Sentence examples for mordant comedy from inspiring English sources

"Cosmopolis," much like "Crash" and "Naked Lunch," highlights the mordant comedy of the source material.

In 1997, Mr. Lally originated the role of Mick Dowd, the guilt-ridden protagonist of Mr. McDonagh's mordant comedy "A Skull in Connemara," in Galway and London.

Despite its painful subject matter – marital rupture, encroaching death, the tormenting antics of malice-ridden girls – the novel is a mordant comedy.

The setting recalls the wastelands of "Waiting for Godot" and "Happy Days," those masterly portraits of end-of-days despair laced with mordant comedy.

IT might be hard to find two television shows that differ more than "SpongeBob SquarePants," the Nickelodeon cartoon, and "Six Feet Under," HBO's mordant comedy.

The director is fond of recalling a wager he was once tempted to make with the producer Laura Ziskin, back when Mr. Damon was an unknown actor auditioning for a part in Mr. Van Sant's mordant comedy "To Die For".

He followed them with four "pleasant" plays in an effort to find the producers and audiences that his mordant comedies had offended.

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.

TV's most nuanced explorations of health care are on BBC's "Call the Midwife," set among Anglican nurse-midwives after the Second World War, and HBO's mordant black comedy "Getting On," about a geriatric ward corroded by for-profit funding.

After the early projects that culminated with "Lost in America," the most mordant screen comedy of the Reagan years, his inspirations grew more haphazard later on, leaving his more demanding fans — and Brooks has very few undemanding ones — equally frustrated by the mawkish under­current of "Defending Your Life" and the sketchiness of "Mother" and "The Muse".

This comprehensive program also offers American audiences a chance to sample Mr. Pintilie's more recent films, among them "Niki and Flo," a mordant almost-comedy from 2003 that represents a bridge — and also a battle — between the old Romania and the new.