But that's what makes it so mordantly funny to me. From Wordnik.com. [A certain quality of failing light] Reference
The time and place for it seems mordantly appropriate. From Wordnik.com. [The Angels and Us] Reference
“A fast-moving, mordantly funny look at cops gone bad.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Honor Farm] Reference
Conrad said mordantly, 'I don't want to see you again, Mr Morris.'. From Wordnik.com. [Decider]
"Thanks for apprising me of that fact," Hyaki responded mordantly. From Wordnik.com. [The Mocking Program]
The two faces of courage, I thought mordantly: turn one face to the wall. From Wordnik.com. [Hot Money]
It also illustrates, quite mordantly, the importance of being charitable. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » I Am Apparently “So Desperate for [Ann Bartow’s] Attention,”] Reference
Serb officials already mordantly refer to "the former Bosnia-Herzegovina.". From Wordnik.com. [Last Rites For Bosnia] Reference
An accessible, mordantly hardboiled tale of an anti-hero's gradual descent. From Wordnik.com. ["The most amazing thing was the fact that he was able to deliver it all in a way that the masses could relate to it."] Reference
The collective result is a mordantly funny portrait of an ethical swampland. From Wordnik.com. [More Trouble In Paradise] Reference
Of course, Walsh, the trio's mordantly funny voice of doom, isn't convinced yet. From Wordnik.com. [Capturing Kong] Reference
"You know, I can handle my enemies," he mordantly observed to the Associated Press. From Wordnik.com. [Decisions, Decisions] Reference
Bradford ... makes an assured debut with this mordantly funny collection of stories. From Wordnik.com. [Dogwalker: Summary and book reviews of Dogwalker by Arthur Bradford.] Reference
The Victoria Vanishes by Christopher Fowler - "devishly clever and mordantly funny". From Wordnik.com. [Val McDermid's summer reading selections] Reference
You'll never meet more twistedly, mordantly, funnier people than aid-workers and hacks. From Wordnik.com. [MP Nunan: "Off the Map" Is Off the Mark] Reference
"Blooms stories are emotionally precise, mordantly funny, and beautifully distilled.". From Wordnik.com. [Where the God of Love Hangs Out by Amy Bloom: Book summary] Reference
The mordantly clever plot was as dark as a Junior Mint, only with no mushy-minty center. From Wordnik.com. [But Was It Sein-Worthy?] Reference
As Frederick the Great mordantly observed: "Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.". From Wordnik.com. [John Findley Foundation Lecture] Reference
Lots of mordantly dark humour, and it pulls off The Sopranos' trick of making you root for a murdering sociopath. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference
That last idea, mordantly known as the Totalitarian Principle of physics, has important implications for theology. From Wordnik.com. [Clay Farris Naff: If Infinity Is The Devil, What Is God?] Reference
Several times I have heard officers on Army bases refer mordantly to the current recruiting slogan: "An Army of One.". From Wordnik.com. [The Hollow Army] Reference
I was a few seats away from Tom Oliphant, the mordantly witty reporter for Dukakis's hometown paper, The Boston Globe. From Wordnik.com. [Beware Debate Spinners] Reference
I'm reviewing the Updike and at first glance, it looks quite good -- mordantly funny, as he is at the top of his game. From Wordnik.com. [Today's Inquirer book page ...] Reference
The result is a new spin on a very old story and a mordantly satiric portrait of greed, callousness and blind ambition. From Wordnik.com. ["Full Dark, No Stars," four novellas by horror writer Stephen King] Reference
At the State Department, staffers mordantly joked that Martin had just evacuated "600 of his last 400" people at the embassy. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Days Of Saigon] Reference
The self-hatred that can also arise from boredom is hilariously caught when Dixon mordantly reviews his own opening sentence. From Wordnik.com. [The Man of Feeling] Reference
PC David Copperfield, he of the mordantly funny Policeman's Blog, has a pithy little go at the addiction bureaucracy in the First Post. From Wordnik.com. [Drugs] Reference
That's why the Audi Green Police commercial is so mordantly funny. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
She can be mordantly funny and exactingly precise in recounting her friends 'and her own credulity. From Wordnik.com. [Dialogic] Reference
In the 1950s, when Flannery O'Connor first began to publish such idiosyncratic and mordantly comic fiction as. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Review of Books] Reference
As Scalia mordantly notes here: "When we are in that mode, you realize, we have rendered the Constitution useless.". From Wordnik.com. [The Absurd Report] Reference
It was a job in the first place and gave her, therefore, she mordantly told herself, an excuse for continuing to exist. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Wollaston] Reference
Last night, our analysts mordantly chuckled when one host interrupted his "show" with a programming note about the other. From Wordnik.com. [DailyHowler.com] Reference
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