The tale is brutal to the point of barbarism, a cautionary story written with mordancy by a man who understands language.— California Literary Review
Sean Mathias was too soft and languid a spectacle; this has all the bittersweet melancholy and mordancy of Bergman with a top skin of Woody Allen.
Claud Cockburn were still alive and monitoring this week's events with his old eagerness and mordancy, he would have been certain that at long last he was witnessing the Beginning of the End. A year ago, the American magazine 'Counterpunch', jointly edited by his son Alexander, reprinted a despatch he sent from— Irish Blogs
No great politician, he was not an orator, nor even a glib talker; yet a quiet mordancy of tongue, and the white-hot look in his eyes, never failed to make an impression of some kind on an audience.— Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
Attorney Despeaux moderated his mordancy and became tolerantly patient in enlightening the ignorance of one of his employers.— All-Wool Morrison
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