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He remained committed to exploring his penchant for mordant wit, the celebration of the esoteric, the glorification of all things absurd.
It has the magic property of always being cooler than the surrounding atmosphere, which gives it a sense of mordant gravitas and wisdom.
The enemy had not reckoned on the resilience of young Americans, whose grit, loyalty, and mordant humor saw them through the worst.
This mordant reacts with the dye alizarin to form a red lake, exactly as it does in a test tube in the typical analytical test for aluminum.
This is music of longing, menace, and rue, often spiced with mordant or grisly humor.
The terms black comedy and tragicomedy imply a mix of the mordant and the humorous.
Both directors' films are shot through with a mordant humour which echoes the essential Dublin.
Still, the film is worth watching for its mordant humour and brutally honest view of addiction.
Though they total no more than about 35,000 words, his 12 mordant tales are little aerial masterpieces about social change, aging and divorce.
His songs are frequently grim, a catalogue of human misery shot through with mordant humour and flashes of spiritual or psychological calm.
Tense, haunted and melancholy, the composer's dark vision was only relieved by a mordant strain of humour.
Aron had become rather mordant, and she thought it essential that he gain some cheer before the long walk home.
The book, by being both depressing and exhilarating gave mordant insight into the Edinburgh housing projects where the writer grew up.
With remarkable economy, he condenses these depressing proceedings into a short, mordant drama about the ruthless crushing of a brilliant spirit.
Although somewhat bleak, it is a graceful affair, lovingly crafted, deeply felt, and spiked with mordant cleverness.
His pessimism about human nature and emphasis on mordant criticism of failings among the clergy, however, were not typical of all humanists.
Singh's work is capable of negative discovery, and it can have a mordant mood, but it remains undismayed.
Rather than being just a study in Scottish miserabilism Burnside's new book is a chilling display case of grotesques, shot through with a bleak and mordant humour.
But now here it is, minus its mordant political context, hugely enlarged in the sterile purlieus of the Turner prize 2016 show.
Before this point's reached, however, we see Medea's conflicting impulses in a performance of bravura strength and delicacy, yet darkly lit with moments of mordant humour.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Prussian blue, with a persalt of iron or tin as a mordant, gives a very splendid dark blue.
Lastly, aluminate of soda may be used as a mordant in place of red liquor or sulphate of alumina.
Give the goods a mixed mordant of acetate of alumina and acetate of iron, followed by a bath of madder or of madder and fustic.
Tin is not so useful as a mordant in itself, but as a modifying agent with other mordants.
The use of copper mordant with phenolic coloring matters is perfectly natural.
A mordant of blue vitriol is commonly first given, followed by a bath of prussiate of potash.
A mordant of alum, followed by a hot bath of brazil wood, and afterwards by a weak one of cudbear.
The foil is applied by means of a dossil of cotton wool, and when the mordant has become hard, the foil is polished with the same.
When ferrous sulphate is used then tartar is almost invariably used as the assistant mordant, oxalic acid only rarely.
What are the products of hydrolysis when stannic chloride is used as a mordant?
Krasznahorkais mordant voice sends up the squalor of these lives, imprisoned in the passage of time, in an unsettling fable of sardonic regret.
It is one of the substantive colours and does not need any mordant.
The mordant for a full red may be acetate of alumina, of spec.
No mordant is needed, and the colours produced are the fastest known.
Some mordant the wool first with alum, but it does not seem to need it.
They are astringent and serve both as mordant and dye, like the gall nuts used in Europe.
I now discovered that he also kept a particularly mellow Scotch whiskey, an excellent cigar, and a fund of anecdote of which a mordant wit was the worthy bursar.
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