| In her 80s and as mordantly witty as ever, she published her 22nd novel, The Finishing School, earlier this year. |
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| Moody and mordantly funny on the air, McEnroe has a restless mind that seems never to stop turning. |
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| Though certainly not designed for casual viewing, Gerry is too visually rich and mordantly witty to deserve the slagging it's received in some quarters. |
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| It is all beautifully controlled and mordantly funny, but devoid of warmth a lot like the gilded, heartless people he is writing about. |
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| The officers joke, mordantly and often, about what would happen if it caught fire. The officers' life has changed utterly. |
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| Rylance was unforgettable as the mordantly sly king in Richard III, giving a brilliant new twist to a classic role. |
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| She is brilliantly but mordantly characterised by her bookish son. |
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| When the songs are at their wittiest, they are sharply and mordantly so. |
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| An Impressionist at first, he experimented with various trends in modern art until he arrived at a mordantly individual style, a nightmarish vision of contemporary social reality. |
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| It says much about his talent as a writer that he makes these years of funk lively, engrossing and on occasion mordantly funny. |
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| By relying on his pen, he expressed his revulsion acerbically and mordantly at the way the body politic behaved. |
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| The Candidate Screenwriter Jeremy Lardner earned an Oscar for The Candidate, a mordantly funny dissection of big-time politics. |
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| Indeed, some mordantly argue that law reviews have never had any audience, save for the authors' mothers. |
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| It has the bouncy rhythm of a charabanc, mordantly witty lyrics, and, fittingly, its tempo is perfect for gently cruising past coaches on the M6 motorway. |
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