Sentence examples for mordant commentary from inspiring English sources

This book is a wild, mordant commentary on death.

The gathering liaison depends, of course, on discretion and subterfuge, which is where the couple's other selves come in, providing mordant commentary on events in their joint guise as truth-tellers and dual consciences here made flesh.

Perhaps the play should be thought of as a satire; the choric observations of Thersites and Pandarus serve throughout as a mordant commentary on the interconnectedness of war and lechery.

For one thing, Fawcett's hair and makeup stylist looks and sounds like Rhoda Morgenstern, and she provides mordant commentary on Fawcett's dizzy declarations, such as her announcement that she knows how to fly a 767.

Now in the collection of MoMA, it is a mordant commentary on the distinction between "high" and "low" art, depicting an ethnically diverse group of workers posing with paintings by famous artists like Picasso and Grant Wood.

The weirdly innocuous tone, like that of a children's book, is presumably Ms. Lee's mordant commentary on the simplicity of the dominant narratives of black urban dysfunction and/or achievement prevalent in the cultural atmosphere.

The Fletch novels, nine in all, were praised by critics for their sharp, sardonic dialogue and mordant social commentary.

But with the debut of The Simpsons in 1989, TV animation became home to a kind of mordant social commentary or outright absurdism (John Kricfalusi's Ren and Stimpy) that was too pointedly aggressive for live-action realism.

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.

Ostensibly an account of Haile Selassie's court in Ethiopia and its hysterical feudalism, it was read in his native Poland as a mordant if samizdat commentary on matters closer to home.

Bernal lacks the edge of wolfish cruelty that the role requires, but he sounds nicely mordant in his running commentary ("Communists hate to work. They'd rather burn churches. It makes them feel more alive"), and he keeps pace with the movie's changes of gear.