1.As is true for many of the mournful stories in Joyce Carol Oates’s trenchant and moody new collection, her wonderful “Blue Guide” is a rhapsodic elegy for the vanishing possibilities of life.

2.But it’s also a fiercely contemporary record, in terms of both its electroacoustic textures and its trenchant political commentary.

3.Bilateral authority duty trenchant. The manufacturing enthusiasm of the farmer is very tall.

双方权责分明. 农民的生产积极性很高.

4.For decades, he was perhaps best known for his trenchant and transfixing sculptures, which were often assembled from found objects.

5.Venting in the mass-art madhouse has its uses, some more trenchant — and appropriate — than others.

6.Her writing is trenchant and decisive; it’s also dominant.

7.In its citation, the Swedish Academy hailed Mr. Vargas Llosa, 74, “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt and defeat.”

8.The observations from these folks are just as trenchant as those from the college professors, and they help make the series feel less like a lecture.

9.For travelers who want to take Mr. Ward's trenchant advice out to sea with them, Berlitz has published an e-book of the guide and improved its mobile app, which was scheduled for release today.

10.It’s a great, trenchant piece of writing, irresistibly insistent in its repetitive accusations.

11.If that sounds like an unfair swipe at the prose, take a look: “There is pride to be had where the prejudicial is practiced with precision in the trenchant triage of tactile terminations.”

12.The rather better-known adage is the less ostentatious but rather more trenchant “never look back”.

13.In moments like these “Turn Me Loose” is at its most trenchant and disorienting.

14.Characteristic: Colour is trenchant, be full of nutrient value.

特点: 色彩分明, 富有营养价值.

15.After viewing footage from the first day’s shoot, Reinhardt offers many trenchant criticisms that Huston largely dismisses.

16.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.

17.The prize was founded last year by literary website The Omnivore to reward the "angriest, funniest, most trenchant" review published in a newspaper or magazine.

18.Extensively notated by Mr. Hutchinson, a professor at Cornell University, the book is no one’s idea of a literary masterpiece or a work of trenchant social criticism.

19.Fair workers, ability to punish first, trenchant, family flourishing kingdom.

公平工人，能力至上，奖罚分明，兴家旺国。

20.This display of photomontages by a Berlin Dadaist of the 1920s who became a Communist and trenchant satirist of Hitler shows that Germany's radical cultural creativity in the 1970s had deep roots.

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edged

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