mordancy
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mordancy
Example Sentences
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Huff doesn’t mention that detail, but there’s mordancy in it; this is a play about the state of the nation.
From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2022
I wish I could reproduce for you the tone of affectionate philosophical mordancy with which he’d pronounce it.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 2, 2019
Cronenberg's film has a similar mordancy, though at the end – and probably deliberately – it doesn't touch the heart or elicit much compassion for the protagonist.
From The Guardian • Jun. 16, 2012
With this unusual mordancy, Punch in 1929 summed up the reputation of the most famous artist in England.
From Time Magazine Archive
He made all these intellectual concepts plastic in a music of a brilliance and a sprightliness and mordancy that not overmany classic symphonies can rival.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul
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