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The French adopted the habit as an intensifier of musculine nouns, proper and improper, and this too became mostly pejorative, as in mouchard sneak or informer (from mouche fly), and froussard coward (from frousse fright), and bastard , a trenchant abbreviation of fils de bast pack-saddle child.
Critics applaud the selection of the absurdist Italian playwright, even while calling him the "most obscure Nobel winner" in years (David Streitfeld, the Washington Post ). Fo's work, especially Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1970), is celebrated for combining trenchant left-wing satire with slapstick humor "reminiscent of vintage Marx Brothers" (Rick Lyman, the New York Times ). Conservative critics echo the Vatican, which condemned the choice of the anti-clericalist and ex-Communist as an act that "has surpassed all imagination."
The film, directed by Roger Michell from a script by Richard Curtis ( Four Weddings and a Funeral , 1994) is a brainy weave of satire and fantasy; it would take a neurosurgeon to unwind its trenchant observations of our celebrity-infatuated culture from its masturbatory, People magazine-worthy pipe dreams.
West is among the toughest and most trenchant critics of black nationalism and Afrocentrism.
Appreciations deem the nine-season-old show the best of its era and a trenchant critique of late-20 th -century social mores.