Sentence examples for mordant edge from inspiring English sources

Aronofsky had become an actor's director, yet he didn't relinquish his mordant edge.

The cardinal's teasing, bantering style of humor could occasionally have a sharp, even mordant, edge, even if the barbs were directed toward himself.

But Reagan's humor often had a mordant edge, a genial blackness.

She thought she had really got through to them, when a voice in the back said, 'Where's the sled?'" JFK was ironic and quick and also had a mordant edge.

Linklater has made a smart movie, with a mordant satirical edge, but he almost falls victim to his own sense of authenticity.

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.

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.

On Wednesday evening Ms. Akers delivered a slow, deliberate reading of the song that uncovered the lyrics' mordant humor without going to the extremes of Peggy Lee, whose rendition on the 1975 album "Mirrors" had a macabre edge.

Most mordant dyes yield different colours with different mordants.

Silda's mordant humor was inflected with a sense of bone-deep despair that suffused the play like a mournful tune that hovers on the edge of your consciousness, making its impression without ever fully capturing your attention.

Consider Adbusters' mordant "Joe Chemo" ads.