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What I have, he said to himself, is a mordant wit.
He bit his nails repeatedly and the mordant wit came from deep within.
And having met him when fully grown, he had a chance to appreciate Arthur's mordant wit.
He knew her sharp intelligence and mordant wit.
There is mordant wit in her lower vocal placement - all within the realm of "sounds that help you through the day."
There are lines ripe with mordant wit here, sentences that coax, then bite.
His mordant wit and savage criticism were tolerated because of his expertise.
Romantic exuberance modified by mordant wit fuels the art of this California painter.
Metcalfe appreciated the old man's mordant wit, all the more at a time of such tension.
The actor is effectively low-keyed as a warrior and as a mordant wit.
"Painfully absent from these pages are Huxley's mordant wit and insights into human nature.
Directness & kindness marked her everyday transactions, as did a certain mordant wit.
Molnar possessed a mordant wit and an artfulness in mocking theatrical convention.
Beverly had found her to be soft-spoken, coolly pleasant, and possessed of a dry, mordant wit.
He was a tragicomic playwright whose art was consistently instilled with mordant wit.
His "mordant wit" is never duplicated, adds Heller.
He derided white America's complacency over inner-city inequality with mordant wit and social observation:
"You, Selar, have acquired a somewhat mordant wit."
You may sense, beneath Mr. Richard's mordant wit, deeper feelings of ambivalence, doubt and melancholia.
This allows us simultaneously to showcase our traditional skills of self-deprecation, mordant wit and a delightful love of the underdog.
Their idiosyncracies and weaknesses had been held up to ridicule with mordant wit and subtle irony.
It is permeated by mordant wit, touched by absurdity, poisoned by hostility and sarcasm.
Mr. Jovanovic, a Columbia graduate student, quickly impressed the woman with his intelligence and mordant wit.
Her previous collection, "Getting a Life," dissected modern British domesticity, the tenderness included, with a mordant wit.
"We saw as much as we wanted," laughs Dr Phillips, a man equipped with a mordant wit.
