| The trenchancy with which his atheist urges his reasoning, proves that the writer was fully alive to its force. |
| But the ardour of the disciple pressed objections home with a trenchancy that is very unlike the sage distillations of the master. |
| Still, trenchancy whether in speaker or writer is a most effective tone for a large public. |
| The initial reaction to the magazine was scorn on the left and a quiet excitement on the right, as the publisher set out his own views, with trademark trenchancy, in an early editorial. |
