Sentence examples for mordant funny from inspiring English sources

He writes of Dickens's "mordant, funny, metaphor-mad and itchily omniscient voice".

J. M. Coetzee's novel "Diary of a Bad Year" is something of a self-managed funeral, but a lavish one: mordant, funny and wise.

Resisting the lure of the pat happy ending, Bourne vividly evokes the rollercoaster sorrows and joys of teen friendship in a characteristically mordant, funny and moving novella.

Mordant, genuinely funny British satire is in short supply these days, but this is the real thing.

Rather, they are mordant, grimly funny psychological portraits of people who are being slowly smothered by the mundane exigencies of their day-to-day lives and driven berserk by the conflict between what they dream and what is.

According to Gaiman, Wayward Manor is inspired by the "crazy, mordant, playful, funny, weird" movies he loved as a kid: "Arsenic and Old Lace," "Blithe Spirit," and "The Man Who Came to Dinner".

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.

Bingham was "funny, mordant and quick," Stacey D'Erasmo said here last year.

He asks funny, mordant questions: "Should there be a breathalyzer lock on the nuclear football?

Funny, mordant, painful, just like his poems were all those years ago.

"Ruckus" is a funny, mordant, garish, loving depiction of the city and its citizens, crammed with details that range from the whimsical to the mildly sinister.