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
“You’re not supposed to mourn someone before they die,” he notes, and in Tucci’s voice you hear both mordancy and the deepest kind of compassion.
From New York Times
Although much of Orton’s signature mordancy and wit has survived, his much-vaunted iconoclasm may strike some as tame by modern standards.
From Los Angeles Times
I wish I could reproduce for you the tone of affectionate philosophical mordancy with which he’d pronounce it.
From The New Yorker
It’s when the story moves to a Nazi-held camp for captured deserters, where Herold, citing orders from the Führer himself, maneuvers his way into overseeing a mass execution, that “The Captain” veers precipitously into clinical mordancy.
From Los Angeles Times
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