Sentence examples for mordant comic from inspiring English sources

It presents a half-century of tragedy and turmoil as a series of mordant comic vignettes.

Shrigley is a clever, mordant comic whose cartoon books are cult reading.

Mr. Doyle's cast excels at underlining the mordant comic aspects of Brecht's play, creating sharp, detailed portraits that sometimes edge toward the cartoonish.

This seems like cheating, frankly — at no point was the French fry protruding from his body — but it is a home run from a reality TV standpoint, combining near death and mordant comic relief.

An unwieldy play that splices mordant comic commentary and highfalutin Greek-tragedy-type oration into a plain-wrap drama of a father's anger and despair, "Flags" is crude and obvious, and bluntly acted and directed too.

But the satiric songs and broad comic business that turn the story into a parade of mordant comic set pieces encourage us to laugh at a passage in the history of race relations in America that, even at this distance, is hard to view as grimly funny instead of just grim.

Setting so much of modern America in high relief, mordant and comic, light and dark, Lula reminds us more of Fran Lebowitz than Alexis de Tocqueville.

Cohen's version is a mordant, blackly comic meditation, but Jones can't play lines about "born with the gift of a golden voice" for laughs and so he turns it, unexpectedly and triumphantly, into a eulogy for a life in music.

This captivating survey of his work in lithography also reveals a mordant, tragi-comic vision that calls to mind Conrad's "Heart of Darkness".

His early fiction, though mordant, is often comic beyond compare.

Rather it's a sensibility – at once mordant and exuberant, comic and subtle – that Hemon traces to a distinctive Slavic outlook.