather than learning from their mistake, they risk repeating it by ignoring a new class of trenchant Remainers.
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Though that particular wish seems unlikely, King's desire to keep a spotlight on the water crisis is trenchant.
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The education system is a trenchant example of the consequences of the crisis of governance in Puerto Rico.
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There you had the lack of a trenchant Jim Crow system, the lack of slavery on the mainland.
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Somewhere inside of Westworld is a really trenchant critique of, uh, every political and economic system ever devised.
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Never has horror been so trenchant, funny, or deeply relevant to the moment in which it's being made.
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Of course, it's much more than a horror movie — it's also a trenchant satire of America's racial dynamics.
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Arthur Miller didn't need to mention the red scare in "The Crucible" to say something trenchant about it.
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Crosley built her name on trenchant analysis of modern foibles, and she lives up to her reputation here.
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It was a really trenchant conversation about increasing white supremacy in the United States with a ProPublica reporter.
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All seven have been trenchant critics of Jeremy Corbyn, Labour's left-wing leader, since he took power in 2015.
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Mrs Merkel's periodic professions of faith, as the essay notes, have been trenchant enough and yet carefully non-confrontational.
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But it's also a fiercely contemporary record, in terms of both its electroacoustic textures and its trenchant political commentary.
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Instead we got a trenchant takedown of a Valley that only exists in the minds of especially shallow journalists.
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It's a thrill to see Mr. Ostermeier, known best for trenchant social commentary, apply his cleareyed vision to comedy.
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The investment came after he had made a number of trenchant comments about the dismal state of print media.
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"The narrative is trenchant and intelligent; wry but not glib; humane but never indulgent," our critic Jennifer Szalai writes.
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As a trenchant conservative, he also benefits from the number of candidates who are currently splitting the establishment vote.
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Along with trenchant observations of privilege and power, Sekaran delves fearlessly into rape, infertility, adoption, identity politics and more.
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But though Ms. Hagedorn's lyrics often feature trenchant hooks, they seem to catch the same fish over and over.
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Speaking about children, I want to head over to the other thread in this story I found particularly trenchant.
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Between the ages of 13 and 20003, I harbored a zeal for the trenchant conservative politics of white evangelical America.
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Such trenchant proposals may strike a chord with those faithful to Les Republicains but risk alienating swathes of other voters.
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But if you do find yourself sorted into Slytherin, J.K. Rowling has some trenchant advice for you: Curse them, indeed.
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With subversive wit and trenchant humor, the artists in Quality Time expose the arbitrary nature of society's benchmarks for meaning.
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Her Susan is an arresting presence for sure, a vision both trenchant (those cheekbones!) and blurry (those soft-focused eyes!).
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Not since Ingrid Bergman has there been so trenchant a demonstration of what it means to maintain a brave face.
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Trump's increasingly trenchant rhetoric has called into question the relationship between the U.S. and many of its closest historical allies.
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The most trenchant criticisms of class inequality tend to come—not unsurprisingly—from those on (or who've completed) upward trajectories.
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Rarely, however, is her wit more trenchant than when she repeatedly observes the correlation between political competence and dog ownership.
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Squeezed into its current shape it can do little more than check the boxes on its trenchant to-do list.
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The strength of the narrative and reporting in "The Big Picture" is not matched by equally trenchant judgments and predictions.
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Moor Mother explained that this multi-layered phrase has a far more trenchant meaning than the five simple words suggest.
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Perhaps most important, the World Bank's biggest benefactor and largest shareholder — the United States — has become its most trenchant critic.
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Mr. Wolf, a multi-instrumentalist who focuses on the vibraphone, strikes a comfortable balance between stately precision and trenchant swing.
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He rarely gives interviews, or speaks publicly, but when he does defend himself or his company he can be trenchant.
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"He was also known, on occasion to dissent," Roberts joked, referring to Scalia's trenchant opinions when on the losing side.
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" Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale, wrote that Le Guin had "an immense imagination" and a "strong and trenchant mind.
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The arguments become more obvious, and the postmodern reliance on once-popular characters comes to seem cute rather than particularly trenchant.
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What you're about to read is the best kind of speculative fiction, in my humble opinion; trenchant, experimental, and, ultimately, resonant.
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Now, it's up to the policy makers in the White House to ensure they come up with a trenchant Afghanistan policy.
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Carter is marvelously quotable, and many of her most trenchant lines have to do with the relations between men and women.
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Except they aren't (although college sports are clearly in the realm of sketchily inequitable, as South Park's trenchant 21970 episode suggested).
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There are other trenchant observations in this flimsy, hastily assembled comedy, but an awful lot of wading is required to find them.
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Baldwin was a trenchant critic of spiritualism and his early shows, performed with his then wife Clara, sought to demystify 'supernatural' feats.
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The reassuringly trenchant responses to his excesses from the judiciary, states, bureaucracy and NGOs suggest a democracy more vital than some fear.
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And despite heavy monitoring, Chinese discussion groups circulate trenchant critiques of government policy, even on delicate issues such as the Cultural Revolution.
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Among them is William Powhida, who uses research, text and a realist style to marry flippant social commentary with trenchant political critique.
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Lopez Obrador has been a trenchant critic of Pena Nieto's opening of the oil and gas market to foreign and private producers.
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You'll come for the Les Miz and Kenny Loggins parodies; you'll stay for the trenchant commentary and chemistry between the great core cast.
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It's easy to imagine him as the guy at the edge of the room, offering trenchant commentary about everybody dancing at its center.
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The country's bishops have been trenchant in their opposition to the repression and disastrous economic policies practised by Nicolás Maduro, the leftist president.
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Several trenchant editorials by China's state media fueled public concern in Hong Kong that China might be tightening its grip on the city.
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Several trenchant editorials by China's state media fuelled public concern in Hong Kong that China might be tightening its grip on the city.
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"As a result of these practices, the Chinese transplant centers have allowed a trenchant political opposition to their government to prosper," he said.
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To that end, this trenchant little book will push you to think not just about the vote count but about who counts, too.
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And we still do not know the answer to the trenchant question: Will Coronavirus become a deadly pandemic that sweeps around the world?
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Anton has been a frequent presence on television defending the administration's foreign policy stances, occasionally clashing with cable news anchors in trenchant terms.
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Barrett has emerged as a favorite of social conservatives who point to her devout Catholicism and trenchant legal writing on issues like abortion.
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Its debut album, full of darting and thrashing improvisations and Mr. Baraka's trenchant poetry, is widely seen as a landmark of the era.
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Gary Leff, whose trenchant blogging about the airline industry gives some executives fits, witnessed one save two years ago that was particularly memorable.
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He's one of the most trenchant critics of Silicon Valley's business model and the way it's screwed up both the internet and the world.
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Each story is a trenchant exploration of race and class, vividly conveying the tension between social codes of masculinity and the vulnerable, volatile self.
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The simplicity of her desire ("I wanna walk through the park in the dark") becomes trenchant when, immediately, she points out its apparent impossibility.
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With its mix of the personal and political, Minor Feelings is the kind of trenchant social critique that's bound to get people talking. —T.
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Several works feature variations of the rallying cry "Black Lives Matter," which has a trenchant meaning in Baltimore after the death of Freddie Grey.
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Arora's most trenchant criticism is when she analyzes the obsessive focus of Silicon Valley and its entrepreneurs on grand projects rather than on core needs.
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She provides trenchant commentary on self-improvement concepts like "overcoming depression" and "self-care" that are so pervasive in contemporary media narratives around mental illness.
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As Danielle Henderson points out in this trenchant Teen Vogue article, you don't really hear many male artists lending their voice to the #FreeKesha movement.
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Slim majorities of Democratic voters say they would prefer a moderate candidate and one who promises to find common ground, rather than a trenchant liberal.
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I understand that, but I was really struck that John Kennedy, this Republican in Louisiana, if you watched him, asked the most trenchant questions possible.
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And the question at the heart of the drama — just whose vision of black life can (or should) prevail, anyway, Malcolm's or Martin's — was trenchant.
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Yet the fuel and oxygen of immigrant literature — movement, exile, nostalgia, cultural disorientation — are nevertheless what fire the pistons of this trenchant and panoramic novel.
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Courtney Barnett If you're not familiar, she's a young, Tasmanian visual artist-cum-musician who turns her poetry into funny, trenchant and deceptively simple songs.
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And Mary Gaitskill's novella, This Is Pleasure — a trenchant, nuanced take on #MeToo that was first published in the New Yorker — is worth acquiring too.
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Trenchant critics liken the result to a kind of modern day slavery — arguing that rights-denuded platform workers are part of a wider beaten down 'precariat'.
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The US Navy submarines USS Connecticut and USS Hartford are meeting the British Royal Navy sub HMS Trenchant under an ice floe on the Arctic Sea.
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"Everybody Knows" can be considered the anti-"Hallelujah" in its more trenchant and yet just-as-all-encompassing view of the pre- and post-Millennial world.
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"A study in excess, it expressed, perhaps inadvertently, the conviction that no image could be adequate to the subject," Princenthal writes, in a characteristically trenchant critique.
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So far, BlackKklansman has been garnering stellar reviews for its provocative, clever use of history to make trenchant points about the current state of race relations.
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It would be folly to hope that any single intellectual intervention, no matter how trenchant, could undo this template, or could reverse or slow this trajectory.
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It was kind of distressing to see Ms. Jackson looking and sounding so feeble, and a relief when she became her trenchant self again during breaks.
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And in the novel's final paragraphs, he offers one of the most trenchant calls for progressive action that I have read in a very long time.
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The musically striking and dramatically trenchant qualities of "Vanessa" came through in the Mannes performance, with the conductor Joseph Colaneri leading this teeming, often difficult score.
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Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony, an appropriate complement to Schuller's trenchant personality, ends the concert, with a Mozart piano concerto (played by Emanuel Ax) calmly nestled in between.
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MacLean's critics on the right also argue that there is little to no evidence supporting her most important arguments, and some of her most trenchant examples.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads A documentary about cats need not also be a trenchant exposé of the injustices of the world just beyond their whiskers.
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You mention the trenchant nature of certain images and I wanted to bring up this sculpture of yours that the Whitney Museum recently put on its terrace.
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The film's metaphors for repressive societies and the tolls they take on women and their bodily autonomy are more trenchant than they were even a year ago.
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The UK government came in for trenchant criticism immediately afterwards, with experts saying it had failed to listen and warnings about the risks posed by drone misuse.
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Things seemed to be changing, but then the doors closed once more, particularly for African American artists who did not make trenchant black subject matter their focus.
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Presumably intended to be a satirical, socially trenchant high school comedy, it concerns a viciously bullied, formerly overweight young woman who undergoes a dramatic reversal of fortune.
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By the time he retired after a nearly 20-year tenure, he stood out for his trenchant dissents protesting the conservative majority, in cases from Bush v.
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Some provided trenchant critiques of our current moment, while others created memorials to those we have lost, or dreams of what our movement and world could be.
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A race-relations pressure cooker set on the hottest day of the year in Bedford-Stuyvesant, it makes a particularly trenchant comment on gentrification in one scene.
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What is maddening is that Poitras is very, very close to a trenchant and provocative film about gender politics, about monsters and predators embedded inside important struggles.
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"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.
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Logic's third LP, "Everybody," recently topped the Billboard charts, and this summer he is touring arenas with the trenchant Brooklyn lyricist Joey Badass as an opening act.
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In all of these pieces, racism is a kind of virus, one that's easily cured with a trenchant monologue and always by the end of the story.
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Climate change-denial has mutated into a trenchant enough mindset that even after people can no longer deny the visible effects, they can still deny the cause.
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Art from the 27083s and '2737s is presented as prescient of what's being made now, and new art is viewed as putting a trenchant spin on the past.
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Art from the 21966s and '215154s is presented as prescient of what's being made now, and new art is viewed as putting a trenchant spin on the past.
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Art from the 237s and '22212s is presented as prescient of what's being made now, and new art is viewed as putting a trenchant spin on the past.
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Art from the 21998s and '23s is presented as prescient of what's being made now, and new art is viewed as putting a trenchant spin on the past.
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Art from the 218913s and '21930s is presented as prescient of what's being made now, and new art is viewed as putting a trenchant spin on the past.
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Art from the 2465s and '2617s is presented as prescient of what's being made now, and new art is viewed as putting a trenchant spin on the past.
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Art from the 227s and '21864s is presented as prescient of what's being made now, and new art is viewed as putting a trenchant spin on the past.
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Art from the 2399s and '23646s is presented as prescient of what's being made now, and new art is viewed as putting a trenchant spin on the past.
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How do you mélange trenchant political analyses, a canny cultural critique of Top 33 songs, plus the drugs you heard them on, invitingly inlaid in such stellar stanzas?
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On Wednesday, Kushner responded with a 1,300-word essay about anti-Semitism and the Holocaust and politics that nevertheless did not really answer any of Schwartz's trenchant criticisms.
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A trenchant critic of past administrations, Lopez Obrador said previous government strategies had turned Mexico into a "graveyard" and that his critics wanted him to continue with it.
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The 2017-founded company, which has raised some $14.4BN in funding to date per Crunchbase, has faced trenchant criticism over the level of youth usage of its products.
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Maduro announced on Tuesday the expulsion of the two top diplomats, Todd Robinson and Brian Naranjo, following the Trump administration's trenchant criticism of last Sunday's controversial presidential elections.
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Art from the 2125s and '2212s is presented as prescient of what's being made now, and new art is viewed as putting a trenchant spin on the past.
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" The trenchant headline recounting the interview in Baptist News read: "God Wants Humans to Use Natural Gas and Oil, Not 'Keep It in the Ground,' says E.P.A. Chief.
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That is the point of this trenchant book, written in response to the heated debate over an appropriated image — and history — of blackness in the last Whitney Biennial.
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It was a fully realized dystopian realm of its own, bristling with crosscurrents of rhythm, dissonant loops, staticky noise, warning shouts and bits of hard-nosed, trenchant lyrics.
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He ran as a centrist and a national healer, clearly not knowing that he would face an opposition once in office that was equal parts trenchant and ideologically radical.
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Using facial-analysis software developed by Microsoft, The Economist has sought to quantify Mr Trump and Mrs Clinton's emotions during some of the most trenchant moments of the debates.
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Barring Meade, all of the candidates are trenchant critics of the president, but Pena Nieto namechecked all four of them and the Senate motion in his scolding of Trump.
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You can see bright sparks, though, of the mature dramatist in the making, as well as flashes of the trenchant wit and contemplative melancholy that would become his signature.
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In April, writer and AIDS historian Sarah Schulman wrote a series of trenchant tweets that distilled some of the anxieties found in present-day queer discourse on this score.
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Musical theatre has always been an outlet for trenchant social commentary; every decade from the genre's inception has given us a Showboat, a Chorus Line, a Next to Normal.
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If the series was as trenchant and nuanced as its creators would like to believe, they would have gone deeper into trying to understand what these intersections of identity mean.
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This ties into Fade In's other, more trenchant, yet still reliably wry track, which looks into the role of art in TV and film, the status and appearances it assumes.
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In the late 1990s, however, he was a trenchant opponent of Mugabe and his ZANU-PF party and organized general strikes in protest at the government's management of the country.
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The forty-three-year-old playwright is one of downtown's most trenchant, least crowd-pleasing talents, whose stubbornly genre-resistant work melds identity politics, Dadaist humor, and metatheatrical mind games.
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The LA-born artist's solo show, #AlexIsrael, at Oslo's Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, functions like a "gigantic 3D postcard from LA" and contextualized by the city's trenchant tropes.
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" But it is perhaps no surprise that the most trenchant comment on American character comes from the best show of the lot, that perpetual coulda-been-a-contender "Mack & Mabel.
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But trenchant satire aside, parallels with the current president are so familiar that some readers have dubbed Mr. Freedland "Nostradamus" while others are begging him to choose their lottery numbers.
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This trenchant examination of whistle-blowing is based on interviews with more than two hundred people who have exposed wrongdoing in areas such as national security, finance, and health care.
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Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai, a trenchant critic of the use of American air power in Afghanistan, condemned the strikes, but otherwise reaction from Afghan political leaders was relatively muted.
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In a movie that tries to make such a trenchant point of its hero's moral uprightness, it seems a little weird to leave all that ethical material on the table.
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I could see this work being developed by a comedic ensemble, but then, in terms of provoking political awareness comedy currently offers some of the most trenchant analysis we have.
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If it's not the burden of unchained capitalism or trenchant patriarchy that you're contending with on a given day, well there's always the looming threat of nuclear war to worry about.
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Throughout her extended speech, Pelosi offered trenchant, poignant anecdotes about young dreamers, as well as some random tangents, because how can anyone go for 7 hours without occasionally drifting into incoherence?
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Cramer also found that the people he interviewed were both thoughtful and trenchant in their remembrance, and were simultaneously proud to look forward to the day when the work was finished.
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Johnson, a former journalist with a talent for trenchant comments that his critics say sometimes tip over into untruth, said his utterances over a three-decade career had often been "misconstrued".
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Another trenchant piece, Ma tante toya (2017), speaks revolutionary volumes of its own by swapping out a historically piquant little piece of French cutlery for an imposing machete à la haïtienne.
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Perhaps the most trenchant insights concerning Texas politics were offered by a prominent Republican, Joe Straus, who is retiring after serving 10 years as Speaker of the state House of Representatives.
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Jimmy Carter's chief speechwriter, James Fallows, wrote a trenchant piece in The Atlantic Monthly called "The Passionless Presidency," portraying his former boss as a good man but an ineffective chief executive.
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The prolific Knisley, 34, has been publishing autobiographical comics since her early 20s (like the recipe-dotted "Relish: My Life in the Kitchen"), and this book covers her most trenchant topic.
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A trenchant New York Post headline — " 'Sanctuary City' Law Let Gang Member Walk Free From Rikers" — lit up social media as Trump supporters across the country railed against New York's defiance.
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In his later years, in part because of his experience with the censors, Mr. Nagarkar became a trenchant critic of right-wing nationalism and exhorted Indians to support freedom of expression.
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Some legal experts like David Singleton, who helped win clemency in the Williams-Bolar case, said the case provides a trenchant opportunity to examine the criminal justice system as a whole.
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Nancy Mairs, whose encounters with mental illness, disease and religious faith found expression in a series of trenchant, intensely personal essays and memoirs, died on Saturday at her home in Tucson.
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Judging from the trailer, nothing about this new version of the storied franchise in which a creepy doll comes to life and kills people seems particularly vital, necessary, or culturally trenchant.
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This action feels vaguely trenchant vis-à-vis a 21st-century mindset, as if the single image could no longer bear its own philosophical weight, and had to be physically partitioned.
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It's an especially trenchant problem in Germany, where in the aftermath of World War II the state has passed strict laws against the use or spread of Nazi imagery, slogans, and propaganda.
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It also plans to start endorsing candidates in Democratic primaries; and perhaps launch primary challenges to Democratic incumbents who are considered insufficiently left-wing or trenchant in their resistance to Mr Trump.
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This was something I did for a laugh, and then someone says that this is an astroturfing exercise, or a trenchant attack on laboratory biology from someone who doesn't like animal research.
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Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger & How to Save It ," offers a trenchant survey from 1989, with its democratic euphoria, to the current map of autocratic striving, "from Athens to Ankara.
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What the journalist discovers is himself, of course, though he also finds a man dedicated to radical kindness, which makes this one of the more politically trenchant movies of the Trump era.
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There's much more I could talk about in Sharp Objects — if nothing else, it's a surprisingly trenchant commentary on white, rural America's inability to escape its own fictional version of its past.
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In her trenchant book 290s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality, Allison Yarrow looks back on that decade with a heightened awareness of sexism and connected forms of discrimination.
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Scotland Yard never cracked the case, and neither does Uri Bar-Joseph, a professor at the University of Haifa, in his trenchant, serpentine account of the Egyptian's years as a spy for Israel.
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Rod Liddle, also of The Sunday Times, is one of my heroes: so witty, so trenchant, so unafraid of political correctness — I read every word he writes and laugh over many of them.
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WENDY WASSERSTEIN Her death at 55 in 2006 halted a series of trenchant comedies about the aftershocks of feminism, from "Uncommon Women and Others" (1977) to "The Sisters Rosensweig" (1992) to "Third" (2005).
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When Mr. Blythe arrived in New York from California in the mid-1970s he was already well into his 30s, with a trenchant, vibrato-thickened saxophone style and a reputation that preceded him.
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Far From the Tree is filled with trenchant moments in which the weight of societal expectations, and the pressure it puts on our protagonists, comes to the forefront in ways minor and major.
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P.S. Thank you for restoring 'And Now, a Word from Charles...' Like so many, I miss his trenchant wit, his ability to see and think around the corners of issues and clarity of expression.
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As Cox has always done, she hopes to bring a new, more positive view of the black body, a step towards reversing the trenchant racism to which people of color have long been subjected.
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In his attempt to become leader of Germany's governing Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the health minister faces a battle to convince party members that his often trenchant political views chime with the country's future.
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By engaging in active conversation with their fans via social media, [ARTIST] breaks the fourth wall put up by [ELEMENT OF THEIR MUSIC], adding another dimension to an already trenchant and vital artistic message.
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But the Gatwick chaos and some trenchant criticism about government complacency about the risks posed by misuse of the technology appears to have concentrated ministerial minds on finding a few extra deterrents for police.
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As in this lovely soliloquy, Mr. Posner's play is at its most trenchant and funny when it doesn't just collapse the distance between Chekhov and today, but also encourages us to forget Chekhov entirely.
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This prompted an outraged response from one of the most trenchant and widely followed critics of Germany's political establishment, a 27-year-old, blue-haired YouTuber known only by his nom de plume, Rezo.
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In the years between, conservative regimes battled for the future with revolutionaries, most notably in 1848 (at the heart of a particularly trenchant chapter), when the continent was swept by a cascade of revolutions.
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The hat was announced on Wednesday, in a tweet that has been subsequently deleted, leaving only a meme trail of Bloomberg haters and their trenchant political takes on the hat in its wake. pic.twitter.
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Yet while we do not share Buchanan's ideology — and we would love to read a trenchant critical account of the origins of public choice — we think the broad thrust of the criticism is right.
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In the subsequent decades, the German-born Conceptualist has only sharpened his anti-establishment critique; his political integrity, formal acuity, and trenchant wit are on view in a sixty-year retrospective at the New Museum.
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Short, trenchant, raspy-voiced, constantly puffing on harsh Gauloises cigarettes, Mr. Rocard was considered a rare intellectual in French politics, a voracious reader at home with ideas, but with a keen sense of the practical.
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With subversive wit and trenchant humor, the artists in this show expose the arbitrary nature of society's benchmarks for meaning-making — and the consequences such staged modes of living can have on our modern existence.
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The greatest danger of "Chaos Monkeys" is that it could suffer the same fate as many equally prescient cautionary tales: It is appreciated less as trenchant social criticism and more as a how-to manual.
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Its real subject, or at any rate the most trenchant theme to emerge from behind its abstractions and intangibles, is the one suggested by the title, borrowed from Stravinsky's book of études for young pianists.
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As the opposition leader crusading to win back the House, Pelosi wants to do nothing to undercut the Democrats' most trenchant campaign argument: that the Republicans are simply too dysfunctional to govern the country effectively.
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Yet the tale of a young woman who gets caught up in a conspiracy nut's survivalist nightmare — complete with an enormous underground bunker and tales of a raging nuclear holocaust overhead — is almost painfully trenchant.
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The rare action against P. Chidambaram, a top leader of the main opposition Congress party and a trenchant critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, drew opposition accusations that the authorities are pursuing a political vendetta.
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A few minutes after the president concluded his speech to the builders, Richard Trumka, the AFL-CIO's trenchant boss, with whom the president shares little more than a syllable, delivered a more revealing address in Washington.
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But he is the guy those young viewers need to hear from — a man in his 50s whose jokes about race and politics ring trenchant and true because we know he has lived through these issues.
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Jessi Klein, the head writer for my TV show, just wrote a book called "You'll Grow Out of It," and this is good news for everyone, because she is hilarious, smart and trenchant in any medium.
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A trenchant critic of the ruling elite, Lopez Obrador would become Mexico's first left-leaning leader for decades if elected on Sunday, breaking the stranglehold of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and its conservative rivals.
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William Powhida, one of our most trenchant and acerbic political artists, used to work regularly as an art critic — and basically still does, in a continuing series of brilliant text drawings produced over the past decade.
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B.K. BRUMBERG Howard Beach, Queens To the Editor: Nicholas Kristof's trenchant analysis of the broadcast media's complicity in the election of Donald Trump should trigger a serious debate within the executive suites of major media outlets.
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And sure, maybe the show is going somewhere with the repeated choice to have June's actions lead to the death of women of color, and we're eventually going to get some trenchant racial commentary out of it.
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In perhaps the most trenchant effort to deter leaks, White House spokesman Sean Spicer demanded that some aides there surrender their phones so they could be checked for calls or texts to reporters, Politico reported on Sunday.
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He raised a few trenchant issues that other candidates ignored, such as France's need to build more renewable power and to stop its prisons from making criminals even more dangerous when they are released back into society.
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" Criticism (1973-present) Winner: Carlos Lozada of The Washington Post "for trenchant and searching reviews and essays that joined warm emotion and careful analysis in examining a broad range of books addressing government and the American experience.
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Among never-before-seen footage taken throughout the legendary singer's tumultuous life both on stage and behind the scenes, the film offers a sensitive, trenchant examination of the star's relationship with Crawford, long a topic of innuendo.
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Art Review Ronald Lockett, whose emotionally raw and politically trenchant paintings and assemblages are featured in "Fever Within: The Art of Ronald Lockett" at the American Folk Art Museum, did not have a lot going for him.
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A career spent adjacent to the Democratic Party but not a part of it has allowed him to level trenchant criticism of a political party that often caters more to rich donors than to the middle class.
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Especially trenchant is the idea — as you can get from this satirical Instagram bio of a spiritual "Karen" — that a stereotypical Karen plays fast and loose with pseudoscience, appropriates identities, may be conservative, and is extremely picky.
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Inspiration may be like finding the light switch in a darkened room, but Schiff's poems—caged, skittish, aghast at their own force—more often attempt to dim the glare of an imagination that's a little too trenchant.
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The vast majority of Democrats (including Sanders, to be clear) reject BDS, but Ilhan Omar, another new House Democrat, is also a BDS supporter and has so far been a more trenchant critic of Israel than Tlaib.
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Or better still, look at electronic media and see the trenchant criticism of Aruna D'Souza, Lindsay Nixon, Sarah Bond, and my own work which plays with the form of the review while also invoking poetry, politics, and museology.
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Played by Matthew Kelly in "Toast," Richard Bean's trenchant 1999 comedy of the rhythms of a blue-collar workday, Nellie is treated as a sort of mascot by the men who toil alongside him, mixing and shoveling dough.
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While the Publius essays have become known as "The Federalist Papers," and are revered as trenchant commentaries on the nature of democracy and the American Constitution, Brutus's essays—sometimes called the Anti-Federalist Papers—have sunk into obscurity.
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Nevertheless, the letter is powerful in its bipartisan censure of the nation's attorney general, and is a trenchant reminder that concerns over the path the Justice Department appears to be heading down go beyond outrage from Democratic lawmakers.
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Along with the USS Connecticut fast-attack submarine and the UK Royal Navy's HMS Trenchant, the 6,000-ton Hartford is currently participating in multinational exercises training for its primary mission: to hunt and kill enemy ships and submarines.
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Perhaps because Nelson herself is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, she believes in the influence of exclusive think tanks with glittering memberships, but her conspiratorial framing significantly undermines the impact of her otherwise trenchant journalism.
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Deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders insisted that Trump showed the dignity of the office "every day" and that his comments about Brzezinski amounted to self-defense against a show from which he receives frequent and trenchant criticism.
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The proliferation of commodity activism such as Nike's, in other words, serves as a trenchant reminder that there is no "outside" to the logic of contemporary capitalism; social action may itself be shifting shape into a marketable commodity.
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Also helping to make her arguments slanted is that, particularly with the case of Schutz, D'Souza cites, but ultimately ignores one of the most trenchant insights into the meaning of the controversy given by Coco Fusco in Hyperallergic.
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Peachum is an Otto Dix study in scarlet — with a deeply modern inclusiveness that finds among the cast the disabled performer Jamie Beddard, who has cerebral palsy and lands arguably the most trenchant one-liner of the entire show.
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He delved widely across idioms, writing not just three-chord folk and pop but tunes that hinted at rock, blues, country, klezmer, Viennese waltzes and Greek rebetika — even disco on the hard-nosed, trenchant "I'm Your Man" in 1988.
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While the exhibition is vast and sprawling, loose themes emerge across the artworks, whether in the artists' affinity for documenting the region's diverse communities and urban transformations or their interest in expressing new art forms and trenchant social commentary.
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In his unusually introspective and entertaining memoir, Mr. Branum reveals himself as a trenchant, surprising critic, offering close readings of "Bohemian Rhapsody," makeover movies and the different ways "Entourage" and the Lisa Kudrow series "The Comeback" present Los Angeles.
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As spinoff series like The Next Generation and Voyager aired during the relative calm of the 553s, the franchise became more popular and altruistic, but without much of the trenchant social bite that made the original series so immediate and unique.
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Since it premiered in February, writer-director Jordan Peele's galvanizing social thriller has only grown more trenchant in the wake of the white supremacist marches at Charlottesville, and President Trump's criticism of NFL players protesting police shooting unarmed black men.
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Last month's DCMS committee report was also especially trenchant in its criticism of Facebook's business practices — with MPs singling out the company for what it dubbed "disingenuous" and "bad faith" responses to genuine democratic concerns about the misuse of people's data.
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Nick Clegg, its leader during the coalition years, gave a trenchant defence of the party's time in power, while admitting that he had made it too easy for David Cameron, the then prime minister, to shove him into an electoral woodchipper.
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A further surprise about this exhibition is that it deals with Israel in a nonchalant way, even as ever-new controversies erupt in the Middle East, and (art) world attention perseverates over the vexing and trenchant problems of Israel/Palestine.
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The third, and by far the best, of these Middle-East-meets-the-Wild-West comedies is "War Dogs", a trenchant and very funny satire co-written and directed by Todd Phillips, the maker of "The Hangover" and its sequels.
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It is these less conventional borders—painfully obvious and consequential to migrants, but often invisible to citizens of the global north—that are the subject of David FitzGerald's trenchant new book, Refuge Beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers.
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But this hasn't prevented Pedro Reyes, an artist-activist from Mexico City, from creating his own bit of fright-night political high jinks in "Doomocracy," an elaborately trenchant performance piece presented by the nonprofit Creative Time in the Brooklyn Army Terminal.
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Among the foreign guests in Cleveland this week is Nigel Farage, the British anti-immigration politician who was a driving force behind "Brexit," and Geert Wilders, a right-wing Dutch member of Parliament best known for his trenchant criticism of Islam.
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His portrait of a different aspect of the Italian early '60s "dolce vita," in which the entrepreneurial middle class rubs elbows with, and tries to wheel and deal with, the obscenely wealthy, is packed with trenchant observation and mordant wit.
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Despite trenchant criticism — including from U.S. lawmakers accusing Facebook's CEO to his face of damaging American democracy — the company is digging in, announcing as much today by reiterating its defence of continuing to accept money to run microtargeted political ads.
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Taken together, all of these scenes serve as a trenchant reminder: Just because someone is out of sight on The Americans doesn't mean they're out of the characters' minds, or that they won't have an effect on this series' endgame.
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Colescott's stock-in-trade was the skewering of racial stereotypes through politically trenchant satire, often using shockingly racist imagery long before Kara Walker, who is represented in the collection but not in the show (Colescott died in 2009 at the age of 83).
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Of the five top-ranked films on this list, it's the one that speaks most vividly to the world we live in now, all fire and violence and bad choices, with a trenchant warning about letting anger get the better of you.
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But McQueen and Flynn have so much more on their minds, weaving in a trenchant portrait of the noxious corruption in Chicago politics, and a mosaic of how women must scrape through their lives to escape all the ways men fuck them over.
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IN A trenchant, unapologetically centrist essay for The Economist Barack Obama has urged the next president to shun the "crude populism" being peddled by both the right and the left, and to ensure that the American economy remains open to the world.
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Some of the best speculative fiction refracts back such trenchant truths about the present that it can be physically uncomfortable to read—'Future Home of the Living God', from widely acclaimed author Louise Erdrich and out today from Harper, certainly accomplishes that.
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Which brings me to another quibble: Much of Ms. Zeisler's analysis, as trenchant as it is, often focuses less on ground realities than on epiphenomena — questions of how women are represented in popular culture, questions of what is and isn't a feminist issue.
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The wry humor, the trenchant memes, the progressive social commentary mixed with genuine care for Tumblr's marginalized communities that Tumblr users have deployed in response to the adult content ban — all of that is a unique combination that's grown out of Tumblr culture.
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Under the confident direction of Mike Donahue, who also staged Ms. Silverman's plays "The Roommate" and "The Moors," this is a trenchant and snappy production; even the props — which drop out of the egg-crate ceiling of Dane Laffrey's set — get laughs.
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Killmonger's final line — "Bury me in the ocean with my ancestors who jumped from ships, because they knew death was better than bondage" — is among the film's most trenchant, and one of the hardest to believe actually exists in a Marvel movie.
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Uptown, his staging has grown broader and funnier but no less trenchant in the 800-seat Golden than it was in a space one-quarter the size; the continuous embroidering of marvelous detail fills any gaps that might have opened in the expansion.
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Just as routinely, he was later credited with paving the way for a new wave of black comedians who would make it big in the white world, notably two talents of thoroughly different sensibilities: the reflective Bill Cosby and the trenchant Richard Pryor.
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The book's straightforward tone sometimes seems almost like therapy, but Leigh poses trenchant questions about the competing demands of motherhood and artistic careers and the way that our faith in technology and consumerism produces a kind of blithe certainty in would-be parents.
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The small triumphs and tragedies of rural life, such as drought, material wealth, and run-ins with a comically inefficient provincial government, are relayed through the goat's trenchant observations, which poignantly expose how tightly the lives of caretakers and their livestock are bound.
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While it takes no explicit stance, the installation (titled "The World Contained," 2018) sublimates a trenchant issue into an intuitive interplay of shape and color, at once gritty and seductive, that feels like an escape into sanity, which is its own kind of redemption.
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The film also offers a sensitive, trenchant examination of Houston's relationship with her friend Robyn Crawford, long a topic of innuendo, and points convincingly to signs (via multiple talking heads) that Crawford's exile from Houston's life was an overt factor in the singer's undoing.
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I was surprised that the curators selected, for the political room, "The Three Graces: Art, Sex and Death" (214), a candy-colored send-up of a classical theme by Robert Colescott, rather than one of the artist's many trenchant and disquieting satires on race.
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Information recovered from two earlier military operations against the Islamic State — one in eastern Syria in May 2015 and another from more recent combat in Manbij, Syria — gave American and allied officials trenchant insights into the Islamic State's leadership structure and its financing and recruiting.
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If a few moments in "Unpronounceable" smacked of juvenilia—an overwrought description of a falling snowflake, for example—the writing, on the whole, was heartfelt and trenchant, even when tackling such difficult topics as crises of faith and the tradition of public self-flagellation.
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He got fired, and after that, seems to have gotten a little loopy — becoming an extremely trenchant Obama critic and occasional paid agent of the Russian government who developed views way outside the consensus zone of either Obama or his main Republican Party critics.
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THURSDAY PUZZLE — Joon Pahk returns after a three-year absence from the Times puzzle with a deeply philosophical, trenchant grid that will move you to tears, or at least to call your loved ones and reconnect, because life is just so, so short … Kidding!
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In his corner will be Jonathan Chait of New York magazine and one of the country's leading progressive voices, who has come to Obama's defense with "Audacity," a timely, trenchant and relentlessly argued book presenting the 44th president in terms that he himself would approve.
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In three minutes, Mr. Baillie suggests the arc of an entire life with an elegant mixture of trenchant close-ups (sturdy hands, worn boots, a weathered face) and equally elegiac long shots that evoke the minimalist landscapes in certain classical Asian paintings (trees, clouds, peaks, isolated figures).
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He had been a proper investigative journalist, as well as a trenchant writer; but his Mao books were banned on the mainland, and the journal Yanhuang Chunqiu, which he strongly backed in its unofficial reappraisals of Chinese history, had been made anodyne and the editor sacked.
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Atwood's analysis of power — how it operates, how it accumulates, what it feels like to lack it and be at the mercy of someone with lots of it — feels especially trenchant in a time when so many Americans feel that those in power are exceptionally untrustworthy.
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" Similarly, in his trenchant analysis of the power play in "Henry VI," Greenblatt notes how the sudden eruption of hostility between the Dukes of Somerset and York precipitates "group solidarity and group loathing … which makes the voice, even the very thought, of the opponent almost unendurable.
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This moment rendered Mr. Trump momentarily silent and confirmed the image of David Letterman as a savvy, trenchant interviewer, part of the reason there was such glee when he announced last week that he would be returning with a Netflix show rooted in long-form conversation.
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Showtime's trenchant dark comedy "On Becoming a God in Central Florida," set in the early 1990s, charts the exploits of Kirsten Dunst's character as she desperately attempts to prevent her life from being swallowed whole after she's caught in the web of a multilevel-marketing scheme.
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In cryptic meditations across its disjoined halves, this film confirms two truisms that discerning viewers have known all along: Hong and Kim were sleeping together, and that regardless of (or perhaps in debt to) this, he is a master of frustrating, trenchant melodrama for our generation.
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But as real influencers with six-digit follower counts hit me up for the mural address so they can get "ironic" snaps with it—and as I notice my own follower count climbing higher due my role as patient zero— I wonder how much good trenchant satire can do.
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" But Barbrook and Cameron believed that the Valley's trenchant libertarianism would prevent it from achieving emancipation for anyone but tech moguls: "Their utopian vision of California depends upon a willful blindness towards the other—much less positive—features of life on the West Coast: racism, poverty, and environmental degradation.
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Nathan answers with that trenchant fable about a father who possessed a precious ring that has been handed down through generations to favorite sons: Not wanting to choose among his sons, the father has the ring duplicated twice, causing all three sons to believe theirs is the original.
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A skilled humorist as well as a tender yet trenchant observer of human behavior and the social forces that so often control it, Gaines has a particular gift for sustaining a tension between self-loathing and self-grandeur — his own as well as that of the people around him.
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As narrator, he emerges as comprehensively analytical and trenchant, full of pointed epigrams; perhaps too willing sometimes to lean into the model minority narrative to argue the case for immigrants; relatively privileged but for the most part aware of his privilege and indulgent occasionally of a male gaze.
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Sol Stein, a prolific novelist and playwright, savvy publisher and visionary editor who helped fashion a collection of trenchant essays by James Baldwin, a former high school classmate, into a literary classic, "Notes of a Native Son," died on Thursday at his home in Tarrytown, N.Y. He was 21969.
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Jamel Brinkley ("A Lucky Man"), Nafissa Thompson-Spires ("Heads of the Colored People"), Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah ("Friday Black"), and JM Holmes ("How Are You Going to Save Yourself") published moving, trenchant and vividly rendered short story collections, some vibrating with the up-to-the-minute urgency of contemporary events.
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The Belgian Surrealists made an intentional choice to resist the doctrinaire and spine-bound trappings of the French Surrealists, choosing ephemeral and more intimate approaches to writing, publication, and distribution; indeed, the texts in Correspondance were largely witty and trenchant, if sometimes oblique, responses to their counterparts' literary debates in Paris.
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It's a muscular, multilayered declaration of self-worth and reliance from an artist who has been open about his insecurities, both as a "Black Man in a White World," as he put it in a trenchant 2016 song, and as a rock and soul singer who was born into the wrong decade.
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What Larry Kramer's trenchant play (and subsequent film) The Normal Heart did for the early days of AIDS activism in 1980s New York at the height of the crisis, Robin Campillo in 120 Beats Per Minute aims to do for the same subject in 1990s Paris, albeit in a more contemplative style.
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Edwards' art, which combines abstraction with found objects that manifest the trenchant material legacy of tools and chains, ripples with uncompromising integrity and intelligence — Exhibit A for a perennially unfashionable body of work that has only grown in strength, decade after decade, while retaining its humility in light of the history it cites.
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In his strange, unforgettable pictures, Ishida, who died in his early 2659s after having enjoyed — if that is the right word — a professional career that lasted only about 2659 years, explored the theme of contemporary alienation in Japanese society, combining a trenchant critique of what he observed with a masterful painting technique.
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But here he puts the text up against the glass partition between this show and the adjacent gallery full of (white) marble figurative statuaries from antiquity that now call to mind Sarah Bond's trenchant critique of the idea that this work devoid of color is too often taken to represent Western civilization.
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Over the course of 10 trenchant essays, he covers a lot of ground: what Kaepernick's NFL banishment says about the depths of white supremacy in America, how post-9/11 militarization has taken the guise of patriotism, what celebrity culture betrays about which people are worthy of rehabilitation in the public mind.
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THE AGE OF ILLUSIONSHow America Squandered Its Cold War VictoryBy Andrew J. Bacevich Andrew J. Bacevich, a trenchant critic of American foreign policy and the author of several studies of international affairs, begins his latest book, "The Age of Illusions," with a quote from Harry Angstrom, the protagonist of John Updike's "Rabbit" novels.
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"Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott" Through May 17 Robert Colescott was perhaps most famous for his witty and trenchant canvas "George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page From an American History Textbook" (1975), in which he updated the famous image of the first president, replacing him with the black inventor.
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It's been a perfect show since it premiered in 2014 and introduced its unique blend of trenchant Hollywood satire, sublime cartoon silliness, and profound existential drama, all set in a world in which an anthropomorphized horse-man named BoJack (Will Arnett) could be a faded '90s sitcom star plagued with severe insecurity and enormous self-importance.
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Ringgold's "American People Series #220: Die" (22020), depicting a bloody interracial melee, offers a trenchant riposte to the exoticism and cultural appropriations of Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907), while Thomas's "Fiery Sunset" (1973), a radiant, ultramarine-on-scarlet abstraction reveling in its freedom of brushwork and color, owns the wall adjacent to Matisse's "The Red Studio" (1911).
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In interviews, Ms. Steyerl, a professor of New Media Art at the Berlin University of the Arts, is a trenchant critic of how income inequality has increased prices at the top end of the art market and reduced wages at the bottom, where art history graduates from well-off homes provide a ready supply of cheap labor.
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Kevin Beasley: A View of a Landscape at the Whitney Museum December 15, 2018–March 10, 2019 Organized by Christopher Y. Lew with Ambika Trasi Born in Lynchburg, Virginia, Kevin Beasley is no stranger to the American South, and his recent solo show at the Whitney Museum highlighted his consideration of that particular landscape's history to trenchant ends.
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The trenchant but elegantly phrased libretto is by Royce Vavrek—the indie Hofmannsthal—who has also collaborated with the eclectic young composer Du Yun for "Angel's Bone," a world-première work (at the 3LD Art & Technology Center) which uses a fablelike tale of angels coming down to earth as a metaphor for the real-life problem of human trafficking.
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Works by Volpi are also to be found on the booth of the Rio gallery A Gentil Carioca, while São Paulo's Galeria Leme is presenting trenchant works by Jaime Lauriano, one of the most thoughtful artists of Brazil's young and diversifying scene, whose graceful silk-screened images of strange contraptions turn out to be colonial-era instruments of torture.
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Stephen Karam's extraordinary comedy-drama — the finest of the season — has transferred to Broadway with its prized virtues intact: a superlative cast; direction from Joe Mantello that deftly navigates its shifts in tone; and, of course, Mr. Karam's delicate but trenchant writing, depicting with great humor and empathy a middle-class family on the edge of the abyss.
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Stephen Karam's extraordinary comedy-drama — the finest of the season — managed its transfer to Broadway with its prized virtues intact: a superlative cast; direction from Joe Mantello that deftly navigates its shifts in tone; and, of course, Mr. Karam's delicate but trenchant writing, depicting with great humor and empathy a middle-class family on the edge of the abyss.
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The new law, which some aid groups predict will force them to shut down, was approved by Egypt's Parliament in November, but Mr. Sisi hesitated to sign it after trenchant criticism from Western officials, most notably the Republican Senators John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who threatened to restrict American aid to Egypt if the legislation was approved.
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Russell "Rusty" Schweickart, an Apollo 8003 astronaut who has devoted recent years to improving humans' capacity to identify and possibly deflect asteroids or other near-Earth objects offered this trenchant thought: When it comes to understanding the home planet, as a whole, as an integrated system that supports life, it seems to me NASA is best positioned to provide this service to humanity.
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The most riveting floor is the fourth, where the elevator doors open on those exploding atom bombs, and the surrounding walls are littered with political drawings of unrelenting scabrousness, with particular venom reserved for Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Dick Cheney (the searing Reagan drawings feel especially trenchant given the reverence accorded his corrupt, oligarchical, and blood-spattered regime, even by commentators who should know better).
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That Magritte was a mentor and influence to Broodthaers is an established cornerstone of any study of his work; what has proven harder to incorporate into the literature on Broodthaers is the direct and pervasive lineage of Paul Nougé, Marcel Lecomte, E.L.T. Mesens, and, in general, the formative dada-surrealist writers whose trenchant and provocative intellectual work he avidly consumed as a young man.
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I have in mind particularly the Scottish novelist and screenwriter Gilbert Adair, whose film criticism for The Independent was both witty (he was fond of puns) and profound; Pauline Kael, whose passion for film was palpable however wildly she often struck; and David Thomson, the British-born cinephile whose "Biographical Dictionary of Film" (now in its sixth edition) is one of the most trenchant and eccentric reference works ever conceived.
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If The Big Sick is the potential crowd-pleasing wildcard in this year's awards season that was greeted by dead silence this morning, then Get Out—Jordan Peele's astounding horror film that doubles as the most trenchant social satire released on film this year—at least got its relative due: Along with nabbing a nom in the Best Picture - Comedy or Musical category, its lead Daniel Kaluuya scored a Best Actor nod as well.
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And because I myself haven't seen all of the critically praised pictures of 2017, I intend to use Netflix for catching up on, among others, "Graduation," the latest film from the always-trenchant Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, "Strong Island," a Netflix Original documentary about racism in the United States, focused on the 1992 murder of William Ford Jr., and directed by his brother, Yance Ford; and "Super Dark Times," an intense teen thriller.
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Expanding on her criticisms of the reform in a statement after the vote, Julia Reda, Pirate Party MEP and VP of the Greens/EFA group — who has been a trenchant critic of the copyright reforms — said the parliament had voted to make "nothing but cosmetic changes", reiterating her warning that the proposal would result in platforms imposing upload filters that would catch "perfectly legal content like parodies and memes", as well as imposing a pointless EU "link tax".
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Cicilline is one of just a handful of openly gay lawmakers on Capitol Hill, while Bustos, whose rural district was carried by President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE in 85033, is arguing the need to empower more heartland voices in the top leadership ranks — a call for regional diversity that was particularly trenchant following the election of Trump.
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In her poem, "East Berlin 1989," Lorde beat back against the Cold War triumphalism of the times with a dark vision of discord and racial violence, anticipating the surge of far-right hostility that would emerge in the reunified former East: "Already my blood shrieks / through the East Berlin streets / misplaced hatreds / volcanic tallies rung upon cement / Afro-German woman stomped to death / by skinheads in Alexanderplatz…" At a time when the far right is once again on the rise in Europe — and in eastern Germany in particular — the poem feels as trenchant as ever.
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