The most trenchant technical criticism of central economic planning was that the planners couldn't know enough to see into the future.

France again led the charge in its trenchant criticism of the new arrangements emerging after June 2004.

The newspaper was noted for its radical line and trenchant criticism of the British policies.

Though poor economically, the decade created a vibrant culture rich in the production of popular fantasy and trenchant social criticism.

Above all he more than earned his nickname, "the heckling general", through his trenchant criticisms of the government.

Still, those images have staying power, even if the film looks much less like trenchant social criticism than it did at the time.

Beneath such lunacy, these sites provide trenchant criticism of celebrity culture by turning the mainstream approach inside out.

There was such a trenchant criticism in her retort for bureaucracy that Afra had to grin.

The Law on Religion was submitted to the Commission, which had some trenchant criticisms to make of it.

As Foreign Secretary, Beckett came in for some trenchant criticism.