It was a trenchant, though humorous criticism of the methods of treating children practised by adults, at home and at school.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
Swinburne differentiates Browning's work as marked by decisive and incisive faculty of thought, sureness and intensity of perception, rapid and trenchant resolution of aim.
"The Three Heron's Feathers"
Hermann Sudermann
But the most fearless and trenchant assailant of the popular theology among the Cynics was Oenomaus of Gadara, in the reign of Hadrian.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill