mordant

Stamina is what’s required of those born into an earthly reality, for which, to quote mordant Beckett, there is no cure.

His worst critics perceived this outlook as complacency, something insufficiently mordant for any writer of the long, wicked 20th century.

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.”