It was a trenchant critique of society's power elite, showcasing his gift for irony and satirical humor, as well as serious verses.

But the panel offered a trenchant critique of the current deduction.

The most trenchant critiques of "speed reading" emerge, directly or indirectly, from the strongest readers.

He combines outrage with irony, trenchant critique with conspiracy theory.

It was the language of purity which mobilized many women to develop a trenchant critique of male sexuality.

She has offered a trenchant critique of the discourse of "tolerance", showing how it is differentially used to augment forms of official intolerance.

In this case a trenchant critique of Aristotelian orthodoxy was both motivated and (to our eyes) deflected by religious concerns.

Michael Haas has written perhaps the most trenchant critique of a hidden normative agenda (Haas 1997).

Do they cohere into a trenchant critique of American society?

He undertakes a trenchant critique of his own field of study and, more generally, of social criticism in contemporary academia.