Meanings of most trenchant in English

To my wife, Tabitha, my best and most trenchant critic.

He has been the most trenchant critic of the ending of the dual mandate, writes Michael O'Regan.

After that, Mr Erdogan became one of Israel's most trenchant critics, and relations started to spiral downwards rapidly.

The western demand for responsible government pointed the way, and Howe became, with Baldwin, its most trenchant advocate.

His most trenchant weapon was the Order of Jesuits, who were invited to come in and establish schools.

They smile sweetly at all and sundry, display perfect manners and even open doors for their most trenchant political opponents.

Was he not already known for having written the most trenchant satire that had appeared since "Gulliver's Travels"?

Yet a coherent alternative has been proposed, and now provides one of the three most trenchant modern critiques of strict Darwinism.

Latterly, he was one of the most trenchant critics of the Oslo peace process and the Palestinian leadership of Yasser Arafat.

Among the most trenchant of these opinions tends to be the use of technology, or lack of it, in the health service.

Her letter to the allied sovereigns who met at Aix-la-Chapelle is one of the most trenchant indictments that has ever been penned.

The tortures incident to this curious oscillation between believing and seeing are set forth in the most trenchant way in the Book of Job.

The pen in the hand of Michelangelo was the tool by means of which he realised his most trenchant conceptions and his most picturesque impressions.

Most significant, perhaps, is the fact that Lou Reed, one of popular music's most trenchant egomaniacs, has embraced improvised music.