The book received very positive reviews from many critics such as Caryn James of The New York Times, who called it " wonderfully rich " and " a trenchant analysis of politics and power that speaks urgently ".

Dangerfield's The Strange Death of Liberal England was not given much attention by academic historians when it first appeared in 1935, but has gained admirers over the years because of its lively style and trenchant analysis.

Book 34 was entirely devoted to questions of geography and included some trenchant criticisms of Eratosthenes, whom he accused of passing on popular preconceptions or laodogmatika.

The 2008 computer run supported East Polynesian and some of the other groups, including Tongic, Nuclear Polynesian and Ellicean, an otherwise elusive grouping pursued only through Wilson's trenchant work with other kinds of the very limited data available.

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

A number of his most trenchant satires are directed against George III, who, after examining some of Gillray's sketches, said " I don't understand these caricatures.

In his New York Times review of the 2006 revival, Charles Isherwood called Of Thee I Sing " a trenchant little musical satire ... the laughter that greets the show today is tinged with surprise at how eerily some of its jokes seem to take precise aim, from decades back, at current affairs.

His book on Barbarism was considered by some as a rather simplistic and overly trenchant anti-scientific discourse.

In some passages the author deliberately imitates Sallust and Tacitus ; his style is, on the whole, vivid and trenchant, his information is exact, and in critical insight he is not inferior to Juan de Mariana.

At first he contented himself with enumerating the chief current views in literature and art and indicating very slightly the contents of the principal new books, but gradually his criticisms became more extended and trenchant, and he touched on nearly every subject — political, literary, artistic, social and religious — that interested the Parisian society of the time.

The downgrading of emergency services at Kidderminster were the first of many such changes across the country, many of which attracted trenchant local opposition.

John Arlott, reviewing them in Wisden 1962, said the first was " full of trenchant good sense, humour, anecdote and shrewd observation ".

Demosthenes also had a daughter, " the only one who ever called him father ", according to Aeschines ' in a trenchant remark.

Pierre de l ' Estoile, the chronicler, stated of the king: His coach, entering from St Honoré to Ferronnerie Street, was blocked on one side by a cart filled with wine and on the other by a cart filled with hay ... Ravaillac climbed on the wheel of the above-named coach and with a knife trenchant on both sides stabbed him between the second and third ribs.

Thomas Carlyle visited him and wrote " He was really stirring company: a proud irascible, trenchant, yet generous, veracious, and very dignified old man ".

Harms's trenchant style made him very popular, and he did great service for his cause especially in 1817, when, on the 300th anniversary of the Reformation, he published side by side with Luther's theses, ninety-five of his own, attacking reason as " the pope of our time " who " dismisses Christ from the altar and throws God's word from the pulpit.

As retrospectively told by Belloc himself in The Cruise of the Nona ( 1925 ), the example of Cardinal Manning influenced him to become a trenchant critic both of unbridled capitalism and of many aspects of socialism.

In this year he lost his seat in consequence of the popular prejudice aroused against him by his trenchant pamphlet Oui et non ( 1845 ) against attacks on religious liberty, and a second entitled Feul Feul ( 1845 ), written in reply to those who demanded a retractation of the former.

He was then asked for a solution of the difficulty, and began to talk trenchant sense, though private anguish showed through in the vehemence of his manner.

His letter to his daughter on the pains of growing up is surely as trenchant, forthright, and warmly understanding a piece of advice as ever a grown-up penned to a sensitive child, and with just the right tone of unpatronizing good humor.

A semi-serious literary document entitled `` The Wings Of Henry James '' is noteworthy, if only for a keenly trenchant though little-known comment on the master's difficult later period by modest Owen Wister, author of `` The Virginian ''.

So, for that matter, are the newer dances -- the `` Kalmuk Dance '' with its animal movements, that genial juggling act by Sergei Tsvetkov called `` The Platter '', the rousing and beautiful betrothal celebration called `` Summer '', `` The Three Shepherds '' of Azerbaijan hopping up on their staffs, and, of course, the trenchant `` Rock 'n' Roll ''.

On his return Montgomery antagonised the War Office with trenchant criticisms of the command of the BEF and was briefly relegated to divisional command.

By the end of the " Kino-Pravda " series, Vertov made liberal use of stop motion, freeze frames, and other cinematic " artificialities ," giving rise to criticisms not just of his trenchant dogmatism, but also of his cinematic technique.

He published numerous articles, stories, and reviews, enhancing his reputation as a trenchant critic that he had established at the Southern Literary Messenger.

This support came from the British press in the form of Viscount Astor, Lord Beaverbrook and former WW1 Prime Minister David Lloyd George, who were trenchant critics of the autocratic style of Winston Churchill and favoured replacing Winston with Menzies.

Firstly, the trenchant opposition of the Quakers to slavery had a contributing effect to the improvements in the treatment of slaves within the Territory ( the exceptional case of Arthur William Hodge notwithstanding ) compared to other Caribbean islands, and to the large number of free blacks within the islands.

The concept of avant-garde refers primarily to artists, writers, composers and thinkers whose work is opposed to mainstream cultural values and often has a trenchant social or political edge.

He was as trenchant a critic of his successors in his old age as he had been of his predecessors in his youth.

The work contains thirty brief, vigorous, and trenchant outlines of moral types, which form a most valuable picture of the life of his time, and in fact of human nature in general.

Lin Yutang, who had studied at Harvard and Leipzig, introduced the concept of youmo ( humor ), which he used in trenchant criticism of China's political and cultural situation before leaving for the United States.

He has become well known as a trenchant critic of the U. S. media.

Indeed the fact that Max Nordau, the trenchant essayist and journalist, was a Jew came as a revelation for many.

After his contract at MGM ended, Young starred in light comedies as well as in trenchant dramas for studios such as 20th Century Fox, United Artists, and RKO Radio Pictures.

*** " A special award to Prelude to War for its trenchant conception and authentic and stirring dramatization of the events which forced our nation into the war and of the ideals for which we fight.

His carefully revised edition of John Skelton, which appeared in 1843, revived interest in that trenchant satirist.

In this analysis, he heavily drew upon Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish.

Submitting this value questionnaire to the same process of factor analysis used by Ferguson, Eysenck drew out two factors, which he named " Radicalism " ( R-factor ) and " Tender-Mindedess " ( T-factor ).

His idea of post-modernism drew from Friedrich Nietzsche's analysis of modernity and its end results of decadence and nihilism.

A detailed analysis of voting demographics revealed that Perot's support drew heavily from across the political spectrum, with 20 % of his votes coming from self-described liberals, 27 % from self-described conservatives, and 53 % coming from self-described moderates.

The final plan for the assault on Vimy Ridge drew heavily on the experience and tactical analysis of the officers who attended the Verdun lectures.

Kučera later oversaw the development of Houghton-Mifflin ’ s Correct Text grammar checker, which also drew heavily on statistical techniques for analysis.

William Conybeare drew this cartoon of Buckland poking his head into a prehistoric hyaena den in 1822 to celebrate Buckland's ground breaking analysis of the fossils found in Kirkdale Cave.

# Diefenbach and West ( 2007 ) drew upon the third-person effect in their analysis of the relationship between amount of television viewing and attitudes toward mental health.

This book, which straddled the boundaries among linguistics, literary analysis, and philosophy, drew attention to the significs of Victoria Lady Welby ( whose disciple Ogden was ) and the semiotics of Charles Sanders Peirce.

Johnson indicates that his analysis of out drew upon a doctoral dissertation by Susan Lindner in linguistics at Berkeley, and more generally by the theory of cognitive grammar put forth by Ronald Langacker ( Langacker 1987 ).

He adopted Spencer's theory that the concept of biological evolution could be applied to explain the evolution of society, and drew on Le Play's analysis of the key units of society as constituting, ‘ Lieu, Travail, Famille ’ (‘ Place, Work, Family ’), but changing the last from " family " to " folk ".

Panofsky codified an influential approach to iconography in his 1939 Studies in Iconology, where he defined it as " the branch of the history of art which concerns itself with the subject matter or meaning of works of art, as opposed to form ," although the distinction he and other scholars drew between particular definitions of " iconography " ( put simply, the identification of visual content ) and " iconology " ( the analysis of the meaning of that content ), has not been generally accepted, though it is still used by some writers.

* 1961: Edward R. Cony, Wall Street Journal, " for his analysis of a timber transaction which drew the attention of the public to the problems of business ethics.

Though Serge was never able to visit China, he drew from the reports of those who had visited China for his analysis.

The nomination drew criticism from some conservative commentators for his views on international law and its use in American legal analysis and jurisprudence, while drawing support from other conservatives such as Ted Olson and Kenneth Starr as well as Forbes Magazine.

The Pentagon issued a statement cautioning that the memo was " a classified annex containing a list and description of the requested reports, so that the committee could obtain the reports from the relevant members of the intelligence community ... The classified annex was not an analysis of the substantive issue of the relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda, and it drew no conclusions.

In October 2003, Douglas J. Feith, undersecretary of defense for policy and head of the controversial Office of Special Plans, sent a memo to Congress that included " a classified annex containing a list and description of the requested reports, so that the committee could obtain the reports from the relevant members of the intelligence community ... The classified annex was not an analysis of the substantive issue of the relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda, and it drew no conclusions.

William Conybeare drew this cartoon of Buckland poking his head into a prehistoric hyena den in 1822 to celebrate Buckland's ground breaking analysis of the fossils found in Kirkdale Cave.

Marx's critique of capitalist agriculture drew upon Anderson's analysis and he insisted that soil fertility was a historical issue, and that fertility could both improve or decline.

Lacan also drew on the way ' Melanie Klein pushes back the limits within which we can see the subjective function of identification operate ', in her work on phantasy-something extended by her followers to the analysis of how ' we are all prone to be drawn into social phantasy systems ... the experience of being in a particular set of human collectivities '.

The American historian Gavriel D. Rosenfeld wrote about Broszat's call for " historization " that :" In the 1980s, the German historian Martin Broszat famously argued that overtly moral analyses of the Third Reich suffered from their embrace of a " black-and-white " perspective that drew too rigid a dichotomy between perpetrators and victims, obscured the era's gray complexity, bracketed off the Third Reich from " normal " modes of historical analysis ( such as an empathetic perspective towards the historical actors themselves ) and prevented it from being integrated into the large sweep of German history ... At the same time, an overly moralistic view runs the risk of mythologizing history and transforming it into a collection of moral ethical lessons that, over time, can easily become stale and cease to resonate within society at large.

Although he was not a slavish imitator, he drew his mathematical analysis of light and vision from the writings of the Arabic writer, Alhacen.