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All the figures, with thick lips and wide, happy-go-lucky grins (wholly inappropriate to the perilous mission), are mordant caricatures of the old stereotype.
From this wry gesture emerged a tense, enigmatic ostinato figure, dry and mordant.
Clark paints that new academic world in mordant terms, ransacking university archives for appointment intrigues, visitation reports, secret evaluations, the margin-scribbling of ministers and underlings, and the self-presentations of office-seekers.
In one of his more mordant passages he speaks about the mystique of churches.
When they come to read it about the end of 1924 there will be some very severe and mordant criticism.
The group referred to is an important series of mordant colours.
I look forward with some trepidation to discovering whether his sharp, sometimes mordant, but always delightful, wit has its edges nibbled away by the cares of office.
He was stimulating and challenging to the first-class mind, but to the average undergraduate he was perhaps an intimidating figure, with his caustic and mordant wit.
The type of mordant used changes the shade obtained after dyeing and also affects the fastness property of the dye.
A mordant is often a polyvalent metal ion.
Next the yarn would be put in a mordant bath left to simmer for over an hour.
Balthazar alone stands ironically apart, thanks to its mordant interlinear.
Vilmorin was best known as a writer of delicate but mordant tales, often set in aristocratic or artistic milieu.
It is used in dyeing as a mordant, and as a coagulant for industrial wastes.
The novels feature a mordant emotional timbre and a fatalistic approach to street situations.
