mordant

Example Sentences

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It’s all darkly hilarious, generating what Penny calls “the kind of laughter that can be triggered by the mordant and brutal.”

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Since then, he has delivered similarly mordant visions of corporate piracy, class inequality and civil war.

From New York Times

The playwright Emily Feldman achieves a captivating depth of field beyond her characters’ surface actions, and even their mordant, often bleak powers of observation.

From New York Times

Basgallop dresses up basic horror premises with curlicues of mordant, deadpan humor, and creates an ambient pea soup of unease that, for his well-employed but economically insecure young characters, constitutes a reign of terror.

From New York Times

Buñuel, a master of surreal imagery who aimed his mordantly irreverent plots at bourgeois values, mostly worked in exile.

From Washington Post