Word: mordant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tumult and the shouting of the political campaign grows ever shriller and more mordant, Lampy seizes the opportunity to insinuate that these demi-gods who battle amid the rumblings of reform and the crash of platforms are but mortals after all. While the stentorian tones of our fire-eating friends from below the Mason and Dixon Line-and even from nearer home than that-clamor for just retribution to be exacted by a woefully wronged people, Lampy has the temerity to suggest that, "Another thing that Al could do that Moses Couldn't was look good in a brown derby...
...Mordant, militant are the words of Signor Augusto Turati, right hand "boss politician" to Signer Benito Mussolini, and Secretary General of the Fascist party...
...fairly frequent lapses into complete and trite absurdity, by long stretches in which author e. e. cummings had obviously fallen into the immature fallacy of trying to tell all about Life in a single paragraph, found partially concealed in its three spasmodic acts many specimens of acute and mordant understanding as well as a fair quantity of ribald...
...Glass continued in an interrogative vein as mordant as the whortleberry juice of his beautiful homeland. By what Constitutional authority or Federal statute, he asked to know, did the State Department assume to review private business transactions? Who, he begged to be informed, was "the experienced, the tested credit man" of the State Department...
Epigrams are easily manufactured in synthetic prose; to produce them in paint requires a far greater technical equipment. Mr. Sims is a masterly epigrammatist. Almost every Sims picture in the Knoedler Gallery flashes with the slim lustre of a dinner table witticism, but most mordant of all is the portrait of King George...