mordancy

Example Sentences

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Huff doesn’t mention that detail, but there’s mordancy in it; this is a play about the state of the nation.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2022

I wish I could reproduce for you the tone of affectionate philosophical mordancy with which he’d pronounce it.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 2, 2019

Cronenberg's film has a similar mordancy, though at the end – and probably deliberately – it doesn't touch the heart or elicit much compassion for the protagonist.

From The Guardian • Jun. 16, 2012

The mordancy of this color and the wistfulness of the girls' expressions save them from what would otherwise be a cloying coyness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Canning's wit, while its mordancy cost him many friends, distinguishes him among English statesmen.

From Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century by Joy, James Richard