He remained committed to exploring his penchant for mordant wit, the celebration of the esoteric, the glorification of all things absurd. |
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It has the magic property of always being cooler than the surrounding atmosphere, which gives it a sense of mordant gravitas and wisdom. |
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The enemy had not reckoned on the resilience of young Americans, whose grit, loyalty, and mordant humor saw them through the worst. |
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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. |
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This is music of longing, menace, and rue, often spiced with mordant or grisly humor. |
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The terms black comedy and tragicomedy imply a mix of the mordant and the humorous. |
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Both directors' films are shot through with a mordant humour which echoes the essential Dublin. |
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Still, the film is worth watching for its mordant humour and brutally honest view of addiction. |
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Though they total no more than about 35,000 words, his 12 mordant tales are little aerial masterpieces about social change, aging and divorce. |
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His songs are frequently grim, a catalogue of human misery shot through with mordant humour and flashes of spiritual or psychological calm. |
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Tense, haunted and melancholy, the composer's dark vision was only relieved by a mordant strain of humour. |
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Aron had become rather mordant, and she thought it essential that he gain some cheer before the long walk home. |
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The book, by being both depressing and exhilarating gave mordant insight into the Edinburgh housing projects where the writer grew up. |
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With remarkable economy, he condenses these depressing proceedings into a short, mordant drama about the ruthless crushing of a brilliant spirit. |
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Although somewhat bleak, it is a graceful affair, lovingly crafted, deeply felt, and spiked with mordant cleverness. |
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His pessimism about human nature and emphasis on mordant criticism of failings among the clergy, however, were not typical of all humanists. |
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Singh's work is capable of negative discovery, and it can have a mordant mood, but it remains undismayed. |
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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. |
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But now here it is, minus its mordant political context, hugely enlarged in the sterile purlieus of the Turner prize 2016 show. |
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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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Based on W. Somerset Maugham's Ashenden, the film subsumes romantic byplay in favour of plentiful mordant humour. |
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There is an amount of mordant humour surrounding the shocking murders. |
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They were also more convenient to use because no mordant was required to set the color on wool or silk, although a mordant was still required when dyeing cotton. |
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There are flashes of her old, mordant wit, but with very few exceptions, little of the lives or personalities of her protagonists is given room to come alive and breathe. |
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You argue that he had dished the opposition, outmanoeuvred them, tactically closed them down and as a result, couldn't help allowing himself a mordant little smile. |
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The first opera was written when the composer was twenty-five, and it has all the glinting lightness and mordant irreverence that his early works display. |
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I like that the emotional lives of women are tinged with a kind of mordant humor for the most part. |
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Test report required on application only if chrome mordant dyeing is used. |
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The quartet's first movement opens with a seemingly light-hearted theme set to the polka rhythm, but there is an almost relentless undercurrent of mordant wit and grotesquerie throughout. |
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Mordant dyes require a mordant, which improves the fastness of the dye against water, light and perspiration. |
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These mordant tableaux quickly found their way into a delicate, folklorish cycle of drawings and paintings. |
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The Allegro Scherzando was outstanding with both players obviously relishing the music's mordant wit and foregrounding its sinister qualities. |
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Most natural dyes are mordant dyes and there is therefore a large literature base describing dyeing techniques. |
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But where Morris, at his best, infuses these ingredients with mordant wit and pathos, Bruce uses them as a recipe for sentimental populism. |
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Food dyes can be direct, mordant and vat dyes, and their use is strictly controlled by legislation. |
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The sweepers trade mordant one-liners, and the skels shuffle and suppurate and tear the living to pieces whenever they can get their teeth into them. |
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Both books make you smile or even laugh, but while Mr Heaney's humour is tongue-in-cheek and twinkling, Mr Fenton's is mordant and even acidulous. |
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As uncomfortable as that experience was, still more troubling was his family's reaction to the first volume, a mordant reflection on the ignominious demise of Knausgaard's father. |
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Rather it results from the existing realities of the mordant security environment that have led to lack of political will to move forward on matters related to disarmament. |
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The dye is generally applied in an aqueous solution, and may require a mordant to improve the fastness of the dye on the fiber. |
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The choice of mordant is very important as different mordants can change the final color significantly. |
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Currently, the market offers distinct basic dyes, direct, mordant, and vat dyes, and reactive and disperse dyes, which are expected to fade away, giving way to natural dyes. |
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Underneath the German philosopher's seemingly ridiculous statements, there are mordant attacks on Utilitarianism and the commercialisation of British society. |
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