Sentence examples for a mordant wit from inspiring English sources
Dr. Rajagopal has a mordant wit.
Her previous collection, "Getting a Life," dissected modern British domesticity, the tenderness included, with a mordant wit.
Owen, too, possesses a mordant wit, but she oversold it, and everything else, in a performance of domineering bonhomie.
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.
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.
"It is a dismaying tale," Sam Tanenhaus wrote here in 1998, though Moynihan tells it "with uncommon liveliness and a mordant wit".
His verse was marked by the graces of precision and unpretentiousness, underscored with a dry, mordant wit and a gentle sense of the absurd.
His place on Taylor is a particularly provocative portrait of a thorny, adamant and penetrating individual with a delightfully mordant wit.
He emerged in the early 80's with a certain mordant wit and graphic ingenuity, producing cartoonish visions of a soulless modernity populated by faceless automatons.
They shared a determination to defy social mores in their work, as well as a dark, mordant wit, though Cummings is now all-too-often remembered merely for his beautiful, and somewhat sappy, love poems.
Criticising Bathurst for being too handsome to convey the frustrations of a writer, the Daily Telegraph said that the show had "its problems but possesses a dark, mordant wit".
