| 单词 | mordant |
| 例句 | The girl watched him warily, but Stonesnake gave a mordant chuckle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z See you make a guess to its birthplace, this mordant.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The ocean looked dead too, dead gray waves hissing mordantly along the beach, which was gray and dead-looking itself. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “And the mordants too. You must learn those. Sometimes sumac. Tree galls are good. Some lichens. “Best is — here, come; let me show you. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It failed to reach Sagane until after the war and was returned years later to Alvarez, who put his signature to it and delivered it again to Sagane as a mordant keepsake. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The clinging, overpowering conviction of death spread steadily with the continuing rainfall, soaking mordantly into each man’s ailing countenance like the corrosive blot of some crawling disease. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The dwarf had been whetting the edge of his axe and making some mordant jest when Bronn spotted the banner the riders carried before them, the moon-and-falcon of House Arryn, sky-blue and white. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Marrow” is a mordant look at a depraved society, more exemplary of Yan’s other work — he has handily drawn comparisons to Kafka and the foundational Chinese satirist Lu Xun — than its companion novella. In the Brutality of the Chinese Countryside, ‘Mythorealism’ Reigns 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Pop Art of the 1960s seemed to view the circus of American mass entertainment and consumerism with a mordantly amused eye. An Appraisal: LeRoy Neiman and the Serious Art World 2012-06-22T22:44:42Z It exists in the growing trend of indie-tinged cable comedies who find humor not in traditional punch lines but in the absurd, mordant flow of everyday life. ‘Insecure’ Series Premiere: Single Black Woman 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z Both Hymn and Cocktail Sticks are more mordant than a quizzical manner suggests. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Untold Stories – review 2013-03-17T00:05:53Z Our reviewer, Daisy Goodwin, called the novel “a mordant observation of the palimpsest of arrogance and resentment” surrounding Britain’s dealings with its neighbor. New in Paperback: ‘Where Reasons End’ and ‘Why We Can’t Sleep’ 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z She is thrilling in the role, with a scowl that burns through the celluloid and a dark, mordant energy. The Examined Life of Melanie Lynskey 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z What sustains the novel instead is Guy's mordant indignation at his illness and the way it opens up fissures in the once tight circle of friends. The Quarry by Iain Banks – review 2013-06-16T07:00:00Z The unnamed narrator of Ottessa Moshfegh’s mordant second novel, “My Year of Rest and Relaxation,” is cruel, gorgeous, duplicitous and lazy. Review | Ottessa Moshfegh returns with another winner: A wickedly funny ‘Year of Rest’ 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z In all of them darkness beckons, mordantly inviting the beholder to imagine vast apocalyptic landscapes, undefinable events on a cosmic scale. The Tate's Mark Rothko exhibit: a room with a view of the subconscious 2011-03-30T13:58:43Z In its pages she seems jollier than her dance reputation suggests, but with a talent for mordant satire. Pavlova’s Shoes, Nijinsky’s Diary, and Other Dance Treasures From the Public Library 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z The number was a mordant toast to middle-aged New York women who have abandoned whatever promise they might have had to pickle themselves in expensive restaurants. Elaine Stritch, vivid stage and screen personality, dies at 89 Our reviewer, Lee Child, praised the novel, calling it a “fluent, mordant, authentic, propulsive narrative, wonderfully lit from within by an intriguing main character.” New in Paperback: ‘The Disordered Mind’ and ‘In the Garden of the Fugitives’ 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z The narrators are both elegiac and mordant, dipping in and out of lives, moments, acting as the collective consciousness of an entire neighborhood. “The Virgin Suicides” Still Holds the Mysteries of Adolescence 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z But while the tone of “Calvary” is initially similar, mixing mordant black comedy with notes of genuine human anguish, the destination is a different and much darker one. “Calvary”: A good priest takes on a poisoned church and a crazy Irish village 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z In this third outing of a mystery series, the caustic, mordantly funny private investigator August Snow schemes to save his Detroit neighborhood from billionaires, fools and other opportunistic crooks. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z In Howard Barker’s “Pity in History,” the only sure things are death, destruction and a mordant sense of humor. Review: Surviving War With a Sense of Humor in ‘Pity in History’ 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z His mordant, off-kilter humor was also displayed here in “Tragedy: a tragedy,” a black comedy about a local TV news program covering a possible apocalypse, seen in a 2009 staging by the Satori Group. New director in town finds the poetry in ‘Middletown’ 2013-08-22T21:04:52Z Macbeth himself evinces a mordant sense of humor now and then. Theater Review: ‘Macbeth,’ With Alan Cumming at the Barrymore Theater 2013-04-22T02:00:49Z But after a sluggish and chaotic start, “War Machine” finds its groove and becomes its own thing: a mordant, cleareyed critique of American war-making that is all the more devastating for being affectionately drawn. Review: ‘War Machine’: Brad Pitt Has Met the Enemy. He Just Doesn’t Know It Yet. 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z The final season, which begins Sunday, sets up the series’s endgame, and possibly humanity’s — not as a horror-story disaster but as a melancholy, beautiful and mordant cosmic joke. Review: ‘The Leftovers’ Has One More Cosmic Joke to Tell 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Fellowes said he drew encouragement from American television shows like “Mad Men,” which he has been consuming “in huge, boxlike helpings,” and which balance mordant humor and comic subplots with more serious matters. Another Helping of ‘Downton,’ M’Lord? 2014-02-24T03:30:00Z I can only imagine he was both horrified and mordantly amused by the rise of Donald Trump, a cartoonish would-be despot who seemed to have been conjured out of Cohen’s darker visions. Leonard Cohen, Hillary Clinton and the future: Where does the Democratic Party go after this crushing defeat? 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z As the journalists wrestled with grief, there were flashes of mordant humor. Charlie Hebdo Staff Prepares Next Issue 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Everything comes mordantly alive in the priceless imagination of Ferris, who can describe an onion being diced and think of the other vegetables near it as “bright and doomed.” Books to Breeze Through This Summer 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z As fine as some of those performances have been, no one has accurately captured her throaty, sotto voce verbal style or mordant wit. There are many Gloria Steinems in ‘The Glorias.’ One of them was my boss. 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z “Each card is beautifully hand-lettered in French with mordant captions,” she said. Meet Fabiola Alondra, a Fashionable Art Book Publisher on the Rise 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z It was funny and civic-minded, a mordantly contemporary comment on the place where consumer culture, history and politics meet. Valentino Wants Everyone to Get Vaxxed — and Cloned 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z It presents a half-century of tragedy and turmoil in as a series of mordant comic vignettes. 'The Time That Remains': Darkly comic tale chronicles mortality and survival in Nazareth 2011-03-31T20:38:05Z Along the way, it’s capacious enough to touch on moments of real darkness, while somehow managing to be mordant, funny and, ultimately, life-affirming. The Brexit Romance: Finding Love in Irreconcilable Times 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z The songs are rapid mise-en-scènes, with Whack as mordant narrator, as if she’d been plucked from a rambunctious but meditative teen movie. Tierra Whack Stretches the Limits of One-Minute Songs 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z It’s a moving portrait of a dysfunctional family, one that maintains the mordant tone of Bechdel’s book while expanding boundlessly outward into physical space. Alison Bechdel on Fun Home, Her New Book and That Famous Test 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z “Trying not to die before the song was done,” Murphy replied mordantly. Venice: Noah Baumbach Finds the Music in ‘White Noise’ 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Instead, they have come up with a challenging new 110-minute play from Martin Crimp that mordantly satirises our self-obsession and delusional dreams and adopts the experimental techniques of his 1997 play Attempts on Her Life. In the Republic of Happiness – review 2012-12-13T18:15:55Z This prescient and mordantly funny science-fiction anthology is smart enough to be just barely ahead of its time. Review: ‘Black Mirror’ Finds Terror and Soul in the Machine 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z He’s an affable if mordant raconteur, and his concerts can feel like a kind of seminar in themselves. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z The music is sometimes grim and foreboding, but the most frequently heard tune is a jaunty waltz that functions as a mordant, mocking laugh track against the sorrow on screen. Review: ‘A Pigeon Sat on a Branch,’ Roy Andersson’s Rumination on Life 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z In one mordant joke, he trails a woman into a park, inadvertently makes eye contact with another lurker, then hastily conceals himself when the woman’s date shows up. Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Masterpiece of Existential Angst 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z When ill health overtook him late in life, he never stopped writing, just as he had mordantly predicted in 1981 in “My Swan Song”: Dave Frishberg, Writer of Songs Sardonic and Nostalgic, Dies at 88 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z There are bouts of sermonizing that will have you rolling your eyes, followed by mordant stretches of insight to nod vigorously along with. Weekly Culture Review: Pulitzers, Kendrick Lamar, and More 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z A joky picture of a skeleton with two wine jugs comments mordantly on the perils of booze. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum – review 2013-03-26T00:09:44Z What starts as a mordant satire ends in a warm glow of humanist sentiment. The Heretic - review 2011-02-11T00:20:01Z This mordant, uncommonly arresting production from Chile’s acclaimed Teatrocinema troupe doesn’t just borrow film and animation elements -- it absorbs them into live performance to create an entirely new form. If Alfred Hitchock turned a graphic novel into live theater: It's the ingenious 'Historia de Amor' 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z The image of an abandoned, broken-down van titled “Van/Hideaway 2” suggests that we are closer to the world of “Kids,” Larry Clark’s mordant paean to juvenile delinquency, than that of “Woodstock.” Art in Review: JENNIFER SULLIVAN: ?One-Week Walden? 2010-12-09T23:20:00Z Biting into Sister Jamie’s mordant verbal assaults on a recalcitrant drug addict, all but smacking her lips like a gourmet savoring al dente pasta, Ms. Turner makes a feast of largely unexceptional dialogue. | 'High': Assisting Recovery, Craving Redemption 2011-04-20T02:01:29Z And Ms. Mellowes, whose father was a lawyer deeply concerned about any breaches in the church-state wall, said mordantly that she is a “member of the Church of the Wandering and Confused.” Faith and Politics, a Rocky Romance 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z It’s mournful and mordantly funny, absurdist but dedicated to the search for meaning. ‘The Leftovers’ Leads Television’s Musical Golden Age 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Though there are flashes of humor, almost always mordant, this is not “M*A*S*H” but something far darker and more absurd. Books of The Times: On a Fool?s Mission in a Dying Colonial World 2011-06-29T22:32:48Z The Beales became figures of mordant fun but also cultural touchstones. Review: ‘That Summer’ Sheds Light on the Beales Before ‘Grey Gardens’ 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Possibly conceived as a mordant punch line to the Obama era, it may turn out to be the inaugural blast of insurgent cinema in the age of Trump. The Best Movies of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Tse’s mordant humor and descriptive powers lift the narrative from unmitigated gloom. ‘Owlish’ Is a Darkly Fantastical Parable About Totalitarianism 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z Compare this to Hughes’s mordant observation, in a letter to a fellow poet: “Marriage is a nest of small scorpions, but it kills the big dragons.” In New Volume of Sylvia Plath’s Letters, a Marriage Falters and Masks Fall Away 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Owen, too, possesses a mordant wit, but she oversold it, and everything else, in a performance of domineering bonhomie. Harry Shearer and Judith Owen's Holiday Singalong ? review 2010-12-07T22:19:00Z The long scenes in which Rosemary and Anthony trade mordant reflections on their unhappy lives sometimes seem to be going in circles. Theater Review: ‘Outside Mullingar,’ by John Patrick Shanley, Opens 2014-01-24T03:00:03Z This same mordant intensity appears in her storytelling, but in a slower cadence with more gravitas. Critic?s Notebook: Advancing a New Form of Comedy: Storytelling 2012-04-04T22:52:28Z He met an equally neurotic fellow student with an even more mordant wit, Elaine May, whose father was an actor in Yiddish theater. Mike Nichols, ‘The Graduate’ director, dies Mr. Simon earned the respect of colleagues for his mordant wit. Sam Simon, co-creator of ‘The Simpsons,’ dies at 59 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z In fact, in each of these crisp, mordantly funny tales, someone around her dies, usually in spectacular fashion. Three New Chilling Page-Turners Feature Unlikely Psychopaths 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z The mordant which they mixed with their colours, in the bitterness of their spirit, has made the picture ineffaceable; but it no longer represents realities. Authors and life of poverty: From the archive, 18 Feb 1852 2013-02-18T07:00:00Z For the legions who loved Rachman’s mordant and hilarious “The Imperfectionists,” here’s his next novel, about an isolated Welsh bookstore owner with an incomprehensible past who finally decides to unearth it. Spring brings bounty of new titles for book lovers 2014-04-16T21:15:04Z This mordant, energetic story started life as a play, and is a little short for a novel – the only reason I can think of that it's not an established classic. Kate Clanchy's top 10 coming-of-age novels 2013-05-22T09:52:36Z His many travails have clearly not dulled his mordant wit — “Ah contradiction! The perpetual body odor of humanity!” — or his inner turmoil. His Debut Novel Won the Pulitzer. Now It Has an Action-Packed Sequel. 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z The hallmark of the Modern Toss style is a mixture of whimsy and extreme eye-popping brutality – sort of like David Shrigley crossed with South Park and given a coating of distinctively British mordant wit. Comedy picks of the week 2010-04-30T23:16:00Z Her mordant stories grapple with technology and society in a way that brings to mind the cyberpunk greats. Review | Let’s talk about the best — and newest — science fiction and fantasy story collections 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z Throughout, Hikari, the movie’s de facto narrator, delivers mordant observations on their journey, an old-school game console rarely leaving his hand. ‘We Are Little Zombies’ Review: Rocking Away the Pain 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Johns’s entire body of work, to go by this elephantine show of more than 500 works, is akin to a trove of Nabokovian love letters — obscure and thwarted, but also punning, mordant, full of life. Review | Seeing Jasper Johns: A seminal artist’s career is celebrated and illuminated in two cities 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z But beneath this composed surface his verse sounded notes that ranged from mordant to melancholy. Reed Whittemore, Former Poet Laureate, Dies at 92 2012-04-11T03:47:18Z Hahn is an eternal scene stealer, always claiming our attention with consistently mordant, bracing performances that are impossible to ignore. These MVPs of television delivered greatness in a year that almost broke us 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z Viktor is a transitional piece, and while still mordant – the set, a vast earthwork rampart, references Rome's excavated past but also the grave – is less existentially bleak than much of her earlier work. Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch; The Prince of the Pagodas – review 2012-06-09T23:05:57Z Mr. Seidel’s new poems, like his old poems, are so crisp and funny and mordant that they deliver a contact high. Best Bathroom Books of 2012 2012-11-22T20:23:44Z The author’s latest collection of stories confronts the beauty and violence of daily life with mordant wit and a focus on the flesh. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z The German filmmaker Christian Petzold’s spiky and at times mordantly funny “Afire” is a tonic for moviegoers tired of nice, squishable, likable, relatable dull and dull characters. ‘Afire’ Review: His Flaws Are Petty, Pathetic and Funny 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z In its printed form, the book includes mordantly funny drawings, which are provided as a PDF with the audio download. Book World: 5 stories to relish even with your eyes closed 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z The narrator of this mordant novel is a Congolese orphan who is anointed “the black Moses” by a Catholic priest, but falls in with a merry band of thieves. New in Paperback: ‘The Parisian’ and ‘Black Moses’ 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Set in a college very like Vassar, which Baumbach attended, the film spritzes a mordant wit that is not so much precocious as prematurely middle-aged. REVIEW: While We're Young: Can Ben Stiller Be a Happy 20-Something? 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z Though critics have recently scolded David Adjmi's "3C," a mordant take on the sitcom "Three's Company" now at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, this dark comedy boasts the best entrance of the season. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Making An Entrance 2012-07-05T16:52:58Z He is less a satirical observer of his nation’s foibles than an excavator of its mopey, mordant, steadfast conscience. Review: In ‘The Other Side of Hope,’ an Old-Fashioned Humanist Fable 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Another Year is beautiful, mordant and curiously riveting; a bittersweet salute to the terrors and pleasures of growing old. Another Year, a rare treat 2010-05-17T09:29:00Z It’s a premise that would usually play out as either morbid, shock-value horror or mordant, over-the-top comedy. ‘The Patient’ Review: The Doctor Is In. In the Basement. 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Installed outside the exhibition galleries, these visceral images introduce Matta-Clark’s sense of humor and his mordant eye for violent intersections of the built and natural worlds. Back in the Bronx: Gordon Matta-Clark, Rogue Sculptor 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z In the opening essay of “Meaty,” she mordantly surveyed the damage. The Wildly Funny Samantha Irby Is Back, Not a Moment Too Soon 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z Divide Me by Zero’ is a mordant tribute to lost loves, none more beloved or irretrievably lost than Katya’s mother.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Each Beckett short is a mordant miniature of a woman’s life, mostly unlived. Review: Beckett’s Absurdist House of Horrors, in Hell’s Kitchen 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Balancing her mordant wryness is the fine balm of Mantell's sweetness and dignity. Play review: 'Paradise Lost' examines ruined fortunes, ruined dreams 2010-03-29T21:08:00Z Infinite Jest is full of mordant portrayals of a modern world of addiction and unhappiness. Our memories of Mike Kelley's art will be shaped by the manner of his death 2012-05-16T15:49:27Z “It’s a book that manages to be, all at once, an insider’s history of manga, a mordant cultural tour of post-Hiroshima Japan and a scrappy portrait of a struggling artist,” Mr. Garner wrote. Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Japanese Cartoonist of Dark Stories, Is Dead at 79 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Many of your stories in your recent collection, “Brief Encounter with the Enemy,” combine a sense of bleakness with a kind of mordant humor, and that’s the case here, too. This Week in Fiction: Saïd Sayrafiezadeh 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Her writing is both funny and heartfelt, and her observations about life are piercing and mordantly rendered. ArtsBeat: New Bridget Jones Novel Coming in November 2013-02-05T15:35:00Z She alternated carping about how long it’s taken her to score a lead role and mordant jokes about how Winnifred really isn’t the prime part. Jackie Hoffman Kvetches Her Way to Royalty in ‘Once Upon a Mattress’ 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z “Chance” keeps threatening to blossom into the mordant comedy it ought to be, but the dawdling pace and a general dreariness of mood keep it tied down. Review: In ‘Chance,’ Hugh Laurie Returns as a Tormented Doctor 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z They're respectively a fascinating new way of telling the story of what money is and a mordantly riveting first novel about what it's like to be a thirtysomething. Best holiday reads 2013 2013-07-14T07:00:00Z When crucial documents went missing from a Russian prosecutor’s office, she reacted by muttering “surprise, surprise” and noted, mordantly, that her newspaper hadn’t lost its copies. Books of The Times: Directly Confronting the Appalling 2011-04-04T22:00:07Z The mordant playwright Samuel Beckett studied in Enniskillen, the remote town where this annual festival in honor of his work takes place. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Another mordantly funny moment: Mom receiving a call from one of the program directors calmly informing her that while her son has arrived safely, he has also been barred for life from American Airlines. Review: Teenagers Grapple With Their Demons in ‘Wilderness’ 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z The sight was so mesmerizing that I didn’t, for the moment, focus on the mordant message to the world, etched in the toilet-stall window: “Enjoying the view?” The Monoliths of Bratislava 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z If the scale of his debt outdid Frank in Pusher, there was a mordant irony to the solution – the "despicable sell-out" of making not one but two belated sequels. Pusher returns – again 2012-10-11T19:00:01Z He writes boisterously and mordantly, like a philosophy grad student who’s had one too many vodka tonics at the faculty Christmas wingding. Meet an Intergalactic Spider in ‘Spaceman of Bohemia’ 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z It is this embrace of mordant surrealism, along with wrinkle-in-time chronologies, that distinguishes these stories, which are largely animated by a series of “what if” questions. Joyce Carol Oates’s New Stories Consider the Roads Not Taken 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z But it becomes increasingly clear that the movie wants to position her mordant sensibility as a problem to be solved. Jennifer Aniston has never looked worse or been better in 'Cake' 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z It shares something of its mordant mood with “Viktor,” the work that Bausch created the previous year, and in which the stage is turned into a giant grave. A Pina Bausch Revival at Tanztheater Wuppertal 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Importantly, "Servant of the People" is a clever, mordant, earnestly positive comedy. "Servant of the People" is an example of a politician living up to the promise he plays out on TV 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z The characters in this mordant debut collection are young hustlers in Barcelona, overeducated, overworked and underpaid. Short Story Collections for an Ever-Changing World 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z Like its HBO stablemate “Girls,” which offers a mordant look at self-absorbed Brooklyn millennials, “Togetherness” right off the bat strips its characters of their dignity and self-importance. ‘Togetherness’ Joins ‘Girls’ on HBO’s Sunday Night Roster 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z So it seems that in many ways they’ve been dealing with and in some ways resurrecting the youthful, utopian impulses of their parents’ generation, albeit with a mordant, less optimistic edge. Art Review: 5 Artists in ‘Energy That Is All Around: Mission School’ 2014-04-24T21:50:22Z But she also feels it accurately encapsulates a coming-of-age story that is alternately harrowing and mordantly funny. Jennette McCurdy Is Ready to Move Forward, and to Look Back 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z Like many Fishbone songs “DUI Friday” makes unlikely musical connections feel inevitable, while playing hard times for mordant laughs — turning a lament into a party. ?Everyday Sunshine? Celebrates Ska-Punk Rockers Fishbone 2011-10-02T02:45:06Z Fonsia and Weller were each divorced long ago, and have virtually been abandoned by their adult children; at one point Weller makes a mordant joke about their lack of visitors. Review: James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson Shuffle Emotions in ‘The Gin Game’ 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z With Bellows and Growls, a Band Gets Back to Work Tomahawk sent up a distress flare as its first song at the Best Buy Theater on Sunday night, but with a typically mordant twist. Music Review: Tomahawk at the Best Buy Theater 2013-06-04T21:41:58Z Yet there's something about the mordant humour that underlies all those classic British dramas that helps makes them hugely enjoyable on repeated viewings. The debate: Can British TV produce drama as good as Mad Men? 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z So, I think, is Shrigley, whose dark humour is at best a mordant response to modern life. Turner prize 2013 shortlist: Tino Sehgal dances to the fore 2013-04-25T12:52:06Z The day gathers pace at sunset with the mordant dance-punk of LCD Soundsystem, whose best songs steadily ratch up the intensity. Glastonbury festival 2010-06-28T00:15:00Z This decision, Marcus writes, "was a characteristically subtle choice that highlights Galdone's affinity for animal tales with mordant comments to make on human nature." Paul Galdone's charming illustrations refresh fairy tales 2011-03-18T17:14:30Z Oberst may kill off Bright Eyes but he will go on writing literate songs of urgent yearning undercut with mordant black humour. Bright Eyes ? review 2011-02-15T19:20:00Z Or it would if Sorrentino's electric prose and mordant wit didn't tap into the secret desire we all have from time to time to shed our skin and start over. Christopher Sorrentino's 'The Fugitives' spins a story of deception and double-dealing 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Indeed, Silverberg’s signature novel, “Dying Inside” — about a telepath losing his powers — could almost have been written by Philip Roth, and is just as brilliant, mordant and moving as “Portnoy’s Complaint.” Robert Silverberg: The Philip Roth of the science fiction world 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z He also handled the work's mercurial twists and turns, its mordant and abrupt stops and starts, with a kaleidoscopic array of effects. Review: Symphony does Prokofiev proud 2010-04-02T18:57:00Z Lauren’s mordant response: “We’ll be moved, all right. It’s just a matter of when, by whom, and in how many pieces.” Can Art Change the World? With Song, Dance and Cowboy Clichés Two Shows Offer Different Answers 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z His humor was mordant, with a refined sense of the absurd, but never cruel. Denis Johnson’s Generosity 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z He sips his Chablis, gives a mordant smile. Cannes film festival: Mathieu Amalric 2010-05-17T20:35:00Z Business meetings with agents, directors and studio executives unfold with mordant black humor. Review: David Cronenberg Dissects Hollywood in ‘Maps to the Stars’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Narrator George Blagden beautifully captures the tenor of Nana’s mordant wit, his lofty view of himself, and his frequent spates of umbrage at human presumption and sheer stupidity. Review | When these animals talk, listen: Audiobooks give voice to a cat, a horse, a sheep and others 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z And there’s a mordant comedy of manners about a group of privileged, oversharing narcissists furiously pretending that there isn’t something totally weird going on right in front of them. Review: M. Night Shyamalan’s Thanksgiving Feast of Twists 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z Roberto Chavez: Portraits” at Glike Gallery. If you missed Chavez's retrospective at the Vincent Price Art Museum, now's your chance to see this important artist and educator's paintings, which often verge on the mordantly funny. Datebook: Vintage car design, objects of desire, flight of the bumblebee 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Lane contributes a portrayal just as towering, a turn that in Cohn’s deathbed scenes takes on harrowing proportions, as he and Brown’s Ethel spar for one final mordantly funny round. Review | Forget ‘important.’ ‘Angels in America’ is brilliantly entertaining. 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z His philosophical worldview and mordant comedy make him a stealthily rousing writer. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Called, simply, “Mike Kelley,” the exhibition delivers a mordantly misanthropic vision of contemporary life with terrific theatrical élan. Review: Mike Kelley Uncorks Superman’s Kandor City in a Bottle 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z It’s an end times retrofitted to the monotonies of our generation, packaged in mordant millennial pink. More Books We Loved in 2018 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z More than 40 years after its print publication, the mordantly comic final volume of Farrell’s Empire Trilogy is finally available. The best audiobooks of 2019 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z It features helium-high vocals, but something about them suggests not facetiousness but its benign cousin, playfulness, as though Frank Zappa's mordant humour had been tempered by Brian Wilson's knack for harmony. New band of the day ? No 895: ANR 2010-10-26T15:39:00Z Weill set Brecht's mordantly ironic lyrics to brilliantly simple melodies with blues, jazz and tango inflections, in a score molded for actors rather than trained singers. Get ready for a Mack attack, Seattle: Here comes 'Threepenny Opera' 2011-02-12T01:12:03Z He's a lot of things -- clever, ruthless, mordantly funny, surprisingly charming -- but there isn't a spark of Scorsesean or David Chase-ean spiritual torment anywhere in him. The plot-crazy spectacle of "Boardwalk Empire" 2011-09-26T01:26:00Z English slang is a field rich for tillage, as Max Décharné proves in “Vulgar Tongues,” a triumph of philological research and mordant social commentary. ‘Vulgar Tongues’ is pimped out with the dopest research 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z The duet was filled with a dark mordant humor but managed at the same time to remain scintillatingly close to Stravinsky’s music. Dance Review: Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky at New York City Ballet 2013-06-06T20:20:40Z “On every page of this book Bissell sees life with mordant clarity and finds words not only to describe it but to reanimate it,” Zachary Lazar writes in his review. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Let me close with a pair of wide-ranging essay collections, the first by Barry N. Malzberg, the notoriously mordant science fiction author and critic, the second by Douglas A. Anderson, a distinguished expert on J.R.R. Review | This is getting weird: Critics on horror, science fiction and fantasy 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z He made a few mordant end-of-the-road jokes, of the sort that got him in trouble in the BBC interview, and then continued. Clive James Translates Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’ 2012-10-07T20:07:16Z A totemlike symbol of patriotic, small-town American values, it is another sign of human community that Hopper, always the outsider, considers with mordant curiosity. Perfect Poise, Pulled From Jaws of Distortion 2010-12-30T22:46:46Z The playwright Emily Feldman achieves a captivating depth of field beyond her characters’ surface actions, and even their mordant, often bleak powers of observation. Review: In ‘The Best We Could,’ the Players Follow Directions 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Walking home, I wondered, mordantly, if I might eventually find someone who got cast in a situation of total anonymity. Get Out of My Light, Honey. I’m Auditioning Here. 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Rather it's a sensibility – at once mordant and exuberant, comic and subtle – that Hemon traces to a distinctive Slavic outlook. The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon – review 2013-04-14T09:00:01Z Christopher Saul shines as a busily blustering Polonius and in particular a mordantly funny gravedigger. Theater Review: Michael Benz in ‘Hamlet’ at the Schimmel Center 2012-10-03T21:57:28Z O'Neill, I suspect, secretly sympathised with the mordantly observant, misogynist Marsden. Strange Interlude – review 2013-06-05T17:44:02Z It will be useful for any pro-Biden readers to view this not as pessimism on Hiaasen’s part but simply as some additional deeply mordant humor. Review | ‘Squeeze Me’ proves that the Trump era is Carl Hiaasen’s moment 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z And the show does manage to convey Mr. Keret’s casually mordant worldview, his sense that fiction so often palls before the quiet and terrible absurdities of everyday life. Review: ‘Suddenly, a Knock at the Door,’ Based on Etgar Keret’s Stories 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z “That works on nearly anything, I bet,” Eve adds sensibly, in one of the show’s welcome stabs of mordant humor. Review: ‘Cuddles,’ Not Your Typical Vampire Drama, Opens at 59E59 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z However monstrous that title may be, its phrasing produces a typically mordant Albee joke. Review: Is Edward Albee ‘At Home at the Zoo’? You Bet He Is. 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Less scary than driven and dyspeptically funny, the title character of this mordant comedy is on a mission. 11 Movies You Need to Know at New Directors/New Films 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z It’s also mordantly funny – about periods during sex and cultural misunderstandings and apprehension. Michaela Coel: 'Like Arabella, I realised my life was about to change for ever' 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z By 11 p.m., new election-night options were even more freewheeling — and, with GOP candidate Donald Trump demonstrating startling strength at the polls, these shows shared a certain mordant tone. Election coverage a bit too serious? TV had lighter options 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z There’s some grim stuff here, but very little of Willeford’s mordant humor. ‘The Burnt Orange Heresy’ Review: Modern Art, Misogyny and Murder 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z But the depiction of a social order in which almost every participant is a gangster of some sort, and the mordant humor the movie finds in this, is Russian through and through. ‘Why Don’t You Just Die!’ Review: Attempted Murder, but Make It Comedy 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z Known for her mordant wit, she’s indifferent to propriety and scornful of romantic love. Review: New Novels by Kris D’Agostino, Kathleen Rooney and Others 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z A mordant vein of comedy runs through the book as Thomas recounts his wild swings of fortune. A young Irishman falls into the horrors of the American Civil War 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z He brings a musical awareness of the language and a tonal assurance that can shift on a dime from mordant irony to delicate feeling. A triumphant ‘Endgame’ for Beckett veteran Alan Mandell 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Aghast at the idea of worshiping the new Christian God, she also retains her mordant humor until the end. Theater Review: ‘Golden Child,’ at the Signature Center 2012-11-14T03:00:00Z In general, he cultivated a “mordant persona” and was genuinely captivated by gruesomeness. Review: In ‘The Violet Hour,’ Great Writers Facing the Inevitable 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z The pall of fatality that hangs over this motley caravan provides an undercurrent of mordant comedy. | 'Meek?s Cutoff': Out on the Frontier, Bringing All That Baggage With Them 2011-04-07T22:33:01Z In that sense, O’Hara — who aside from his brilliant direction of contemporary works like “Slave Play” and “BLKS” is a mordant comic playwright himself — is right to reimagine the genre expectations of “Raisin.” Review: This Time, ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ Really Does Explode 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z "Possibly conceived as a mordant punch line to the Obama era, it may turn out to be the inaugural blast of insurgent cinema in the age of Trump." The Best Movies of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Ms. Metcalf, spiky and floppy, is particularly mordant in this material, sometimes bullying and sometimes coddling A in an effort to get through another unpleasant day with minimal fuss. Review: Glenda Jackson Gets Her Queen Lear Moment in ‘Three Tall Women’ 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z As the phone company agent becomes impatient, or the bank agent confused, our sympathies and our certainties waver and lose hold, until we arrive at a state of mordant terror reminiscent of “Waiting for Godot.” What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z His work was mordant, surreal, and fiercely intelligent. Neil Gaiman: 'Iain Banks was one of us, whatever that meant' 2013-06-09T22:57:04Z Even better is Higgs Boson Blues, a mordantly witty picaresque fable that runs the lyrical gamut from Lucifer to Robert Johnson and Hannah Montana. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – review 2013-02-11T12:19:50Z This is the rallying cry of the #MeToo era, when Leigh Stein's merciless and mordantly funny follow-up to "The Fallback Plan" is set. Brit Bennett's "The Vanishing Half" and 4 more must-read novels out in June 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z Her losses are the reader's gain: Only an author with an intimate relationship with suicide could have written a novel with such wincingly painful honesty and mordant humor. A' life-affirming romp through death in 'All My Puny Sorrows' 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z Now humor — mordant or zany — is the default mode. Art Review: Armory Show, Modern and Contemporary, at Piers 92 and 94 2012-03-08T23:15:02Z Dark-haired gamine Lauren Edson brought a spry, agile contrast to the mordant sensibility of the piece, while Hartley, in one solo, had some macabre showman's razzle-dazzle. Bumbershoot Day 2: Trey McIntyre and cool surprises 2011-09-05T03:30:31Z A review of “The Promise” in The New York Times Book Review called Galgut “a gleeful satirist, mordantly skewering his characters’ fecklessness and hypocrisy.” Damon Galgut Wins Booker Prize for ‘The Promise’ 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z “An actor’s failing powers get you in the end,” he said mordantly. Tom Hollander Is Starring on Broadway, Poor Guy 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Despite that, his mordant sense of humor, reportorial skill and a keen eye for the revealing detail comes together as an engaging portrait of the players as well as the challenges the game faces. Review | Who says all the best sportswriting involves baseball? Here are six great books on football. 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z As the show broadened geographically it did the same tonally, newly injected with a kind of mordant humor as its characters began to give in to rather than resist its grand, apocalyptic currents. How The Leftovers became the most ambitious show of the decade 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z She emerges here as a woman of sparkling wit and intelligence, remarking on her husband’s “extraordinary political simplicity” and mordantly noting that “the English left is always spartan; they’re fighting Franco to the last Spaniard.” Books of The Times: George Orwell’s Letters Fill Out a Complex Personality 2013-08-19T20:18:07Z More than 40 years after its print publication, “The Singapore Grip,” the mordantly comic final volume of J.G. Review | The sordid tale of the Borgias and other great audiobooks for your playlist 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z He manages to be mordant and kind; humor jumps out in the most unexpected moments. 32 of the year's best books 2011-12-07T23:43:04Z Mr. Grenier, his dark baritone rumbling with mordant humor, imbues his storekeeper with a dryly cynical attitude that matches nicely with his customer’s. Theater Review: ‘The Vandal’ by Hamish Linklater, at the Flea Theater 2013-02-01T03:00:00Z In 2005 they were mordant, the prickly new boss’s response to the battered, naked body of the show’s first murder victim. A Series Romance Comes Full Circle 2012-08-10T17:09:14Z Mr. Ruge’s novel is a pulsing, vibrant, thrillingly alive work, full of formal inventiveness, remarkable empathy and, above all, mordant and insightful wit. Books of The Times: ‘In Times of Fading Light’ Spans Generations in Germany 2013-08-13T19:37:43Z Meyers is in many ways an all-purpose broadcast late-night host, but one who echoes the frustrations and fears born of a relentlessly grim news cycle by cracking mordant jokes. Tripping up the King's Jester: How is Hasan Minhaj still in the running to host "The Daily Show"? 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z In a slashing, cartoon expressionist style, Mr. Lewis conjures the mordant spirits of social satirists like James Ensor and George Grosz. NADA Art Fair Offers the Wacky and the Political, Plus Basketball 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Klam, the author of the short story collection “Sam the Cat,” brings a mordantly funny touch to existentially tragic circumstances. New in Paperback: ‘Who Is Rich?,’ ‘The Stars in Our Eyes’ 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z All of this creates a festive and buoyant atmosphere that works strangely well with Beckett’s famously dark, difficult and often mordantly humorous oeuvre. Northern Ireland Town Embraces Beckett Festival 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Box office: 020-7452 3000 Now, in his mordantly funny new play, he shows a South Yorkshire country house and its upper-crust owners being similarly turned into a part of the heritage industry. People – review 2012-11-08T01:07:23Z “Cosmopolis,” much like “Crash” and “Naked Lunch,” highlights the mordant comedy of the source material. Film: ‘Cosmopolis,’ Cronenberg’s Take on Don DeLillo 2012-08-03T16:00:00Z Ms. Oldknow describes it as mordant commentary on the declining state of the traditional glass industry in Murano, which makes it “so appropriate for a museum like ours,” which collects the history of glass making. New Wing at Corning Museum of Glass Invites the Light 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z The amiable Brian takes refuge in mordant humor: “Bad luck. Good luck. It’s all chance,” he says, then adding darkly, “Rotten sort of lottery, life.” Review: ‘The Herd,’ Rory Kinnear’s Drama About Family Friction 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z And so on until this week – as in some mordant novel about the modern condition – the comedy turned a shade darker. I loved Jonathan Franzen not wisely but too well 2010-10-07T16:28:00Z In Second Stage's sleek production, running through February 20, the play is directed with a savvy balance of mordant humor and romantic longing by Scott Ellis. Terrific actors face off in "Gruesome" play 2011-02-01T03:36:14Z It presents a half-century of tragedy and turmoil as a series of mordant comic vignettes. | 'The Time That Remains': In Nazareth, Human Comedy as Wind Rustles the Olive Branches 2011-01-06T23:52:20Z “I can sleep and you can squeeze nutrient paste in my mouth,” Selena wryly observes to her mordant secretary, Sue Wilson. 'Veep' Season 4 Premiere Recap: She's Bebop Speaking 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z She’s better when winking, as with the mordant humor on “All My Friends,” or on “The Day You Die,” a rousing, hilarious rockabilly number. Music Review: Lindi Ortega, Tapping ‘Cigarettes & Truckstops’ at Joe’s Pub 2013-02-04T23:38:46Z “Divide Me by Zero” is a mordant tribute to lost loves, none more beloved or irretrievably lost than Katya’s mother. A Romantic Comedy So Dark It Makes You Cry 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z “Roberto Chavez: Portraits,” at Glike Gallery. If you missed Chavez's retrospective at the Vincent Price Art Museum, now's your chance to see this important artist and educator's paintings, which often verge on the mordantly funny. Datebook: Brazil artist books, underground photos & Guerrilla Girls 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z It’s a mordant meditation on capitalist imperialism and mindless consumerism. An H.C. Westermann Retrospective Melds Humor and Provocation 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z His masterpiece, “Naples ’44,” describes with mordant humor the chaos in that city in the aftermath of the Allied invasion of Italy. By the Book: Ben Macintyre 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Ensconced in a stable government job, known as a tiefanwan—an iron rice bowl—she honed a voice that spoke in mordant epigrams. The Widow of a Nobel-Winning Chinese Dissident Rebuilds Her Career as an Artist 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z "I was a television version of a person with a broken heart," Matt Berninger notes mordantly in Pink Rabbits, voice all whiskey burr and molten honey, while the piano outdoes itself in sentimentality. The National: Trouble Will Find Me – review 2013-05-16T20:30:02Z Throughout the collection, Mr. Millhauser veers into the realm of fantasy with unsettling and mordantly funny results. Reviews: New Books From Steven Millhauser, Per Petterson and More 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Mrozek, who began his career as a journalist and cartoonist, was known for mordant allegorical plays whose absurdism lampooned the political and social climate of the postwar Eastern Bloc. Slawomir Mrozek, a Leading Polish Playwright, Dies at 83 2013-08-28T14:58:53Z A mordantly comic novel about the inescapable horrors of racism in America. Biting Satires Dominate Booker Prize Shortlist 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z Ryan took the technique in a different direction by substituting black paper, with grittier, often mordant results. Art in Review: ANNE RYAN: ?The Black-Line Woodcut, 1945-48? 2011-11-03T21:39:00Z But Lavalle’s observations about race remain, as ever, both stinging and mordantly funny. In ‘The Changeling,’ the Dark Fears of Parents, Memorably Etched 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z This pitch-black comedy — in terms of both rarity and mordant humor, it’s the program’s biggest find — details the attempts of an unexceptional, rather dim family to run a musty mountain lodge. Critic?s Notebook: Bloody Attempts to Escape From Fate 2011-02-26T00:24:54Z Petite, quietly savage, with a sense of humor that can skew either goofy or mordant, Milioti, 35, is not the girl next door. Cristin Milioti Is No One’s Accessory 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z A pair of highly stylized, deeply mordant coming-of-age tales about adolescent male psychopaths and the sullen girls who enable them. My Favorite TV Shows of 2018 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z This book is a wild, mordant commentary on death. A Roundup of Holiday Coffee Table Books 2012-11-22T19:55:15Z Titled “Killer Instincts,” her recording is a satisfying side dish of satire: mordant in outlook, effervescent in detail. 6 Things to Do at Home This Weekend 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z "A Separation" is up against four other films, including "Footnote," a mordant tale of rivalry between father-son Talmudic scholars by Israel's Joseph Cedar. Iranian film in running for foreign language Oscar 2012-01-24T18:43:16Z Funny, mordant, painful, just like his poems were all those years ago. Tom Bidwell survived cancer at 15. Can he now win an Oscar? 2011-02-24T20:30:00Z “Survivor’s Remorse” is mordant and very funny, but there is a redeeming sweetness beneath the satire and b-ball swagger. ‘Survivor’s Remorse,’ a Comedy About a Basketball Star 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Lanky and angular, Mr. Ohler quietly conveys the mordant humor that occasionally surfaces in his book, which has a chapter titled “High Hitler.” High on Hitler and Meth: Book Says Nazis Were Fueled by Drugs 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z So yes, in case you were wondering, the novel is funny too, mordantly so. Review | Diane Cook’s ‘The New Wilderness’ is accidentally timely but also timeless 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z If the caustic but essentially upbeat barrage techniques of “Marry Me” aren’t what you’re looking for, the quieter, slower, more mordant — which is to say, more British — humor of “Uncle” might be a good alternative. ‘Marry Me’ on NBC and ‘Uncle’ on DirecTV 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z One standout: Robin Miles reads the part of the cranky Old Sheep, leavening the character’s dark vision of the pig’s fate with a generous pinch of mordant humor. Meryl Streep Wants to Tell You a Bedtime Story 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z It bristles with a mordant sense of reality and loss, as well as menacing bits of bacteria and fauna suggesting drain water, while framed in copper pipe with spigot handles. Art Review: ‘Toxic Beauty: The Art of Frank Moore’ at N.Y.U. 2012-09-06T22:07:05Z Joy and romantic bliss are not on Ms. Landesman’s menu of subjects, but a mordant wit and a salty exuberance keep her lyrics from being depressing. Music Review: Traveling to the Stars, No Joy or Romance Needed 2011-03-08T21:29:40Z And it’s just here, with perfect timing, that Beattie offers an example of her signature mordant humor: Ann Beattie is one of our few contemporary masters of storytelling 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Especially when you consider that the particular example I’ve quoted is atypically soft: Bon, the person saying it, is part black, and being mordantly ironic. Riff: How William Faulkner Tackled Race — and Freed the South From Itself 2012-06-30T04:00:04Z Mr. Savage is also known for his mordant wit and polemical anger. | 'The Kid': A Gay Couple Adopting, From New Group@Theater Row 2010-05-11T04:18:00Z In Season 2, the Irish ex-chauffeur marries the earl’s youngest daughter, Sybil, and the consequences there are closer to those in “My Fair Lady” than they are in George Bernard Shaw’s more mordant original, “Pygmalion.” The TV Watch: ‘Downton Abbey’ Returns for a Fourth Season 2014-01-02T21:12:16Z Veteran narrator Grover Gardner, with his fine exuberant voice, comic pacing and sense of mordant irony, gives us the very best rendition. Review | Audiobooks for your summer travels 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z “Proof,” Moorhouse’s disarmingly mordant feature debut as a director, is part of Pioneering Women in Australian Cinema. Rediscovering Australia’s Generation of Defiant Female Directors 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z Still, I thought this mordant, slow-motion horror film about a truck driver's journey into hell -- the title is 100 percent sardonic -- was the most unexpected and arresting picture in the main Cannes competition. Best of Cannes: Russian horror movie "My Joy" 2010-05-22T16:30:00Z She even gets in a mordant joke about those dogs. Review: ‘Villa’ Dramatizes a Plot of Chilean Land With a Dark Past 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z Nearing his 60s, he was easing into a new kind of sagacity — less mordant, rather uninterested in scoring points. Listen to 13 Essential Walter Becker Songs 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z Produced, like the paintings, in a crisp Pop style and annotated with mordant commentary, the guides amount to a take-away show on their own and are well worth spending time with. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z God knows, a mordant humor lurks within the practice of making things by hand in a digital universe where a service economy struggles. 'Made in L.A.' biennial art survey taps a social undercurrent 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z But in the hands of the masterful novelist Dana Spiotta, “Wayward” becomes something else entirely — a mordant, coruscating indictment of these times, liberal politics, affluenza, self improvement and social identity. Review | Dana Spiotta’s ‘Wayward’ is much more than a midlife crisis novel 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z He wrote his most haunting, mordant lyric for the 1975 Diana Ross film Mahogany. Remembering Gerry Goffin, the '60s Poet of Teen Heartbreak 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z Tender and passive, she lacks Esther’s mordant sarcasm, and she doesn’t fully connect her terror of constraint to the gendered demands clicking into place around her. A Lost Story by Sylvia Plath Contains the Seeds of the Writer She Would Become 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z The absurdity of this inane chitchat taking place as some of the most wrenching moments in theatrical history are occurring outside has a certain mordant humor. 2010-01-15T04:13:00Z In his latest novel Christopher Buckley takes his mordant wit from inside the Beltway to the Holy Roman Empire of 1517, where hypocrisy, mendacity, corruption and greed are just as rampant. Six New Books, Including One by Christopher Buckley 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z This mordant, slow-motion horror film about a truck driver's journey into hell -- the title is 100 percent sardonic, maybe more so -- was the most unexpected and arresting picture in the 2010 Cannes competition. "My Joy": Nightmare voyage into the Russian heartland 2011-09-30T22:01:00Z Porter’s mordant wake-up call to his soldiers is: “Yo. The Suck awaits.” ‘Youngblood’ review: A novel about the Iraq War from a soldier who was there 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Lee Child, reviewing it, calls the book “a fluent, mordant, authentic, propulsive narrative, wonderfully lit from within by an intriguing main character. … Kennedy rises to the challenge and succeeds.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z But I like Shrigley, and best of all when he is at his most mordant. The Glasgow International impact zone 2010-04-19T20:30:00Z Then I’m going to ignore the long-form/short-form distinction, which allows me to include the mordant, sometimes hilariously disgusting “Robot Chicken” and the whimsical, poetic “Adventure Time.” Emmys 2014: What Was the Best Animated Program? 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z There are some promising glints here and there, flashes of mordant wit and obvious ambition. ‘Ultrasound’ Review: Trapped in a Murky Mystery 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z And as a publisher, he used his magazine, Globe, to push his favorite causes, often contributing his own mordant and outspoken columns. Pierre Bergé, Transformative Fashion Executive, Dies at 86 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Reading his correspondence with his demons in mind, I gradually understood that what appeared to be harmless sarcasm was really a mordant sincerity. The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z 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. ‘The Consultant’ Review: Silicon Valley Goes to the Devil 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z His songwriting is as unsparing and mordantly funny as his answers to journalists' queries. John Grant: Pale Green Ghosts – review 2013-03-07T15:29:01Z It’s ironic in a sort of mordant way that we need to travel to the macabre, supernatural underbelly of Victorian London to find characters that are legitimately relatable. Disillusioned with Game of Thrones and True Detective? Try Penny Dreadful 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Acutely self-conscious but fiercely intelligent, she consistently renders a strange, mordantly funny and precisely observed world. Elif Batuman turns her gifts to fiction in 'The Idiot' 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z The musicians are characters in the ballet, sitting on stage in black scarecrow costumes and, as they play, regarding the action with the mordant resignation of Vladimir and Estragon in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Dublin dance festival 2013: Stravinsky Evening – review 2013-05-18T23:05:46Z It's extraordinary: an immediately arresting mix of the mordant and the moving. Film review: The Milk of Sorrow 2010-04-29T22:40:00Z It's a typically mordant metaphor; as he makes his exit, he seems to be carrying his own funeral pyre. Der Fensterputzer; Bamboo Blues – review 2012-06-23T23:05:59Z For much of its running time, it maintains an almost jaunty tone, steeped in mordant wit; it sometimes plays like the Coen brothers’ “Burn After Reading” crossed with “Dr. Strangelove.” With ‘War Machine,’ Netflix Bets on Brad Pitt in Afghanistan 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z But there's the frustrating sense of ideas bubbling too low beneath the surface, of mordant jokes serving as an end rather than a means. Cannes 2013: Borgman - first look review 2013-05-19T18:16:00Z The remaining songs, “Sad Dream” and “Ghost,” are mordant singer-songwriter fare in which the lyrics are darker than Ms. Ferreira’s usual mood. New Music: Jason Aldean’s ‘Night Train’; Sky Ferreira’s ‘Ghost’ 2012-10-15T22:07:43Z That novel — yearning, lyrical, mordant — tells the story of Jay Gatsby, a millionaire bootlegger and minor gangster, who remakes himself in a disastrous attempt to win Daisy Buchanan, the society girl he once loved. Can’t Repeat the Past? An Immersive ‘Great Gatsby’ Thinks You Can. 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z But it isn’t Mr. Saint Laurent who takes up the most screen time in this mordant film; it’s his star maker. The YSL Documentary Pierre Bergé Did Not Want Anyone to See 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z The show is much more about Mr. Gethard’s uncomfortable if often mordantly funny relationship to self-willed death — something beyond neurosis — than it is to his career. Review: In ‘Career Suicide,’ Laughing When It Hurts 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Moshfegh made her name with thrillingly mordant books, including the story collection “Homesick for Another World” and the novels “Eileen” and “My Year of Rest and Relaxation.” Ottessa Moshfegh’s Latest Is a Murder Mystery, but Where’s the Body? 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Gathering examples from Žižek to Woody Allen or film adaptations of Stephen King, the book is mordantly entertaining. Non-fiction roundup – reviews 2012-07-20T07:00:02Z The play’s mordantly funny passages find the writers arguing over their reputations and matters of literary history as if they were sitting over a samovar in a literary salon. Theater Review: ‘The Twenty-Seventh Man’ at the Public Theater 2012-11-19T03:00:00Z They're just his way in to write about life, death and growing up in a unique voice that's as mordantly witty as it is downtrodden. Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories by Sherman Alexie – review 2013-01-26T17:30:01Z The correspondence between the singer’s mordant phrase ending and Ms. Rangarajan’s arrival in an arched pose felt like a wound. Dance Review: ‘Dancing the Gods,’ a Festival of Indian Movement 2014-04-29T20:20:23Z Lou Reed had a mordant wit and a pragmatic understanding of his own legacy. Rock ’n’ Roll, Between the Covers 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z The essential themes of his famously mordant comedies — pain and mortality — are very much present, but here they are embedded in a laconic story line and developed in slow, sweet-flowing rhythms. Video: Classic Cowboys, Back on the Range 2011-03-26T00:16:44Z These include a suite of mordantly comical prints called “See America First” by the woodworking genius H. C. Westermann, who was revered by almost everyone else in the exhibition. ‘What Nerve!’ at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z As he jets across the planet — you imagine red lines crisscrossing a globe, that movie shorthand for flights — he also functions as a gentle yet mordant travel critic. Books of The Times: ?Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms,? by Richard Fortey 2012-04-12T19:42:43Z “Assassins,” presented as vignettes with music, in which nine people from history croon and monologize their way through their successful or botched crimes, is by turns mordant and acerbically funny and always a bit unsettling. Review | Insanity thrives, giddily, in Signature’s ‘Assassins’ 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Galgut, our reviewer, Rand Richards Cooper, wrote, “is a gleeful satirist, mordantly skewering his characters’ fecklessness and hypocrisy.” New in Paperback: ‘The Promise’ and ‘Whereabouts’ 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Sporting assortment of hairpieces and subtle facial appliances, Oldman shape-shifts throughout the movie, breathing vibrant new life into a mordantly familiar icon. Screen vampires 2010-07-10T23:04:00Z Then I read “Presidio” and — review spoiler alert — found a fluent, mordant, authentic, propulsive narrative, wonderfully lit from within by an intriguing main character. Lee Child Reviews a Debut Novel That’s Vintage Texas Noir 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z The details are almost incredible, at times mordantly funny, at others sparking with anger. Review | The 3 best new audiobooks to listen to in August 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z What follows is a mordant contest of wills played out between one of the sharpest wits of the 20th century and a sociopath with great abs. Review | A ‘Talented Mr. Ripley’ pursues literary fame in ‘A Ladder to the Sky’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z A sly, mordantly funny, at times brutal satire about altruism and its discontents, the movie offers something of an emotional workout. ‘Intregalde’ Review: Oh, Be Good! 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z As that mordant moralist La Rochefoucauld had it: "No one would fall in love if they hadn't heard it talked about." Which writer taught me most about love? 2012-02-10T22:55:10Z The horror is cut with hormones and mordant humor. Review: In ‘Yellowjackets,’ It’s Reunion Time for the Crash of ’96 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Violence, usually senseless, often erupts in Herron’s books, but it’s offset by a large dose of mordant wit. Writer Mick Herron’s ‘Slow Horses’ are spies for our times 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z Over time, Applebroog developed a varied but recognizable style in multiple mediums, characterized by the raw, mordant humor of a woman under no illusions. This week’s passages 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z Everything that’s matchless about Raban’s work — his hyperacute eye for detail, his powers of synthesis, his mordant sense of humor, his vast reservoirs of knowledge and his love of travel — is there. Jonathan Raban defied death to write one last book. 'Father and Son' is worth the wait 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z A key figure in the 1990s indie movement, director Hal Hartley struggled for years to wrest back control of some of his early features, including cult favorites like 1991’s mordant romantic comedy “Trust.” Streaming's most wanted: Why it's so hard to find these iconic film and TV titles 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z John McCain’s mordant humor made him say that it is always darkest before it turns pitch black. Opinion | Maybe, just maybe, this is rock bottom for embarrassing U.S. politics 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z It’s all darkly hilarious, generating what Penny calls “the kind of laughter that can be triggered by the mordant and brutal.” Review | ‘The Dog of the North’ finds a lovable woman in darkly funny straits 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z Since then, he has delivered similarly mordant visions of corporate piracy, class inequality and civil war. An Artist for the End of the World 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Buñuel, a master of surreal imagery who aimed his mordantly irreverent plots at bourgeois values, mostly worked in exile. Carlos Saura, Spanish filmmaker who drew global acclaim, dies at 91 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z Particularly well served by the writers are Doi, the resident mordant wit, and Donovan as the doofus — in Kutcher’s old job, basically. ‘Night Court’ and ‘That ’90s Show’ welcome back the age of pre-prestige TV 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z In that respect, in rereading “In God We Trust” and “Wanda Hickey” recently, I was brought to mind of the mordant, tragicomic wit of novelist T.C. Review | Do you know the stories behind ‘A Christmas Story’? 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z Scientists have been chasing this dream since the 1950s, so long that it has become a mordant joke: “Fusion is the energy of the future … and always will be.” Opinion | Historic advance in nuclear fusion is truly something to celebrate 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z Her mordant social commentary is lodged between the glamorous fizz of Warhol and the tatty thrift store aesthetic of Mike Kelley. Review: L.A. artist Alexis Smith upended taboos. A thrilling new museum exhibition shows how 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Some of Jack’s mordant first-person insights on the page have been reassigned to other characters on the screen, a shift for which Driver’s performance compensates to no small degree. Review: 'White Noise' puts a loud, brash and enjoyable spin on a Don DeLillo classic 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z He is also a husband, a father, a dreamer, an adventurer and a dryly sardonic observer of history, with a mordantly funny perspective on Mexico’s past, present and future. A critic takes a second look at Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s ‘Bardo’ — and is thankful he did 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z In the giddy whirlwind of the film’s opening section, Bobby narrates his life with the mordant panache of Woody Allen at his most dryly amusing. Review | ‘Bros,’ the first big-studio R-rated gay rom-com, is for everyone 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z A mordant is a substance that combines with a dye to produce a stable fixed color in a dyed fabric. Chemistry 2019-02-14T00:00:00Z She was “very literary,” Katz says — she taught herself English from a dictionary and an Edgar Allan Poe collection, the poems of which she also made her 4-year-old son recite — and had a mordant wit. Alex Katz Is Still Perfecting His Craft 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Just my idle, anachronistic projection, of course, but the woman’s mordant expression does make it tempting. Perspective | A family portrait brimming with life — and children “The Kingdom of Sand” isn’t persistently mordant, but its humor is inevitably of the black-comic sort. Review: Andrew Holleran should be a giant of queer literature. His new novel on aging proves it 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z The film has a mordant sense of humor, a hypnotic gracefulness and a startling emotional sincerity. David Cronenberg on the evolution to 'Crimes of the Future' 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z It’s a movie of great formal elegance, mordant wit, pleasurably heady ideas and unexpected tenderness: For all its blood and viscera, “Crimes of the Future’s” biggest organ just might be its heart. Here's what won — and what should've won — at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z But Volorzhbit has a gift for building tension through narrative restraint and mordant humor; she also has a keen sense of misdirection. Review: 'Bad Roads,' Ukraine's Oscar entry, is a grim dispatch from Russian-occupied Donbas region 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z She also briefly considered the possibility that Zelensky had hired a public relations firm to help sharpen his mordant trolling of the Russian president. Opinion | Volodymyr Zelensky, the modern warrior-artist 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z Written with insight and mordant humor, it’s a bleak and frightening portrait of a country in thrall to a ruthless dictator. 12 essential books on Ukraine, Russia and Putin 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z For the unnamed narrator at the center of Claire-Louise Bennett’s wildly imaginative, unabashedly odd and mordantly funny second novel, “Checkout 19,” books are life itself: essential as water, ordinary as wallpaper. Review: Plenty of novels moralize about books saving your life. This one treats them like a drug 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z "He was notable for his individuality, integrity, and occasionally stubborn eccentricity. His mordant wit, and appetite for the ridiculous, made him a priceless raconteur." Procol Harum singer Gary Brooker dies at 76 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Up to this point, my favorite performance of “I Feel Pretty” was Elaine Stritch’s mordant rendition, which I saw her perform in her 80s at New York’s Cafe Carlyle a few years before she died. How Steven Spielberg's 'West Side Story' finally solved the problem of 'I Feel Pretty' 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Despite his standing as a well-connected Washington insider, he cultivated a new persona, one unexpected for a man of Mr. Dole’s dark visage and mordant wit: that of self-deprecating loser. Bob Dole, Old Soldier and Stalwart of the Senate, Dies at 98 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z This period shaped much of his personality and especially his mordant wit. Stephen Sondheim, central figure in American musical theater, dies at 91 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z So the poet, known for her mordant wit, might have gotten a dark chuckle that Hurricane Henri derailed plans for the long-in-coming unveiling of her headstone at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx last Sunday. 54 Years Late, Dorothy Parker Finally Gets a Tombstone 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z When praising the works by this author, using terms such as “mordant” and “coruscating,” Heller wrote, “She swings for the fences.” Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Are only dog lovers hired as editors? 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z But climate advocates like Heglar have adopted a form of rebuttal better associated with the Internet’s ne’er-do-wells — trolling — infused with voice, verve and mordant humor. These self-described trolls tackle climate disinformation on social media with wit and memes 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z One nickname for the setting of the main campus is Happy Valley, a subject of occasionally mordant humor. Black professors push a major university to diversify and confront racism 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z During the Nixon administration’s Watergate unraveling, Henry Kissinger’s mordant jest was, “The illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional takes a little longer.” Opinion | Democrats’ big voting bill is constitutional vandalism 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z It’s as good an account as any for what she’s up to in these mordantly funny and brilliant essays. Review: New collection of columns by the late Jenny Diski 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z Yet, it fit so well with the mordant tenor of the game that I felt no compulsion to try to better Curdin’s fate. Review | ‘Mundaun’ offers the rare chance to smoke a pipe while talking to the severed head of a goat 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z There’s a mordant appeal to these proceedings, and the writing can be brilliant. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s sequel ‘The Committed’ is sharp, but ultimately less gripping than the Pulitzer-winning original 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z With her mordant honesty and cracked wit, Eulabee is an engaging narrator. Review: Vendela Vida's ode to teen strife could have been a great San Francisco novel 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Moody, mordant and retro are all the rage in teen TV. Inside Netflix's quirky, nostalgic 'Sabrina' crossover 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Others mordantly counseled fellow workers to look on the bright side — at least the turkey vouchers were tax-free, unlike the bonuses. Amazon’s $3,000 signing bonuses irk workers who got $10 coupons 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Remarkably, the way they’ve done this is with a kind of warped buddy-comedy format, one that attempts to be as mordant and funny as it is earnest. ‘The Good Lord Bird’ Is Good TV. But Mix Art and Slavery at Your Peril. 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z The government’s rationale for reopening hard currency stores – to increase supply and to rake in foreign currency – is broadly accepted but the mordant irony of the measure escapes few. Dollar back in Cuba as pandemic and US sanctions hammer economy 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z There’s something mordantly catchy about the chorus’s repetitious melody, and the lyrics are full of his trademark hippy phantasmagoria: “Temperature’s dropping at the rotten oasis / Stealing kisses from the leprous faces.” Beck's greatest songs – ranked! 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Moody, mordant and retro are all the rage in teen TV. Inside Netflix's quirky, nostalgic 'Sabrina' crossover 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z But in Dolan’s stimulating company, which carries something of the quality of friendship, this relatively static spectacle meets the reader as a blizzard of mordant exuberance. Irish debut novelist Naoise Dolan accompanies you like an old friend through bitingly funny ‘Exciting Times,’ earning Sally Rooney comparisons 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z Then she added, mordantly: “And I would just say to all of Canada’s American friends ... Seriously?” She's the most prominent woman in Canada and leading the country's fight against COVID-19 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z Ceglowski is a mordantly funny writer and a pointed critic of Big Tech data collection. How location data could play a role in managing the coronavirus crisis 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z The composer, often mordantly funny, recalled that his parents sent him to a psychiatrist when he was entering his teens. Charles Wuorinen, Pulitzer-winning modernist composer, dies at 81 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z It may be on stage rather than screen, but Lucy Kirkwood’s The Welkin, currently running at the National Theatre, also applies mordant humour to the anguishes and indignities of reproductive life. Like a natural woman: how the female gaze is finally bringing real life to the screen 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z This set may not burn as brightly as his best work, but its account of eye tests, foot injuries and climate change still finds the downcast Yorkshireman on fine, mordant form. Streaming with laughter: the 50 best standup comedy shows 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z In her previous feature, “Cameraperson,” Johnson proved that playfulness and profundity were far from mutually exclusive; she’s done the same here in a documentary whose mordant comedy becomes the ultimate expression of love. Kenneth Turan and Justin Chang wrap up the 2020 Sundance Film Festival 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z The dark and mordant joke is, of course, that Trump finds those hateful traits admirable. Behind the Bewildering Recent Incidents of Anti-Semitism 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Each dictator’s life is offered with neat, mordant compression. The Field Guide to Tyranny 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z In drawings, sculptures and videos, Blake’s rabbits tend to exude a mordant humor of layered depth. Review: Nayland Blake turns bunnies and shoes into meditations on sex, power and prejudice 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z ERRE’s show, which features an array of new and existing pieces, many produced throughout the artist’s career, reveals an artist deeply engaged in politics and policy — not to mention a mordant wit. Two artists — from L.A. and Tijuana — present their visions of the border at MASS MoCA 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z The late senator Eugene McCarthy, whose mordant wit is much missed, quipped that anything said three times in Washington becomes a fact. Opinion | Warren and Sanders know their startling ideas won’t get done 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Like the artist’s larger body of work, the piece tackles difficult ideas with mordant humor and the detritus of everyday life. Artist Nayland Blake toys with race and queerness 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z It’s a rare moment in which the mordant 30-year-old allows herself such sincerity. Darkly funny, desperate and full of rage: what makes a millennial novel? 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z The title character of this mordant début novel is a hepatologist navigating a divorce. Briefly Noted Book Reviews 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z At the other is Betye Saar’s 2010 “The Destiny of Latitude & Longitude,” sailing ships and bundles of mottled gray hair housed inside an extravagant birdcage, silently singing a mordant refrain of freedom and captivity. MOCA on the rebound? Three strong shows and free entry are welcome signs of change 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Hogg, on the other hand, trains her camera on exactly what she knows — the artsy intelligentsia of her youth — with the same kind of mordant perusal that Anthony brings to Julie. Review | ‘The Souvenir’ recalls a turbulent relationship through 20/20 hindsight 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z A mordant sense of humor informs many of the scenes, as when Georg asks for a room and is told by the landlady that he must produce papers proving his travel plans. ‘Transit’ review: Intriguing tale follows a refugee’s deception 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Each post carried its own mordant title: “The Mother Popsicle,” “The Frustrated Sleeper.” “Lulu” 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z It’s spare and often funny in a mordant sort of way. Put the pancake tutus away! PNB’s ‘Director’s Choice’ is a dream for fans of contemporary ballet 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z As another existentially immobilized Beckett character once mordantly observed, “Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that.” Spring theater picks: Dianne Wiest, Lucas Hnath, Nia Vardalos, ‘Niceties’ and ‘Falsettos’ 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z The heroes are rewritten in sly anecdotes – “Scott stares at the Christmas tree”; they write mordant diary entries – “the drudgery of courage”; or “dream of whortleberry jam”. Disasters, drudgery and dreams of jam: the best books to explore the Antarctic 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z Her most recent film, “Where Do We Go Now?,” was a lively amalgam of satire, musical and mordant folk tale. Review | This movie starts with a boy suing his parents for bringing him into the world. It only gets more depressing. 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z By contrast, “Love Poems” offers quick and mordantly witty dissections of every little thing in a marriage, particularly in the arenas of communication and intimacy. An unraveling TV anchor. Love poems for busy spouses. John Kenney's new books chronicle our messy, modern lives 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z Reflecting the protagonist's fracturing psyche, the album crams 14 tracks into just 33 minutes, with Mitski's serrated guitar riffs and mordant lyrics the sole connective tissue. Critics' top albums of 2018 revealed 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z For the mordant purposes of “The Favourite,” love does not exist. Glamour, Wit, and Cunning in “The Favourite” 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z It captures the full meaning of Charlie Watts’ mordant description of life in the Rolling Stones: “Five years playing; 20 years hanging around.” Ian Hunter, rock's great underdog: 'Bowie thought I was the head of a motorcycle gang' 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z “It is a story of brutality, sexual encroachment and resistance threaded with mordant humor.” Anna Burns Wins the Man Booker Prize for ‘Milkman’ 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z All these stories bear the stamp of Eisenberg’s dramatist’s ear and mordant wit — as does the book’s title, based on a riddle about a duck trapped in a bottle. The acerbically witty Deborah Eisenberg is back with 'Your Duck Is My Duck' - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z But he said that Mr. Brown had given him a somewhat mordant warning as they discussed what was around the corner. For Gavin Newsom, a Stealth Run for California Governor 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z A journalist’s treat in those years was interviewing Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who was visionary about Israel and mordantly funny about life. Opinion | How peace keeps receding in the Middle East 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z Its humor is dirty and mordant, its songs energetic and maximal. The little musical that could: how Be More Chill became a teen sensation 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z It is only five minutes long, but it suggests what is to come from Holofcener: mordant humor, impeccable dialogue, an emphasis on female experience. Nicole Holofcener’s Human Comedies 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Sunset colors rising behind a darkly silhouetted Midwest farm assume a mordant glow in the Western desert. Review: 'This Brush for Hire: Norm Laich and Many Other Artists' at ICA/LA 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z In the final novel of a mordant trilogy, the narrator, Faye, a British writer, attends a literary festival in Europe. Briefly Noted Book Reviews 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z But she also has a gift for mordant humor. A sensational ill wind blows through Lauren Groff's short story collection, 'Florida' 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z She writes with literary poise and a gift for mordant observation and self-deprecating humor that belie her youth. Review | A vivid journey into the prison of an OCD-ridden mind 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Glasgow does have a certain mordant humour that’s peculiar to the west of Scotland. David Shrigley: ‘Self-delusion is quite important if you want to be an artist’ 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z That wit—sometimes mordant, always charming—is evident in his forthcoming memoirs, titled “Two Muses,” these being poetry and history. Making the Most of a Literary Inheritance 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Titled “My Plot,” the poem opened with a mordant touch: J.D. McClatchy, elegant poet and ‘literary polymath,’ dies at 72 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Some of the names suggested in the contest showed distinctly mordant humor, including “Sanction” and “Thaw.” Warrior, seabird and god: Russia pick names for new weapons 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Solomon turned to him and, per usual, turned a little mordant. Locals Moaning craft anxious music for an increasingly nervous local scene 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z She talks mordantly about “the power from ‘Pulp,’” and reminds me that it’s in the Library of Congress, part of the American narrative. Opinion | This Is Why Uma Thurman Is Angry 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z It’s an extraordinary work, told with authority, compassion and sorrowful anger and shot through with a mordant wit. Mary Ann Gwinn’s favorite books of 2017 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Clearly, these guys are all on the same mordant wavelength. ‘Suburbicon’ review: Matt Damon is chilling in dark, twisted film 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z Nor are his private critics rushing to go public with their often mordant analyses of Mr. Trump’s movement. Opinion | Going Against the Republican Herd 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z Leaving aside Mr. Abel’s taste for the mordant, he had a point. Opinion | When New York City Was the Capital of American Communism 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Potassium alum, or potash, a mineral found in the mountains around Oaxaca, is used as a mordant, binding the dye to the yarn. Weavers in Mexican village use ancient techniques to produce natural dyes 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Potassium alum, or potash, a mineral found in the mountains around Oaxaca, is used as a mordant, holding the dye to the yarn. In Mexico, Weavers Embrace Natural Alternatives to Toxic Dyes 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z The convention drew a large contingent of white anti-Vietnam protesters, and the outbreak of violence that ensued prompted Mr. Gregory to take mordant glee in the melee. Dick Gregory, cutting-edge satirist and uncompromising activist, dies at 84 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z Asaf's mordant wit was on magnificent display as he shared the news about their friends. The friendship that survived the division of a nation - BBC News 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z With what is presumably a mordant sense of irony, they call their system Quixote. We need robots to have morals. Could Shakespeare and Austen help? | John Mullan 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z It’s not just a mordant joke or a grim chuckle, but several minutes of hilarious awfulness. The Game of Thrones season 7 premiere was all about drawing memorable battle lines 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Williams, as Omar, will forever be remembered for his scowl, his scar, his mordant wit and the sawed-off shotgun he held at the ready, but he has always wanted more. Michael K. Williams Is More Than Omar From ‘The Wire’ 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z That mordant sensibility was already in evidence in his 2000 feature debut, “Barking Dogs Never Bite,” a screw-loose dark comedy about reckless canine endangerment at an apartment complex. Bong Joon-ho on Netflix's 'Okja,' the meatiest film of his career 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z As journalist Dave Levitan reveals in this deliciously mordant critique, a sure sign that a politician is about to fudge facts is the phrase “I'm not a scientist”. Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z Yes, but also funny and true and typical of Harrison, whose dry wit and mordant insight are on glorious display in this new collection of essays published a year after his death. Feast for the soul: Jim Harrison on wine and food 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z But Mishra does take most of his mordant pleasures in detailing the illusions on the liberal side. Are Liberals on the Wrong Side of History? 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z A bit later, Hugh Laurie, winning best supporting actor in a limited series for “The Night Manager,” kept the mordant party going with his acceptance remarks. Globes honored TV and movies, and often slammed Donald Trump 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Today, in the wake of Angela Merkel’s decision to hit the accelerator on demographic change, the book’s mordant tone seems, if anything, too optimistic. Books for the Trump era 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Fleabag, written by and starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge, uses dark comedy to mask its mordant, even bitter, truths. Why 2016 was a game-changing year for the cultural portrayal of female sexuality 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z By 11 p.m., new election-night options were even more freewheeling - and, with GOP candidate Donald Trump demonstrating startling strength at the polls, these shows shared a certain mordant tone. Election coverage a bit too serious? TV had lighter options 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z She first appeared in the public consciousness, all common sense and mordant humor, at ease in her skin. To the First Lady, With Love 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z But there’s no question that a certain mordant and satisfying justice is at work in this spectacular implosion, barely a month before the presidential election. Down goes the Trump-tanic! Republicans flee the wreckage — and the Clintons dodge a bullet 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z When I talk to strangers—which I do a lot, and like it—I sometimes say dour, mordant things, to get them going by establishing that anything can be said. The Year of the Reticent Voter 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z I contacted some of his contemporaries, who remember him as a lyrical player, a mordant wit, a conscientious professional, and an intellectual who loved the novels of Thomas Hardy. A Decade Lived in the Dark 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z As the grizzled, almost-retired lawman on the thieves’ trail, Bridges adds a layer of mordant worldweariness to “Hell or High Water.” Chris Pine and Ben Foster star in the superb crime thriller ‘Hell or High Water’ 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Black humor sits alongside mordantly cool accounts of battles, wounds, horrors, absurd and tragic turns of luck. Endless war: Trump and the fantasy of cost-free conflict 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z As his wife scrabbles with angry protesters and gripes about her compromised marriage, he is sequestered in the bathroom, represented only by a mordant song that his aide-de-camp sings on his behalf: A Pakistani Novelist Tests the Limits 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z This mordant wit is central to the allure of Duterte, who appears incapable of giving a speech or interview without injecting one caustic soundbite, threat or taunt to fill headlines the next day. How Rodrigo Duterte Got to the Brink of Philippines Presidency 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Displaying both gravity and mordant wit, Mr. Carlson is terrific in the showcase role. Review: ‘Cymbeline’ at Yale Repertory Theater 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z During Watergate, Henry Kissinger’s mordant wit leavened the unpleasantness: “The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer.” Will the Supreme Court strike back at Obama’s overreach? 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” is both: a mordant, modern comedy and a twinkling, cheery musical. Rachel Bloom’s Twisted Comedy 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Some were related to the floods – a flagrantly opportunistic Liberal Democrat poster, with “Keep Calm and Survive Floods”, and the somewhat more mordant “Keep Calm and Make a Photo of Floods”. Keep Calm and Carry On – the sinister message behind the slogan that seduced the nation 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z If New York celebrates amnesia, perpetual transformation, accelerated obsolescence – and offers newcomers a blank slate, a chance to be born again – then Sante offers a mordantly heretical vision of the city. Luc Sante: ‘Money doesn’t kill people, but it changes the fabric of daily life’ 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z An Examiner editorial mordantly titled “Cloudy With a Chance of Mass Murder” notes that some global warmists have taken “blaming climate change for terrorism.” ‘Climate Change’ Fish Story 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z The Hannah Arendt Center describes a mordant joke “told during the Holocaust, especially amongst Jews in concentration camps”: “The Jews caused the Great War,” an anti-Semite tells his friend. Why the Bicyclists? 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z This means that Sabaaneh’s mordant cartoons celebrate what Palestinians call “popular resistance” — rock-throwing against Israeli forces — but do not glorify knife attacks against civilians. Meet the Palestinian cartoonist Israelis accuse of incitement 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z While telling a larger story about how people deal with inexplicable tragedy, "The Leftovers" is also broken up into smaller slice-of-life episodes, at once melancholy and — at times — mordantly funny. 'Magic Mike XXL' plays to its fans, 'Going Clear' takes on Scientology 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z At 28, Rousey is both a supreme athlete and a mordantly fast worker: Her three fights before this one lasted 14 seconds, 16 seconds and 1 minute 6 seconds, respectively. Ronda Rousey Is Unstoppable 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z It is drenched in white-separatist racial solidarity; mordant self-pity; and conspiracy thinking. Mercy and a Manifesto in Charleston 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z Faced with an imaginative creation of such brooding, gripping, mordant intensity, you find yourself ready to pay for it in historical inaccuracy. Men wielding power in hellish times 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Like its predecessor, “Better Call Saul” has a mordant wit: it’s full of quotable put-downs and promising themes about the fuzzy line between legal and illegal skills. Better Watch Saul? 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z His is the clinical, mordant, often disdainful amusement of a dyspeptic anthropologist studying a tribe he heartedly disapproves of. 'Tom Wolfe's Rooftop Yawp': George F. Will's 1998 Review of 'A Man in Full' 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z The mordant joke is that the billionaires are pushing out the millionaires. In resort towns, working class squeezed out as rich move in 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z It’s long been known for skewering politicians and religious figures alike with mordant wit and caustic cartoons. After the Attack: The Future of ‘Charlie Hebdo’ It’s an entrance that doesn’t jibe with the rest of the film, but, then again, Jones seems to thrive on an unbalanced, mordant tragicomedy. Review: ‘Homesman’ reverses the Western’s course 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z The late poems have a similar frankness, shorn of the madcap wit and mordant humor that mark Berryman at his best. Remembering John Berryman, a Giant of American Poetry But McDonagh and the actors navigate supple shifts between mordant humor and emotionally complex drama throughout much of “Calvary.” Review: ‘Calvary’ is exquisitely nuanced 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Then comes the best part of his journey: a mordant tale told of adult resurrection. Robert Timber's Memoir Is a Vietnam War Story of Innocence Lost 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z He said the instructions for Cooperstown were “like D-Day,” but noted mordantly, “Anything I do is O.K. because they’ll say, ‘He’s old. Angell in the Outfield 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z After the loss to Germany, Brazilians reacted with mordant humor: Another goal was found in the shaggy hair of the Brazilian defender David Luiz. World Cup 2014: Brazil Was a Good Host Despite Its Team's Collapse 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z But he made a mordant joke about his drought before the series began after mentioning that New Yorkers did not recognize him when he walked the streets. Justin Williams’s Production Skyrockets for Kings as Rick Nash’s Plummets for Rangers 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z What I need then is something more stringent or even mordant. Well: Living With Cancer: Practicing Loss 2014-04-24T19:08:40Z High jinks, plenty of mordant humor and a trail of tears ensue. The Media Equation: Yahoo Rolls the Dice on TV 2014-04-14T00:29:27Z I hope you will find upon objective reflection that the mockery I make of myself and the hyperbole and somewhat mordant tone I employed, made a point worth considering. Judge: Don't be too sexy for this court 2014-03-27T22:00:10Z The actual window had been glassed off and transformed into a tableau mordant of how it might have looked 50 years ago, complete with repositories of musty school text books. JFK and the rise of conspiracy theories 2013-11-08T17:17:22Z LaRoche is so famous for his slumps that he’s a kind of mordant connoisseur of his own annual misery. Boswell: Nationals’ Adam LaRoche struggling through his usual slow start at the plate 2013-04-29T01:46:11Z Well, as we learn in Hartford Stage’s elegiac production of Ms. Henley’s mordantly funny new work, “Abundance,” all of these 19th-century characters might have taken the pilot-light-suicide way out, if only they had had gas. | Connecticut: A Review of ‘Abundance,’ at Hartford Stage 2013-04-20T00:57:43Z A psychotherapist who specializes in blended families, she had a mordant, deadpan Irish Catholic wit about tragedy, but a wit that cracked things open rather than burying them. In Nebraska: Old friends, Mad Men, and chatting about divorce 2013-04-11T16:00:00Z The fact that Feherty didn't make the cut may have had less to do with his Q score, a celebrity popularity rating system, than his mordant choice of material. Scorecard From The Edge 2013-02-12T05:00:00Z Besides, his strategies on the set matter much less than the mordant glories he put on film. Was Alfred Hitchcock Psycho? 2012-11-25T05:25:00Z Which brings me to the mordant punch line: Before becoming a federal judge, William Martinez was a lawyer for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. A judge searches for free labor 2012-11-21T12:45:00Z If readers simply believe the world is stupid and shallow and mean, then Ellis can write a mean shallow stupid novel that becomes a mordant deadpan commentary on the badness of everything. Bret Easton Ellis hates David Foster Wallace 2012-09-06T15:32:00Z But at this point, he added, with a mordant chuckle, “We’re just trying to buy another day.” Some Hospitals in New York Lack a Malpractice Safety Net 2012-07-16T00:21:58Z Yet the venue carried its own mordant twist, standing next to Maadi military hospital where Mubarak, jailed for life for failing to stop the killing of protesters, is being treated. Tables turn as Egypt's Islamist president sworn in 2012-07-01T09:50:47Z This sounds like a mordant joke, but it is actually what many people in the US believe, and want everyone else to believe, and routinely arraign President Obama for not believing in enough. Don’t mention the war? 2012-06-29T17:06:32Z It is through a deft mixture of mordant humor, righteous anger and grass-roots organization that Mr. Grillo’s movement is proving to others that it is no joke. With Humor, Beppe Grillo Fosters Italian Movement 2012-05-24T02:15:29Z And it’s through a deft mixture of mordant humor, righteous anger and grass-roots organization that Mr. Grillo’s movement is proving that it is no joke. Caustic Comedian Alters Italy's Political Map 2012-05-18T21:26:15Z “If we are fixing prices for our benefit, we don’t seem to be very good at it,” said one publishing executive mordantly. The Media Equation: Amazon Low Prices Disguise a High Cost 2012-04-15T21:00:12Z Ruminative, elegiac and mordantly funny, Mr. Tabucchi’s prose conjures a state between waking and dreaming. Antonio Tabucchi, Elegiac Italian Writer, Dies at 68 2012-04-05T01:55:33Z He points out how everywhere the most pitiful reality corresponds with the most high-sounding phrases, and he overwhelms this hopeless fiasco of phrases with his mordant sarcasm. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific 2012-03-26T02:00:37.300Z Adjective color, a color which requires to be fixed by some mordant or base to give it permanency. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z For mordant satire it is surpassed by Gulliver's Travels. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z He was evidently in that mordant, capricious humour most common with him at moments when his potations had merely begun their evil work on his wits. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z Professor Thouin, of Paris, says that a permanent dye may be obtained from a decoction of it, which is brown or black, according to the mordant used. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Saddening, sad′n-ing, n. a method of applying mordants in dyeing and printing cloths, so as to give duller shades to the colours employed. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z In dyeing reed allow it to soak in a mordant for two hours. Practical Basketry 2012-01-28T03:00:23.977Z Professor B�ttger also claims that this solution can be employed with advantage for dyeing cotton yarn and fabrics a beautiful blue, without the use of a mordant. Scientific American, Vol. XXXVII.?No. 2. [New Series.], July 14, 1877 A Weekly Journal Of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, And Manufactures 2012-01-05T03:00:29.743Z Those qualities included an intense faculty of observation, much skill in innuendo, a mordant wit combined with some breadth of humour, and a singular power of animating ordinary dialogues without destroying the appearance of reality. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z Alum, al′um, n. a mineral salt, the double sulphate of alumina and potash, used as a mordant in dyeing and for many purposes.—adj. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z Take away the personal rancor, the almost irrational hatred of "Little Boney" from Gillray, take away Daumier's mordant irony, his fearless contempt for Louis Philippe, and the life of their work is gone. The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature 2011-10-04T02:00:18.533Z Newbold did not leap upon the man for that mordant insult to the woman, his approach was slow, relentless, terrible. The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado 2011-09-22T02:00:25.630Z And without further ceremony the mordant couple left the table and the room. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z Then stood apparent all the man's bitter nature, mordantly distilled from years of poverty and hatred of the well-to-do. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z Borax, bō′raks, n. a mineral salt used for soldering, as a flux in metallurgy, in enamelling and glazing, as a mordant in dyeing, as a substitute for soap, and also in medicine.—adj. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z But her lasting footprint was the mordant, biting, yet strangely tender lyrics she used to chronicle the world’s lovers, lunatics and losers. Fran Landesman, Lyricist With a Bittersweet Edge, Dies at 83 2011-08-01T04:08:57Z Let your mordant laughter reach to heaven when you hear the stablemen of the Great Beast shouting in the parliaments of the earth.... Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z The etching mordant is poured over the drawing thus made, when the exposed parts of the plate will be corroded or etched away until sufficient depth is obtained. Engraving for Illustration Historical and Practical Notes 2011-07-19T02:00:23.283Z A careless youth might have been succeeded by the mordant cares of middle age. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z The first act seemed gay and lively, with a sort of mordant raillery in it with which the audience was unfamiliar. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z The film acts as a 'resist' to the mordant, allowing it to pass freely in the thinnest parts, and less freely as it increases in thickness. Photogravure 2011-06-19T02:00:24.663Z The girl's mordant anxiety that the astounding tale should be believed bit deep into the elder woman's heart. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z The action of the etching mordant—perchloride of iron—being in exact proportion to the light and shade of the developed print. Engraving for Illustration Historical and Practical Notes 2011-07-19T02:00:23.283Z From this, with some mordant that still remains a secret with them, they made a dye to stain their bodies and heighten their copper hue. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z Next, dyes may be divided into those which need a mordant and those which do not; or, as the old chemist Bancroft very conveniently expresses it, into adjective and substantive dyes. Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society 2011-05-30T02:00:17.247Z The mordant used in perchloride of iron, which is a 'still mordant,' i.e., one which does not evolve bubbles of gas. Photogravure 2011-06-19T02:00:24.663Z Another notable figure was Tom Hood the younger, mordantly humorous. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z He was a quick-witted fellow, shrewd, clever, and mordant. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z A sort of discussion ensued, so dominated by his mordant cynicism and biting wit that she certainly ran no danger of developing any mawkish views of life. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z The red dyes, kermes and madder, and the yellow dye weld, are especially mordant or adjective dyes: they are all dyed on an aluminous basis. Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society 2011-05-30T02:00:17.247Z An effervescent mordant cannot be used as the bubbles rising under the film would tear it up. Photogravure 2011-06-19T02:00:24.663Z His own mordant desire for her is the lash that drives him irresistibly to his destruction. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z But from the stories in the new LOA collection, it's clear that Jackson's mordant view of social relations preexisted her purgatorial sojourn in Vermont. 2011 Pulitzer winners in journalism and arts 2011-04-18T19:53:00Z Moreover, he could write as well as talk wittily, as is evident from the caustic and sometimes mordant humour which characterises many of his letters. John Patrick, Third Marquess of Bute, K.T. A Memoir 2011-04-18T02:00:10.453Z A dye is substantive to a particular fibre when it dyes that fibre directly, and adjective when the presence of a third substance known as a mordant is necessary. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z A devilish, strident, hoarse, discordant Whirring of dark fliers mordant. Two Fishers, and Other Poems 2011-04-08T02:00:09.700Z On every occasion that offered he vented in mordant terms his contempt for the country of his birth, boastfully proclaiming his own derivation from alien stock. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z We scarcely parted good friends on that same last day," said he, after a pause; "her manner was almost mordant. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z It must not be forgotten that the chemical properties of the fibre substances are modified more or less by association in combination with colouring matters and mordants. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z On wool, catechu yields khaki browns in single bath by using copper sulphate as the mordant. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z The nitrous mordant acts rapidly and causes ebullition; the Dutch mordant acts slowly and causes no ebullition. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z It is from Brazil wood, with alum for its mordant. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z He may never be a candidate for an elite job, but his talents and value should be given as much due as his mordant wit. How Mick McCarthy went on to become a big noise at Molineux 2011-02-09T00:06:00Z Voi, it was a pronouncement on the Jewish question, venomous, scathing, mordant, terrific. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z Cotton and linen, on the other hand, are not dyed so readily; they need first to be mordanted or impregnated with the mordant tannic acid. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z The nitrous mordant widens the lines; the Dutch mordant bites in depth, and does not widen the lines to any perceptible degree. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z To make pinks of all shades, the silk is dipped in diluted tartaric acid for the mordant, and then in a decoction of safflower for the hue. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z Ha!—And you, you busy patriot, you earnest, self-confident young Lochinvar, if only I could make clear to you the whole ludicrous aspect of this bitter farce, this mordant slice of satire. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z The mode of applying the mordants varies according to the nature of the fibre and the metallic salt employed, the chief mordants at present in use being salts of chromium, aluminium, tin, copper and iron. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z These mordant dyes have by themselves very little colouring power, as a rule, and if employed alone in dyeing give little or no result. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z A mordant bites slowly when cold, and more and more rapidly when heated. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z To make the silk receive the colors, it is dipped in a mordant in some diluted acid, or solution of metal which enables the color to bite into the fibre. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z Panahi made two more features: the mordant heist film Crimson Gold in 2003 and, three years later, Offside, a comedy about six female soccer fans who try to sneak into a game in men's garb. 'A Crime to Make a Movie': Iranian Director Gets Six Years in Jail 2010-12-22T21:55:00Z There is still another method of applying Mordant Colours in wool-dyeing, in which the dyestuff and the mordant are applied simultaneously from the beginning; it is known as the "single-bath method." Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z "America and Russia are stronger, we are far behind, especially in athletics, swimming and water sports," he said in a typically mordant prediction a year before the Beijing Games. Architect of China's Beijing triumph retires 2010-08-18T07:01:00Z And like many of the Coens' films, it leavens these dark themes with a mordant sense of humor. Breaking Bad: TV's Best Thriller 2010-06-11T17:00:00Z Higher Education and the Pursuit of Living High Off the Hog “Tech Transfer” is the deceptively mild title of a mordant satire about scientists and universities and how they do business. Books on Science: Higher Education and the Pursuit of Living High Off the Hog 2010-05-24T21:27:00Z At his frequent best, Julius refreshes by a mordant tonality, as when he catalogs the types of English anti-Semites. Book Review - Trials of the Diaspora - By Anthony Julius 2010-05-07T14:49:00Z It is only successful, however, in the case of certain colouring matters and mordants, to some of which reference will be made in the following paragraphs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z This was, unmistakably, Thompson's usual mordant wit; at one point, he reflected with great fake glee that shotgun golf would be "the first truly violent leisure sport." Why the Indian Premier League Is So Successful 2010-04-16T20:23:00Z The big man’s humor was mordant, but the excited throng chose to ignore the implied disparagement, and a murmur of applause told the Emperor that in curbing his wrath he had acted with exceeding wisdom. The Great Mogul Tiberius and Claudius and Nero, Messalina and Agrippina, in spite of the most mordant criticism, will live for ever as they have been portrayed by the fervid imagination of Tacitus. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Alum is employed to harden tallow, to remove grease from printers' cushions and blocks in calico manufactories, and in dyeing as a mordant. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide With the different mordants it yields very distinct colours, all fast to light and soap, namely, red with aluminium, orange with tin, reddish brown with chromium, purple and black with iron. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z I can thus, by drawing lines over a part that has already been exposed to the mordant, interlace heavy and light lines in a way that I could not by any other process. A Treatise on Etching With tin mordants Brazil wood gives brilliant but fugitive steam reds in calico-printing; but on account of the loose nature of its dyes it is seldom used except as an adjunct to other colours. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" This color, once attached, was what in manufacture is called a mordant; it was a fast color: he could not distinguish between what his mind had received and what his mind had imparted. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 And yet, though much that he says is obviously inspired by Hazlitt, he will impart that flavour of his own less mordant personality to the discourse. The Vagabond in Literature Cochineal dyes a purple colour with chromium mordant, crimson with aluminium, scarlet with tin, and grey or slate with iron. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z Such a bath of hot mordant acts much more quickly than a cold acid bath, less than two minutes being sufficient for the lightest lines. A Treatise on Etching It produces shades of red, purple, violet, black, or deep brown, according to the mordant with which the fabric is impregnated. Coal and What We Get from It Here we are concerned rather with those branches of caricature which, merrily or mordantly, reflect and comment upon the actual life we live. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" One of her mordant phrases was poignantly clear. Thirty |
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