mordant

Martinez scatters ceramic roses across the painting, a mordant honorific to past glory and current hopes.

Bronstein wanted to use Byrne’s innate ability to find comic moments in unlikely places in order to capture the mordantly humorous beats in the script.

Before that, Serra could most often be found mining France’s centuries past for mordant tableau vivants of corporeal concern, most notably in his protracted bedchamber drama “The Death of Louis XIV.”

Sinclair returned home to Pasadena to write his campaign memoir, which he mordantly entitled “I, Candidate for Governor — And How I Got Licked.”

Lansdale is a mordantly funny chronicler of Lone Star misdeeds who knows how to keep a plot furiously turning.