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"mordant" Definitions
  1. critical and unkind, but funny

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Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Richard Chang
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Meredith Mazzilli
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Paul Simao
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Chris Reese
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Denver; Editing by Chris Reese
Mordant in Vancouver and David Stanway in Shanghai; Editing by
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Toni Reinhold
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by James Dalgleish
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Bernard Orr
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; editing by Grant McCool
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Cynthia Osterman
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver, editing by G Crosse
Through the ups and downs, McCain kept his mordant humor.
Reporting by Susan Taylor in Toronto and Nicole Mordant in
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Paul Tait
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Phil Berlowitz
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by David Gregorio
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Steve Orlofsky
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Bernadette Baum
Reporting by Clara Denina in London and Nicole Mordant in Vancouver.
Reporting by John Tilak and Nicole Mordant; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama
The second episode ends with a mordant scene illustrating the dilemma.
Additional reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Alan Crosby
Additional reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; editing by Susan Thomas
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Hollywood, Florida; Editing by Ben Klayman
His philosophy of the will furnished Freud with many mordant apothegms.
There's some mordant play in this dialogue between old and new.
He was in his early 40s, mordant, cynical, and quick-witted.
For the mordant purposes of "The Favourite," love does not exist.
The Beales became figures of mordant fun but also cultural touchstones.
Reporting by Arathy S Nair in Bengaluru and Nicole Mordant in
There's beauty in trying to piece together this challenging, mordant puzzle.
He can be mordant, bleak, anguished, humorous, tender, and even sweet.
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Chris Reese, Jim Finkle
There's some grim stuff here, but very little of Willeford's mordant humor.
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Will Dunham, Bernard Orr
His philosophical worldview and mordant comedy make him a stealthily rousing writer.
Reporting by Nicole Mordant; Writing by Leah Schnurr; Editing by James Dalgleish
John Koethe can be mordant, bleak, anguished, humorous, tender, and even sweet.
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Toni Reinhold and Grant McCool
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; eiting by Frances Kerry and G Crosse
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Cynthia Osterman and Marguerita Choy
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Scott Malone and Grant McCool
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Phil Berlowitz and Susan Thomas
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Bill Trott and Chris Reese
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; editing by Marguerita Choy and Bernard Orr
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Chris Reese and Richard Chang
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Richard Chang and Peter Cooney
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; editing by G Crosse and Rosalba O'Brien
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Denver; Editing by Meredith Mazzilli and Phil Berlowitz
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Matthew Lewis and Richard Chang
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Chris Reese and Andrew Hay
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Chris Reese and Sandra Maler
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Tom Brown and Richard Chang
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Denver; Editing by Chris Reese and Meredith Mazzilli
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Meredith Mazzilli and Marguerita Choy
In general, he cultivated a "mordant persona" and was genuinely captivated by gruesomeness.
Jobs are meaningless, interactions hollow; a mordant humor underscores each character's essential bitterness.
His mordant language acts as a foil to Knausgaard's more searching, languid prose.
Each Beckett short is a mordant miniature of a woman's life, mostly unlived.
"Each card is beautifully hand-lettered in French with mordant captions," she said.
When I got to this spot, DEATHTRAP, it was like a mordant punchline.
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Denny Thomas and Leslie Adler
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Richard Chang and Dan Grebler
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; editing by Alistair Bell and G Crosse
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Hollywood, Florida; Editing by Lisa Shumaker and Sandra Maler
"Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" is both: a mordant, modern comedy and a twinkling, cheery musical.
Additional reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Susan Thomas and Sandra Maler
Displaying both gravity and mordant wit, Mr. Carlson is terrific in the showcase role.
Known for her mordant wit, she's indifferent to propriety and scornful of romantic love.
The title character of this mordant début novel is a hepatologist navigating a divorce.
Johns's mordant humor is just one of the many pleasures of this extraordinary exhibition.
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver and Parikshit Mishra in Bengaluru; Editing by Gopakumar Warrier
Reporting by Ahmed Farhatha in Bengaluru and Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama, Alistair Bell and Jeffrey Benkoe
Additional reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vanccouver,; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn and Jonathan Oatis
One was kind of mordant (31A, Amelia Earhart); one was kind of highbrow (34A, Archimedes).
Roundup Lou Reed had a mordant wit and a pragmatic understanding of his own legacy.
According to IMDb, Waller-Bridge is known for her "irreverent, mordant, and politically-incorrect humor."
Reporting by Susan Taylor; Additional reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Cynthia Osterman
It's not just a mordant joke or a grim chuckle, but several minutes of hilarious awfulness.
The high-profile titles helped, as did his mordant wit and obvious passion for the sport.
The novelist Alain Mabanckou has long been celebrated as a mordant observer of the African dispossessed.
It is both morbid and mordant and contains some of Ms. Walker's most ravishing ink drawing.
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Additional reporting by Susan Taylor in Toronto; Editing by Andrew Hay
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver and Piya Sinha-Roy in Los Angeles; Editing by Andrew Hay
Additional reporting by Andreas Cremer, Tom Daly and Nicole Mordant; Editing by Veronica Brown and David Evans
With additional reporting by John Tilak in Toronto and Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Marguerita Choy
But Mishra does take most of his mordant pleasures in detailing the illusions on the liberal side.
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Additional reporting by Barbara Lewis in London; Editing by Sandra Maler
"Out of Blue" botches the source material's story, misses its mordant humor and inverts its despairing core.
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver and John Benny in Bengaluru; Editing by Maju Samuel and Marguerita Choy
Reporting by Susan Taylor in Toronto and Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Additional reporting by John Tilak in Toronto.
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver and John Tilak in Toronto; Editing by Meredith Mazzilli and James Dalgleish
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver and John Benny in Bengaluru; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty and Paul Simao
She first appeared in the public consciousness, all common sense and mordant humor, at ease in her skin.
Reporting by Dave Sherwood; additional reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by James Dalgleish and Rosalba O'Brien
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver and Alexandra Ulmer in Caracas; Editing by Bernard Orr and Marguerita Choy
David Giffels, in contrast, began his path toward building his coffin in a moment of mordant marital banter.
Nor are his private critics rushing to go public with their often mordant analyses of Mr. Trump's movement.
Following this drolly mordant prologue, "Thirst Street" becomes the story of Gina's fanatical rebound from her lover's suicide.
He's an affable if mordant raconteur, and his concerts can feel like a kind of seminar in themselves.
She finds in Anne the mordant fatigue of someone who has long since resigned herself to being ignored.
Reporting by Muvija M in Bengaluru and Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Savio D'Souza and James Dalgleish
In its pages she seems jollier than her dance reputation suggests, but with a talent for mordant satire.
Reporting by Salvador Rodriguez in Las Vegas and Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Peter Henderson and Matthew Lewis
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver and Arathy S Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Don Sebastian and Marguerita Choy
Burke and Mordant were bemoaning being there when suddenly Burke got a call about a cop shot in Yonkers.
Château Shatto has a wall of Van Hanos paintings that are mordant, bizarre, and get right between your ribs.
Evidence of the original, mordant wit and transgressive sensibility of the author of "The Lyons" is less in evidence.
He is less a satirical observer of his nation's foibles than an excavator of its mopey, mordant, steadfast conscience.
Under other circumstances, the director, Brian De Palma, might have squeezed some mordant humor out of his protagonist's ineptitude.
He was still writing his incisive, mordant, antigovernment editorials, still fending off attacks from the administration of President Chávez.
Meanwhile, I am still thinking about "Donbass," a harsh, mordant Ukrainian movie from Sergei Loznitsa that feels very Cannes.
In Howard Barker's "Pity in History," the only sure things are death, destruction and a mordant sense of humor.
Nearing his 60s, he was easing into a new kind of sagacity — less mordant, rather uninterested in scoring points.
Reporting by Eric Walsh; Additional reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Eric Beech, Lisa Shumaker and Gopakumar Warrier
Reproting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Additional reporting by Karan Nagarkatti in Bengaluru; Editing by Frances Kerry and Rosalba O'Brien
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in VANCOUVER and Yuka Obayashi in TOKYO; Editing by Leslie Adler, James Dalgleish and Randy Fabi
Reporting by Swetha Gopinath in Bengaluru and Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty, Robin Paxton and Marguerita Choy
Reporting by Susan Taylor in Toronto, Nicole Mordant in Vancouver, and Meg Shen in Hong Kong; Editing by Frances Kerry
In the final novel of a mordant trilogy, the narrator, Faye, a British writer, attends a literary festival in Europe.
The only sane reaction to the waking nightmare of our times is mordant laughter — a kind of post-traumatic hilarity.
Reporting by Timothy Gardner; additional reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver and Swetha Gopinath in Bengaluru; Editing by Cynthia Osterman
And as a publisher, he used his magazine, Globe, to push his favorite causes, often contributing mordant and outspoken columns.
"Divide Me by Zero" is a mordant tribute to lost loves, none more beloved or irretrievably lost than Katya's mother.
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Additional reporting by Narottam Medhora in Bengaluru; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe and Lisa Shumaker
And she portrays a disconcertingly changeable, mordant yet (seemingly genuinely) hopeful Carmen, rising to stony grandeur in the final duet.
" Adichie writes that Obama "first appeared in the public consciousness, all common sense and mordant humor, at ease in her skin.
"The Ghastlygun Tinies," MAD magazine's mordant riff on The Gashlycrumb Tinies, updates Edward Gorey's book for our age of school shootings.
Reporting by James Regan in Sydney; Additional reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Clara Ferreira Marques and Joseph Radford
Buried or deflected emotion — conveyed through mordant remarks, pregnant glances, long stretches of silence — can generate more impact than explosive drama.
In a slashing, cartoon expressionist style, Mr. Lewis conjures the mordant spirits of social satirists like James Ensor and George Grosz.
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver, Susan Taylor in Toronto, Rod Nickel in Lac la Biche, Alberta; Editing by Alistair Bell
Ciment writes with a mordant intelligence and, refreshingly, doesn't belabor topics that in someone else's novel might take up many pages.
But it isn't Mr. Saint Laurent who takes up the most screen time in this mordant film; it's his star maker.
In Bagru, for instance, a handmade textile passes through weavers, vat dyers, mordant brewers, mud resist printers, block printers and washers.
Reporting by Amedee Mwarabu; Writing by Aaron Ross; Additional reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver, editing by Larry King and Grant McCool
Mordant took a helmet and vest out of his trunk and put them in the back seat in case we needed them.
Art Review Make way for Francis Picabia, one of the grandest, most mordant exemplars of early modernism, and perhaps the least familiar.
Dyer's new collection, "White Sands," anthologizes his travel writing over the past decade, displaying the author's mordant wit and penchant for misadventure.
His masterpiece, "Naples '44," describes with mordant humor the chaos in that city in the aftermath of the Allied invasion of Italy.
His mordant internal monologue is laced with literary references (especially to "Paradise Lost") and wordplay, which lends a sheen of black comedy.
Reporting by Rachit Vats in Bengaluru, Nicole Mordant in Vancouver and Ernest Scheyder in Houston; Editing by Anil D'Silva and Cynthia Osterman
I take a certain mordant pleasure in watching Mark Zuckerberg and his minions scapegoated for the political failures of late-Obama-era liberalism.
Mr. Mordant, from Sydney, is chairman of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and a member of the Tate and MoMA International Councils.
The best actress was presented to Emily Beecham, the star of "Little Joe," a mordant, amusing movie from the Austrian director Jessica Hausner.
Potassium alum, or potash, a mineral found in the mountains around Oaxaca, is used as a mordant, holding the dye to the yarn.
" Lanky and angular, Mr. Ohler quietly conveys the mordant humor that occasionally surfaces in his book, which has a chapter titled "High Hitler.
It used to be that when you were talking about dreamy moral chessboards and mordant family chronicles, you were talking about the Southern novel.
"When I first read the script, it felt like a sledgehammer of information hitting me in the head," said Ritter with a mordant chuckle.
Additional reporting by Eric Walsh in Washington and David Ljunggren in Ottawa and Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Clive McKeef and Bill Trott
It is only five minutes long, but it suggests what is to come from Holofcener: mordant humor, impeccable dialogue, an emphasis on female experience.
Additional reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver, Barbara Lewis in Cape Town and John Tilak in Toronto; editing by Amran Abocar and Edward Tobin
Additional reporting by Wilda Asmarini, Hidayat Setiaji and Kanupriya Kapoor in JAKARTA, Susan Taylor in TORONTO and Nicole Mordant VANCOUVER; Editing by Neil Fullick
Then I read "Presidio" and — review spoiler alert — found a fluent, mordant, authentic, propulsive narrative, wonderfully lit from within by an intriguing main character.
Reporting by Eveline Danubrata, Yuddy Cahya and Wilda Asmarini in JAKARTA; additional reporting by Nicole Mordant in VANCOUVER; editing by Tom Hogue, G Crosse
He had also been campaigning against Vietnam's supposed theft of borderlands — a highly delicate topic here — and writing a collection of mordant political fables.
" Alongside this gore, we get the man's mordant lamentations: "I had reached the conclusion that I would never be the protagonist of any story.
Today, in the wake of Angela Merkel's decision to hit the accelerator on demographic change, the book's mordant tone seems, if anything, too optimistic.
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Additioan reporting by Melanie Burton in MELBOURNE and James Regan in SYDNEY; Editing by G Crosse and Richard Pullin
But it's more benign, rooted in mordant French irony rather than in black comedy; in Gary's literary universe, Kafka might never have written at all.
In Paris, Christiane Cohendy, an award-winning actress whose career stretches five decades, was brilliantly oblivious to other people's expectations throughout, with a mordant edge.
Geely and Great Wall are up against mordant state-backed giants such as FAW, along with dozens of smaller rivals and hundreds of EV startups.
Thomas's written opinions are often "joined by no one" — a simple statement of fact that becomes a repeated (and somewhat mordant) refrain in the book.
The show presented, among other excitements, Damien Hirst's shark, the Chapman brothers' polymorphously perverse child mannequins, and Sarah Lucas's mordant mattress with its cucumber penis.
Many Chinese people reacted to the melancholy images from Linqi much as they have to the smog: with a mixture of anger and mordant irony.
Reporting by Fergus Jensen and Wilda Asmarini; Additional reporting by Nicole Mordant; Writing by Gayatri Suroyo and Ed Davies; Editing by Tom Hogue and Leslie Adler
For mordant mischief, one can now download the Hemingway Editor app, which contains an algorithm meant to reproduce his style, and see how well this works.
Shakespeare managed to register Shylock's mordant sense of humor, the pain that shadowed his malevolence, his pride in his intelligence, his little household economies, his loneliness.
Reporting by Nicolas Misculin in Buenos Aires and Parikshit Mishra in Bengaluru; Writing by Hugh Bronstein and Nicole Mordant; Editing by Steve Orlofsky and Sandra Maler
Held in the hands of a giant blue stick figure with a white head, the strip becomes an extraordinarily mordant comment on the state of painting.
" Compare this to Hughes's mordant observation, in a letter to a fellow poet: "Marriage is a nest of small scorpions, but it kills the big dragons.
After the prologue, a writer (the beautifully mordant April Matthis, standing in for Ms. Callaghan) approaches a microphone and tells a series of increasingly corny jokes.
Reporting by Clara Denina and Barbara Lewis in London and Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; additional reporting by Rod Nickel and Kane Wu; Editing by Louise Heavens
Along with his plotting prowess, Rankin has cultivated a fluid style that accommodates mordant cop talk, coarse gangster lingo and the occasional honest expression of compassion.
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What patter there was— l'esprit du divan —came from the kids' little screens, in the form of the pro gamer's mordant narration as he vanquished his opponents.
"Chance" keeps threatening to blossom into the mordant comedy it ought to be, but the dawdling pace and a general dreariness of mood keep it tied down.
Hughes reads A Week of Kindness and its companion volumes as mordant satires of the piety and stuffy respectability of the artist's turn-of-the-century childhood.
Our chance to relive this stage adaptation of the mordant Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis comedy over and over and over again is coming to an end.
Reporting by Susan Taylor in Toronto, Nicole Mordant in Vancouver and Vishaka George and Vishal Sridhar in Bengaluru; editing by Sunil Nair, Paul Simao and G Crosse
The German artist Hans Haacke made these demands for accountability his very practice by presenting a mordant installation in an exhibition at the museum the following year.
Our chance to relive this stage adaptation of the mordant Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis movie comedy over and over and over again comes to an end.
Installed outside the exhibition galleries, these visceral images introduce Matta-Clark's sense of humor and his mordant eye for violent intersections of the built and natural worlds.
One standout: Robin Miles reads the part of the cranky Old Sheep, leavening the character's dark vision of the pig's fate with a generous pinch of mordant humor.
And the show does manage to convey Mr. Keret's casually mordant worldview, his sense that fiction so often palls before the quiet and terrible absurdities of everyday life.
It exists in the growing trend of indie-tinged cable comedies who find humor not in traditional punch lines but in the absurd, mordant flow of everyday life.
They reinforce the mordant, core idea of the series: Evil isn't eradicated easily, and putting your trust in the hands of the "good guys" is a futile prospect.
Chris's intimate, discursive voice, her range of literary and artistic references, and her mordant self-criticism have put "I Love Dick" within the central current of contemporary fiction.
Reporting by Allison Martell; Additional reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver and Leah Schnurr in Ottawa; Writing by Denny Thomas; Editing by Grant McCool, Peter Cooney and Susan Thomas
Instead, it paints a mordant landscape of abuse, serving as an exploration of the ways the Catholic Church in Baltimore tried to hide what was happening at Archbishop Keough.
Additional reporting by Fergus Jensen and Kanupriya Kapoor in Jakarta and Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Writing by Fergus Jensen and Ed Davies; Editing by Dan Grebler and Christian Schmollinger
This faux children's reading book, inspired by Ladybird's "Peter and Jane" books of the 220s, offers a mordant take on the conceptualism and commercialism of the contemporary art world.
Reporting by Jake Spring and Alexandra Alper; Additional reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver, Anthony Boadle in Brasilia and Marta Nogueira in Rio de Janeiro; Editing by Tom Brown
Ms. Metcalf, spiky and floppy, is particularly mordant in this material, sometimes bullying and sometimes coddling A in an effort to get through another unpleasant day with minimal fuss.
Ferrell's protagonists might have registered as endearing buffoons, but their tendencies toward ignorance, selfishness, sexism, racism and/or jingoism were among the ways that McKay signaled mordant satirical intentions.
It's a mordant, readable tell-all designed to show how Trump, simply by being Trump, has made himself the perfect wrecking ball, blasting holes through an array of institutions.
And there's a mordant comedy of manners about a group of privileged, oversharing narcissists furiously pretending that there isn't something totally weird going on right in front of them.
The final season, which begins Sunday, sets up the series's endgame, and possibly humanity's — not as a horror-story disaster but as a melancholy, beautiful and mordant cosmic joke.
Yes, there's at least one foreboding entry among the debuts, and depending on one's tendencies there are a couple of mordant trains of thought to hop onto as well.
I contacted some of his contemporaries, who remember him as a lyrical player, a mordant wit, a conscientious professional, and an intellectual who loved the novels of Thomas Hardy.
Possibly conceived as a mordant punch line to the Obama era, it may turn out to be the inaugural blast of insurgent cinema in the age of Trump. 4.
Additional reporting by Fergus Jensen and Michael Taylor in Jakarta, Manolo Serapio in Singapore, and Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Writing by Randy Fabi; Editing by Himani Sarkar and Katharine Houreld
Fonsia and Weller were each divorced long ago, and have virtually been abandoned by their adult children; at one point Weller makes a mordant joke about their lack of visitors.
Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver and John Tilak in Toronto; Additional reporting by Barbara Lewis in London and Susan Taylor in Toronto; Editing by Denny Thomas and Leslie Adler
When historians look back at this ghastly moment — if there are still historians when it's over — this fizzy, mordant cult series is likely to be one of its richest artifacts.
The story has become a modern parable: a mordant Pittsburgh weatherman gets caught in a mysterious time loop and must relive the same day, in Punxsutawney, until he reaches enlightenment.
But in what felt like a mordant joke, he had affixed a small parachute to the back of buttery leather backpack, for if and when the time came to jump.
Reporting by Wilda Asmarini; Additional reporting by Cindy Silviana in Jakarta, Jim Regan in Sydney and Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Writing by Fergus Jensen; Editing by Jane Merriman and Rosalba O'Brien
The mordant (if all too true) tale of gay men enjoying themselves to death made way for the (all too true) AIDS-era tale of gay men fingered randomly by death.
When Veep premiered in 2012, critics hailed it as a mordant satire that was, if anything, just a bit too broad and nihilistic to adequately reflect the complexity of American politics.
Reporting by Samuel Wanda in Timika,; Additional reporting by Nulifar Rizki, Wilda Asmarini and Fergus Jensen in Jakarta and Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore and Matthew Lewis
As she went on and off drugs and in and out of hospitals, she wrote her final play, "4:48 Psychosis," an anguished, mordant, fragmentary work, dissociative in form and content.
Kaufman, a short, mordant fifty-seven-year-old who also wrote the script, as well as such films as "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," hugged the walls, studying the art.
Theater Our chance to relive this stage adaptation of the mordant Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis movie comedy over and over and over again comes to an end on Sept. 17.
Will Eno's two-character mélange of mordant philosophy, slapstick comedy and ample tear-jerking, which Ben Brantley described as a "glowingly dark, profoundly moving new play," will make its final exit.
Reporting by Anet Josline Pinto in Bengaluru and Denny Thomas in Hong Kong; Additional reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver and Barbara Lewis in Brussels; Editing by Peter Graff and Meredith Mazzilli
Reporting by Wilda Asmarini and Gayatri Suroyo in JAKARTA; Additional reporting by Susan Taylor in TORONTO and Nicole Mordant in VANCOUVER; Writing by Fergus Jensen and Ed Davies; editing by John Stonestreet
Mr. Williams, as Omar, will forever be remembered for his scowl, his scar, his mordant wit and the sawed-off shotgun he held at the ready, but he has always wanted more.
Produced, like the paintings, in a crisp Pop style and annotated with mordant commentary, the guides amount to a take-away show on their own and are well worth spending time with.
And in her free skate, which will air in the US Thursday night, she'll perform to the soundtrack of 2012's Anna Karenina, complete with the mordant choo-choo of an oncoming train.
Her bleakly mordant Puberty 2 (2016) was the year's weirdest and saddest breakup album, a song cycle about extricating herself from a toxic relationship, with every flaw exaggerated for comedic and horrific effect.
"Marrow" is a mordant look at a depraved society, more exemplary of Yan's other work — he has handily drawn comparisons to Kafka and the foundational Chinese satirist Lu Xun — than its companion novella.
There were also tons of genuinely funny entries, especially of the mordant variety, like STORK and TRAGIC END, which always go over well on Saturday solves when I'm not otherwise feeling so smart.
When I explain that I'm getting off at Wuhan, the reactions vary from advice — wear masks, don't go, drink lots of water — to mordant jokes that I may be there a long time.
Will Eno's two-character mélange of mordant philosophy, slapstick comedy and ample tear-jerking, which Ben Brantley described as a "glowingly dark, profoundly moving new play," will make its final exit next month.
Saint Teresa of Avila was a Spanish noblewoman, born in 1515, still highly regarded as a writer, whose observations could be mordant – May God preserve me from gloomy saints, was one – but also intense.
Ricocheting between despair and AA meetings, yet always furnished with a mordant aperçu, Jonas has one final drugs binge before heading to Malmo in Sweden, "the most drug-free country in the Western world".
Additional reporting by Veronica Brown, Zandi Shabalala and Barbara Lewis in London, Melanie Burton in Melbourne, Nicole Mordant in Vancouver and Tom Daly in Hong Kong; Editing by Tim Cocks and Cassell Bryan-Low
Reuters reported on Monday that smaller Canadian diamond miner Stornoway Diamond Corp had held merger talks with Dominion in recent months (Reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Denny Thomas and Leslie Adler)
Night 2: The start of the next shift found us with Angus Mordant, a Daily News freelance photographer, outside of a hospital trying to find a kid hit by a baseball at Yankee Stadium.
Reporting by John Tilak in Toronto and Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Additional reporting by Caroline Stauffer in Buenos Aires and Susan Taylor in Toronto, additional reporting by Shanghai newsroom; editing by Andrew Hay, G Crosse
If the script has an over-reliance on direct address and observation, it still conveys Mr. Keret's casually mordant worldview, his sense that fiction so often palls before the absurdities of everyday life (2111:71893).
If the script has an over-reliance on direct address and observation, it still conveys Mr. Keret's casually mordant worldview, his sense that fiction so often palls before the absurdities of everyday life (1:30).
Usually, for better or worse, this mordant playwright can be relied on to go tearing through the barricades of good taste, good manners and sane plotting into his own ecstatic no man's land of misery.
Theater Will Eno's two-character mélange of mordant philosophy, slapstick comedy and ample tear-jerking, which Ben Brantley described as a "glowingly dark, profoundly moving new play," will make its final exit on April 2.
It is ostentatious, even a touch melodramatic, but there is grace in her very theatricality, in her arresting and sometimes willfully stretched metaphors, in her hard but vulnerable wit that is often mordant but never bitter.
That theory-educated cohort—which included Barbara Kruger, who produced mordant feminist agitprop, and Sherrie Levine, who took deadpan photographs of classic modern photographs—beamed contempt at established myths, modes, and motives of prestige in art.
Reporting by David Ljunggren and David Brunnstrom; Additional reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver, Michelle Nichols at the United Nations, Philip Wen in Beijing and Matt Spetalnick in Washington; Editing by James Dalgleish and Lisa Shumaker
Narrated in the first person, Milkman is the mordant tale of a teenage girl in a time and place that is implicitly Northern Ireland and explicitly the late 1970s (the movie Alien has just come out).
Look, we all get you're not The New Yorker with cartoons as part of your DNA, but to deny loyal readers the occasional mordant chuckle is just too much to bear, especially in times like these.
"Arne Dahl," about a six-person team called (perhaps with a touch of mordant Swedish humor) the A unit, is a throwback, with its large, chatty ensemble and its old-school self-contained, movie-length mysteries.
A series of combinations of mordant and resist stamping and dyeing enabled Indian printers to create uniquely complex designs, coveted from Southeast Asia and palaces of Mughal emperors to the far-flung capitals of Western Europe.
If you go off the title, Mr. Fisher is asking us to rephrase his clues in a funny (or mordant) way; I imagined the sort of terminology that brings a raised brow or an eye roll.
The humor is largely mordant — Zeke in a convenience store, maneuvering to hide bloody evidence from the police, is a physical comedy highlight for Abbott — mixed with random potshots at millennial rednecks who listen to Nickelback.
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Mordant said he carries the vest only because of the police, recounting how he once witnessed an officer in Manhattan shoot at an unarmed robbery suspect in the middle of a street, miss, and hit two bystanders.
My byline is likely to continue to appear for months, even years, because of the 40 or 50 obituaries I've written of people who are still living — the future dead, as we say, in mordant obit-speak.
The play starts with a sly twist on the mordant opening exchange between Dev (Joe Paulik), here a genial tutor and the stand-in for Medvedenko, and Mash (Joey Parsons), formerly Masha, here a part-time cook.
Charles Dantzig, "Dictionnaire Égoïste de la Littérature Française," mordant, funny and often true, with brillliant essays on "emotions" and "adjectives" as well as take-downs of Sartre and encomia to some of my favorites like Albert Cohen.
LOS ANGELES — In one of his first moves as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Klaus Biesenbach has expanded his board to include four new members: Adrian Cheng, Simon Mordant, Julia Stoschek and Marina Kellen French.
" But it's a mordant evocation, too, of the miseries of any old artist on his deathbed: "He then displayed copies of his books, but as everybody had already read them, not more than a polite interest was generated.
The great Leiber-Stoller song "Ready to Begin Again," whose feisty senior narrator puts in her dentures and dons a wig before facing the world each morning, was delivered with a zesty blend of mordant humor and determination.
Both are mordant stories about assassins: Barry (Bill Hader), a burned out ex-soldier who longs to become an actor, and Villanelle (Jodie Comer), a gleeful huntress playing cat-and-mouse with an intelligence-agency bureaucrat (Sandra Oh).
Outfitting an assassin of the C-suite in an item of apparel typically associated with doting grandfathers and white-haired Irish poets is a mordant costume choice, like slipping an M-80 firecracker into an Easter flower arrangement.
It inflects the display of four sculptures whose visible debts to Robert Gober's surreal conflations of objects and Charles LeDray's miniaturization of the everyday are balanced by the artist's own strange sense of bricolage, scale and mordant allusion.
So it is greatly to Stonecipher's credit that "Transaction Histories" is a delight: a mordant yet romantic survey of art, love, hunger and plastic owls in which seemingly unrelated observations are meticulously knit together to form a resonant whole.
" Even though Tee Grizzley moves bullishly, what enlivens his verses are the quick flashes of mordant wit: "The Mustang used to always run out of gas/now I'm in that Wraith, touch the paint and it's a body bag.
While their work is definitely not an adaptation of local styles, or based on any Indian imagery at all, it is completely grounded in the regional techniques and expertise — from plant and mineral-based mordant printing to kantha stitching.
Because the second and third Toy Story films have taken the audience to this bittersweet place before, Toy Story 4 occasionally feels redundant, settling into a verse-chorus-verse formula where sequences of group heroics are followed by mordant existential reflection.
As Sancho, Mr. Joseph cuts a pensive and gently sardonic figure, affecting a slight lisp and turning a mordant eye on life in 18th-century England, carefully guiding us from Sancho's blighted childhood to his later ascendance to the middle class.
Instead, he organises his book around seven themes, of which the other six are satire aimed at Jewish norms; bookish and allusive wordplay; vulgarity and the body; mordant metaphysical irony; the folksy quotidian Jew; and the ambiguous nature of Jewishness.
Alan's presence underlines just how thoroughly Russian Doll blends Lyonne's spiky sense of humor and mordant willingness to explore the darker corners of human nature, Poehler's boundless energy and optimism, and Headland's love of complicated storytelling structures and dissecting relationships.
D.) Using a moody, noirish monochrome palette (punctuated with garish swatches of color video) and mordant, monotone voice-over narration (interrupted by stretches of deadpan dialogue), Huang Hsin-yao composes a dark satire of corruption and class resentment in Taiwan.
His portrait of a different aspect of the Italian early '60s "dolce vita," in which the entrepreneurial middle class rubs elbows with, and tries to wheel and deal with, the obscenely wealthy, is packed with trenchant observation and mordant wit.
On Tuesday at Merkin Concert Hall, the New York Festival of Song gave the premiere of a suite of mordant, jazzy songs from William Bolcom's new opera "Dinner at Eight," which will have its premiere at Minnesota Opera next month.
Scorsese's gangster movies usually have streaks of mordant humor, but here it's more quotidian, as when the ultra-powerful Hoffa tries to enjoy an ice cream sundae without an associate nagging him about the federal laws that affect their pensions differently.
MJ just wants to talk about murders and death and conspiracy theories, while Peter's stuck with his head in the clouds, rehearsing grand gestures over and over in his mind to finally win over his mordant grumpy dream (nightmare?) girl.
That was Barlow—whether you were a world-famous avatar of LSD, a stuffy CEO, or the Vice President of the United States, he would win you over with his affable demeanor, arresting observations, and a mordant take on the human condition.
But it also finds the greatest emotional depths of the series in a story line that acknowledges the real-life death of Carrie Fisher, who played Rob's mother, Mia, and the co-writers Delaney and Horgan maintain a tone of mordant optimism.
Her Lincoln, for example, suffered from debilitating depression, as we know; but she also reminds us that he developed a mordant wit that reflected a deep stoicism — and goes far in explaining why the weight of his melancholy didn't derail his career.
Perhaps, paradoxically, Moore's take on Nabokov seems more "acceptable" precisely because she doesn't stray too far from the original, doesn't subvert it, but simply and deftly applies a light, modern gloss with her incisive observations of domesticity and her trademark mordant wit.
Jenny Diski, a British writer who channeled the turmoil of her early years, which included suicide attempts and confinement in mental hospitals, into a stream of richly observed and mordant novels, memoirs and essays, died on Thursday at her home in Cambridge, England.
But before anyone starts dreaming about becoming the next David Foster Wallace, embedded in a tacky culture of capitalist excess and skewering it with incisive, mordant wit (while simultaneously sipping a juice blend at the Nordstrom Café), they'd better read the terms and conditions.
It's in Acts Three and Four that Mr Scarlett exerts the most obvious influence, re-choreographing all but one of the national dances (he hasn't touched Frederick Ashton's sparky Neapolitan—perhaps he didn't dare) and inserting a mordant change of mood at the ballet's dénouement.
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But the week also showed people at their mordant best: helping each other wedge luggage into overhead spaces, trading information about delays and exhibiting a bracing what-fresh-hell-is-this solidarity, at least when they were not squabbling over spots in the boarding line.
"Dogs" fuses the deadpan long takes characteristic of the Romanian new wave with a hint of early Coen Brothers humor, turning a rural crime story (including the discovery of a severed human foot) into a mordant and timely examination of the rottenness of power.
Cannon and Hammons met on a park bench in the late '21995s, a few years after Hammons arrived in New York from the West Coast and began making mordant, provocative sculptures that dealt with black identity, using discarded materials he gathered around the city.
In his fiction, which includes the slippery inventiveness of "Nowhere Man" and the mordant historical resurrection of "The Lazarus Project," Hemon has always played with boundaries — of places, of selves — exploring how lines that can be so porous and contingent could also matter so much.
These are some of the surreal and witty vignettes imagined by German artist Frank Kunert, who has been photographing his hand-built miniature sets since the 1990s, melding a Wes Anderson–style love of whimsical detail with a mordant, Kafkaesque outlook on the absurdity of modern life.
A student of American prose could hold up Adams's Grant-bashing memoir against Grant's own memoir to define the two furthest points of American recollection: one discursive, mordant, allusive, and hyperbolic—exaggeration of affect is the key to Adams's "education"—the other pointed, reduced, and understated.
There's a singular late episode, an extended flashback to when Mitch was still an adored celebrity, that captures what it seems to be shooting for—a mordant map of a world in which women's careers are snuffed as they become sexual trading pieces, while everyone shrugs.
From the first scene of Peter traversing a river — a woman wails mysteriously, as if in warning — Mr. Wrona (who died apparently of suicide last year) creates a rich, soupy atmosphere of dread that's progressively weighted down by history and periodically relieved by flashes of mordant humor.
For those the show speaks to, however, it's a mordant image of a society that favors the wealthy, connected and those with birthright admission into such circles, but where the figures atop the pyramid don't relish sharing their influence, even with those who already share their names.
As his wife scrabbles with angry protesters and gripes about her compromised marriage, he is sequestered in the bathroom, represented only by a mordant song that his aide-de-camp sings on his behalf: When you're forced to bugger 200 million people You need time to recover.
Given the timing, it was fair to assume that the piece was in part a reference to the recent deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and other black men killed by police officers—and also, perhaps, a mordant joke about the increasingly intermingled state of entertainment and the news.
Mordant mottos, familiar phrases and injunctions, like "Kick Against the Pricks" and "I've Had It Up To Here," are all stamped on black backgrounds in round, white, sans-serif letters, with plenty of smudges and drips to remind you that you're looking at an object, not an idea.
But without pumping up or milking the music in any way, Mr. Noseda led a vigorous, exacting and pulsing performance, drawing out inner details and lending lightness, with a mordant touch, to the many scenes of backstage bustle and frivolity at the company where Adriana is a star.
As on the left there is not yet a defining reactionary agenda, and neo-reaction looks different depending on whether you associate it with the white nationalism of the alt-right, the mordant European pessimism of Michel Houellebecq, or the techno-utopian impulses of Silicon Valley figures like Peter Thiel.
The results have sometimes been exceptional, like the sleek reanimation of Red Brigades terrorism in " The Flamethrowers " (2013), by Rachel Kushner (born in 1968); or the leisurely, sometimes mordant characterization of Wendy Yoshimura, a forgotten figure from the Patty Hearst saga, in " American Woman " (2003), by Susan Choi (born in 1969).
He gives a ride to a young man whose reasons for traveling are equally enigmatic, and the two of them make their way across a chilly, drab landscape in this mordant, minimalist road picture, directed by Ognjen Glavonic, who leavens the journey with hints of suspense and glints of absurdist humor.
One of the running, mordant jokes of the film is how heavy the cameras Heather and co are lugging around, which in turn means that they only want to shoot—or audio-tape—what's absolutely necessary, both while their documentary project is up and running normally and then later while they're being hunted.
But in her dogged attempts to pass the days profitably — brushing her teeth, taking her medicine, filing her nails, attempting to jostle into life her companion, the barely seen and virtually immobile Willie (a convincingly decrepit Jarlath Conroy) — she represents a mordant image of the existential struggle that can haunt us all.
"The two actors are wonderful in their scenes together (their half-foot difference in height can be excused as a metaphor for growth), and Mr. Hamm, especially, displays bountiful intelligence, depth of feeling and mordant humor," Mike Hale wrote in The Times of this British adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's autobiographical short stories.
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Sure, at some point we might be able to look back and find mordant comedy in an arc like Comey's — who sabotaged Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign by announcing a last-minute investigation of the infamous Weiner laptop and then remade himself as a self-righteous icon of the Resistance by legitimizing "pee tape" rumors.
The Rhythm Method single that best demonstrates this to date is last year's "Party Politics", a song that tells the story of fumbled flirtation with charm and mordant wit ("Be my Cherie Blair, I'll be your Cherie Amour," Joey memorably notes.) while sounding like a perfect cross pollination of sophistipop smoothness and piano house at its most chunkily efficient.
But the mood of "Blake Works I" is entirely different from the mordant humor of "Love Songs": It is light, joyous, hopeful — a celebration of the youth, spirits, talent and collective knowledge of a new generation of Paris Opera dancers, who have never, in my experience of the company, looked better than they did throughout Monday's performance.
Seating himself on a hay bale, he began strumming "If I Could Talk I'd Tell You," a Lemonheads song from 1996 that captures everything you need to know about the band in two minutes, 51 seconds: the compulsively catchy melodies, the drug references and the mordant wordplay ("Khmer Rhouge, genocide quoi/ your place or Mein Kampf").
" In 219, Norman Podhoretz, the editor of Commentary, wrote that Mr. Laqueur "spoke for most neoconservatives when he made the mordant observation that even Lenin, who allegedly predicted that one day we capitalist countries would out of the lust for profits compete to sell the Communists the rope with which to hang us, could never have imagined that we would rush to give them the money to buy the rope.
It has a fluidity, and a canny balance between mordant humor and Gothic adolescent drama, that you'd more commonly find in a British or American series, and it's not hard to imagine it on Freeform or the CW. But it's better than that would suggest, or at least different — less slick, more serious about its ideas, more sensitive in its depiction of a lonely teenager coming into his own.
Those of us who lived through the times she wrote about in her classic essay collections "Crazy Salad" (1975) and "Scribble Scribble" (1978) — indeed, who read the books when they were too new to qualify as "classic," and who feel the melancholy that drives the mordant humor of her 2006 collection, "I Feel Bad About My Neck" — cherish Our Nora as a lively, opinionated sister who cut through crap.
Mr. Boyle, who directed the first "Trainspotting," was not far from the end of the 53-day shoot last summer that reunited the original quartet of actors — Mr. McGregor, Mr. Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller and Ewen Bremner — for a much-anticipated sequel to the mordant, bitingly irreverent 1996 movie about heroin addiction, sex, squalor and friendship set to a memorably rousing soundtrack in a decidedly tourist-unfriendly Edinburgh.
One of the most mordant juxtapositions was between "Covered Car — Long Beach, California," circa 1955/1956, a formal composition that Walker Evans might have taken, of a big sedan protected by a shiny sheet beneath two palm trees in crepuscular light; and "Car accident — U.S. 66, between Winslow and Flagstaff, Arizona," 1955, a grainy shot that could have been cut from a newspaper, of four people standing by a body covered with a tarp as a powdery snow falls.

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