Example sentences for: mordant

How can you use “mordant” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Reviews praise the film's mordant humor and cinematography (mostly rugged mountain vistas).

  • The movie's Septimus never seems more than a literary conceit, and only in his fleeting moments of sanity does Graves acquire a mordant poignancy.

  • Although Pearce brings little to the party but his cheekbones, Jeffrey Jones makes a wonderfully mordant fort commander, and Robert Carlyle--who pops up out of the wilderness with burning eyes and a tale of having been forced to cook and eat his horses, dogs, and traveling companions--might turn out to be a major actor.

  • The movie takes the view of a mordant social scientist who recognizes that consumerism has become the true world religion.

  • The first is an absorbing, low-budget art movie about conjoined twins, the weaker of whom is dying and mordant, the other torn (so to speak) between loyalty to his brother and a tenuous connection to the external world--embodied in part by a prostitute (Michele Hicks) who looks like Bridget Fonda as Vampira and acts like a slightly less wooden porn star.


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