Voorbeelden van mordant

• 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.