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He admits with some mordancy that it is a rather specialized field.
In Addams's cartoons, mordancy was an authentic expression of aggression.
I was in no mood for Jacksonian mordancy.
Or is there seriousness underneath the mordancy?
He grasps the mordancy of ruins and memorials.
He has fulfilled his own mordancy.
You can also see in this exhibition the amplifying mordancy and the weight of cumulative despair that characterize his long career.
"In my experience, the more thinking you people do, the more trouble you make," Janson said with quiet mordancy.
Their sound character provides a musically agreeable alternative to the current fashion of tonal mordancy.
This is a light comedy with an underlying mordancy about America's ambiguous love affair with everything English.
Under the shadow of this event, Brautigan's familiar mix of wry stories and observations takes on a persistent mordancy.
Despite the author's mordancy, the strongest stories in "Circling the Drain" are firmly rooted in the small turning points of adolescence.
Eleanor White of Ridgefield shares some of Ms. Ahrens's mordancy.
As a critic, he was notorious for his ruthless and intractable temperament, and for his withering mordancy.
While much of the humor is generated by the over-the-top Dr. Morales, Jake's mordancy contributes its share.
She was admired for her radio broadcasting during political campaigns, in which she showed the same wit and mordancy her father was known for.
Both these stories have a mordancy that reminded me of the Coen brothers' movies "Fargo" and "Raising Arizona."
After years of compulsive reading, buying and listening, I can attest: their judgment is infallible, delivered with a dry, literate and very English mordancy.
They have PSBs-style sibilant, breathy vocals, and a touch of Magnetic Fields mordancy at times.
Davies has seen enough ups and downs, both with the Kinks and as a solo artist, to record those peaks and valleys with distanced mordancy.
The black and white of his drypoints and woodcuts especially suited the mordancy and bleakness of many of his images.
After Charles is vanquished, Mr. Dixon reappears as Jaques, signaling a note of mordancy beneath the melancholia.
Brevity may well be the soul of wit, but in "Happy Days," a novella by the French writer Laurent Graff, it also harbors mordancy.
For all its buoyant humor, Mr. Pintilie's "Cherry Orchard" is obsessed with mordancy - deaths in Mme.
Mordecon is portrayed by Joshua Spafford, the play's director, who brings to his role a mania, mordancy and merriment unseen since the death of Raul Julia.